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Three Writers We Keep Telling You You Have To Know I’ve mentioned before that this year Thrice will begin presenting carefully chosen, hand-crafted stand-alone books that are in danger of being f…

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After some weird hiccups trying to get it published... Thrice Volume No. 2 is now available for your New Year reading list! Our gorgeous cover is by Katelin Kinney, and inside you'll find great stuff by James Claffey, Joe Baumnann, Giorgia Pavlidou, Kelly Talbot, and C.R. Foster!

Thrice Fiction Thrice Fiction is filled with stories, art, and a few surprises from a variety of talented contributors.

Poorly Drawn Lines gets animated! — Reza Farazmand contributed his hilarious cartoons to Thrice Fiction for a number of years. We're happy to share that he's brought his work to a new animated series on FX and Hulu! Be sure to check it out!

Poorly Drawn Lines is now on FX on Hulu!

Watch it here >> https://www.hulu.com/series/a442804a-4dab-413f-9ea5-c2129d800136

Lit Mag News Roundup takes a look at Thrice...

Friday Findings: december magazine, American Short Fiction, Thrice Fiction The gritty, the themed, the experimental

19 days left to send us your work for the year-end Thrice Fiction. Visit the website submissions page for the details.

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Thrice Fiction Magazine is looking for material for its 2021 issue.
Writers should present 1 to 3 pieces of their work that have not appeared in print or online anywhere at any time. Nothing over 3000 words, from flash to short stories to things yet unimagined. We prefer work in a fictive essence, but will look at everything. We are not averse to poetry but we are suspicious of formatting that puts more emphasis on appearance than on substance.
We are especially interested in things that are difficult to classify.
If you have been published in Thrice's decade of operation before we would ask you to hold off. In this category we are looking for new faces and names. New authors never published before are given the inside lane, but - in the end - we will only publish what we like. It's just we don't care about your resume for these slots.
Address all submissions by email to [email protected] with "2021 Submission" in the Subject line. Do not place material in the body of the email. Attach all submissions in WORD format only. Submissions are open from March 1 through March 31. Any submissions outside the submission schedule and any submissions in anything other than WORD will be discarded without comment.
Payment is 1 contributor's copy. We do not believe in reader's fees.

We're in some good company here... have you checked out our new Vol. 2 first issue yet? Find us at the Lulu Book Shop here: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/franny-forsman-and-eckhard-gerdes-and-amantine-brodeur-and-ann-bogle/thrice-fiction/paperback/product-m6zy7p.html

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Thanks to Nonconformist Magazine for inclusion in their list of journals worthy of mention in the category "100+ places where words matter." We are grateful for the recognition.
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Part Three of the Thrice Fiction Magazine redesign for Volume 2... this time taking a look at the interior art from our Art Director's personal blog...

TWICE the THRICE is NICE: Part Three This is part three of a three-part dive into the redesign of Thrice Fiction magazine on the occasion of releasing the first issue of Volume 2. If you missed it, you can read Part One right here and Part Two right here. With all 27 FREE issues of Volume 1 of Thrice Fiction, I had the luxury of...

Part Two of the Thrice Fiction Magazine redesign for Volume 2... this time taking a look at how the cover was made on our Art Director's personal blog...

TWICE the THRICE is NICE: Part Two This is part two of a three-part dive into the redesign of Thrice Fiction magazine on the occasion of releasing the first issue of Volume 2. If you missed it, you can read Part One right here. After the type had been selected and the logo had been designed, I moved to the cover. Our old magazine...

Our Art Director is taking a look at the design of the new Thrice Fiction Magazine on his personal blog... starting with our new logo...

TWICE the THRICE is NICE: Part One After nine years, Thrice Fiction magazine (the amazing venue for short-form fiction that I created with RW Spryszak), came to an end with our December 2019 issue (You can still read all 27 issues absolutely FREE on our website). But we're not dead yet. RW and I just wanted to be freed from the...

We are much more than you have learned to expect.

What is different about the re-design goes beyond size and contributors. We have added an opinion/essay/non-fiction section called "Subject:On" In this issue Franny Forsman, a public defender for over forty years, addresses the issue of Cultural Appropriation.

"The main character of the novel I have been writing for years has a white mother and a black father. If it is published, your flip to the back of the dust cover will reveal that I am white. As the novel, and my character, have evolved over time, the issue of cultural appropriation has loomed up and knocked me off the path many times. Trying to figure out where the uncrossable line is, I've researched appropriation, authenticity, and authenticism. I've read everything I could find on William Styron's "Confessions of Nat Turner," worrying over the outrage of black writers and professors at his book. I have studied academic treatments on dialect in literature and history. I've talked at length to friends who have taken black literature classes. I wanted to be sensitive to the issue but I really didn't understand it. None of my worrying and thrashing mattered anyway. Black characters keep showing up in my writing and in my family. I don't have a story without them. As I explain later, I decided that all my fretting was getting in the way of the kind of deep characterization that my story needed, so I settled on a new tack that released me from the torment."

Thrice is looking to address issues of interest to writers. We will take and publish letters in reaction to these articles in future issues. Indeed, we are much more than you have learned to expect.

Thrice Fiction Thrice Fiction is filled with stories, art, and a few surprises from a variety of talented contributors.

Turns out not even a pandemic can keep us down... just delay us a little while. — Thrice Publishing is pleased to announce that the next iteration of Thrice Fiction Magazine is here! Our first issue of Vol. 2 features work by Ann Bogle, Amantine Brodeur, Eckhard Gerdes, and Franny Forsman. Available at Lulu for the bargain price of just $12 for 124 pages. You can find out more at the link below.

Thrice Fiction Thrice Fiction is filled with stories, art, and a few surprises from a variety of talented contributors.

Get ready.....

Almost the end of August, which means September next, of course, which therefore means we are getting into the "...ember" months, which means we are closing in on the renewal of Thrice Magazine.

Ann Bogle, Eckhard Gerdes, and Amantine B. will strike a blow against "the tyranny of modern realism," the main focus, editorially, of the rebirth.

We'll have an article on Cultural Appropriation by Franny Forsman, the great artwork you've come to expect, and a crabby expanded Notes section from the cranky editor bemoaning various and sundry.

We want to institute two things. The first is we'd like to have a running list of indie bookstores. The second is a letters section. Yes, feedback on the essays and articles we'll be featuring - both to come and grow, we hope, as we move along.

Thrice will no longer be a free magazine, but it is because we will be sending small honorariums (copies at first, more later - we hope) to our contributors. This issue was editor's choice, but submissions will be open in the following issues.

Can a writer write about anything they want?
If a white writer wants to set a story in Africa, and have it be about the people who live there, is that okay? Is that considered cultural appropriation?
Or is cultural appropriation defined as "making profit" out of the experience of another culture?
Is it right to tell people what is okay and what is not when it comes to the creative process?
Is cultural appropriation the fault of the "off-brand" writer? Or is it the sales machinery behind his or her work that crosses the line?
Our new format will be sent to independent bookstores and be available online. Your article will be featured along with three other writers of poetry and fiction in our upcoming November/December issue.
Please think about adding your voice to the mix by sending your article/essay/thesis/ any length (2000 words minimum) to [email protected]

First - here is hoping all here are well.
Thrice Fiction Magazine will be returning from hiatus later this year with a new format, a new focus, and a distribution network. Our return issue will appear in November or December of this year, and our publication schedule will officially be listed as "irregular." The fiction lineup for the upcoming issue was by invite only and is settled, but that will change in the future.
However... we are accepting the following...
From April 1 to April 30 Thrice Magazine is accepting articles/essays on the subject of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. We are looking for scholarly work explaining what is meant by the term, what it is and isn't, how it affects minority communities in a white-dominated culture as well as any observations about the issue.
We will take one, or perhaps two, articles. We want to hear from people of color on THEIR point of view on this subject. Please present in Word format and email to [email protected] Please no PDFs. Word only please. Attach it to a short, introductory email with "Thrice Article" in the subject line. We are no longer using Submittable and will take emails only. Emails without this subject heading will be discarded.
There is no fee for reading, and the only payment we can offer is a contributor's copy.

Well... here it is. The final issue of Thrice Fiction Magazine! Late but still FREE to download or read online! Thanks to all of you who have supported us these nine years. The thrice-annual magazine may be over, but we're not done yet! Thrice Publishing is still committed to sharing works we feel deserves to be seen... in whatever form that may take for future projects. SUPPORT YOUR SMALL PRESS! http://www.thricefiction.com

Dear Friends,

On this, yet another made-up day designation (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Shirtless Saturday or whatever, etc...), this is a gentle reminder that Thrice Publishing is a 501(c)3 organization capable of accepting tax deductible donations. Though the magazine and the book publishing activity will be on hiatus for a while, we will return and are not dead in either case. In the meantime we still have need for funds to maintain ourselves until we regroup.

Won't you please consider helping us maintain?

We can accept checks made out to Thrice Publishing and mailed to PO Box 725114, Roselle, IL 60172

or

online donations at the bottom of the main page at
http://www.thricefiction.com/

Thanks!

Thrice Fiction Magazine

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Thrice Fiction | MagCloud Welcome to Thrice Fiction magazine! Published three times a year, Thrice Fiction is filled with stories, art, and a few surprises from a variety of talented contributors.

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Writers Chat 23: James Claffey on “The Heart Crossways” (Thrice Publishing: USA, 2018) James, You’re very welcome back to my Writers Chat series. The last time we chatted, in 2012, we focused on Blood a Cold Blue a collection of short fiction. This time we’re chatting about your wond…

Here it is... the post-Labor-Day-late penultimate issue of Thrice Fiction Magazine! You might think that we'd wise up and start charging for this magnificent publication... but it's a little late to be starting now. So, yep, it's all yours to read ABSOLUTELY FREE at our website: http://www.thricefiction.com !

Just about a week left to send something. Is December our last issue?

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KINDLE version now available of James Claffey's debut novel. Please support the small press and its writers.

The Heart Crossways James Claffey's brilliant debut novel, and aptly named, The Heart Crossways, grabs hold of you from the start. All the despair and desires of this boy's life, of this family's struggles, and atmospheric Dublin, comes fully to life. Sentence after gorgeous sentence, one feels total immersion. Lyri...

Hey! Our April issue No. 25 is out in... APRIL?!? Boy, we really squeaked by this time! As always, you can check it out ABSOLUTELY FREE by downloading a FREE PDF or reading online. So what are you waiting for? Click to it here: http://www.ThriceFiction.com/ — This month's fantastic cover is by the ever-talented Kyra Wilson Art

April submissions for Thrice Fiction are open for the August issue. Please click the "MORE" for the updated guidelines.

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A little behind-the-scenes drama about the art in our latest issue from our Art Director's personal blog...

Blogography × Behind the Scenes: Thrice Fiction No. 24 "Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"