Uno Kudo: September 2012

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Announcing UK2's Selected Authors!

We are ecstatic to finally announce UK2's selected authors.

Each piece was evaluated for content and relation to this issue's theme and with over 100 written submissions, our judging panel's task was not an easy one. We would like to thank them for all of their hard work.

Please join us in congratulating our winners, the extraordinary authors of Uno Kudo Vol.2: Naked!

Janice Bevilacqua

Owen Cooney
Christine Conte
Megan Elizabeth Corry
Aaron Dietz
Heather Dorn
Shelley Hirsch
Chuck Howe
Raven Kane
Christy King
Lydia McDonald
Erin Parker
Lisa Mitchell Parker
Trista Payte
Joe Saldibar
Gus Sanchez
Bud Smith
Christopher Luke Trevilla
Michele Vazquez
Marvin Waldman

Please keep your eye out for our next announcement, the artist line-up.
We're very excited and we hope you are too!

If you missed out on Uno Kudo Vol.1: Ripped, don't despair!

You may still buy it by clicking HERE

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

UK2 Sneak Peak: The Cover

We are so pleased to finally announce that not only does Uno Kudo Vol. 2: Naked have a cover, but also contains pages and pages of truly thought-provoking pieces and exceptional works of art.

We know you'll be as enthusiastically anticipating its arrival as we are getting it to you! Stay tuned...

If you missed out on Uno Kudo Vol.1: Ripped, don't despair!

You may still buy it by clicking HERE

Dear Human,

There wasn’t a doubt: there would be an Uno Kudo Vol. 2. The first book was a best seller on the anthology list and raised a nice amount of money for a worthy charity. But following the first book, a strange thing happened. The writers and artists who were included began to talk. They picked up telephones and said, “Oh hi, hello—so strange that we’ve never hung out before.” They bounced emails back and forth—“Wanna help me drink this vat of Pinot Noir?” Parties sprung up. Snail mail popped into mailboxes: birthday cards, odd little handwritten notes. These people had all fallen in love with each other. They started talking. Collaborating. Plotting. Devising. They took vacations together. It was baffling. This kinda' thing wasn’t supposed to happen anymore.

An art collective. A modern day art collective.
Really?

Yup. It spans the U.S.A. and it’s spreading … inching out daily. Like the Blob … Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Boulder, Brooklyn, Upstate New York, Chicago … that Johnny Cash song, I’ve been everywhere man … Sure! Sea to shining sea. Europe too. Pins on the map in Japan, South America, anywhere there’s a somebody leaving a light on. We’d like to come to your town—absorb you just like the Blob did. We’re friendly though. We’ll slather you in neon DayGlo paint and ... well, lots of things will happen.

There’s a place for you here in Uno Kudo. Read. Look. Write. Create. Speak. Buy me a drink. I’ll buy you a drink. We’ll get naked and things will glow with an impossible hum—reverberating with a tinge of welcome danger.

Love,

The Editors