WHO WE ARE
Empty Sink Publishing is dedicated to publishing works from new, emerging, or established writers and artists that encourages the reader or observer to reevaluate the world around them. Started in August, 2013, we want work that stretches the mind, defies convention, and offers a new perspective on life. ADAM DUBBIN, Publisher
Adam Dubbin is a writer/editor/photographer from the swamp
lands of north-central Florida. Adam graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s (B.A.) degree in Classical Studies, and additionally earned a Master’s of Science (M.Sc.) degree from the University of Bradford (UK) in Archaeological Science and a Master’s of Science (M.S.) in Audiological Science from the University of South Florida. While currently employed as a sports statistician with a major sports technology firm, he has also worked in the fields of audiology, journalism, electrical engineering, genetics and environmental sciences. Among other online contributions, he has had photographs published by the BBC, as well as copy edited interviews and research articles published on AudiologyOnline.com. When not working or writing, Adam enjoys the culinary arts, gardening and sports. BRANDEN HART, Executive Editor
Branden is an author living and working in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, and a neurotic coonhound. He has work published in Toasted Cheese Literary Magazine, Down in the Dirt Magazine, and in the upcoming anthology from XChyler Publishing, Shades and Shadows. Branden and Adam have been writing, editing and publishing together since 2006, when Adam and the other folks at daily magazine TheSequitur.com brought Branden on as an editorial board member-at-large. During their time at TheSequitur.com, Branden and Adam collaborated on and edited hundreds of articles, covered the Bonnaroo music festival four consecutive years, and successfully staged a coup to overthrow a dictatorial regime in a third world country (one of those things is not true). WHAT WE WANT
Empty Sink Publishing is currently accepting submissions of fact and fiction, prose and poetry, and visual media. We are currently not accepting video submissions. We want anything with a fresh perspective on traditional subjects. We are picky. If we reject your submission, it doesn’t mean we don’t like you. It just means that you don’t fit the Empty Sink Publishing mold. It could also mean you are a sh*tty writer, but we probably won’t tell you that in the rejection letter. WHO WE LIKE
Since we’re just starting out, we don’t have much published that will give you a good idea of what we’re looking for. So here is our list of writers and artists we enjoy and admire: this should give you a good idea of our tastes. BRANDEN: Mark Z. Danielewski, Chuck Palahniuk, Etgar Keret, Stephen King, John Crowley, Dan Simmons, Mark Helprin, Frank Zappa, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Brian K. Vaughan, Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, David Wong, Katsuhiro Otomo, Neil Stephenson, Victor Gischler, Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick. ADAM: Irvine Welsh, Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, James Michener, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Arthur Miller, Gabriel García Márquez, Plato, Sonic Youth, Douglas Adams, Tom Robbins, Aldous Huxley, Milo Aukerman, Greg Graffin, Edgar Allen Poe, Stanley Kubric, George Carlin, Darren Aronofsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Mingus. HOW TO SUBMIT:
To submit to Empty Sink Publishing, go to our submissions page linked below. http://emptysinkpublishing.com/submissions/
