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Lucky Issue #13!

Send us your best work by October 1, 2010.

submissions@swback.com

Hello everyone! Summer has hit San Francisco full force... we are oscillating between record breaking highs and our normal permi-fog. Most of us on staff here are taking it easy, traveling or working on Major Project (the class USF MFA students take over the summer where they work on their theses). We are also looking forward to meeting the incoming cohort of MFA students... welcome to USF, class of 2012!

So what's going on at Switchback?

We've secure our line-up for issue 12.
We're soliciting art for issue 12.
We're thinking about doing a Switchback Editor's Reading this summer... Would you come if we read?
We've secured a new venue for our issue 12 launch party: Books and Bookshelves in the Castro, which we're super excited about. It's gonna be on November 18, 2010!
We're discussing the theme for issue 13, so we can open up the call for submissions.
We're looking forward to recruiting some new staff members from the incoming class!

As yesterday came and went, so did our Issue 12 call for submissions (Minority vs Majority). The managing editor has just finished logging all the submissions and now the staff will begin reading them. We will discuss the work and make our publication decisions over the next few months. We hope to contact everyone with our publication decisions by late Spring or early Summer. From everyone at Switchback, we want to give a big THANK YOU to everyone who submitted.

For those writers and artists that missed the deadline, our next reading period will begin sometime mid-Summer, once we decide on the next theme. Keep checking our call for submissions page, follow us on twitter, or befriend us on Facebook to be the first to know!

Today is our issue 11 launch party at Cantina... and we do have reason to celebrate: as you can see we've just loaded up a brand new issue of Switchback! We were excited building it but even more excited to see it LIVE. The issue turned out lovely thanks to our art contributors, we've got a full line up of quality writing thanks to our talented contributors of the written word, and the issue is flawless thanks to our relentless team of editors. Please enjoy browsing around and checking out the new issue!

Don't forget: we're still taking submissions for Issue 12: Minority vs. Majority until March 17. We especially need nonfiction and art submissions so send us your best!

Even though it is a beautiful afternoon in San Francisco, staff members of Switchback have spent it inside, building Issue 11.  It looks good and we know everyone will love reading it as much as we have.  It's a new year and the first issue of Switchback in 2010 will be a big one, sure to offer something for readers of all tastes!

We are also reading for Issue 12: MINORITY V. MAJORITY!  Check out our submission guidelines and send us something awesome.  Our deadline is St. Patrick's day, the perfect excuse to reward yourself with a green cookie or beer after you've given us your best work.

The submission deadline for issue 11, Process vs Product, was yesterday, Halloween. Thanks to everyone who submitted work! We are really excited about the quality and the quantity and we're looking forward to discussing it.

We hope to make final acceptance decisions by Christmas time, and open up submission for issue 12 on New Years. Hopefully everything will run according to schedule...

Thanks again for reading and submitting!

Sincerely,
The Switchback Staff 

Put us on your calendar!  On October 22 we will have the launch party for issue 10, Figurative vs. Literal.  Our reading will be at 7pm at Cantina, located at 580 Sutter Street (between Mason and Powell).  We'll be in the basement, so make your way past the bar and come down the stairs to join us.

You don't want to miss this line up!  Three great poets as well as David Vann, the newest faculty member in USF's MFA in Writing Program, will be reading:

• Alison Doernberg
• David Vann
• Christina Hutchins
• Linda Phillimore

See you there!

Submit your work for issue 11!  The theme is Process vs. Product.  Art work submissions should reflect this theme, and all works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction will be considered, regardless of relation to theme.

The deadline is October 31st, so be sure to submit before Halloween candy goes on sale.  More information on submitting can be found here!  We can't wait to see or read your work!

Welcome to Switchback!  A new year is starting here at the University of San Francisco, bringing together old and new Switchback staff as we launch issue 10 and begin looking at submissions for issue 11.  As part of this new year, the site itself is getting an updated look!  It has been a lot of hard work and a lot fun making Switchback an even more enjoyable experience for our readers and we hope you enjoy all the new features!