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Work: A Cordite-Prairie Schooner Collaboration

Cordite is excited to announce a special collaboration with Nebraska-based literary journal, Prairie Schooner. The collaboration, entitled ‘Work’, is the first in what promises to be an exciting ‘Fusion’ series, wherein Prairie Schooner teams up with innovative journals from around …

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Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online

Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online and features forty new works by a whole bunch of poets who got super-excited by the opportunity to send us poems on any theme they liked. Or else, um, no theme at all. …

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Coming soon: Cordite-Prairie Schooner Fusion!

Cordite is very excited to be involved in US journal Prairie Schooner’s Fusion series; in fact, we’re the first cab off the rank, with a special WORK co-feature due online in February 2012. The feature will include fifteen poems from …

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HNY 2012 to our contributors and readers

On behalf of the Cordite editorial team and the world’s bison population, I’d like to wish all of our contributors and readers a (belated, but) happy new year, and a glorious 2012! I hope that the new year brings you …

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Simply the Best: Cordite’s 2011 Top Thirty

Well, this is starting to look like a tradition. We’re proud to present the fourth installment of the Cordite Top Thirty, following humbly in the footsteps of 2008, 2009 and 2010, this time with added bonus commentary. Oh yes, it’s …

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Tiny Steps: the Electr(on)ification of Cordite

Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have we finally broken through that invisible barrier between ‘text-based journal’ and ‘online journal of electronic literature’?

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WordPress Upgrade SNAFU

As some of you may be aware, we use a content management system called WordPress to produce Cordite online. Last week, the latest version of WordPress (3.0) was released, and so we dutifully upgraded the software. Along the way, however, …

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Follow Cordite on Twitter!

Those of you who inhabit the Twitter universe will surely be mildly excited (if not perhaps a little bemused) to learn that Cordite now has a Twitter account, through which you can be kept updated as to every single move …

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Cordite Editor News

You might be forgiven for thinking that the Cordite editors have been hibernating recently. In one sense, you'd be right. Who could begrudge our reviews editor Ali Alizadeh a well-earned rest after bravely climbing the mountain of submissions we received …

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How Green is the Internet? Cordite's Carbon Footprint

Thanks to the handy WordPress Carbon Footprint plugin, below is a table of how many words and images are used on this site, how many pages those words and images would take up if printed out, and how much carbon …

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Cordite lives to fight another year!

Now that all things 'embargo' have expired, we're tickled flamingo pink to inform you that Cordite has been successful in our application for funding from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

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What just happened?

If you tried to visit this site over the past few days, you may have been met instead with a gigantic red “ATTACK!' warning, courtesy of either Google or your browser. The cause of these warnings was the insertion of …

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Simply The Best: Cordite's 2008 Top Thirty

In celebration of our impending 30th issue (and as a subtle way of reminding you, once again, that submissions for CUSTOM/MADE are now open), here's the lowdown on Cordite's thirty most popular posts for the past twelve months, courtesy of …

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And now, looking forward to 2009 …

You know it's that time of year when writers and editors begin to insert clichés into all of their communications. You know, clichés like 'You know it's that time of year' or 'As the year draws to a close' or …

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'Opening the floodgates': Cordite's comments policy …

Call it Web 2.0, call it what you will – but one unique feature of today's network communications is the possibility of readers and content producers interacting with each other via comment boxes and other even more geeky mechanisms. Our …

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