![]() ![]() Feel free to go in a lighthearted direction, or take us deep into the heart of something darker. Feel free to write about love, loss, lust, ambition or any other emotion that seems driven by this strange, bright red and all powerful organ. Writers might want to consider the different meanings of heart, from its literal role in our physical bodies to the metaphorical role it plays in love, to the idea that there is a heart at the centre of everything, if you can get to it, whether vegetable (like the artichoke), political (or is it a lack of heart that is the issue?), from problems (if you could just find it…) or the wonderful (is there anything this good that is without heart?). We have just finished putting together the Roots Issue (thank you to all who submitted), allowing us to open the doors for new submissions. Illustration by Kevin Deneufchatel The next issue of Popshot will be on the theme of… “Heart.” Interesting overall, but I won’t subscribe or buy every issue for now.Submit work for the next issue between today and 9am (GMT) on Friday 2nd December 2022. I’m left at the end not sure what the story is trying to say. I like the setting and the beginning of the story. In the Place of Our Parents is about a town where all the adults went missing and the children got left behind. His deceitful life was changed when he was hired to capture the soul of a dying man. Last Light is about a fake scientist who captured light and sold it at a high price. (I searched the author C S Mee online and found that she lives just next door in Durham!) I have to come to the conclusion that it’s very good writing. She lost so much weight unnaturally that in the end, she became transparent and disappeared altogether, leaving some warmth in her husband arms and some tears on the pillow. There are not even many twists and turns to it. It’s not a child gone missing or bloody murder, it’s conversations between husband and wife, doctor and patient. It’s not a thrilling adventure, it’s ordinary people’s everyday lives. The Unbearable Lightness of Janet Clark left an intangibly surreal but left a deep impression on me. ![]() I don’t like the stories in issue 20 as much. If there are any good poets for beginners, please let me know! My Three Favourite StoriesĪll the ones below are from issue 18. Surely poems are not just normal sentences broken into multiple lines minus punctuation? Sorry if it sounds rude or ignorant, I never learnt English poetry. In addition, they look like people just formatted a normal essay into shorter lines. There are poems where I understand every word individually, but not put together. Not just difficult vocabulary or grammar. I don’t understand them most of the time. Last but not least, Popshot is very reasonably priced (£6) as an independent magazine and it has, very impressively, no adverts! About Poems My standard is, would I want to stick it in my diary or put it on my wall?) They might not all be to my taste but the artworks are all bold and very interesting! (My favourite one in issue 20 is the illustration for Resting on page 54. There is a big variety of illustration styles. The authors have to do the job themselves. It might work for newspapers or news magazines as an attention-grabber, but I don’t think fictional articles need that. Pull quotes in bright colour and in the san serif font. Layout: Simple one column most of the time. The average number of words per line: about 15. A very simple and non-distracting font, which serves its purpose well: To present the stories neatly and clearly.Į. – The first impression is young and modern.ĭ. The ‘feature’ text like titles is a san serif font. – Matt is far better for long-form reading.Ĭ. Matt paper stock for the cover and inside. It has an informal and friendly feeling.ī. Easy to hold, to carry around and to read. Because it’s a literary magazine, I’ll study the design in terms of how well it serves the purpose of long-form reading.Ī. ![]()
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