Ezines Consulted

The Blue Penny Quarterly is an electronic journal of fine literary work distributed internationally via the Internet, America Online, regional computer bulletin boards and the World Wide Web. Our goal is to bring high-quality literary writing into the electronic communities and to provide good writers greater exposure using the best of the technologies available to us in a creative, yet dignified manner. We are published quarterly as a service to readers, writers, and the online communities by a volunteer staff, and are available free of charge. http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/bpq/front-page.html, ftp at ftp.etext.org in the directory /pub/Zines/BluePennyQuarterly.

Cyberkind is the chronicle of a new society--the Networld. Not merely a collection of poetry, prose and art, Cyberkind catalogs the peculiar thoughts and emotions, the quirks and idiosyncracies, the culture of the Networld, the child of technology. The words on these virtual pages in one way or another were all born of the Internet.

Visit us at http://sunsite.unc.edu/ckind/title.html

DargonZine is an electronic magazine that prints original amateur fantasy fiction by Internet writers. It is the publication vehicle of the Dargon Project, described below. It only prints Dargon-related stories. DargonZine is the successor of FSFnet, which was the Dargon Project's original emag. Between FSFnet and DargonZine, it is the longest running electronic magazine on the Internet.

The Dargon Project is a "shared world" project, where many authors write in a common milieu, sharing settings and characters. The setting is a fantasy world that is predominantly human, at a late medieval technology level, and where magic is relatively rare.

The project was founded in 1985 as a way for amateur fantasy writers on the Internet to meet and become better writers through mutual contact and collaboration. See below for details if you are interested in joining the project as a contributing writer.

Free email subscriptions available from <dargon@wonky.jjm.com>.
"Notification only" subscriptions are also available.
Issues are also posted to Usenet newsgroup rec.mag.dargon, and are available at the following URL: gopher://gopher.etext.org:70/11/Zines/DargonZine.

FICTION-ONLINE tries to present a sort of literary bouquet on-line. It features a long-running serialization of a novel about Mozart, plus a short story and maybe a short-short, a poem or two, and often a short one-act play. The play will be funny, the novel historical, the stories mainline or science fiction, the poems could be any sort of thing of beauty.

InterText has been publishing issues online since its first issue was released in March 1991. It prints stories of all genres, and has printed 26 issues as of July 1995. It's available in ASCII, PostScript, Adobe Acrobat PDF, and HTML (World Wide Web) formats. Editors are Jason Snell, Geoff Duncan, and Susan Grossman. For more information, mail intertext@etext.org or go to http://www.etext.org/Zines/InterText/

Since 1989, Quanta has been publishing new, fresh fiction from amateur and professional writers from around the world and across the Net. Currently, Quanta goes out to over 3,000 subscribers world-wide. In 1992, Quanta garnered runner-up in the Digital Publishing Association's "Digital Quill Awards". This year, Quanta is even better, with a higher standard of fiction than ever before, not to mention artwork and design.

Quanta may be reached at the Internet address quanta@etext.org and is available on the World Wide Web at the URL http://www.etext.org/Zines/Quanta.

Issues are also available for anonymous FTP from ftp.etext.org in the directory /pub/Zines/Quanta.

The Morpo Review is an electronic literary magazine which is available on the Internet and is read worldwide by people just like you.

Q: How do I submit my work to The Morpo Review, and what are you looking for?

How about Sonnets to Captain Kangaroo, free-verse ruminations comparing plastic lawn ornaments to The Love Boat, or nearly anything with cows in it? No, not cute, Smurfy little "ha ha" ditties--back reality into a corner and snarl! Some good examples are "Oatmeal" by Galway Kinnell, "A Supermarket In California" by Allen Ginsberg, or the 6th section of Wallace Stevens' "Six Significant Landscapes."

But, hey, if this makes little or no sense, just send us good stuff; if we like it, we'll print it, even if it's nothing close to the above description of what we want (life's like that at times). Just send us good stuff, get published, and impress your peers and neighbors.

Twilight World is a bi-monthly fiction-only magazine that started in April 1993. It concentrates mainly on fantasy, science fiction and humor.
Email r.c.karsmakers@stud.let.ruu.nl for subscription information.

Whirlwind is an electronic literary magazine striving for the very best in contemporary fiction, poetry, and essays. Back issues can be located via anonymous FTP/Gopher at ftp.etext.org under the directory /pub/Zines/Whirlwind.

[Editor's note: Whirlwind has ceased publication.]