WONK 1 is out. It was out on time. One day early actually. Which is amazing. Updating the website, however, was a little late. Which can be expected from time-to-time.
WONK 1 features poems from Michael Gravel, Jonathan Ball, Alex Boyd and Paul Pearson as well as photography by Robbyn Erickson and a drawing by Brittany Nelson (right). There are also two fantastic pieces by some initialed submitters: AK and AW.
For this issue we chose Gentium Book Basic as our (sole) font of choice. It looked good.
We’ve been dropping off issues in various places around Wetaskiwin and trying to get them into Edmonton at places like Grant MacEwan and Swizzlesticks (soon to be Dandy). If you’d like to receive a copy by mail, please just drop us a line and we’ll try to work something out. We’re still trying to figure out the best way to manage subscriptions (mostly just the cost of mail). If you have any suggestions, we’d love to hear from you.
The theme for WONK 1 was birth (no one ever accused us of being subtle). We weren’t sure about doing theme issues but it seemed to help both with potential contributors and with the final layout. So, we’re going to try and work on a list of upcoming themes to help encourage submissions and to give us some focus. In the end, if we just happen to have a bunch of really good but unrelated content, that’s what we’ll run. No love lost.
A big (big) thanks to all our contributors. It was overwhelming. Which seems like an overstatement until you realize that it’s not. There was absolutely no reason for anyone to contribute and actually quite a few reasons not to, so it was really cool to see some very well respected names take a chance and throw their hats into the ring. Again, thank you.