WRITING ASSIGNMENT #6

Put your pen where your mouth is:

Write a carefully worded, logically sound law that you’d want to see enacted by Chicago’s legislature. Make the city better; be wary of loopholes.

Submit your bill to: loganliterary@gmail.com

WRITING ASSIGNMENT #5

Pretend you’ve been given a say in the matter and write to us with a detailed description of how you’d want to die.

Send your death wish to: loganliterary@gmail.com

WRITING ASSIGNMENT #4

For today, create your own Catholic Saint. Give this canonized individual a holiday, a name, a patronage, special powers, a grand history and/or a series of idiosyncrasies. Make sure he/she is worthy of extreme veneration by millions of Catholics worldwide.

Send us your saint: loganliterary@gmail.com

WRITING ASSIGNMENT #3

For a minute, let’s try to forget 40+ years of sheer iconography.

Despite being the greatest of all rock bands, The Beatles have, upon close scrutiny, one of the worst/lamest names in the annals of popular music. We don’t dig the pun.

The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Clash, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath may all fall short of the Fab Four’s musical accomplishments and lasting influence, but their names manage to communicate the very essence of rock ‘n roll. In comparison “The Beatles” is kinda just….. dumb.

For today, play revisionist historian and give the greatest of all rock band a name befitting their genius and influence.

Rename the The Beatles, and send us the result: loganliterary@gmail.com

WRITING ASSIGNMENT #2

In his recent self-help bestseller Being Ready, Roy Munteen, M.D. describes “The Three Steps of the Tiger.” The “Tiger” is, near as we can tell, a shifty new-age metaphor for some sort of vague assertiveness and/or confidence that will ultimately get you laid, land you a better job or a fatter paycheck, a nicer smile and the respect of your underlings.

We’re asking you to come up with a new Step 2:

Step 1: Find the Tiger

Step 2: ________________________ the Tiger.

Step 3: Unleash the Tiger

Send us your Step 2: loganliterary@gmail.com and see it published here.

WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1

In the tradition of French Journalist/Anarchist Felix Feneon, create a “novel in three lines.”

Then….. send it to Loganliterary@gmail.com

ISSUE IV SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS SEPT. 30th

THE FOX LIVES!

Hey everybody, The Logan Square Literary Review, after a brief hiatus, is back on track and under new management. Founder Daniel Majid has handed the reins of the journal to the trio of Matt McCarthy, Stephen Bell and Patrick Dahl. The team is hard at work preparing Issue IV for Fall 2010.

We cannot do this without submissions from the public. So give us your written works! Send them to Loganliterary@gmail.com

The Deadline for Issue IV is Sept. 30th. Get crackin'.

We're looking for:

FICTION | ESSAYS | POETRY | RECIPES | LYRICS | INTERVIEWS | TRAVELOGUES | SCREEDS | MANIFESTOES | JOKES | TRANSLATIONS | PLAYS | HISTORIES | COMICS | JOURNALISM | HOW-TO’S | TREATISES | TRACTS | AUTOMATIC WRITING | LISTS | THEOREMS | SHEET MUSIC | PROFILES | JOURNALS | CRITICISM | SCREENPLAYS | PROOFS | OP-EDS | EXPERIMENT | LOVE LETTERS | PRAYERS | CORRESPONDENCE | GAMES | DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS | FOUND LIT | and other written works.

If you write it down, we'll consider publishing it.

We're also looking for art and photos.

Thanks for your continued support,
The Editors