CRISP MAGAZINE

Woke up to an email today offering me a paid writing position for this up and coming PRINT magazine debuting in October. I am SO happy and thankful to Madison Griffiths who's opened up this excellent and exciting opportunity for me. Don't care if i'm gushing, i am no stranger to the tumbleweed horizon that is Melbourne based creative opportunities. It's dry, really dry. And you know where she found me? Here on this blog. I can't wait to start writing, in fact i've already started jotting down ideas. The concept of the magazine is awesome. It's all about dreamers and dreaming about being an artist etc. I'm well into that idea. I'm not for wanky, insular art talk. I hate it. Writing should be as accessible to all as possible.

The magazine is debuting mid-late October i believe. Anyway have a look ( www.Crispmagazine.com ). As for Criterion? My own little paper magazine, i hate to say it but things just don't look too positive for that. I feel a sense of shame for betraying my vested words of commitment ( " This is my life project guys, I'm gonna keep working on it till it gets somewhere ). I would've... if funding weren't such a problem and a challenge. I've had a good haul with it and it's been the best experience running that little guy. But i think it's over now. God, it's hard saying that, it really is. I think what is going out with Criterion was that sense of idealistic immaturity that defined me earlier on this year. I think that part of me has largely dissipated to be replaced with calm and stable maturity. It's the end of an era for me. Two things i stand for till this day and the days coming though : 1. I don't regret the makeshift look , no matter how many sniggers i get, that was its appeal and thats why people liked it 2. It was never an art magazine. It was a literary journal.
This is so awkward though, i've decided to shut down this journal due to funding ( or lack of it haha ) but i have my talk with other editors at Melbourne uni in two weeks. Time really creeps up on you, how will i explain myself? :-S

The website will expire on the 16th. So that's, two days. This is pretty un-official of me, but i'm going to make the statement here : Thank you to anyone and everyone who picked up a copy and read it. Who wrote for it, liked it, told me they liked it. It was so great, but you know... some projects fail and i guess mine sort of did. But what i reaped from it? I'll remember and take with me for my whole life. I think it's time for me to start a-new. New writing, new tone of voice, new VOICE, new outlook, new vision.
Anyway, i'll keep you posted. I just can't believe this all happened so quickly. I can't stifle my excitement. I get to write!!!!