tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22567037940631634002024-03-18T02:47:29.745-07:00Kind of a Hurricane PressA.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-8024186505465902862022-10-02T11:17:00.001-07:002022-10-02T11:17:25.422-07:00IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS SUBMISSIONS!<p> </p><div style="text-align: left;">I know there are some of you still waiting to hear back regarding your When It Rains It Pours Anthology submissions. I apologize for the delay but we just got our power back from Hurricane Ian passing through. So bear with me a little longer and I will respond to each and every one of you.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Again, so sorry for the delay!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A.J. Huffman</div><div style="text-align: left;">editor, Kind of a Hurricane Press</div>A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-25031347523709160912022-09-26T12:48:00.002-07:002022-09-26T12:48:35.753-07:00Don't Forget!<p> </p><p><br /></p><div>Submissions for our Second anthology are now open:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>New Anthology: It's Five O'Clock Everywhere</div><div>Theme: Alcohol/Drinking</div><div>Deadline: November 15, 2022</div><div><br /></div><div>Be sure to check out the guidelines <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/2256703794063163400/5014999777360052652">HERE</a>!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-18421962179236340672022-09-19T15:00:00.007-07:002022-09-19T15:00:56.610-07:00<p> </p><p>I am pleased to announce that <b><i>Jellyfish Whispers</i></b> is now back open for submissions</p><p>as well as <i style="font-weight: bold;">Pyrokinection</i>! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-60025470125490805322022-09-19T14:51:00.004-07:002022-09-19T14:51:54.136-07:00<p> </p><div style="text-align: left;">Submissions for our Second anthology are now open:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">New Anthology: It's Five O'Clock Everywhere</div><div style="text-align: left;">Theme: Alcohol/Drinking</div><div style="text-align: left;">Deadline: November 15, 2022</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Be sure to check out the guidelines <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/2256703794063163400/5014999777360052652">HERE</a>!</div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-72427190603714939262022-09-19T14:48:00.002-07:002022-09-19T14:48:46.630-07:00<p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">When It Rains It Pours Anthology is now CLOSED to submissions.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Acceptance/Rejection letters are already starting to go out for this anthology. We do respond to all submissions, so keep your eyes on your inbox.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks again for making our first anthology back such an amazing success!</div>A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-66982643839819222152022-08-12T09:35:00.004-07:002022-08-12T09:35:48.377-07:00Announcing the First Anthology Theme for 2022!<p> </p><p><b><i>When it Rains it Pours</i></b><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>Theme: Rain<br /> Deadline: September 15, 2022</p>A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-84557875828001958142022-08-07T12:18:00.002-07:002022-08-07T12:18:14.661-07:00Soft Re-Opening!<p>Sorry I've been gone for so long! Life has its way of rushing past you in a blink. But I am back at it now and ready to re-open Kind of a Hurricane Press!</p><p>This is going to be a small-scale re-opening. We are going to start by re-opening one on-line journal, Pyrokinection. Please not it will no longer be a daily posting journal, but a weekly publishing online journal. We may revert back to the daily posts in the future, but for current time-management purposes, it will be weekly. How many poems/poets I will be publishing each week will depend on you. I don't want to set to many rules and boundaries. We're just gonna go with the flow.</p><p>Additionally, I will be announcing one anthology theme and deadline in the next month or so. This will be a digital anthology for sure, possibly a print anthology. Again, depending on how things go.</p><p>I will be announcing new guidelines for all of this very soon.</p><p>I have missed you all and cannot wait to see what you have been up to while I was gone!</p>A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-18290365323282104222016-06-28T16:22:00.003-07:002016-06-28T16:23:10.167-07:00Secrets & Dreams is now available!!!!<br />
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"Elements of Evaluation" by Amanda M. May from <i>Element(ary) My Dear </i>Print Anthology<br />
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A.J. Huffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410033585195378946noreply@blogger.com76tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256703794063163400.post-53559838456182821552015-08-23T10:43:00.005-07:002015-08-23T10:44:07.952-07:002014 Storm Cycle: The Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press is finally available!!!!<br />
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Storm Cycle 2014: The Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press (510 pages) is a compilation of the editors' favorite pieces from the six 2014 online journals as well as our six 2014 print anthologies. A tireless search for poetic talent proved exceptionally fruitful, and the selection process for this anthology was brutal. After a great deal of reading, re-reading, and discussion, the editors amassed an extremely diverse and eclectic body of work to put forth to represent what Kind of a Hurricane Press is about: publishing the best poetry and flash fiction being crafted today.</div>
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In creating the second anthology of 2015, <i>Twice Upon a Time </i>(244 pages)<i>, </i>Kind of a Hurricane Press asked our authors to let their imaginations run wild with childhood memories, delve into the depths of, and if necessary, even re-create fairytales. As always, our authors pulled out all the stops, and created, what we believe is one of our finest, and most universally appealing anthologies to date. <i>Twice Upon a Time</i> has something for everyone. Enjoy. </div>
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<i>Scavenger Hunt</i> by Donna Barkman<br />
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<i>Signs of the Apolcalypse</i> by Terri Simon<br />
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Martin Willitts, Jr. has appeared in over 30 anthologies and has been in hundreds of print and online magazines including <i>A Kind of a Hurricane Press, Big City Lit, Rattle, Flutter, </i>and others. He presented his poetry workshop "Origami Haiku Jumping Frogs" at the 2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. He won the prestigious international <i>John Cotton Dana Award</i> for library programs and publicity, and he won it while working at a library of a service area of less than 10,000 populations.</div>
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A.J. Huffman and April Salzano have created a satirical and humorous chapbook that turns the elements of a "Happily Ever After" life on its ear. They have merged their unique voices to create one vision of that blurry, blurry line that divides love and hate.</div>
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Neil Ellman specializes in ekphrastic poetry written in response to works of modern and contemporary art. While never merely describing and mirroring these works, Ellman reacts to them based on his own sensibilities and perspectives. Included in the collection are twenty poems based on works by such surrealists as Max Ernst and Salvador Dali, and such abstractionists as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell.</div>
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in the first chapbook from Kind of a Hurricane Press's Barometric Author's Series, from Felino A. Soriano, jazz's imperative devotion to improvisation drives and sustains the language within <i>Extolment in the Praising Exhalation of Jazz. </i>Through the delving process of interacting with various recordings during the creating of each poem--cadence, form, and divergence are considered in accordance to the language of the music's fluctuating permissions and freedom toward invitation.</div>
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