We’re close. Real close. So close we can smell it. October 7th. That’s when. October 7th, a Thursday. Swivel on your stool. Eat an apple. Wait for Thursday. That’s when we’ll announce the Chapbook Contest winner. — KM

9/6: Submissions to the DSM Chapbook Contest are now closed. Thanks to all who entered. We’ll announce the winner in the coming weeks.

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Just a Smidge

We’ve decided that nothing should end on a Tuesday.

Therefore we will be taking chapbook submissions for a few extra days.

The new deadline will be Sunday, September 5, 2010.

All the same rules apply.

Can’t remember? Click here.

Good luck!

And You Will Float Away As Smoke

August is the hottest month in South Texas. Your exhaled breath crawls back into you from fear. All things slow to still. Paint sweats from houses and digs itself into the sand. Cactus needles catch fire. The desert looks like a barren birthday cake.

August is also the last month to enter the Dark Sky Magazine Chapbook Contest. Do not delay. We are planning magnificent things for the production of the book. This will not be one of those chapbooks that looks like a church bulletin. You will not feel the need to draw upon it with one of those half pencils with no eraser.

It will be magic, and it will be yours (so long as we decide you are the winner, and you should feel confident and enter, because, after all, we both know you are a genius).

But the days are ticking down, and we don’t want you to think you were not warned.

You have until the end of this month. Commence. — Brian Allen Carr