Armchair/Shotgun

10/07/2016

Win subscriptions to some great pubs (bc you've read all 6 issues of A/S already, right?)

A few times a year, the folks at Literistic like to give away a veritable boat load of free annual subscriptions. We'll be giving one lucky person an annual subscription to all five magazines. You can enter only if you're in the United States, Britain or Canada (excluding Quebec), and only if you're...

09/18/2016

Our former editor & publicist Vicki stopped by :)

09/18/2016

Do you read? Either way, we can help!

Stop by booth 305 at the Brooklyn Book Festival til 6pm.

09/18/2016

It's one of our favorite days of the year: the BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL!

From 10am to 6pm, rain or shine, we'll be at Booth 305, not far from the main stage in front of Borough Hall in Cadman Plaza.

We'll have copies of ALL SIX ISSUES for sale, plus tote bags...and maybe some surprises, too. Come visit!

09/17/2016

We'll be at the Brooklyn Book Festival tomorrow!

The festival runs 10am - 6pm, rain or shine. Look for us at Booth 305, not far from the main stage in front of Borough Hall.

Come pick up a copy of Issue 6, as well as our back issues or an A/S tote--or just say hi!

08/19/2016

We were saddened to learn this week that Robin Mookerjee passed away a few months ago. Robin, a literature professor at The New School, was very kind to us--as founding editor Evan put it, he "took us quite seriously before we earned it."

He also authored the first piece ever to appear in A/S, a small and strange musing that he wrote especially for us, and which opened Issue 1.

Here is an excerpt from that piece, "Six Lacunæ for a Little Magazine Known as Armchair/Shotgun."

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Well, ghosts leave sticky spots, they are going through that awkward age; they leave fingerprints on the minds, no longer impressionable, which themselves must form lithographic negatives, surfacing in print, like they say, materializing as waxed perfect-bound books, unlike Razzle magazine, Tit-Bits, Tatler, Origin, between whose pages are nothing but white spaces and words as frames.

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Thank you, Robin Mookerjee.

08/19/2016

Hello! We're getting a lot of inquiries about when submissions will open again. We are taking a break from subs to do some long-range planning, but when the next round is scheduled, we'll definitely let you know--here, on Twitter, and everywhere else we can. We can't wait to see your work!

05/13/2016

Now shipping. (celebration emoji!)

Armchair/Shotgun No. 6
Featuring an interview with award-winning poet, editor and founder of Brooklyn Poets, Jason Koo. New fiction by Allegra Frazier, Fra...

12/02/2015

Come on, all. Let's do this.

Help St. Mark's Bookshop's New Location Succeed NOW Dear Friend of St. Mark's Bookshop: Last year St. Mark's Bookshop was forced to move from Third Avenue to our present location at 136 E. Third Street. Unfortunately, we were quite undercapitalized for the move and the bookshop has not recover...

11/09/2015

Proof of poetry being read available upon request.

10/24/2015

Thanks to everyone who came out to our launch party last night. We had an amazing time and hope you did too! And, of course, thank you to the amazing Greenlight Bookstore for being wonderful hosts as always.

10/15/2015

And look at that cover. It sure is pretty. *happy sigh*

Issue 6 Launch Readings and Party! This entry was posted in Event Featured Lit Crawl on October 15, 2015 by Vicki Lame. Hello literary lovelies! We are so completely excited to share more information about our Issue 6 launch party. Issue 6 will launch with a Friday night party at Greenlight Bookstor…

09/21/2015

Thank you to everyone who came out today. The Brooklyn Book Festival is one of our favorite times of the year. And, we couldn't keep doing what we do without you.

09/20/2015

Issue 6 author Fraylie Nord with lit ping pong judge extraordinaire Ben Samuel!

09/20/2015

Brooklyn Book Festival! Today! 10AM-6PM! Booth 403! Come visit!

09/17/2015

Really cool interview with one of our Issue 5 artists. Highly recommend checking out her work.

09/12/2015

Well, our dance card is almost full. How about yours?

Festivals and Lit Crawls and Launches, Oh My! This entry was posted in Event Lit Crawl on September 12, 2015 by Vicki Lame. Hey all you fabulous literary types! Have we got a selection of events for you! Armchair/Shotgun is either throwing or participating in some really wonderful activities over th…

09/11/2015

Articles like this remind us how endlessly thankful we continue to be to all of you who donated to our IndieGoGo campaign, have attended our events, have submitted great work, who have non-stop supported us over the years. Seriously, THANK YOU.

The White Review, BOMB and Guernica are just some of the magazines turning to the wisdom of the crowd to publish quality literature

09/10/2015

We didn't have enough exciting events planned for you. So, we added a whole other one. :D

08/06/2015

Please note: If you submitted for Issue 6, we are currently in the process of finalizing our selection. You ought to hear back from us soon.

08/05/2015

Check out this new piece by Issue 3 contributor J.E. Reich. Highly recommend! http://littlefiction.com/beta/TheWerewolvesOfAnspach.html

08/01/2015

What are we reading this weekend?

07/20/2015

Always sad to see a bookstore go, but wonderful when said bookstore has a really great history.

John Scioli is selling his three-story brownstone in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, for $5.5 million and clearing out the tens of thousands of books that make up the inventory at the Community Bookstore.

07/17/2015

"It's been a dream of mine to write a Star Wars poem." - Issue 5 author Devin Kelly on his latest work up at Entropy. (Issue 5 available now in our online store: http://armchairshotgun.com/buy-as/)

I can’t answer most questions anymore. I used to think I knew something back when then was now and now meant you warming the skin of my stomach while we slept.

07/14/2015

Our email is up again! Thanks for your patience.

You can reach us at [email protected] for general inquiries. Or if you want to contact a specific staff member, you can use [email protected].

- Please wait until mid-August for inquiries about the status of submissions--they're all in the consideration process right now, and it takes a while to make sure they all get individual attention!
- While our system was down, some orders were delayed. If you ordered a magazine through PayPal or our online store and have not yet received it, please email to let us know and we'll get it out to you right away.

07/10/2015

After a brief break, we are back at it with our interview series featuring Issue 5 authors. Next up, we have Adam Phillips!

INTERVIEW: Adam Phillips of Issue 5 This entry was posted in Interview on July 10, 2015 by Vicki Lame. After a completely unforgivable delay in our interview series (You’ll forgive us, won’t you? Pretty please?), we are back! Please let us introduce you to Adam Phillips, whose fabulous poem “March”…

07/09/2015

IndieGoGo Rewards Update!

IndieGoGo Rewards! This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2015 by Vicki Lame. Thank you again for being so wonderfully generous during our IndieGoGo campaign. As of right now, almost all rewards have gone out. If you haven’t received your reward yet, please contact us at info@armchairshot…

07/09/2015

One of our Issue 5 authors just got published at the Eunoia Review! Check out more from Rob Hill here:

They occupied space, the two of them. He lay on the couch with his legs casually crossed, a magazine spread across the upper thigh, his back propped up by a fringed pillow. She sat at the table, a ...

05/28/2015

Currently having website difficulties. Will update when the issue is fixed.

05/04/2015

A/S author alum Dolan Morgan has a wonderful new piece up at Midnight Breakfast this month!

Fiction The New Middle Class by Dolan Morgan “Take your time, Amy,” Dr. Kenston says, as if time were a thing to be taken. As if a doctor could forget that it’s time that does the taking.“Breathe,” he says, and I do. We all do. Michael, me, everyone in the world. We all follow this doctor’s advice f…

05/03/2015

"...like the four issues that have gone before it, No 5 has unearthed some exceptional pieces of work."
The UK's Sabotage Reviews pages through our latest issue:

-Reviewed by Rory O'Sullivan- If, like me, you’ve always wondered what literature’s answer to The Voice would look like, then I think I’ve finally found it. Ever since the first issue was released ...

04/23/2015

Just a heads up: Issue 5 is currently available at St.Mark's Bookshop and McNally Jackson Books. After this weekend it will also be available at Greenlight Bookstore, WORD, and BookCourt. We'll update you as we get bookstores fully stocked and will have the issue up in our online store soon!

04/22/2015

Thanks so much to everyone who came out for last night's event!

04/17/2015

In a continuing celebration of National Poetry Month, we've decided to ask some of our Issue 5 authors about their favorite poets. First up is Devin Kelly who you can also hear read at our launch event on Tuesday at St. Mark's Bookshop at 7PM.

Issue 5′s Devin Kelly on Poetry This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2015 by Vicki Lame. In Armchair/Shotgun’s fifth issue we were lucky enough to publish some truly wonderful short fiction by Devin Kelly. In fact, we will also be lucky enough to hear him read from that same piece at…

04/03/2015

The annual is coming on Monday! That's the day we find out how much progress the literary world has--or hasn't--made on gender equity in publishing for the last year.

coming Monday!

04/01/2015

Oh hey, oh hi, it's National Poetry Month!

National Poetry Month Kick Off This entry was posted in A/S Reads Lit Crit on April 1, 2015 by Vicki Lame. Today marks the first day of National Poetry Month for 2015 so we thought you all might like to know who some of our favorite poets are–other than the ones we publish or interview, that is. Onl…

04/01/2015

Submissions are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We can't wait to read your work!

03/31/2015

Writers, submissions close at midnight for Issue 6 of Brooklyn's dopest literary magazine. Get your poems or short stories in today!

Submit We are open for submissions now through March 31st for Issue 6 consideration. Please allow until the end of July before making inquiries regarding the status of your piece or pieces. For any other questions or to withdraw your work, please contact us here. Thank you. Armchair/Shotgun accepts…

03/31/2015

Reminder: submissions for Issue 6 close at midnight on March 31.

That's tomorrow night, so get those stories and poems in! We can't wait to read them.

http://armchairshotgun.com/submit-to-as