I am SMITH magazine, an on-line (and soon-to-be print) magazine celebrating, documenting, encouraging, and facilitating the Personal Media Revolution. SMITH is about real people telling real stories in this gritty, funny, intense, amazing world. A new kind of magazine where the readers and editors work together to tell stories about all our lives. Everyone has a story. Everyone is a SMITH.
SMITH's follow-up to the successful SHOOTING WAR webcomic switches gears from future-fiction to non-fiction in A.D.: NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE DELUGE. When the levees broke, nothing was the same for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. A.D. is about surviving Hurricane Katrina — and what happened next in the lives of a cross-section of Crescent City residents.
Click above to read SMITH Magazine's first featured original graphic novel,
SHOOTING WAR, a near-future, media-obsessed story about a Brooklyn videoblogger who heads to still-war-torn Iraq (2011) after witnessing a terrorist attack on Williamsburg soil.Click here to read what the media is saying about SHOOTING WAR
Got a story for SMITH? Or a photo essay? Or a a tale about something that happened to you on MySpace? Send it to
[email protected].
Or check out our writers guides.
At SMITH we're interested in all sorts of personal stories, so don't feel bound by these categories. But these spots are good places to start:
Memoirville : Have a memoir you're working on, or just a personal story you want to share? Send it to us and we'll consider it for Memoirville, a spot where stories from the pros mix with unpublished memoirs in progress.
My Diary : These are reader-created journals about your life in transition (like Cree, who moved back to New Orleans or Ben who's converting from Judiasm to Greek-Orthodox ), your wild job (like Mistress Y, the dominatrix trying to make an honest living in a painful world), or any other notion that you think others will want to read about. If you want to keep a diary, send us your idea and a writing sample and we'll be sure to get right back to you.
Brushes With Fame : What happens when a celebrity unexpectedly entered your sphere like an alien landing? We want to know (in 300 words or less). Maybe you met Sharon Stone in line to meet the Dalai Lama , ran into Jon Stewart at the dressing room of the Gap, or somehow have Mick Jaggers urine in your freezer. These things happen. If you've caught a celeb making out with someone he shouldn't have been or making an ass of himself at a pretentious bar, save it for Page 6 and Gawkerwere interested in an actual personal encounter, not gotchas.
My Ex : We've all got ex-lovers, partners, husbands, wives. Some we equate with beautiful moments of love. Others were train wrecks. What's your favorite ex story? Tell us in 1000 words. Tell us in just 50 words. But tell us (and you'll feel better, too). The best
My Ex stories will be included in our forthcoming book.
Check out the mag. Then jump in -- the water's excellent.
