Our Creative Beseechment For Your Creative Work, this is an actual IM conversation between the editors of Semblance:


Lorie: I'm having trouble thinking of what to say for the ad beyond the fact that we're looking for contributions. Should I include the submission guidelines?


Samantha: Nah. Just direct them to the website.


Lorie: OK. So I have the line "Semblance hopes to publish a(n) ______ mix of creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama and art." What word do you think should go in the blank? The only one that's coming to mind for me is "enticing" and that sounds weird to me.


Samantha: Delicious!


Lorie: Do you want us to sound tasty?


Samantha: Aren't we tasty? Oooh... you could write the ad in a menu style. We are cookin' up a journal for your reading palette. We want our entrees to be appetizing and yet satisfying.


Lorie: This isn't really attention-getting is it:


Semblance, a new creative arts journal, seeks contributions for its premiere issue. Semblance hopes to publish a delicious mix of creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama and art. For more information and submission guidelines, please visit the

Semblance website.


Samantha: Delight your literary sensibilities With Semblance, a creative arts journal. We're currently seeking contributions for our first issue, due to come out at the end of August. We're rarin' to cook up a delectable array of tasty mind treats, and we need your help. We need a sioux chef, so to speak. Several for that matter.


Lorie: Um...I think you mean sous chef. Unless you really meant sioux chief.


Samantha: Oh. I remember seeing an ad in the paper for a Sioux Chef, and I was like, "So it is spelt like the American Indian tribe?"


Lorie: Or maybe I'm wrong. I just didn't think it was spelled the same, but I only know the occasional word in French.


Samantha: So the person who sent the ad to the LA Times messed up. Pretty bad.


Lorie: Google finds 105,000 listings for sous chef.


Samantha: What about sioux chef? ;)


Lorie: There are 60, mainly seeming to be a combination of typos and "Sioux Chef" aprons featuring a college mascot.


Samantha: Definitely go with sous.

So we obviously need your help. Send us your stuff: creative non-fiction, art, fiction, poetry and drama—if you need help understanding any of the categories, that information is at the website (You'll also find submission guidelines and the e-mail to which you can apply.)

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