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Red Lemonade, an imprint of Cursor, is proud to announce a crowdsourced, mongrel, interagency, multi-editorial, recombinant publishing excursion for 2012.The working title of the publication shall be Hybrid Beasts. Publication of the hybrid collection is scheduled for Summer 2012.The process itself is designed to be collaborative and driven by readers and writers interacting within the parameters of the guest editor’s editorial vision, assisted by the staff. The website features and Red Threads of the Red Lemonade site will be mixed into the process.

Hybridists shall submit: visit www.redlemona.de and click Write Now, request Author Access and then upload your manuscript. Submissions open until May 31, 2012.

The Guest Editor shall be: Molly Gaudry. She is the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil. She is the founder of The Lit Pub. http://thelitpub.com/

It was so declared by the Guest Editor:

I am most interested in hybridity -- crossover between fiction, poetry, non-fiction. I love prose poems, fragmented narratives, and lyric essays. Great examples of books I love are Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Eula Biss's The Balloonists, Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Anne Carson's The Autobiography of Red, Sarah Goldstein's Fables. I'm also a sucker for fairy tales. http://www.mollygaudry.com/

Red Lemonade publishes alternative literature. Our focus is on edgier, adult literary fiction, the Hybrid Beasts submissions should be of a similar vein. Hybrid manuscripts can take advantage of various forms, but short stories are encouraged, excerpts from novels are welcomed. A rough estimate upper limit of the word count would be around 4,000 words. Submissions will be publicly available for review, commenting and editing to the community members. We suggest taking advantage of the Chapter feature while uploading and including a description to enlighten your fellow creatures.

To submit your hybrid: visit www.redlemona.de and click Write Now, request Author Access and then upload your manuscript. Submissions open until May 31, 2012. Tales which are most pirated appropriately may be further appropriated.

The collaborative technical partner will be: Press Books for the creation of an online collection of hybrid tales. The web-books and epubs will be produced using PressBooks.com - a simple and powerful online tool for making ebooks, print books, and web-books. Book: A Futurist Manifesto http://book.pressbooks.com/ contains essays from the edge of publishing and dovetails nicely with the vision of this project. Red Lemonade is proud to be working with PressBooks.com, find out more and build your own book here: http://pressbooks.com/about

The online writer-reader community, along with editorial interns and assistants will comment, edit and make suggestions on the uploaded manuscripts, with high interaction being part of the selection process. Final selections will be determined by Molly Gaudry. The initial publication will include web-based books and epubs of selected stories that mix genres, approaches, odd creatures, folklore, fairy tales, mythology, strange beasts, etc. We are not seeking children or youth literature, to be clear.

We tend to fluff our nests, stake our tents and erect our altars on the alternative side of the tracks, but compelling tales containing hybridism are the primary focus. Red Lemonade continues to seek submissions of alternative fiction in line with our past publications and such as Matthew Battles' The Sovereignties of Invention to be published this March and the upcoming publication in June of Richard Melo's Happy Talk: A Novel. We look forward to your submissions and are eager to explore this new ‘hybrid’ publishing venture with you.