Fwd: SPAG wants you! (fwd)

[Ed Blair]

Ya'll see this?

Happy late birthday, Ben.

ed.

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From: Andrew Plotkin <zgo...@eblong.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:28 PM
Subject: SPAG wants you! (fwd)
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Forwarding this (with permission) from the New York IF list.

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:19:13 -0500
From: Katherine St Asaph <katherin...@gmail.com>
To: nyc...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [NYC-IF] SPAG wants you!

Hi! Soon you will be hearing about our next New York IF meetup. In the
meantime, I wanted to send out some information about an exciting thing
that is happening -- SPAG <http://www.spagmag.org/>, a magazine about
interactive fiction that's existed since 1994, is relaunching under new
editorship, namely me. I am going to make an official announcement about
this on February 2, but I wanted to tell you first because I'd love for as
many of you as possible to get involved!

Basically I am looking for two things:

- Pitches for articles about anything in or adjacent to the interactive
fiction space. This includes parser, choice, Twine, digital media and/or
literature, adventure games, etc; reviews, previews, interviews, tutorials,
features, profiles, tie-ins to other forms, personal essays if they're
good, basically anything you can think of (and especially if I haven't
thought of it already) that you can make a compelling case to tie into IF.
I am looking for both time-sensitive stuff (we're hoping to run our first
full comeback issue in March or thereabouts) and evergreen pieces, please
indicate which in the pitch.

Send them to *spag....@gmail.com <spag....@gmail.com>* (or to me, I
check both emails, this just helps to get things consolidated), the more
details about your pitch and why you are the one to write it the better.
NOTE WELL: I am particularly interested by pitches by new writers and those
traditionally underrepresented in games criticism. If that's you, let's
definitely talk.

- SUPER BLUE SKY: If anyone thinks they can turn around a piece by *Monday,
Feb. 2*, to be published with the relaunch announcement, I would be
absolutely thrilled silly. I currently have one piece done and tentatively
set to publish, and I may write one myself, but the more the better. (Also:
*PAYMENT!*: I am still mulling over this -- we're a volunteer magazine and
none of us are or were getting paid -- but for something this short-notice,
we can discuss.)

- If you want to get involved with SPAG more directly, let me know! We
currently have a team of people working on the magazine and we are very
much trying to have the relaunch be not a one-person show. In particularly,
if you are good at graphics or community outreach, get in touch.

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing you all again.

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[Andrew Schultz]

I'm glad they're getting it back into gear. It's been a while since the last one.

I am helping test for ParserComp (advertised on intfiction.org) so I can't make any last-minute contributions. Still, hooray.

Also, I didn't realize I could sign up for other cities' IF google meetup groups. Are there any restrictions?

Andrew
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Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 4:41 PM

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