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Aug.16.2011 Opium39's 7-Line Story Contest Finalists Announced! We are thrilled to announce the fifteen finalists for Opium39's 7-Line Story Contest (judged by Amy Hempel). The issue, which will release in November, will feature the winner and nine other of these stories, while a handful will appear online as a run-up to the issue's release. The winner will be...	Jul.07.2011 Submit NOW to Opium39's Heaven Issue! Opium is in a wild, last-minute hunt for your most brilliant stories for our Heaven issue. If you have written a story about these topics, we want you to submit them IMMEDIATELY (or, say, by Wednesday, July 13th): Mothers, death, sadness, dying, living, heaven, hope, happiness, loss of hope,...
May.17.2011 State of the Union Address: Opium Magazine It's been a strange series of months for Opium. Before we became a nonprofit in February 2010, we announced Opium100: A Century of Literary Humor - which was to be our most ambitious project ever. Thing is, ambition in this case also meant expensive, and while we've evaded admitting it until now,...	Jan.12.2011 Literary Death Match 2010: The Year in Review To put it plainly: 2010 was, for Literary Death Match, a jaw-dropper (especially now that we're looking back in disbelief at how we pulled off the whole grassroots mess). On October 6, 2010, in San Francisco, we celebrated a thrilling milestone when we pulled off our 100th-ever event at Litquake...
Nov.11.2010 LDM 100: The End A little over a month ago, I embarked on what was possibly the nuttiest Opium misadventure, yet: the LDM100 celebration & Opium for the Arts fundraiser. I went back and forth across America in what my friend deemed "the most fiscally responsible not-quite-jet-setting" he'd ever...	Oct.02.2010 Literary Death Match 100 Tour To celebrate the 100th episode of the Literary Death Match, we're going on tour! We'll be visiting several cities throughout the month of October in order to spread the lit love in every corner of literacy, and to give everyone a chance to join in the excitement, no matter where you are. For tour...
Jun.01.2010 June Update from Opium Opium100 Announcement and Call for Donations When Opium Magazine transitioned to Opium for the Arts (finally deciding to become a 501(c)3 nonprofit after almost nine years of impoverished independence), we knew there was an opportunity to build beyond anything we've ever done, to take our literary...	Jul.01.2009 Opium 8 Goes Global: 9-Word Story Written Up on Six Continents Since the release of our 8th issue, the scene at Opium HQ has been one of blithesome disbelief. We're blown away by the unprecedented flurry of media coverage surrounding the issue, and we wanted to share our excitement. Thanks to our Jonathan Keats-designed cover...
Apr.11.2008 Literary Death Match, Episode 8 Honesty, I think, was the link common to the very different writers at the Literary Death Match. I listened to every word with moment-to-moment renewed respect, and heard an honesty I aspire to. Andrew's crystal clear, compact glimpses, Rupert's passion and brutal pictures of political ca-ca,...