This Labor Day weekend: if you’re in town for the UGA/ Boise State game today (or if you just like books!), check out the Decatur Book Festival! From 9:30am - 6:30pm today and 11:30am - 7pm tomorrow, authors will be setting up tents for readings, discussions, workshops, and more. Check out the schedule here for more information: http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/2011/schedule/index.php
To writers, poets, artists, and anyone else feeling inspired- a new literary zine in Athens is looking for submissions of your original work.  The Stray Dog Almanac, started “one warm July evening, damp with rain, after a tasty dinner of eggplant and a jug of beer,” when some art students recognized the need for a more prominent literary and artistic presence in the form of publications. Their name is derived from and inspired by the Russian Stray Dog Cabaret, part of the Silver Age that boasted the beginnings of many Russian writers, poets, and artists. Now’s your chance to become part of the movement. From the website: Stray Dog will be an almanac, which means we are interested in variety - from different voices as well as different subject matter and genres. Our call is open to all writing styles and writers, so that if you’ve had something for a while and have been waiting for the right opportunity, this is it! No theme, no constraints. Perhaps you’ve been too timid to show people your work or you may have never considered submitting work for publication before. We at the Stray Dog Almanac encourage you to challenge yourself and SUBMIT your work! We accept your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or black and white illustrations/comic strips. We have an arbitrary word limit of 5,000 words, but we will consider excerpting longer works. You may submit up to 5 poems and 2 prose pieces. E-mail your submission to straydogalmanac (at) gmail (dot) com with your name, the title(s) of your work(s) and, if you like, your affiliation with our Classic City (i.e. student, recovering student, downtown barkeep, professor, local band guru) by SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 to be considered for our winter 2011 publication! Please include the word “Submission” in the title of your email. All submissions will undergo a fair, blind review. Entrants will be notified of their acceptance by November 1, 2011. If your work is selected you will receive 2 free copies of our hand-bound almanac, not to mention ensuing fame and fortune. Our goal is to include as many different artists and writers as possible, but we must sadly admit that our space is limited. Please keep this in mind when submitting your work.  Visit the Stray Dog Almanac’s website at: http://www.straydogalmanac.com/