Category: NEAT

  • NEAT. Issue 9 is out!!

    NEAT. Issue 9 is out!!

    Issue 9 of NEAT. is now available.

  • Updates from Liz: Chicago Edition

    I wrote an update for NEAT. about the things I’ve been up to here in Chicago. Here ya go! Updates from Liz: Chicago Edition.

  • NEAT. Goes Dancing at the Cabaret

    NEAT. Goes Dancing at the Cabaret

    Don’t forget that NEAT. is accepting submissions for Issue 8! Our theme this quarter is cabaret. I want fun, flirty, fast-paced. I think our diverse submission pool is going to give it to me. Ooooh I can’t wait to read these subs. View our submission guidelines. Read up on the previous issues to…

  • NEAT. Issue 7: Winter 2014 – 2015 . . . has arrived!

    NEAT. Issue 7: Winter 2014 – 2015 . . . has arrived!

    Hey all! Go check out the new issue of NEAT. up on the website. It’s full of lovely, dirge-ful writing (that’s a word because I say so) and I’m so happy to have been a part in reading and selecting these.

  • Story of the Week #12 — “Cygnet Lake” by Doug McBride

    Since I’m bringing Story of the Week back after probably a year of neglect, I will treat you dear Readers to something short and sweet to start things off again. And since the deadline for the Fall 2014 issue of NEAT. is rapidly approaching, I think it’s appropriate to showcase one…

  • New Stuff

    Aha! Two posts in a week! I’m on a roll. Look around you, dear readers, at my newly redone website. The horror of my thesis reading list is no more, so I deleted that page, which I’m sure caused a deep sigh of relief somewhere in the universe (actually, no,…

  • I’ve finally crawled out from under my rock

    Dear Long-Suffering People that Still Follow this Site for Some Reason, I’ve been sleeping under a rock for the last month or so. My thesis defense went well (yay!) and I passed (more yay!) and then I hid under a boulder and have been doing nothing except eating excessive amounts…

  • NEAT. Issue 3!

    Drum roll, please . . . TM Keesling and I just released our third issue of NEAT., the Midwestern literary journal we’ve been slaving over (in a good way). This winter issue is full of the three P’s: poetry, prose, and photography (but holy cow especially poetry). TM and I…

  • This Weekend in Bullet Points — Reading, Writing, and #neatingout

    Lots of new things happening in Liz’s life right now. 1. I turned 24 this past week. I feel old. 2.The third issue of NEAT. is about to go live. There is a metric tonne of poetry in this one, and I’m super pumped about it. Can’t wait to sit…

  • NEAT. Issue 2 is LIVE!

    Exciting news! Issue 2 is NOW LIVE over at the website for NEAT. TM Keesling and I are pumped about this one. Check it out and read, comment, review! Our theme this time around was beginnings, endings, and beginnings that come from endings. That resulted in stories across the board…