The Moonshot launch was a success; the performers, the Housing Works staff, and JD Scott kept things humming—and once again, the pacing was so excellent that there was time left over to (1) mingle and (2) buy the magazine. In fact, most copies on hand nearly sold out—which is wonderful, as all profits from sold copies last night went directly to Housing Works.

But the physical product got me thinking about the digital product. I don’t really do a lot of blathering about what I do w/r/t online programming for Moonshot but I’ve been talking to a lot of people about the magazine and my stake in it lately and I will say it’s a pretty little book. One of our readers from the launch party at Housing Works last night, Victoria Redel, prefaced the poems she read with a bit about how she loves that there are still literary magazines being made with such love. And while I’m pretty much on the express train to YAY DIGITAL, it does hearten me to see something you can leaf through and consume different kinds of culture.

The online programming piece is a strange little thing because it has to synthesize what’s happening in the book with what’s happening in the digital ether. It has to do this without giving in to the natural impulse to acquiesce to what’s crackling in search or social. You’re creating culture within culture.

I mean, it’s a boon that the age of short-form is getting disrupted by a culture that wants something a little more sustainable. People are done with shake-and-bake; they want real fried chicken now.

This is all to say that I want more content and if you’re reading this, I want pitches (short stories, serials, essays, poetry, mixed media work, sequential art, video art, etc!) from you for the website. Make it funny, horrific, dramatic, whatever; but make. it. count.

Lay it on me: rohin at moonshotmagazine.org.