saw·mill  (sôml) n. 1. A plant where timber is sawed into boards. 2. Typecast’s free online magazine, produced six times a year. Each issue focuses on one branch of the literary tree: fiction, graphic stories, and poetry.  

Below is a description of what to expect in and how to submit to each issue:

FICTION
With the fiction issues, Sawmill ups the proverbial ante on web-based publications. By forging partnerships with authors, illustrators, and graphic designers, we present digital packaging as gorgeous and important as the literature housed within. We want to show you a journal created with love and attention to detail, as memorable and honest as any book you’ve ever held in your own hot hands. In other words, something worth coming back for time and again.

A new issue of Sawmill arrives every January and July, with a featured visual artist showcased in each issue alongside some of the most compelling fiction we can get our mitts on.

Submissions:
If you’re an illustrator, or graphic designer interested in contributing to this great experiment, please e-mail wesley@typecastpublishing.com for complete submission guidelines.

Sawmill does not discriminate against any genre or brand of fiction writing. Please send your fiction submission to wesley@typecastpublishing.com as a .pdf, .doc, or Pages attachment. Submissions should be 6,500 words or less.

For Summer 2012: Open submissions begin on December 1, 2011 and close on March 1, 2012.
For Winter 2013: Open submissions begin on June 1, 2012 and close on September 1, 2012.

Note:
Due to time constraints, late submissions will be archived for later review. If your submission is being archived, we will notify you as quickly as possible so that you may take appropriate action if necessary.

GRAPHIC STORIES
A certain beauty and mesmerizing power exists in the telling of a story through language or visual art. Where the structures of words cease to suffice, the quiet, enthralling motions found in pictorials often find a niche. Sawmill’s web formatting and Typecast’s adventurous soul provides a climate perfect for exploring the realm of comics.

Comics meld author and graphic artist to create a story presented through the best of both artistic avenues. Although the comics may summon images of super-powered adventures or the Sunday paper, Sawmill hopes to provide a perspective of the inexhaustible potentials comics provide in storytelling.

Submissions:
Sawmill will produce a new comics issue every March and September featuring storytellers most concerned with the paneled form. If you find yourself a comic writer, artist or some amalgamation of the two and are interested in submitting work for the miller’s blade please email  jake@typecastpublishing.com for complete submission guidelines and information.

POETRY
Poetry is a very human way to distinguish and describe, to “tell it slant”, a mechanism for mythmaking and a safe-place for lyrical mayhem. Sawmill‘s poetry editions deliver to its readership, every May and November, some of the best writing in the world of contemporary poetry. By delving into visual art and poetry collaborations above and beyond those found in our print publication, The Lumberyard, we exhibit traditional forms as well as more experimental verse. We reward risks. We publish established writers alongside brand spanking new ones. Most of all, as we strive to make you glad to visit this site, we try our damnedest to deliver words that refuse to leave the crevices of your brain, words that matter.
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN THROUGH March 31, 2012.
Submit up to 3 poems to nicole@typecastpublishing.com

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Meet the Editors behind Sawmill

FICTION
Wesley Fairman is an author and editor living in Louisville, Kentucky with her spotted dog and skinny boyfriend. Wesley is currently studying fiction in the low-residency MFA program at Murray State University, and has recently been working on a collection of short stories. In 2011, Wesley assisted in the organization and execution of the highly successful Writer’s Block Festival, worked for The Marie Alexander Poetry Series, and completed a rewarding internship with Typecast Publishing. A lover of books and book arts, Wesley is thrilled to be editing for Sawmill’s fiction issues.

GRAPHIC TALES
Jake Snider is a gentleman of intentional befuddlement. He is the author behind the upcoming graphic tale The Scribbleface Chronicles (Typecast 2012). Snider’s time is usually spent enjoying pizza, schmoozing, reading comics, and watching Saturday morning cartoons––assuredly, thinking deeply on each of the aforementioned subjects. He currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky, and considers himself fairly amicable.
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POETRY
Nicole Pollitt is a poet and freelance writer who grew up between a library and an art deco theatre in a small Central Kentucky town. She received her degree in English Literature from the University of Louisville and is also an alumnus of Naropa University. Her poems have been featured in Exquisite Corpse, 42opus, and the British anthology, UNO among others. In her spare time, she wrangles raccoons as a volunteer wildlife rehabber and reads spy novels before bed. She is currently working on a collection of poems entitled, The Fox Wife and Other Fables. Nicole lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband and Sadie, the fifteen year old wonder dog.