The Folks Publishing

We're a student-run publishing group based in Lincoln, Nebraska with a penchant for the extraordinary.

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Goldenrod

We have exciting news: Goldenrod, our literary magazine showcasing minority writers in Nebraska, will be available for purchase at the end of this month! We can’t wait to share this with everyone!

Goldenrod is a 72 page literary magazine that features writers who are members of minority groups in Nebraska. The eleven authors are all people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, disabled, and/or immigrants. Each writer has a short bio at the end of the book, and we interviewed three of them for a more in depth look at their lives. The poems, short stories, essays, and pictures submitted by these writers cover a variety of topics.

You will be able to purchase Goldenrod starting May 31. It’s available for $12.30 from lulu.com, the website we used for publishing the lit mag.

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Submissions

The Folks Publishing is currently looking for submissions for our print literary magazine, Distortions, and our online lit mag, The Folks. If you would like to submit your work to one (or both), please check out our webpage. You can also check out the work we’ve publishing in the past. We’re looking for short stories, poetry, and artwork. If you have any questions, you can send us an ask or email us at [email protected]. 

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Hello everyone! Sorry for the long absence: we’ve been busy working on two other print publications! One is a collection of British poetry from the 19th century (for a professor to use in her class), and the other is a literary magazine focusing on writers from Nebraska (the current home of The Folks). Now that the semester is winding to a close, though, we’re ready to get back to our regular publications. With that in mind, we’re currently taking submissions for Distortions, Volume 2!

As you may remember, Distortions is the title of our print literary magazine. While we’re still working out how making Volume 1 available for purchase, we are for sure planning to make it so you can buy Volume 2. So if you’ve ever wanted to have your writing or art in a physical, printed work, now’s your chance! Submissions will be open until May 31. Check out our website for guidelines and past works.

We look forward to seeing what you send us!

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Hey everyone, sorry for the wait! We decided to delay the December publication, as we’re getting ready for a few big projects this semester. However, we’re always accepting submissions, so feel free to send your work in! Also, we may have some big news coming up, so keep an eye on our page!

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Submissions for publication in December close on the sixteenth! Remember to check out our website for more details about requirements for the art or writing you submit.

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orange finnish blotto - Arch Stellage

you read like a Pitchfork review: ambient backdrop contextualizes high instrumentation, deluge and wave of texture, sharp and nebulous, socially aware and astute, sojourn into the multi-faceted polyrhythmic percussion, resonating sampler loops.

We are excited to bring you a total of six works for our fall 2016 online magazine. Our final work is orange finnish blotto, written by Arch Stellage. You can read the entire poem here. This is the second poem by Arch that we have featured (read her other poem here!).

Check out the other fall 2016 works here.

Want to become one of The Folks? Submit your original work (short story, poem, artwork, etc.) to us. The submission guidelines can be found here. If you want to be included in our next publication, submit your work by December 15.

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Bipedal Motion - Khristian Mecom

“There was a group of wild children who had claimed the manor house’s untamed back garden as their own; to rule over as they saw fit, to hide out in when their parents cast them out into the night, and to live in when they yearned to return to a more primitive time in their lives. And ever since Odette had moved in, they had been sneaking about, letting her catch glimpses of their large bright eyes and devious white teeth as they peered out of the hedges and reached out to her from the rose bushes, their thin hands only suggesting the feeling of real skin.”

We are excited to bring you a total of six works for our fall 2016 online magazine. The fifth work is Bipedal Motion, by Khristian Mecom. Read the whole story here.

Khristian Mecom was born in Oklahoma but grew up and still lives in South Florida where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of the novella Love & Black Holes (Black Hill Press/1888Center), and her fiction has appeared in Slice Magazine, Passages North, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere.

You can follow Khristian on tumblr.

Check out the other works here, and keep an eye out for our final feature tomorrow!

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Three Course Meals - Ellen Huang

The squinty-eyed troll could feel the thump-thump-thumping of feet on the bridge.  Something like a human boy. In other words, food. The footsteps pitter-pattered faster and faster. And lighter, as if the boy was barely touching the bridge, preparing for a huge leap.   No way was this free food getting away. The troll reached its great fist up and grabbed the boy in midair. Suddenly pain shot through the troll’s hand. The troll howled in pain. A bite! The kid caught in its fist yelled: “That was a warning! If you hate pain, don’t eat me! Look at all these scratches and stuff on me!” The troll squinted and dangled its prey closer, upside-down. The kid was quite pale, with hair that sprung up on either side like horns. And he was covered in scratches, as if the kid never healed in his life. Yet he moved around as if perfectly healthy.

We are excited to bring you a total of six works for our fall 2016 online magazine. The fourth work we’re featuring is Three Course Meals, by Ellen Huang. Read the whole story here.

Check out the other works here, and keep an eye out over the next few days for short features on the other works and their authors.

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Old Wives' Tale - Arch Stellage

she’s like 5’8, and nonchalant about it as she towers over the stove. Nina’s baritone vibrates in the background, clear and deep as night. Nina sings it better than I can say.

We are excited to bring you a total of six works for our fall 2016 online magazine. Over the next few days we’ll give you a taste of each work, as well as a short bio of the author. The third work we’re presenting is Old Wives' Tale, by Arch Stellage. Read the whole poem here. This edition of The Folks includes two poems by Arch; we’ll feature the other one in a few days (although you can read it now).

Arch Stellage is a second year at the University of New Mexico. She currently resides in Albuquerque and enjoys writing poetry and short stories in her free time. You will most likely find her in her cave, writing, playing the guitar, or petting dogs when she isn’t busy attempting to choose a major or plotting out possible career paths.

Check out the other works here, and keep an eye out over the next few days for short features on the other works and their authors.

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The Wrong Face - Barbara Hughes-Moore

The man checked his watch for the eighteenth time and tentatively adjusted the face he was wearing. Skin on skin, not as erotic as it sounds. Take it literally, or don’t. But the man was wearing another’s face. There’s no other way to break it to you.

We are excited to bring you a total of six works for our fall 2016 online magazine! Over the next few days we’ll give you a taste of each work, as well as a short bio of the author. The second work we’re featuring is The Wrong Face, written by Barbara Hughes-Moore.

PhD student by day, movie maniac by night, Barbara Hughes-Moore is an aspiring author and semi-regular line-dancer. Her academic research interests include criminal legal theory, Gothic literature, and a troubling fascination with Doppelgängers that she is currently turning into a PhD. When she needs time away from writing her doctoral thesis, she likes to take a break – by writing, everything from short stories to flash fiction to that book that she’s definitely going to finish one day.

You can find her on Twitter and, for rants and ramblings, at her blog.

Check out the other works here, and keep an eye out over the next few days for short features on the other works and their authors.

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The Friend That Never Left (preview), Amanda Benes, 2016

We are excited to bring you a total of six works for our fall 2016 online magazine! Over the next few days we’ll give you a taste of each work, as well as a short bio of the author. This first work, the only piece of artwork in this edition, is entitled The Friend That Never Left. You can see a small part of the picture in this post; to see the full work, visit our website. The drawing is from Amanda Benes. She’s currently a freshman at UNO studying  2D Studio Art. Amanda has worked with us before, and illustrated our book of folklore from around the world. One of her works was also featured in our spring 2016 print magazine.

Check out the other works here, and keep an eye out over the next few days for short features on the other works and their authors.

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The Fall 2016 works are on our website now!

We’ll make a post in a little bit with snippets from the works, but you can check them out right now! There are three new short stories, two poems, and one piece of art. We’re really excited to share these with you.

The next deadline is December 15, and we’ll publish the works we receive on December 31.

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The submissions deadline is this Saturday (October 15) for publication on our website this month. If you have any questions (or would like a small extension) please message us!

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“Space Fun”, new collage. 

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Space Fun is featured on our website. Check out other online works at The Folks, and find more of Shelby’s art on her tumblr.

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Also, now that things have settled down with school, I'm hoping to put a few more things on this blog. There might be some features on works used in our lit mag/ on the website, or small pieces on publishing or writing. We're also available to answer any questions you may have, either about the Folks, or publishing and writing in general.

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Just a reminder that we’re still looking for submissions! We’ve started to receive a few, but there are still plenty of spots open for our October publication. Please message us with any questions.

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Submissions

Hello everyone! We’re currently looking for submissions for our online literary magazine. Please check out our website for submission guidelines, past publications, and more!