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Weekly Roundup: April 26, 2019
April 26, 2019 / papercatpress
Welcome to Paper Cat Press's Weekly Roundup! In the Weekly Roundup, I provide links and summarized information about the crowdfunded projects, creator opportunities, and resources that have caught my eye over the week. I hope you enjoy!
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Patreon announced that their new payment processing rates will go into effect on May 7. If you launch your page by the deadline of May 6th, 2019 at 11:59 PM Pacific time, you will lock in "founders" pricing for the Pro plan rate of 5% of your Patreon earnings, with "founders" payment processing rates.
SPX has created a legal aid fund in support of 11 indie artists and an indie publisher who are faced with a defamation lawsuit because they spoke out against another creator's alleged pattern of sexual abuse. Please support their cause and send the message that survivors of sexual assault do not feel afraid to speak out against their abusers and supporters of victims should not pay for an abuser's crimes.
Social Resources
Need information on elections, candidates, and public policy in the US? Check out Ballotpedia.
Need to contact your government officials? Let Resist Bot and 5calls help you out.
The Crash Override Network has resources on what to do if you're a victim of online harassment and/or doxxing and how to protect yourself.
If you are a trans person in need of legal assistance, check translawhelp.org for pro bono services in your state.
Here's a list of free or low-cost mental health resources. Thank you so much for compiling this list, Tiffany!
If you need to talk to someone or otherwise vent, please utilize this list of help hotlines.
Remember to rest, eat, and drink water when you can. Take care of yourself the best that you can. You, your presence, and your work have an incredible impact on the people around you. You should be here.
The Penguin Random House Library Award for Innovation Through Adversity is accepting applications from US libraries and staff who overcome adversity and create lasting innovative community service programs that successfully inspire and connect with new readers. A $10,000 cash award will be given to a US library, and four runners-up will receive $1,000 in Penguin Random House books.
The 2019 Toronto Book Awards are accepting submissions of books with some Toronto-based content until April 30.
The Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award is open for nominations until May 22.
The Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards is accepting submissions of works of horror created by women (cis or trans) until December 31. The awards will be announced in 2020.
Crowdfunded Projects
Kristen Kiomall-Evans is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to print XII: Of Magic and Muses Volume 1. In this magical teen girl fantasy, protagonist Willow is gifted a magical necklace that begins to uncover long-buried secrets of her mundane, restricted school. The 330-page full-color comic has been posted online since 2016 and is available to read here. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, a digital wallpaper, a print, stickers, buttons, an acrylic standee, a signed bookplate, and a commission. The Kickstarter ends on April 30.
Dames, a Women Knights Zine is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for its production. The book features the work of over 40 artists who created 55 illustrations featuring lady knights. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the zine, phone, computer, and tablet backgrounds, prints, an enamel pin, and stickers. The Kickstarter ends on May 2.
Robin Childs is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to publish Wavemen: The House on Fifth Avenue. The story starts with a seemingly haunted structure and expands to explore aspects of Japanese mythology and Heian history. Tier options include digital or physical copies of either the first or second book (or both), stickers, prints, and buttons. The Kickstarter ends on May 3.
Kara Love is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for the relaunch of the Local Haunts Anthology. The anthology features 32 stories of small town legends and local hauntings told in 120 full-color comic pages. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, stickers, a print, a patch, commissions, and more. The Kickstarter ends on May 4.
Fair Spark Books is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to produce SAFFRON: Spacetime Academy Adventures #1. After Saffron Sizemore falls through a wormhole while on holiday, she finds herself enlisted in a space academy and becomes an officer while looking for a way back to Earth. Perfect for readers age 7 and up, the comic features 24 pages of full-color artwork. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, digital backgrounds, a poster, a bookmark, a coloring book, and more. The Kickstarter ends on May 6.
Dead Beats is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for its production. To quote the Kickstarter page, "Dead Beats is a 160-page full-color anthology of music-themed horror comics centered around the curiosities for sale at one peculiar record store by its enigmatic Shoppe Keeper." Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, a bumper sticker, a process PDF, a t-shirt, a signed book plate, and more. The Kickstarter ends on May 9.
Fiction & Feeling is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to produce Better Than IRL, an anthology of true stories about life on the internet. The book features 20 essays written by "pioneers and participants" from online communities. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, enamel pins, a tote bag, other books from the F&F catalogue, prints, and more. The Kickstarter ends on May 10.
Kirsten Thomas is currently raising funds to produce the second issue of I Am HeXed. The supernatural political thriller follows Charlotte "Charlie" Helm as she and her friends work to uncover the source of anti-witch tensions and try to avoid being framed. Tier options include digital and physical copies of both Issue #1 and #2, prints, temporary tattoos, an enamel pin, a t-shirt, and more. The Kickstarter ends on May 15.
Bones McCay is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to produce Honey Walls, an illustrated novel written, illustrated, and narrated by trans creators. Row, a trans man with no heart and repressed magic abilities, must confront his sister when she plans to ruin his life following their mother's death. Tier options include digital, physical, or audiobook versions of the story and a watercolor painting. The Kickstarter ends on May 15.
Sami Brice is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to produce Waiting: A Comic Anthology. The full-color anthology features 14 contributors, 16 stories, and over 90 pages of content. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the anthology, postcards, stickers, posters, original artwork, and more. The Kickstarter ends on May 16.
Brandon Braun is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to produce computer game Chorus: Frog Warrior. The role-playing adventure game features Chorus, a small frog determined to become a warrior despite the expectation that he should be a religious scholar. Tier options include a digital copy of the game, a digital copy of the soundtrack, a chance to design a character, and a chance to design a dungeon in the game. The Kickstarter ends on May 17.
The Comics Studies Society is accepting nominations for Executive Board positions.
JiMi Agency's next group order will be open until April 25.
The Latinx Collective shared a directory of Latina and Latinx small business owners and collectives. Check it out!
(New York, NY) Random House Graphic is seeking a Marketing & Publicity Manager.
(New York, NY) W. W. Norton & Company is seeking a Photo Editor.
Did you or will you table in an artist alley in the US in 2019? Take the 2019 Artist Alley Convention Survey here. The results of the 2018 survey are available here.
The Comic Tea Party is a weekly book club for webcomics. Participate in the Discord chat weekly on Thursdays at 5pm to 7pm PST. Sign your comic up for a chance to have it read and discussed in the group!
(Burbank, CA) The Animation Guild (Local 839) is hosting an in-person portfolio review event for students, recent grads, and union members on May 19.
(Greenwich, CT) Blue Sky Studios is seeking a temporary animator, a temporary compositor, a Head of Story, an FX Supervisor, and a temp Crowd Simulator TD.
(London, UK) Blue-Zoo Animation is seeking an Assistant Editor, CG Modellers and Texture Artists, a Clean-Up Storyboard Artist, a Development Artist, an FX TD, a Lighting TD/Compositor, a Maya Character Animator, a Rigger, a Speculative Script Writer, a Toon Boom Harmony Compositor, a Toon Boom Harmony Effects Animator, and more.
Cartoon Network is seeking a Production Assistant and a Development Coordinator for an Original Series.
DICE LA is seeking a Lead Character Artist a Graphics Engineer, and more.
(Burbank, CA) Disney TV Animation is hiring a Sheet Timer. Be sure to check Disney's website for both creative and office positions with Disney!
(Glendale, CA) DreamWorks is hiring an Artist Recruiter, a Backend Production Coordinator, a Character Designer, a Lead Effects Artist, a Previs/Rough Layout Artist, a Production Coordinator for Feature Animation, a Production Coordinator for Tales of Arcadia, a Production Supervisor, a Software Engineer, a Visual Development Artist, and more. They're also seeking a Feature Technology Intern.
(Ottawa, Canada) Imaginera Inc. is seeking 3D animators.
Matthew shared this look into some of the different roles in animation.
(Los Angeles, CA) Netflix Animation is hiring an Animatic Editor, an Art Director, a Background Designer, a Background Painter, a Character Designer, an Episode Director, a Head of Story, a Layout Artist, a Line Producer, Production Coordinators, Production Managers, a Production Supervisor, a Prop Designer, Storyboard Artists, and a Visual Development Artist.
(Burbank, CA) Nickelodeon is hiring an Art Director, a Character Designer, a CG Character Modeller, a CG Generalist, a CG Texture Artist, a Character Technical Director, an FX Artist, a Lead Storyboard Artist, a Production Coordinator, Production Managers, a Script Coordinator, and more.
Pixomondo is seeking an Animator, a CG Supervisor, a Compositor, a Houdini FX Artist, a Pipeline TD, and a Senior Lighting Artist in Los Angeles, CA. They're also seeking animators in Toronto, a Senior Lighting Artist in Vancouver, and more internationally.
(Vancouver, BC) Sony Imageworks is hiring Animators, Character FX Technical Directors, Compositors, FX Artists, Layout Artists, Lighters, Matte Painters, Modelers, and more.
Titmouse is looking for an Assistant Editor, Production Coordinator, and interns in Los Angeles, CA. In New York, they're seeking artist and production interns for summer. They're also seeking a 2D animator, a 2D Builds and Rigging Artist, a background layout artist, a background painter, compositors, a line producer, and a prop designer in Vancouver, Canada.
(Toronto, Canada) Ubisoft is hiring artists, programmers, office workers, and more.
(San Francisco, CA) Viz is seeking an Anime Licensing Coordinator.
(Burbank, CA) Walt Disney Animation Studios is hiring an environment designer and a story artist.
Check this list of animation and gaming jobs worldwide that's updated daily. You can find a directory of currently open animation jobs at animatedjobs.com. See Entertainment Careers for more listings.
Comics, Illustration, and More
Threadless is accepting artwork for the following design challenges: Time, due April 26; Fresh Kicks, due May 3; and Love is Love, due May 10.
MediBang Paint is accepting entries to their Medi-chan Summer Fashion Dress-Up Contest until April 26. Using Medi-chan's character template and design a new outfit for her for a chance to win up to ¥30,000. They're also hosting the MCPO (Manga Contents Promote Organization) Awards and accepting entries until May 7. You can submit Illustrations with the theme "Journey" or Manga with an open theme. Winners may be awarded up to ¥200,000 and an invitation to an award ceremony.
(Montreal, Canada) Kitfox Games is seeking a Part-Time Concept Artist/Illustrator. Apply by April 28 for consideration.
The Nib is accepting pitches about animals until April 30. They're also accepting pitches with the theme of "drugs" on a general basis, as it will be the theme of the issue following "Animals."
Secrets of the Sea, an OC Mermaids zine, will be accpeting applications from writers and artists until May 4.
Clip Studio Paint is accepting submissions of illustrations and comics with the theme "gift" from students until May 9.
Dirty Diamonds is seeking contributors for its tenth and final issue with the theme "Death" until May 31. According to their submissions page, "Dirty Diamonds is an all-girl anthology, meaning we are all-inclusive. If you are female/femme, we want your comics."
Seethe Witch Press is seeking submissions from writers and artists until May 31. Contributors will be compensated $25 for small spells and $50 for either artwork or essays.
The Shounen Shoujo Manga Award is accepting entries until May 31. All submissions must be original content and 2 pages or longer (no upper limit designated). Bessatsu Manga, a co-host of the Shounen Shoujo Manga Award, is also accepting illustrations with the theme "heart skips a beat" until May 31. Winners of the contests will receive a cash prize, a promise to have your work published, and you will be assigned an editor.
Miss Anthology is accepting submissions to their 2019 comic anthology from women and/or LGBTQIA+ individuals in the Pacific NW who are between ages 9 and 21 until June 1.
Lilies Anthology is accepting submissions for Volume 8 with theme "dreams" until June 15.
Bonfire Comics is accepting submissions for Topia: a Bonfire Anthology until July 15. Submissions must be between 1-16 pages. Illustrators will be paid $45 per illustration, and comic creators will be paid $15 per page. Artists will receive 5 copies of the finished book.
The Silent Manga Audition is accepting entires for its 12th competition with the theme "New Beginning" until September 30.
The JUMP Paint Global Artistic Manga Award is accepting entries until September 24. Entries must be over 3 pages and submitted through the JUMP Paint app, and can be either original works or based on title selected by the JUMP editing team.
Argot Magazine is seeking written and illustrated submissions about queer and marginalized experiences. Their payment ranges from $35 to $250 per piece.
Arsenika is accepting portfolio submissions for reprint cover work and pays $100 for reprint artwork.
Artists Writers & Artisans is seeking journalists and investigative reporters to team up with comic writers for adaptations on true stories into fictional comic works.
The Asexual is accepting general submissions from marginalized voices in the queer community.
Asexual Artists is always seeking creative asexual interviewees.
Daily comics news blog The Beat is hiring a Managing Editor.
(Los Angeles, CA) Boom Studios is seeking an Editor and an Associate Editor.
New publisher Bulgihan Press is seeking to publish short self-contained comics of 20-40 pages by solo creators.
Carnation Books is accepting submissions of queer genre fiction and welcomes fanfiction writers seeking to transition into publishing original writing content. They are actively seeking submissions with asexual or aromantic main characters. They are also seeking cover artists and plot and style editors.
Chris Williams is seeking a new artist to draw 4-panel comics once a week for the manga-style webcomic Scurry & Cover. Contact Chris at yoreanon-chrisw@yahoo.co.jp for more information.
ComicsMNT is "seeking a few short (500-750) pieces about comics from female and NB writers to run in the months of April and May."
Stephanie Cooke is actively connecting comic creators of all types for paid projects. Check out Creator Advisor for more information.
Cricket Media is seeking writers and illustrators for upcoming features and articles in their various children's magazines.
(Burbank, CA) DC Comics is hiring a Managing Editor.
(Pittsburgh, PA) Duolingo is seeking an Illustrator and a Senior Illustrator.
Emerald Comics Distro is accepting submissions for distribution opportunities.
ENBY Magazine is looking for non-binary zinesters to interview.
FIYAH Lit Mag is seeking Black comic creators to feature in its 2019 issues.
The Game Devs of Color Expo is seeking designers and artists of color to commission.
GenderTerror is accepting submissions of LGBTQ+ horror from artists and writers.
Jerry's Art-A-Rama hosts a number of art contests, some ongoing and some requiring specific materials.
Do you have a webcomic with LGBTQ characters and themes? LGBTQ Webcomics is looking to add more queer webcomics to their database on Tagpacker!
Longreads is accepting portfolio submissions from illustrators.
Lore Lush Publishing is seeking Cover Artists.
Narratively is seeking submissions of writing, photography, and illustrations.
Natashane is accepting entries from asexual creators or creators of comics with asexual characters for a directory of Asexual Comics that they've created.
The New Southern Fugitives is seeking submissions of fiction, book reviews, essays, poetry, photography, and visual art from creators in the South. They pay $60 per book review, essay, or story and $25 per poem, photograph, or visual art.
You can send samples of your work along with pitches to thenib@firstlook.org to be considered by The Nib.
New horror imprint Nightfire is seeking horror pitches, including graphic novel pitches. They're also seeking an Assistant Editor and Senior Editor in New York, NY.
People of Color in Publishing is looking to spotlight Indigenous and booksellers of color.
Pink Narcissus Press is seeking cover artwork for SF/F speculative fiction. They pay $100-$200 for nonexclusive rights.
POMEgranate Magazine is accepting pitches from artists and writers.
Robot Dinosaur Games is accepting artwork submissions for its upcoming anthology. They will pay $75 per piece.
Scholastic Canada is currently interested in reviewing Indigenous material in all genres and at all levels. No other unsolicited submissions are being accepted at this time.
The Webcomic Library is a new resource that hopes to serve as a comprehensive list of webcomics. Submit your webcomic using this form.
Check out Arts for LA, Call for Entry, College Art Opportunities, Graphic Competitions, or Hey, Art Friends for more exhibition, residency, and grant opportunities. See Find Anthologies for a list of anthologies with open submissions and to submit anthologies of your own. Check Chris Arrant's #ComicJobs hashtag on Twitter. Check Comic Ops to see opportunities specifically for comic creators.
Con or Bust has free tickets available for people of color for a number of upcoming conventions, including NorWesCon, the Locus Awards weekend, the Nebula Conference, and more.
Big Easy Con (June 1-2) is currently accepting applications from exhibitors.
Bluestockings Bookstore (New York, NY) is hosting a Queer and Trans Comics Festival in August and is accepting vendor applications.
Flame Con's (August 17-18) press applications are open, as are applications to be a FlameCon featured cosplayer.
GeekGirlCon's (November 16-17) artist alley applications are now open!
Gender Unbound Festival (September 21-22) in Austin, Texas is accepting applications from artists and performers until April 28.
Genghis Con (December 1) in Cleveland, Ohio is accepting exhibitor applications until May 31.
MCX (the Mississauga Comic Expo) is accepting applications for its exhibitor spaces until May 20.
New York Comic Con is accepting applications for its artist alley until May 14.
The Portland Zine Symposium (July 20-21) is accepting applications until the end of April.
The Queers & Comics Conference (May 17-18) now has tickets available.
STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo (October 12-13) is accepting applications for exhibitors.
Here's a list of international zine fests brought to you by ZINES!
(New York, NY) Hachette Book Group is seeking a Designer.
Kodansha is seeking a Contract Production Designer.
(New York, NY) Little Bee Books is seeking a Designer or Junior Designer.
(New York, NY) Macmillian Publishers is seeking a Design Assistant.
(New York, NY) Penguin Random House is seeking an Interiors Designer for their nonfiction works.
(Oxford, UK) The Phoenix Comic is seeking a full-time designer.
Roll20 is seeking a Graphic Designer.
(San Francisco, CA) Viz Media is seeking a Designer for Trade Books.
(New York, NY) W. W. Norton & Company is seeking a Senior Designer to join its Trade Art Department.
Fan Zines
Memento Mori, a Death Parade Tarot Fanzine, is currently accepting applications from artists until April 27. All proceeds will be donated to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.
Looking for more fan zines to submit to? Check out this spreadsheet created by magicalzombie for more! Have a finished zine project you want to advertise? Check out Zine RTer!
Grimlore Games is seeking a full-time writer. Remote okay.
(Irvine, CA) Game studio Nexon is currently hiring animators, artists, designers, and programmers. They're also seeking localizers for contract work in El Segundo.
(Kirkland, WA) Harebrained Schemes is hiring a Senior Character Technical Artist.
itch.io has soft-launched a job board so that studios can post paid positions to the itch.io development team.
(Kirkland, WA) Monolith Productions is seeking an Advanced Technical Artist for Characters, an Advanced UI Artist, an Art Lead for Facial Animation,
(Chicago, Illinois) NetherRealmStudios is seeking a Senior FX Artist, an FX Artist, and an Artist/Animator.
(London, UK) Roll7 is seeking a Lead Programmer, a Lead Artist, a Lead UI Designer, a Lead Animator, a Lead Producer, an Assistant Producer, a Game Artist, and Administrator/Assistant. Employees work from home 9 days out of 10.
Rock Candy Games is seeking sensitivity/beta readers for their game Seventh Circle until April 22.
(London, UK) Supersolid Games is seeking a 3D Artist, a Data Analyst, a Marketing Artist, a Senior Game Artist (2D), a Senior 3D Artist, and a Server Developer.
(Manchester, UK) TT Games is seeking a Junior Designer, a Senior VFX Artist, and a Technical Artist.
(Kirkland, WA) WB Games is seeking a Lead Concept Artist and an Advanced Concept Artist. They're also seeking a Senior Games Producer in San Francisco, CA. They are also seeking gamers in Montreal, San Francisco, and Seattle to test games currently in development.
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada) WB Games Montreal is seeking a Senior Game AI Designer.
Check this list of animation and gaming jobs worldwide that's updated daily.
Mentorships & Fellowships
The Spotlight Fellowship is accepting applications from individual journalists or teams of journalists for its fellowship until April 26. The chosen recipient(s) will be awarded up to $100,000 for the purpose of working on in-depth research and reporting with established investigative reporters and editors from The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning Spotlight Team.
Residencies, Retreats, and Workshops
The Oulu Comics Center in Northern Finland, Liminka is hosting a Comic Artists Residency lasting from October 1 to November 30. Apply by July 29 for consideration.
Check out the Alliance of Art Communities, Arts for LA, College Art Opportunities for exhibition, residency, and grant opportunities.
Scholarships, Sponsorships, and Grants
LGBTQ people of color are invited to apply for the Kay Longscope Scholarship until May 21. From the website: "The scholarship award for 2019-2020 academic year will provide up to $3,000 tuition assistance to an LGBTQ student of color who plans a career in journalism and is committed to furthering NLGJA's mission of fair and accurate coverage of the LGBTQ community."
The Dash Grant is now accepting applications from small press creators until May 24. Recipients will receive a $250 grant to produce their book and premiere it at Short Run 2019, receive a free half table to Short Run, receive access to Fogland Studios in Seattle (and optional instruction), receive online mentorship, and be featured in an art show at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery.
The Louise Meriwether First Book Prize is currently accepting fiction and narrative fiction from women of color and nonbinary writers of color until June 28. One winner will be awarded a $5,000 advance (half at the time of the initial award and half upon publication) and a contract to publish their book with the Feminist Press in print and digital editions in spring 2021.
A number of micro grants are available for marginalized writers.
The Awesome Foundation offers $1000 grants on a rolling basis.
Black Rainbow offers microgrants of $300 to LGBQTI people of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community that includes $200 to assist with hosting Indigenous LGBTQI community events.
The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism is accepting applications from artists on a rolling basis. Artists covering data privacy, the 2018/2020 elections, the role of technology in society, political influence campaigns, harmful technologies, countering disinformation, and artificial intelligence may receive $500 to $5,000 in grants.
Gumroad's Creators Fund is accepting applications on a rolling basis. Gumroad will be allocating $50,000 in creative grants of $500 to $5,000 throughout the year.
Mel Gillman shared this list of Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies for Cartoonists! Thanks, Mel!
My Documented Life maintains a list of scholarships for undocumented students.
Canadian artists and cultural connectors are welcome to apply for grant funds through the Professional Development for Arts Professionals of Supporting Artistic Practice. Details on how and when you can apply are available on the page.
Are you a professional freelancer experiencing financial duress? The Haven Foundation offers grants and assistance to applicants with chronic illness or injury or other career-threatening emergencies.
The Spare Change Grant Program offers grants each month to a person of color and/or gender minority to be used for covering application costs for residencies and calls for submissions. Apply by the 25th of each month for a chance at the award.
Springboard for the arts offers an Emergency Relief Fund for personal and community disasters that affect artists in Minnesota.
Tulsa Remote is accepting applications from remote workers who are willing to relocate to Tulsa, OK in exchange for reduced rent and a total of $10,000 over the course of a year. Read more about the program here.
The Vlogbrothers are offering sponsorships to creators of educational video content.
We Need Diverse Books is accepting applications for their Internship Grant.
Check out Arts for LA, College Art Opportunities, or this list by ProFellow for grant opportunities.
OCAD University is seeking an Assistant Professor of Illustration. The position is open only to qualified racialized and Indigenous persons.
The art department at Southern Arkansas University is seeking a full time instructor in Communication/Graphic Design.
Sign up to teach at Skillshare to earn royalties based on the premium member students in your class. See here for additional information.
Everlasting Quest, a 4koma webcomic, is seeking voice actors.
Nightlight Podcast is seeking Black voice actors.
Check the Casting Call Club and Voice Acting Space for more voice acting and audio opportunities.
The Common Bonds Anthology is seeking submissions of speculative fiction about platonic relationships, particularly from aromantic writers, until April 30.
Cuil Press is accepting submissions for upcoming anthology "Queering Romance" until April 30.
Fiyah Lit Mag is accepting submissions until April 30.
Lethe Press is seeking short story submissions for Hatchet Job, an anthology collection full of horror short stories of 10,000 words or less, until April 30.
Carnation Press is seeking queer interpretations of the ACD canon for an anthology of Sherlock Holmes-inspired works until May 1. They're also seeking submissions of short stories from fanfiction writers seeking to transition into publishing their original writing content. They are actively seeking submissions with asexual or aromantic main characters. They are also seeking cover artists and plot and style editors.
Catapult and Soft Skull Press are accepting submissions for their upcoming Tiny Nightmares anthology until May 1. Writers of accepted stories will be paid $100.
(London, UK) Penguin Random House UK is seeking a Design Assistant and is accepting applications until May 12.
Name and None is accepting poetry submissions from trans/non-cis writers until May 20.
Cleis Press is seeking submissions for Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 6 from authors who are "women, gender nonconforming, genderqueer and/or nonbinary" until June 1. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Selected writers will receive $225 and 2 copies of the printed book.
Cross Genres is seeking submissions to micro-anthology Recognize Fascism until June 3.
Less Than Three Press is accepting submissions for its LGBTQIA anthology Creature Feature until July 31.
Belt Publishing is seeking nonfiction narratives for an anthology about queer experiences in the Midwest, Appalachia, Plains, and Rust Belt until October 1.
Professor Grace Dillon is accepting submissions from emerging writers for "Imaging Indigenous Futurisms," the 10th Annual Science Fiction Writing Contest, for a $1,000 award until November 1.
The American Greetings Alternative Writing Studio is accepting applications for freelance card writers.
(Chicago, IL) The American Library Association is seeking an Editorial Assistant to assist the Books for Youth staff.
Anathema accepts fiction and nonfiction submissions year-round from queer and nonwhite writers. They're currently looking for more poetry for their seventh issue.
Anime Feminist is looking for contributors in the upcoming year. Read here for more information. Article writers will be paid $50 per article.
Anime News Network is looking for Convention Correspondents.
Do you have aromantic or asexual characters in your prose? Enter your book into this database so that more people can find your work.
The Asexual is accepting entires to Volume 3, Issue 1: Discovering Identity.
(Washington DC) The Author Incubator is seeking a Managing Editor. They're also seeking a Part-Time Editor.
Autostraddle is seeking personal essays, feature stories, and article submissions on fashion and beauty, sex and relationships, humor, and investigative journalism, particularly from butch/masculine-of-center women, people of color, people over age 45, and trans women.
(New York, NY) Avid Reader Press is seeking an editor.
Black Girls Create is looking for submissions of creative work from black creators showing what their time at Hogwarts would've looked like! They are also seeking black women creators and pop culture critique and commentary from black women creators.
Black Rainbow accepts pitches from LGBQTI people of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and pays $150 for selected articles.
Black Youth Project is seeking pitches related to ableism and physical and mental health.
(London, UK/REMOTE OKAY) Blue-Zoo Animation is seeking Speculative Script Writers.
Bustle is accepting pitches and shared guidelines for how to pitch to them.
Cake Literary is looking for Black male writers for upcoming SFF Middle Grade projects. They're also seeking Native/Indigenous, US-based writers for upcoming Middle Grade fantasy projects.
Carina Press has an ongoing open call for male/male romantic suspense and a new call for Carina Adores, a new trope-driven LGBTQ+ contemporary romance line. Find out what the editors want to read here!
CBR is seeking experienced writers to write on comic book news, analyses, and movie and tv show casting news.
Choice of Games is hiring writers for their new line of interactive romance games.
Clarksworld Magazine is looking for fiction and nonfiction contributors and pays up to $0.10 per word.
Online monthly magazine The Dark is accepting submissions from 2000 to 6000 words in length. Encouraged genres include horror and dark fantasy, but graphic, violent horror is not desired. Payment is $0.06/word for up to 6000 words. Republishing payment is $0.01/word.
ENBY Magazine is seeking personal essays, interviews, reviews, visual art, short stories, and poetry from AMAB, BIPOC, disabled, neuroatypical, and/or any other underrepresented group within the non-binary community for Issue #4.
Fiyah Lit Mag is seeking Black book reviewers.
(New York, NY or Washington, D.C.) HuffPost is seeking copy editors.
inQluded is seeking out a volunteer/unpaid QTPOC high school or college student for a nonfiction editor position. They're also accepting submissions.
Interlude Press is seeking LGBTQA+ contemporary, fantasy, and science fiction YA novels and LGBTQA+ contemporary, historical, romantic comedy, mystery/suspense, and romantic adult fiction. Manuscripts should be 60,000-80,000 words in length.
(New York, NY) Knopf Children's Books is seeking an Editorial Assistant.
(New York, NY) Kodansha Comics is seeking a Production Manager for Manga.
(San Francisco, CA) Letterform Archive is seeking an Assistant Editor.
Longreads is seeking pitches for personal essays, interviews, reading lists, and more.
Lore Lush Publishing is accepting manuscript submissions in a number of genres. Diverse and inclusive works are prioritized. They're also hiring Editors, a Publishing Assistant, and a Publicist.
"Love Like Mine," an ongoing column in Xtra, is seeking essays about queer love in all its forms – romantic, familial, platonic, and more.
(New York, NY) Macmillian Publishers is seeking an Editorial Assistant to work across three imprints (primarily Tor Books, with additional titles in the Forge Books and Tor Teen lines).
Native Ink Press is seeking submissions of nonfiction prose and children's books.
NineStar Press is seeking LGBTQA+ romance, paranormal, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fiction.
Panel Patter is looking for contributors, particularly from writers interested in manga and webcomics!
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(New York, NY) Poets & Writers Magazine is seeking an Associate Editor.
Radish Fiction, a mobile app for serialized fiction, is seeking a Freelance Editor.
Reckoning is accepting submissions of creative writing (fiction or nonfiction) about urban nature and environmental challenges of cities for its fourth issue.
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The SFWA blog is open to nonfiction submissions that might be of interest to new and/or established writers of science fiction and fantasy.
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Natalie "Tally" Nourigat offers advice & resources for young cartoonists ages 14-18 (although this is good advice for creators at any age)!
The NewPages Young Writers Guide for artists and writers shares publications seeking applications from youth contributors.
Titmouse is seeking production and art interns in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.
(Burbank, CA) Warner Brothers Creative Development is seeking a Creative development intern for Summer 2019.
(Needham, MA) WB Games Boston is seeking a Technical Artist Intern (temporary).
(New York, NY) Workman Publishing is seeking an Editorial Intern and a Publicity Intern.
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Alisa shared this great tip on hanging prints at cons!
Aydin Kwan of Outsider Comics shared how they go about the process of selling artists' merchandise wholesale.
Becca Hillburn of Nattosoup shared a post on Affinity Designer: an Alternative to InDesign and Free (to access)/Cheap Art Education Resources. She also shared a list of Recommending Reading for Comic Artists. Be sure to check Becca's Youtube channel for new video interviews with independent artists, walkthroughs with dip pen nibs, tutorials, and more.
Broadly released the Gender Spectrum Collection, a stock photo library with over 180 images of trans and non-binary people available for free usage.
Byelacey shared a great thread of tips for artists on Twitter!
Camilla Zhang hosted the "Running A Comics Project on Kickstarter" Webinar, and you can watch it here.
Chelsea shared some great perspective short cuts and tips! Wow, thanks, Chelsea!
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Artist E.Hanby opened a blog sharing Clip Studio Paint tips!
Emily maintains a Dropbox folder of fat body reference images for artists.
Erin Roseberry shared some great info on getting your work into your local library! Thanks, Erin!
Fai wrote a comprehensive Zine Organizing Guide. Thanks, Fai!
Gale Galligan shared tips on adapting prose for comics!
H.D. Harris shared color palettes that cover a range of different skin tones.
Hnery shared a web app that lets you rotate a 3D model of a skeleton.
Isa shared an invoice and accounting managing tool for Google Sheets.
Kate Sheridan shared a monthly time tracker spreadsheet for use with Google Drive.
Kickstarter has a large resource area for bringing publishing, comics, or journalism projects to life.
Kickstarter is hosting a digital conference titled The Next Page: Creating the Future of Publishing on May 11.
Line of Action is an excellent life drawing resource. Thanks, Rafa!
Liz Kramer shared a thread of free portfolio website hosts.
Nilah's latest helpful resource is a spreadsheet containing upcoming (or recently released) kids graphic novels. Add your own upcoming kids GN releases here!
Nilah Magruder updated the list of literary agents who represent illustrators and added a new page with Steps to Querying. Niki Smith also has a list of agents who represent creators of graphic novels. Maria Vicente shared a guide on querying your graphic novel, from the perspective of a literary agent.
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POMEmag shared a blog post detailing everything they learned from their most recent Kickstarter – including what did and didn't work in terms of marketing, and what to do and not do in the future.
Artist Reimena Yee shared advice on How to Break Into Comics: A Guide for Malaysians by a Malaysian.
Twitter user pngx shared this tool to help draw animal heads from different angles.
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Spike and Mari Naomi discussed how going viral impacts a creator's bottom line.
TO Comix Press has shared a sample contract for comic anthology projects, the start-to-finish process of producing an anthology, and articles on marketing and getting indie books into stores. Recently, they shared the questions they ask in an anonymous survey given out at the end of anthology projects, which help contributors air grievances and help the publisher gain insight and grow to be better. Amazing! Thanks for always being so helpful!
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Yoshi Yoshitani shared a comprehensive Guide to Tabling at Conventions (2019 Edition).
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Film Review: Flawless 'Beauty and the Beast' is a New Classic
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 16, 2017 - 2:41pm
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CHICAGO – Do not doubt the power of live action to create a new atmosphere of joy and…dare I say it…beauty. The re-imagining of the animated classic "Beauty and the Beast" is everything that the previous was and much more. It packs a true and emotional wallop that follows through to the end.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Basically the same narrative/song formula is used, but a live action Broadway feel is given to this film version – directed by Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls," "Chicago") – that adds more soul and more resonance to the staging, story and iconic songs. It may feel that you've seen it before – especially if you're in the generation that wore out the videotape/DVD – but to me this version reaches for something beyond the cartoon. It's narrative and motivations are richer, and the arc of the connection between Belle and the Beast is more mature and rises to the very happiness of the conclusion. The unlikely coming together of the couple has implications for all the characters in this version of story, and the magic does come from their endgame. The structure and power of the 2017 BandtheB stands up with the best musicals in cinema, which is not an overstatement, considering its depth and feeling.
The funny girl named Belle (Emma Watson) lives in a provincial European town in the Middle Age past. She is an outsider who loves books, and has been raised by an eccentric father (Kevin Kline), after her mother died when she was young. Despite being shunned by the general townsfolk, she is a Beauty, and is pursued by the most handsome-yet-vain suitor, Gaston (Luke Evans), who is accompanied by his sidekick LeFou (Josh Gad).
Her father, during a trip to the market, is forced to trepass within a eerie castle. He is kidnapped there, by the horrid Beast (Dan Stevens). Belle comes to his rescue, exchanging his imprisonment for her own. While confined, she meets a staff of animated household objects, including Lumiére (Ewan McGregor), Cogsworth (Ian McKellan), Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson), Garderobe (Audra McDonald) and Cadenza (Stanley Tucci). How can the castle's spell be broken, and all human forms returned? If Belle and the Beast can somehow love each other.
"Beauty and the Beast" opens everywhere on March 17th, in 3D, IMAX and regular screenings. See local listings for 3D/IMAX theaters and show times. Featuring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Audra McDonald and Stanley Tucci. Screenplay adapted by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, from the tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Directed by Bill Condon. Rated "PG"
Continue reading for Patrick McDonald's full review of "Beauty and the Beast"
Tale as Old as Time: Belle (Emma Watson) and Beast (Dan Stevens) in 'Beauty and the Beast'
Photo credit: Walt Disney Studios
Emma Watson Owned the Role!
Submitted by Kenneth Wood (not verified) on March 17, 2017 - 9:39am.
Like others, I questioned the casting decision of Emma Watson to play Belle (She didn't look enough like the animated Belle). However, I just watched Beauty and the Beast last night with family (a March 16 pre-showing). Emma was amazing. She brought so much depth to the role—from sensitivity to heroism. Her performance was so moving, I found myself tearing up three times within the first thirty minutes and many times after that.
What blew me away unexpectedly was Emma's singing voice. It was warm, emotional, expressive, powerful and beautiful to listen to. Her relationship with her father, Maurice (Kevin Kline) depicted what a loving daughter would sacrifice for her father. Her transformational relationship with the Beast (Dan Stevens), from anger and horror to compassion and love was heartwarming to watch unfold.
Now that I've seen Emma in the role, I couldn't imagine anyone else in it.
I might add that the new songs, written for the movie by it's original composers Alan Menken and Tim Rice, contributed richly to the storyline and were every bit as powerful and singable as their forerunners, and the musical orchestration was the best I've ever heard on any movie anywhere. Wow!
Kudos to the screenwriters, Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, for creating the best ever rendition of the centuries-old Beauty and the Beast story. And kudos to Emma Watson for bringing Belle to life. She will win you over.
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Impeachment process based on political motive, not facts
Ultimately, the American people will be the final judge in conduct at the ballot box in November
Impeachment process based on political motive, not facts Ultimately, the American people will be the final judge in conduct at the ballot box in November Check out this story on sctimes.com: https://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2020/01/03/impeachment-process-based-political-motive-not-facts/2798739001/
Dan Johnson, Times Writers Group Published 5:00 p.m. CT Jan. 3, 2020
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With the U.S. House of Representatives formally voting to impeach President Trump, the case should now be moving to the Senate to bring resolution to this issue as the Constitution requires.
After multiple hearings, the weakness of the case has been exposed to the nation. The Democrats choosing to accuse Trump of bribery not based on case facts, but focus group testing, is all the proof needed this has all been a political stunt.
The first Article of Impeachment is "Abuse of Power." It must also be recognized that every decision a president makes in office could benefit him/her as a candidate. In every policy position, executive order, hiring/firing and judicial appointment, a president is both fulfilling the required responsibilities of the Constitution and affecting the probability of reelection. It is impossible to separate the two in some cases.
The central questions in this case are: 1.) Was specifically mentioning the Biden's name done by "President Trump" or "candidate Trump?" 2.) Was it in reference to the past 2016 or the upcoming 2020 election? Not a single witness has been able to demonstrate his request to Ukraine for investigations was purely candidate Trump seeking political dirt for 2020. Requesting Ukraine publicly commit to anti-corruption investigations is a proper request and is in the interest of the United States.
The impeachment hearing made clear, U.S. officials considered Burisma a corrupt company. The fact that an unqualified U.S. VIP, with a strong family connection, sat on its board collecting huge paychecks for years is highly suspicious. Trump campaigned to drain the swamp, the Biden/Burisma connection is what that swamp looks like.
What impeachment hearings did establish was that the concerns regarding Hunter Biden's conflict of interest did not originate with Trump. It established that a reasonable person would find the Biden/Burisma relationship could appear improper.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent testified he raised concerns about "the perception of a conflict of interest" involving Biden's position with Burisma with a Joe Biden aid in 2015 but it was dismissed. Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified that prepping for her Senate confirmation, the Obama State Department included a question about Hunter Biden and Burisma for her to practice.
It's clear, Hunter Biden's unusual arrangements was known throughout Washington, D.C., to ignore it because of his dad's influential position would be the definition of corruption.
The second Article of Impeachment, "Obstruction of Congress," is just silly. Since George Washington, U.S. presidents have exercised, and the courts have recognized, "executive privilege" to protect internal presidential policy deliberations with advisers. However, outside of recognizing its existence, very little guiding information exists regarding what is and isn't protected.
In this case, Trump has been very outspoken that he doesn't believe Democrats in the U.S. House are operating in "good faith." Let's not forget, this is the same House which also subpoenaed Trump's tax records to investigate "potential conflict of interests," not actual allegations of criminal conduct. In addition, some in this group of Democrats have been calling for impeachment on policy disagreement since his election.
Under the circumstances, Trump declaring broad executive privilege over documents and administrative individuals is NOT illegal, nor is it even unreasonable. When a disagreement breaks out between two branches of government over constitutional power, there is a remedy required in the third branch of government. This doesn't belong in an article of impeachment; it belongs in court.
The fact Democrats have turned seeking court clarification into a political sin worthy of impeachment serves as further evidence Trump's "bad faith" concerns are justified. The reason it's not in court is, by their own admission, House Democrats are choosing not to take the time to litigate it!
Since the impeachment process began, Democrats have stressed the urgency for speed. However, faced with a pending dismissal in the U.S. Senate, Speaker Pelosi has suddenly halted the process over a technicality. In doing so, she also revealed politics is at the heart of this fiasco, not national security concerns. Constitutionally, the House has no power over how the Senate chooses to conduct the trial.
There is a much stronger case to be made that House Democrats are abusing power by strategically avoiding judicial inclusion in the executive privilege disagreement and withholding the article of impeachment from the Senate seeking to influence the trial.
Constitutional scholar and George Washington University law professor, and no fan of Trump, Jonathan Turley told the House Judiciary Committee, "If you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It's your abuse of power."
Ultimately, the American people will be the final judge in conduct at the ballot box in November. It's going to be a long 2020!
This is the opinion of Times Writers Group member Dan Johnson, a Sauk Rapids resident and chairman of the Benton County Republican Party. His column is published the first Thursday of the month. He can be contacted at bentongopchair@yahoo.com.
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Q&A: What happens when you discover unexpected results in research
In a long and distinguished career, QCGC Research's head of research Professor Andreas Obermair has never once had to deliver unexpected results for a clinical research trial – until LACC. Here he explains the value of the unexpected.
Q: How did you react when you heard there were unexpected results for the LACC trial?
A: I was shocked and deeply concerned. I am a researcher, but I'm also human. As a trial leader, I have to be 'blinded' to the outcomes while the team conducts the trial so that I don't influence the results. So, this made the news about LACC even more difficult to comprehend. It was unexpected.
To get a clinical trial up and running, you demonstrate 'equipoise'. That means you must justify that the proposed treatment, in this case, laparoscopic surgery for early-stage cervical cancer, is theoretically better and at least no worse than the alternative. You can't prove it, and that's why you need to conduct the trial, but you have a sense of the likely outcome.
Q: How did the LACC trial come about?
A: QCGC Research had shown the benefits of a laparoscopic approach with the LACE trial for endometrial cancer. We wanted to investigate if the same was true for cervical cancer. We had an international team that thoroughly reviewed the literature and prepared the protocols. The trial involved 33 gynaecological oncology centres in 14 countries and enrolled 631 women. We expected, and of course, would have preferred different results.
Q: What happened after you realised there was a problem?
A: Based on the recommendation of the LACC Safety Committee, we called for trial recruitment to be placed on hold. The trial team then began an intensive review of the results. At this stage, although I had no visibility of the problem, I could see that the issue was serious and immediate action needed to be taken for the safety of future patients. During a three-month period, the trial team did every check required to make sure there was no way to misinterpret the data. All due diligence was done.
I would like to make special mention of the critical role that the independent data safety committee played in alerting the trial team about a patient safety issue. The committee's role is to ensure the safety of all patients on the trial. The LACC Safety Committee absolutely fulfilled this role and acted in the best interests of trial patients.
Q: Did the review find a mistake?
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Although it is not what we expected or hoped, this result is critically important. It shows yet again that clinical trials are irreplaceable. You cannot get high-quality evidence any other way. To write the textbook for gynaecological cancer treatment, you must conduct clinical trials.
Q: Do unexpected research results lead to other innovations and discoveries?
A: Yes, for sure. In the LACE trial, we learnt that even with laparoscopic surgery for endometrial cancer, obese women do not do well. This led us to the FeMMe trial where we are investigating a kinder and more effective treatment for these women.
Also, during LACE, we established that although laparoscopic surgery was the preferred treatment option, surgeons weren't using it. That lead to the LIgHT study, which showed surgeons needed greater training support.
Q: If LACC needs further studies to understand the results, will you take it on?
A: After a decade of LACC, we will still be writing up the manuscripts for another five years. Someone else may take up further research related to LACC, but my energy is focused on two potential trials for different gynaecological cancers. The first is a follow-up to FeMMe and the second is about the role of sentinel nodes in the treatment of uterine cancer. I will never walk away from research – it is my opportunity to make a real difference.
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Ali Ghodsi, född 1978 i Iran, är en iransk-svensk datalog och entreprenör specialiserad på distribuerade system och storskalig datanalys. Han är medgrundare till och VD för Databricks, och en adjungerad professor vid UC Berkeley. Idéer från hans akademiska forskning inom området för resurshantering och schemaläggning och cache har tillämpats i populära öppen källkod-projekt som Apache Mesos, Apache Spark och Apache Hadoop.

Ghodsi disputerade vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) i Sverige, med Seif Haridi som handledare. Han var medgrundare till Peerialism AB, ett Stockholm-baserat företag som utvecklar peer-to-peer-system för att transportera och lagra data på Internet. Han var också forskarassistent vid KTH 2008–2009.

2009 blev Ghodsi gästforskare vid UC Berkeley och arbetade med Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Michael Franklin och Matei Zaharia i ett forskningsprojekt om distribuerade system, databassystem och nätverk. Under denna period hjälpte han till att starta Apache Mesos och Apache Spark-projekt. Han publicerade också "Dominant Resource Fairness", en artikel som starkt påverkat resurshantering- och schemaläggningsdesign i distribuerade system som Hadoop.

År 2013 grundade han Databricks, ett företag som kommersialiserar Spark, och blev verkställande direktör 2016.

Den amerikanska ekonomitidskriften Forbes rankade Ghodsi till att vara världens 1 846:e rikaste med en förmögenhet på 1,8 miljarder amerikanska dollar för den 22 maj 2021.

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When is the right time to list? Southwest Missouri Realty would say right now! With homes increasing in value and the market still very low on inventory, your home will stand out and when priced correctly can often lead to multiple offers.


LOS ANGELES | A judge has sentenced 1970s teen heartthrob David Cassidy to three months in rehab and five years of probation in a drunken driving case.
Cassidy's attorney, Steven Graff Levine, entered an open plea to a Los Angeles judge Monday, admitting that he was driving under the influence when he was arrested in January after making an illegal turn.
Levine says Cassidy has been in rehab and will remain for longer than his sentence requires. He says Cassidy is committed to his sobriety and wants to break the cycle that got him arrested for drunken driving twice in less than six months. A DUI case in New York was reduced from a felony to misdemeanor earlier this month.
Cassidy appeared on TV's "The Partridge Family."


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The semi-finals of the 1983–84 DFB-Pokal were some of the most memorable matches in the history of German football due to the unusual play patterns and results. Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen, and Borussia Mönchengladbach of the Bundesliga, along with second division side Schalke 04 had all advanced from the quarter-finals. The draw resulted in the following pairings:

 Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Werder Bremen
 Schalke 04 vs Bayern Munich

These were the first two semi-final matches of the DFB-Pokal broadcast live on German television. The matches took place on 1 and 2 May 1984, both which went to extra time, along with a replay one week later on 9 May. It took a total of 26 goals, none of which were penalties, in three matches to determine the teams which would take part in the 1984 DFB-Pokal Final, making the 1984 semi-finals the highest scoring round in DFB-Pokal history. In 2009, on the 25th anniversary of the matches, German newspaper Die Welt called the semi-finals "the two most spectacular cup ties ever".

Semi-final 1: Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Werder Bremen

In the first semi-final match, contested at the Bökelbergstadion in Mönchengladbach on 1 May 1984 was between fourth in the 1983–84 Bundesliga table, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and fifth in the table at the time, Werder Bremen. The match started out as an even game, but as the match progressed Borussia began to take control before the crowd of 34,500 spectators. Five minutes before half-time Mönchengladbach went ahead by a goal from Lothar Matthäus, but just two minutes later Norbert Meier equalised for Bremen. Another two minutes later Norbert Ringels restored Gladbach's lead to 2–1 at half-time. In the 76th minute, Borussia's lead was further extended to 3–1 via Uwe Rahn. Within six minutes, Werder turned the tie around and lead 4–3 going into stoppage time after goals from Benno Möhlmann in the 77th minute, Wolfgang Sidka in the 80th minute, and Uwe Reinders in the 82nd minute. After the Bremen's third goal, Gladbach coach Jupp Heynckes substituted striker Hans-Jörg Criens into the match, which would prove to be vital. In the 88th minute, Wilfried Hannes put the ball into the back of the net, but the referee Franz-Josef Hontheim did not award the goal after it was called offside by the linesman. Bremen could not hold on however, and in the fifth minute of stoppage time substitute Hans-Jörg Criens proved decisive by netting the equaliser for Borussia, and sending the match into extra time. In extra time, both teams had numerous opportunities to score. In the end, Criens once again proved himself decisive by scoring what would be the game-winning goal for Mönchengladbach in the 107th minute, sending them to the final.

Special occurrences
Midway through the second half, there was unrest within Bremen's fan blocks, which was located behind the goal of Gladbach keeper Ulrich Sude. During the game, an object was thrown onto the pitch, which released smoke. Initially the object was thought to be a smoke bomb, but after Wolfgang Sidka and Uwe Rahn collapsed, and goalkeeper Sude contaminated by the smoke, the game had to be stopped for a few minutes. On the pitch there were scuffles between players and coaches of both teams, triggered by Michael Frontzeck bumping into Bremen coach Otto Rehhagel, who had rushed onto the field, worried about Sidka. Referee Hontheim had to calm the situation. Meanwhile, the smoke was determined to be tear gas, which even began to affect the spectators. The police marched into Bremen's block and arrested several people. After the final whistle, Bremen's sporting director Wilfried Lemke protested against the validity of the match, but he withdrew, as both teams were affected by the incident.

Miscellaneous
The match was considered the debut of "super-sub" Hans-Jörg Criens, who had played a part in several crucial and important goals. The match was broadcast live on Das Erste by ARD, commentated by Heribert Faßbender.

Match details

Semi-final 2: Schalke 04 vs Bayern Munich

On 2 May 1984, the second semi-final took place at the Parkstadion in Gelsenkirchen between the "underdogs" and 1983–84 2. Bundesliga runner-up, Schalke 04, and Bayern Munich, second in the Bundesliga at the time. The match would be called "the most dramatic cup game played in the history of the Pokal since the 1935 competition". The sold-out Parkstadion had an official attendance of 70,600 spectators, although unofficially there were said to be up to 78,000. Bayern quickly led 2–0 after Karl-Heinz Rummenigge opened the scoring in the 3rd minute, and Reinhold Mathy with the second in the 12th. However, Schalke quickly struck back as Thomas Kruse scored a minute later, before Olaf Thon equalised in the 19th minute. One minute later Bayern regained the lead via a goal from Michael Rummenigge. In the second half, Thon once again equalised, with the goal coming in the 61st minute. Then, for the first time in the match, Schalke took the lead after a goal from Peter Stichler in the 72nd minute. Bayern equalised after Michael Rummenigge scored his second, sending the match into extra time after finishing 4–4. After 112 minutes, Schalke keeper Walter Junghans made a mistake, allowing Dieter Hoeneß to score and regain the lead for Bayern. Once again Schalke leveled the tie in the 115th minute via a goal from Bernard Dietz. Three minutes later Bayern once again gained the lead after Dieter Hoeneß scored his second goal in extra time. With the last attack in stoppage time in extra time, Olaf Thon equalised for Schalke, scoring his third of the match, thereby completing a hat-trick and forcing a replay in Munich after a 6–6 draw.

The replay took place a week later, on 9 May 1984 at the Olympiastadion München in front of 40,000 spectators. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Dieter Hoeneß put Bayern 2–0 at half-time, but once again Schalke came back after goals from Michael Jacob in the 50th minute and Michael Opitz in the 72nd. Seven minutes later, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge scored what turned out to be the winning goal, giving Bayern a 3–2 win and sending them to the final, where they would meet Gladbach.

Olaf Thon
Olaf Thon, who turned 18 the day before the first match, and thus still a teenager in the Schalke ranks, scored three goals in the first match, completing a hat-trick. Bayern coach Udo Lattek remarked after the game that he would pay 10 million Deutsche Mark for Thon. Barely six months later, Olaf Thon was called up in the Germany national football team, where he earned his debut cap against Malta.

Reporting
The first match was broadcast live on ZDF, commentated by Eberhard Figgemeier, which began at 20:15, after Bayern had already scored twice. The reporter praised the match, even 20 years later, saying: "An unbelievable game. You cannot imagine football more beautiful than this". The radio broadcast was commentated by Manfred Breuckmann.

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 Best cup semi-finals of all-time celebrates anniversary
 Genuflection before the game (Gladbach-Bremen)
 "I was like a snake" (Schalke-Bayern)
 The story of Germany's legendary 1984 DFB-Pokal semifinals

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Edmond Malone, 1786 ca.; Maloniana, in Sir James Prior, Life of Edmond Malone (1860) 364.
The concealed author of Lyrick Odes, by Peter Pindar, Esquire, is one Woolcot, a clergyman, who abjured the gown, and now lives in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, under the character of a physician. He is likewise the author of a scurrilous epistle lately published to James Boswell, Esq., March 4th, 1786. He is noted for impudence, lewdness, and almost every species of profligacy.


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The Günter Grass Case: A "Thoroughly German" Scandal
Four weeks after Günter Grass publicly acknowledged that he had been a member of the notorious Waffen SS combat troops at the end of WWII, the debate is still raging over the implications of his confession.
"It's all in the book," says Günter Grass
Two events in Berlin this week marked what is already beginning to seem like a never-ending book launch of Günter Grass' memoir "Peeling the Onion."
On Sept. 4, the German Nobel Prize winner gave a first public reading from his controversial autobiography at the Berliner Ensemble theater. Three days later, a group of prominent German journalists and writers spoke at an aptly named panel "Günter Grass -- A Case of Excitement" as part of the International Literature Festival at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
During his appearance on Monday, Grass refused to dwell on the details of his days in the Waffen SS.
"I still have both feet firmly on the ground and will keep on talking openly," Grass said. "But I have nothing new to say about this matter. It's all in the book."
A handful of demonstrators stood outside the theater, holding a poster with a picture of an onion wearing a steel helmet and an inscription, which read "GraSS -- You Are Germany."
The poster was an ironic reference both to Grass' membership in the Waffen SS and the popular, although often ridiculed, national pep talk campaign Du bist Deutschland, which was launched last year by a consortium of media companies in order to stir up a sense of optimism in the country.
The first 150,000 copies of Grass' memoir sold out in two weeks.
Public excitement
Henryk M. Broder spared no words of criticism for Günter Grass
Each of the participants in the discussion on Wednesday evening was at pains to deny his or her own personal agitation over the Grass affair. Petra Lidschreiber, a prominent journalist, said she was "sad and ashamed in retrospect," while dramatist Moritz Rinke said he couldn't get excited about Grass' fall as a moral authority for the simple reason that he never believed in Grass as a moral authority.
"As far as Grass is concerned, I am still so to speak a virgo intacta (untouched virgin)," said journalist, writer and polemicist par excellence Henryk Broder.
His purposeful and playful misunderstanding of excitement as sexual arousal rather than a state of agitation was met with laughter and applause in the audience.
"I always found him foolish and unbearable," Broder said. "But the public excitement is justified. If it had turned out that Mother Theresa had worked in a brothel, after being declared a saint -- just as Grass was with his Nobel Prize -- there would have been public outrage, too."
Over the past four weeks, most German commentators in this long-drawn-out book launch have pointed out that Grass' membership in the Waffen SS as a 17-year-old boy was much less shocking than the fact that he kept quiet about it for six decades.
Nowadays, however, it is the manner of his confession and the way Grass "translated" the sin of his youth into a literary memoir that is becoming a fruitful terrain for thinking about the difficulties of merging history with literature.
What he said and didn't say
Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1999
"Peeling the Onion" is as much a book of memories as it is a book about memory, about what is possible to remember. Of 480 pages, only two -- the notorious pages 126 and 127 -- deal with the Waffen SS. And even though quantity is by no means a literary category, it is nonetheless curious that Grass devoted less than 50 lines of text to the blemish of his youth.
The passages in which Grass writes about his Waffen SS days are furthermore marked by a kind of psychological detachment when he refers to himself as "the young man with my name" or "that young man who was apparently me."
"To take the load off that young man and myself, you couldn't even say: 'We were seduced," Grass wrote. "No, we allowed ourselves to be seduced."
"As a member of the Hitler Youth, I was a young Nazi, true to that faith to the very end," he wrote. "No doubt entered my belief, nothing subverted it."
"For decades after, I refused to admit anything to do with its name or the SS symbol," he wrote. "In my after-the-fact shame, I wanted to keep silent about what I had welcomed in the stupid pride of my youth."
Grass' narrative is thoughtful and at times powerfully evocative. But because his memoir contained the dramatic revelation of a well-kept secret, the book will inevitably -- and very likely, more often -- be judged not for its literary achievement, but as a kind of imperfect historical evidence, a testimony that could have been written differently.
"Of course, we can't blame Grass for the book he didn't write," said writer and essayist Tilman Spengler.
Lack of detail
Historian and documentary film maker Hannes Heer
But historian and documentary film maker Hannes Heer -- who is best known in Germany for his work on the controversial exhibition project "A War of Extermination: Crimes of the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1944" -- found Grass' account of how he came to the Waffen SS and what he had done there highly disappointing precisely because it lacked documentary authenticity.
"Grass speaks about his Waffen SS troops 'in the Bohemian woods,' in this imaginary place without details as to who, what or where exactly," said Heer. "What is this? Schiller's 'Robbers'?"
"The Robbers" was the first drama written by one of Germany's greatest 18th century writers, Friedrich Schiller. In it, a wronged and disgruntled idealist, Karl Moorland, joins a band of robbers in the Bohemian forest with a revolutionary goal of establishing a better society through pillaging and murder.
As Petra Lidschreiber pointed out, there is a discrepancy between the sensuality of images with which Grass described some of his experiences -- for instance, learning how to cook from a Viennese chef in the American prisoner of war camp -- with rather bland passages about the Waffen SS.
There are scandals and scandals
Petra Lidschreiber says there are more pressing issues than Grass' confession
A scandal is a kind of public consensus on what constitutes a source of excitement. The Grass debate has shown that the German public -- as nebulous as that concept sounds since it is more or less a function of editorial policies in the media -- almost unanimously agreed on the exceptional and scandalous nature of Grass' late confession.
Moritz Rinke described the general outcry before Grass' book was even published as "a thoroughly German reflex: to pound on a book one hasn't read a single page of."
By the end of the evening at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, however, it turned out that only two of the five participants in the discussion had actually read "Peeling the Onion." The Grass affair was from the beginning a non-literary phenomenon. It remains to be seen if the book will be read carefully or only talked about incessantly.
According to Petra Lidschreiber, however, Grass himself is less important than the fact that Germans are preoccupied with him.
"The current situation with neo-Nazis in Germany and the so-called no-go areas, which you shouldn't visit if you don't look German enough because you may get attacked -- is almost too embarrassing for us to talk about," Lidschreiber said.
"It seems that we're actually happy to be able to discuss Grass and his book, the past rather than the present."
Dossier: Günter Grass
Click here for a DW-WORLD.DE dossier on Germany's Nobel prize winning author Günter Grass and his revelation that he served in the notorious Waffen SS elite force during WWII.
Grass Will Still Get German-Polish Reconciliation Prize
After causing a firestorm with revelations that he served in an elite Nazi unit six decades ago, acclaimed author Günter Grass is still to be awarded with a notable peace prize. (Sept. 7, 2006)
Opinion: A Late Confession Is Better Than No Confession At All
It is inexcusable that Günter Grass kept silent about his involvement with the Waffen SS combat troops during World War II. But he at least admitted his own hypocrisy, said DW-WORLD.DE's Toma Tasovac. (Aug. 15, 2006)
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Keywords german, germany, günter grass, peeling the onions, memoir, waffen ss, confession, reactions, debate Günter Grass' autobiography is flying off the shelves. But if it's being read is another matter.
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K-pop band launches worldwide art project 17.01.2020
Love yourself and stay positive: that is the message of BTS — and people all over the world love them for it. Now the K-pop band focuses on the link between music and art. Berlin's Gropius Bau is one of their venues.
Berlin villa where Holocaust was planned launches modern exhibition 17.01.2020
In 1942, leaders of the Nazi regime met in a mansion in the west of Berlin to plan the "final solution of the Jewish question." Here's what's new at the upgraded exhibition of the House of the Wannsee Conference.
Germany returns antiquities to Mexico 17.01.2020
A trio of ancient clay artifacts was returned from Germany to Mexico, officials have said. The step comes amid an increase in international repatriation of cultural antiquities.
The roots of Udo Lindenberg's iconic success explored in film
The German music star is over 70, but remains the country's king of rock. The film "Lindenberg! Do your thing!" shows how the young Udo did just that — breaking the mold of the music world as he developed his career.
A Cheer for Humboldt!
German historian Andrea Wulf is THE expert on Alexander von Humboldt. Our conversation with her was like a homage to the great adventurer and polymath!
Billie Eilish's James Bond song and its iconic predecessors
The 18-year-old star becomes the youngest musician to create a James Bond theme song. DW looks back at some of the most famous 007 songs — certainly just as impactful as any shaken-not-stirred martini.
US conceptual artist John Baldessari dies
The influential contemporary artist was one of the leading figures of the Conceptualism movement. John Baldessari, who humorously defied established definitions of art, has died at the age of 88.
What Germans googled the most in 2019
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