Jim McDonough's Page

If you've sent me an e-mail in the past 3-4 days I've not received it. Apparently somebody decided to send out a huge batch of Viagra spam using queerwriters.com as the sending address. In the past few days I've gotten over 50 thousand e-mails bounce back to my e-mail address which has been a huge nightmare trying to deal with. I've also gotten a whole lot of nasty e-mails back from people replying to the spam as well. This is not the first time something like this has happened. The company th… Continue

Deadline: June 27, 2008 (postmarked) Our dates never change. If the date falls on a Sunday, then Monday becomes the default postmarked date. Focus: This award will be given to the best previously unpublished original poem written in English (of any length, in any style, typed, double spaced on one side only), which best relates gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender life by a poet who is 18 or older. Submittal: Entrants are asked to submit their poems in the following manner: (1) without any… Continue

LGBT ANTHOLOGY First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press) LGBT ARTS & CULTURE The View From Here by Matthew Hays (Arsenal Pulp Press) LGBT CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Hero by Perry Moore (Hyperion) LGBT DRAMA/THEATER Return to the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (Moving Finger Press) LGBT EROTICA Homosex, Simon Sheppard (Running Press) LGBT NONFICTION Gay Artists in Mode… Continue

Earlier today one of the members decided to spam post comments on a number of the calls for submission posts. In 9 minutes, there were 5 posts, all about this person's book. It wasn't related to any of the blog posts in any fashion. While, I really want people to participate here, I'm not going to tolerate people doing stuff like this. I don't have the time to deal with it. I've banned this person from posting again and when I do that, it deletes everything they've posted. It's the fastest and… Continue

We've got about 80 people signed up here as of today and I've gotten a number of e-mails since I moved the site to Ning so I thought I'd post a little FAQ so I don't get the same e-mails over and over. I have absolutely no time any more to manage the site and field tons of e-mails. I was going to take the whole thing down, but decided to migrate the site to this social network site in hopes it would be less work for me. I started summer term at school yesterday and am planning on being a part-… Continue