EDITORS

ROB COOK AND STEPHANIE DICKINSON

  Skidrow Penthouse is published “to give emerging and idiosyncratic writers a new forum in which to publish their work. We are looking for deeply felt authentic voices, whether surreal, confessional, New York School, formal, or free verse. Work should be well crafted: attention to line-break and diction. We want poets who sound like themselves, not workshop professionals. We don’t want gutless posturing, technical precision with no subject matter, explicit sex and violence without craft, or abstract intellectualizing. We are not impressed by previous awards and publications.”

We have published poetry by Walter Griffin, Gil Fagiani, Mary.Hebert, Anna Adams, Patrick McKinnon and Doug Dorph. As a sample the editor selected these lines from “The Hump” by Marc DePalo:

To sit in a room and think about the walls meditate on/the angles and the paint and the imperfections that/you’d never notice unless you had this much time/and this much patience and this much desperation/for a frigging epiphany even if it was just a paint crack or/a traffic light or a burned out bulb or a sudden crocus.

Skidrow Penthouse is 166 pgs., 5½X 8½, professionally printed and perfect-bound with 2-color cover, includes original art and photographs as well as contest announcements, magazine advertisements.

How to Submit Submit 3-5 poems at a time. Previously published poems and simultaneous submissions OK. "Include a legal sized SASE; also name and address on every page of your submission. No handwritten submissions will be considered.”  Time between acceptance and publication is 1 year. Seldom comments on rejections. Responds in 2 months. Pays 1 copy. Acquires one-time rights. Reviews books and chapbooks of poetry and other magazines in 1,500 words, single book format. Open to unsolicited reviews. Poets may also send books for review consideration.
Also Offers: “We’re trying to showcase a poet in each issue by publishing up to 60 page collections within the magazine.” Send SASE for details about chapbook competitions.

Send to:

Skidrow Penthouse
44 Four Corners Road
Blairstown, NJ 07825

Guidelines for General Submissions

Poetry 3 to 5 poems
Any length, from epic to haiku
Any style, stance
Name and address on each poem
 
Fiction 1 short story per submission or novel excerpt
Double-spaced
Name and address on each page
 
Flash Fiction Not more than 3 short-shorts per submission
 
We are also interested in: memoir excerpts
interviews
essays
book reviews

Subscription Information

Two Year Subscription - $20
Individual Copy - $12.50

Download the subscription form (requires Adobe Acrobat) and mail to:

Skidrow Penthouse
44 Four Corners Road
Blairstown, NJ 07825

For additional information,
email Stephanie Dickinson