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 January, 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:
Benefit for Haiti
1/26/10
On February 12, Sweet will be co-hosting with literary magazine Saw Palm, Yellowjacket Press, and the University of South Florida's MFA in Creative Writing Program "Words to Help, Words to Heal: A Benefit Reading for Haiti." There will be a raffle for various prizes, signed books, and art. Poetry and prose galore!
If you are in the Tampa area, please help us raise money for the people of Haiti:
When: Friday, February 12
Where: Dishtopia, 3401 Henderson Blvd., Tampa, FL 33609
Time: 6-8
Admission: $5
All proceeds will go to the American Red Cross.
Also of note: Kyle Minor, author of "This Thing Did Seem Solid" in Issue 2.2, has been hard at work on new a book about Haiti. There's a wonderful excerpt currently to be found at The Rumpus.
New Issue!
1/11/10
Sweet's latest issue, 2.2, is finished and online. Inside you'll find hurricanes, kitchens, and kindergartens! Click here to read it.
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.
Best of the Web Nominations!
10/27/09
Sweet has made its nominations for Dzanc's Best of the Web 2010 Anthology: Geoff Schmidt's essay Otis and Jake, Jason Tucker's essay Kudzu Got Angry, and Tim Seibles's poem 4am. Congratulations to Geoff, Jason, and Tim!
The Internet Is an English Sonnet
9/16/09
Sweet's webmaster, Andrew Brogdon, just launched a web application that uses Google search results to create an interactive sequence of sonnets. You can find it at TheInternetIsAnEnglishSonnet.com.
New Work by Sweet Contributors
5/1/09
Jon Chopan and Anne Panning, two nonfiction writers who have contributed work to Sweet, were recently published by the Waccamaw Journal. Check them out in the Spring 2009 issue!
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Lands an N.E.A.
3/30/09
Sweet contributor Aimee Nezhukumatathil has been awarded an NEA grant. Excellent work by an excellent poet. If you'd like to read one of her pieces, check out Issue 1.1.
