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Ashé Journal 8.1 Now Available

Editor — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:48:01 +0000

This issue of the journal Ashe includes examinations of the Rise of Logos and the Fall of Eros by Dirk Dunbar, Mary in the Qur’an by Chelsea Luellon Bolton, the Sacred Geometry of the Resurrection of Christ by T.C. Eisele; essays on magick by Julian Vayne and Charlotte Rodgers; meditations on suffering and the divine by G. David Schwartz and Robert A. Kezer; new fiction by Clifford Garstang; and poetry by Adam Shechter. Now available at your local independent bookseller, Amazon.com or RebelSatori.com … more information at www.ashejournal.com

Saints & Sinners Short Fiction Contest

Editor — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:00:51 +0000

First Annual Saints and Sinners GLBT Literary Festival Short Fiction ContestThe Saints and Sinners GLBT Literary Festival’s First Annual Short Fiction Contest is soliciting original, unpublished short stories between 5,000 and 7,000 words with GLBT content on the broad theme of “Saints and Sinners.” The contest is open to authors at all stages of their careers and to stories in all genres. The entry fee is $10 per story with a 3 story limit per author. One grand prize of $250 and two second place prizes of $50 will be awarded. In addition, the top stories will be published in an anthology from QueerMojo, an imprint of Rebel Satori Press. There will also be a book release party held during the 8th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans May 13-16, 2010. The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts is January 2, 2010.Contest details at a glance:Theme: Saints and SinnersEntry Fee: $10 US per story. Limit three stories per author.Deadline: January 2, 2010Word Count: 5,000 to 7,000Send 2 copies of each story with a completed entry form.Submissions should be in standard manuscript format. Your name and contact information should NOT appear on the manuscript.Entry forms available: Here

Buddhist Psalms

Editor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:42:40 +0000

Buddhist Psalms presents the basic teachings of Shinran Shonin the founder of Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Buddhism, one of the most popular traditions of Japanese Buddhism. Buddhist Psalms presents a concise introduction to Shinran’s teachings on Pure Land Buddhism. Shin Buddhism’s teachings focus on devotional practices, especially centering on Amitabha Buddha. This edition of the classic work is annotated to assist the reader in understanding the numerous Buddhist terms and references.

Buddhist Psalms of Shinran Shonin
Translated from the Japanese by S. Yamabe & L. Adams Beck

ISBN: 978-0-9790838-9-1
Price: $10.95

Symzonia: Voyage inside the Earth

Editor — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:35:26 +0000

Originally published in 1820, Symzonia is the first novel to explore the then emerging theory that the Earth is hollow and contains an advanced civilization previously unknown to us. The new Rebel edition includes additional contemporary material exploring the alleged author and his theory.The tale tells of Captain Seaborn’s expedition to the North Pole to discover the entrance to the hollow earth. A classic early work of utopian fiction (perhaps the first American example), Symzonia is also a great seafaring tale complete with a mutinous crew member. Seaborn discovers the entrance to the Earth and finds inside our planet a technologically advanced civilization.

Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
Captain Adam Seaborn

ISBN: 978-0-9790838-8-4
Quality Paperback
Price: $12.95

Ashé Journal 7.2 Now Available

Editor — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:47:29 +0000

Fall is the time when the veils between the worlds are thinnest. It is the time when the dead walk among the living and pagan beasts are blurs in the shadows. The final harvest done, the fields are given over to the faery.This issue of Ashe Journal brings together celebrations of the wild and pagan energies of this time featuring the poetry of Skadi meic Beorh, David Finn, Robert Walker, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Diana R. Thompson, David Finn, Lupercus Pagani and Jess Mann. Also featured in issue #7.2 are a history of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence by Sister Soami; an essay on becoming yourself through your dreams by Dr. Jerrid P. Freeman and Angela Passarelli; new writing from Raymond Yeo and Sud Ram; and book reviews. Check out the new issue of Ashé Journal. Selections available online: http://www.ashejournal.com Print edition available from the Press’s online store and Amazon.com

Ashé 7.1 Now Available

Editor — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:56:40 +0000

Ashé Journal 7.1 Now Available

ISBN: 978-0-9790838-4-6
Paperback, 120 pages, 6×9, $12.95

PUNK BUDDHISM

Features an examination of the Buddhist influence on the artwork of Sylvain Bouthillette by Peter Dubé; new fiction from Riley McLeod; The Sutra of Immeasurable Life and Wisdom translated by Brendan Connell; excerpts from Brad Warner’s Sit Down and Shut Up; and writing from Darin Beasley, Tim Holmes, Iamba, Thomas Fuchs, Girish Menezes, Charles Suhor, Bob Makransky, Stephen Killeen, Toni Fergusson and Farrell Davisson; artwork by Garin Horner; plus books reviews.

With the release of 7.1 come some exciting changes in the direction of the journal. We have decided to expand the Ashé project by increasing our focus distribution of the print edition. In order to make this feasible, the Journal will be issued biannually around the spring and vernal equinoxes. The full table of contents and selected samples of each issue will be presented online immediately. The release of the full online edition will be embargoed for approximately twelve months.

The full print edition is available through your local bookseller or directly from Rebel Satori Press at http://www.rebelsatori.com/shop/

Ashé Journal Subscriptions Now Available

Editor — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:51:04 +0000

Many people have asked about journal subscriptions over the past several years. Now, with the move toward full print runs, we are introducing a subscription service.

Introductory subscription rates are $16.00/ year (2 issues) within the USA. That’s over 60% off the cover price and 20% off regular subscription rate.

Subscription information is available on the journal’s website at:

http://www.ashejournal.com/index.php?id=311

International readers should contact the journal for a custom quote.

New Release: Madder Love, Queer Surrealism

Editor — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:10:45 +0000

Dreams, desire, darkened streets and the sudden miracles that appear there, the deep places of the mind. Two groups made these the heart of a radical project of liberation: queers and surrealism.

Better than many others, queers understand the power of these dark areas. The rich, complicated culture we’ve created for ourselves is constantly ready to allow us to follow our dreams and fantasies, carried by the surging waves of sexuality into some pretty and magical places. It’s just as clear that the surrealists were chasing similar adventures as far back as the ‘Twenties and ‘Thirties. Given the similarity of their motivations, why have the two so often been in violent opposition to each other?

Madder Love is an anthology of cutting-edge writing that wants to look at that a little closer. It opens up the surreal possibilities of queer literature while simultaneously displacing the historic homophobia of Surrealism.

From dream states to erotic obsessions, from the muttering of the unconscious to parallel worlds (and the weirder cracks in this one) Madder Love tackles why surrealism can be so queer, and why being queer can be so surreal.

Contributions from Will Aitken, Stephen Beachy, Jeffery Beam, Stephen Boyer, Tom Cardamone, Sven Davisson, Peter Dubé, Craig L. Gidney, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Trebor Healey, Kevin Killian, Shaun Levin and Rob Stephenson help make the case.

Peter Dubé is the author of the chapbook Vortex Faction Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001), the novel Hovering World (DC Books 2002) and At the Bottom of the Sky, a collection of linked short fiction (DC Books, 2007). In addition to writing fiction, he is a widely published cultural critic with essays on books and the visual arts appearing in journals such as CV Photo, ESSE and Spirale, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Mercer Union and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University. Peter lives and works in Montreal.

Madder Love

Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism

Peter Dubé, Editor
ISBN 978-0-9790838-2-2, May 2008
Paperback, $14.95, 146 pages, 5.5 x 8.25.

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New Release: My Hero, Tristram Burden

Editor — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:25:13 +0000

My Hero: A Wild Boys Tale

A Novel by Tristram Burden

ISBN 978-0-9790838-1-5, March 2008
Paperback, $16.95, 269 pages, 6 x 9.

“My Hero is a Jungian tale that combines mythology, science fiction, and eroticism to create a brilliant hybrid unlike anything I’ve read before. Original, exciting, and transcendent. A bloody great read! Very unique.”
—Douglas Ferguson author of The Forgotten Ones

“A brilliant fusion of William Burroughs and H.P. Lovecraft set in the post-apocalyptic wilderness of Mad Max…”
—Ashé Journal

2006 Finalist Project: QueerLit

Set in a post-apocalyptic America, Tristram Burden’s novel tells the story of 17 year old Joshua My Hero. The youth lives out a humdrum existence, struggling to find truth and sense in a Christian-fundamentalist trailer park. But his psychic powers and sexual tastes leave him an outsider of his community, and forced to commit patricide in a final and desperate struggle for self-defence against his father’s rage, Joshua escapes into a wasted planet, armed only with an oracular penis, the patronage of an ancient earth spirit sent to rid the planet of all of its ills, and the wisdom of the Tao Teh Ching…

Tristram Burden’s short stories, poetry and articles on contemporary occultism and self-transformation have appeared internationally in a variety of journals and anthologies. This is his debut novel, a finalist in the 2006 Project: Queerlit contest. He currently resides in Bath, England where he’s recording his first album and writing a TV series in-between working on his second novel.

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Ashé 6.2 Now Available

Editor — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:21:37 +0000

The new issue of Ashé Journal is now online and available.

This special full color art issue features the work of Antonio Roybal, Nemo, Ben Baldwin, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Darrell Black, Tantra Bensko, Janice Lincoln and A.R. Teest. Opening the issue is a essay “Eternity in Ephemerality: An Enduring Enigma” by Patrick Jemmer, Ph.D. and Rachel Jemmer, HND.