Sweet is an online literary magazine that publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, and anything that blurs the lines of those two genres. Sweet likes work that lingers in the mouth like an English toffee, work that is challenging and complex like the dark center of a tootsie pop, and work that satisfies like silky-smooth, Belgian chocolate.
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Sweet's next issue will appear in May, 2010. We await your submissions.
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"I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruitdrops -- red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me."
-Simone de Beauvoir
Editors' note: Please remember to eat chocolate every day.
Latest News from Sweet:
New Issue!
5/24/10
Sweet's latest issue, 2.3, is finished and online. Inside we've got Bolivia, baptism, and $500 couches. Click here to read on.
Talk Thai in Stores Now!
4/2/10
Talk Thai, Ira Sukrungruang's memoir, has been released by The University of Missiouri Press!
Here's what a few people have had to say:
“An engaging, artfully constructed take on the immigrant/assimilation experience. Talk Thai is a fresh and compelling journey into the author’s life.” —Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire and The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still
“Talk Thai is a story of a young boy growing up in a house heavy with questions asked in one language and answered in another. It is a mature reflection of what constitutes family, home, belonging and friendship—an exploration of the sights and sounds, the smells and sorrows of growing up and choosing from different cultures the values and the characteristics of manhood. Ira Sukrungruang’s memoir is a rich contribution to the voices that create the language of America’s immigrant population.”—Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
“In Talk Thai, Ira Sukrungruang gives readers a fresh, funny, and poignant perspective on childhood, identity, cultural confusion, and growing up Thai American. This is a gem of a memoir.”—Bich Minh Nguyen, author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner and Short Girls
You can pick up Ira's fantastic book at UM, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. For more information, check out Ira's web site.
Sweet Stuff from the Sweet Staff
4/2/10
We at Sweet would like to celebrate the success of some of our staff:
KC Wolfe has work forthcoming from Gulf Coast & Redivider.
Jon Chopan has work forthcoming from Glimmer Train & Post Road.
Katie Riegel has work forthcoming from Barely South Review.
Ruth Awad was recently named a finalist for The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Prize.
Pushcart Nominations!
1/3/10
Congrats to this year's Pushcart nominations: Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Fruit Theivery, Jason Tucker's Kudzu Got Angry, Derek Holst's The Boy With Too Big Eyes, Barbara Daniels' Lumber, Geoff Schmidt's Otis and Jake, and Tim Seibles' 4am.
Brand New Work from Issue 2.3:
Nonfiction by Nicole Louise Reid
"I did not say his name aloud but shut my eyes, pressed my tongue into the shape of it..."
by Maggie Smith
If I Forget to Tell You, Song of the Heirloom Apple Tree, and Fundevogel
Thinking Back on the Bolivian Altiplano in a Well-lit Suburban House in San Antonio, Texas
Nonfiction by Hal Amen
"When you have no electricity, you spend your days out in the fields with the livestock..."