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Editor
Matt DiGangi started the website in part as a destination for writers,
where those who didn’t make the grade could get meaningful feedback on
their submissions, not an impersonal rejection e-mail and/or
disingenuous runaround. Ask anyone who’s struggled to get that first
piece published and they’ll tell you how essential encouragement and
honest criticisms are to the nascent writer.
When
asked what kinds of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction Thieves
Jargon looks for, DiGangi pulled out a Salinger quote:
"Phooey,
I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary
magazines.
Give me an honest con man any day."
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And
it’s all up there too; sex, drugs, dysfunction, sociopaths, even
murder (a random title that dropped into my lap was “The Dammed and
the Dickless.”)
Seven
new yarns published each week. Not all of it’s quality literature
(there’s some poorly written mung and a few rambling “therapy”
pieces) but there’s something there for everyone—unless of course
you find Jane Autsen dicey.Try
a piece. If you don’t like it, poke around some more, you’re certain
to find something that’ll fit your literary mindset. As for the
fringe, the Jargon’s replete with experimental and even a smattering
of genre.
Thieves
Jargon receives approximately 100 submissions a month—and DiGangi
reads them all (about one third make the cut). The site launched early
in 2004 and gets about 1,000 hits per month. And word around the online
Lit community has been spreading. Recently other sites have begun
pilfering DiGangi’s author list, asking Jargon writers to submit to
their site. Now if that’s not an endorsement—other editors coming to
your writers to feed their hungry readers—then my last name is Glass.
About
the Author:
Tom Meek is a contributing film critic for the Boston Phoenix and member
of the Boston Society of Film Critics. His ramblings and rants have also
appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Film Threat and E! Online. He
lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, practices yoga religiously and rides
his bike everywhere. Tom is currently working on a collection of short
stories that take place in Boston and the surrounding cityscape.
check
out his work: tommeek.com
Update:
thieves jargon press
is up and running with their first publication, Kittens in the Boiler by Delphine
Lecompte.
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