Uno Kudo: March 2013

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Hello writers and artists! Submissions are OPEN, send your work: now til APRIL 30th, 2013. SUBMIT: unokudo@gmail.com
Uno Kudo is looking for your most vivid work: short stories, poems, creative non-fiction, to be matched up side by side with artwork that will knock your socks off. Please send art as a 300 dpi Jpeg 12" high.
Please send writing as a .doc file. No word limit. No theme. No holds barred.
Poetry: send up to six poemsshort stories: send one (unless you can't resist)flash fiction: send up to three
Submissions are now open for our yearly print anthology that combines art and writing in wild ways. All profits from the sales of Uno Kudo III will again be donated to PEN international, a charity that fights for the rights of oppressed artists worldwide.
We'd like to see something that has not been published elsewhere. We'd like to see something that is not sim. sub. We'd like to buy you a beer. All those things.
Thank you!

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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