Now out! Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1., No.2., August 2013 plus Special Feature on haiku, tanka, and haibun

“A Brilliant Journal. Truly International.” 
- Hanif Kureishi

New Issuu updates on Lakeview Journal second issue: 

Now a little more than 21,000 reads from across the world - popular in the UK, USA, India, Ireland, Canada and Australia plus readers from other countries where English is used for another purpose.

2113 Impressions in 20 days!
Top Five Countries: 

USA - 379, India - 368, UK - 348, Ireland - 159, Canada - 68 (Malaysia - 53 and Australia - 39 too)

6 days after the upload:
Total Impressions - 1338,
Reads: United Kingdom - 262, United States - 261, India - 223, Ireland - 114, Canada - 57, Malaysia - 49, Australia - 31, New Zealand - 17, Lithuania - 15, United Arab Emirates - 15, Greece - 12, France - 11, Netherlands -10, Germany - 7, Denmark - 5, Spain - 4, Italy - 4, Philippines - 4, Japan - 4, Mexico -3, Sri Lanka - 3, Sweden - 2, Finland - 2, Turkey - 2, Saudi Arabia - 2, Oman - 2, Israel - 1, Colombia - 1, Bangladesh -1, Qatar - 1, Nepal - 1...

Issuu updates on Lakeview Journal second issue, 3 days after the upload: 
Total Impressions - 1015
Reads: United Kingdom - 230, India - 174, United States - 170, Ireland - 82, Canada - 51, Malaysia - 48, Australia - 29, Lithuania - 12, Greece - 12, New Zealand - 10, Netherlands - 9, France - 9, United Arab Emirates - 9, Germany - 7, Spain - 4, Italy - 4, Philippines - 4, Mexico -3, Japan - 3, Sri Lanka - 3, Sweden - 2, Finland - 2, Turkey - 2, Saudi Arabia - 2, Oman -2, Israel -1, Colombia -1, Bangladesh -1

Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1., No.2., August 2013 

http://issuu.com/lijla/docs/lijlaaugust2013 
n.b. To know how to download the magazine see further below.

A journal that features creative work by internationally acclaimed and emerging writers/artists like Peter Daniels, Vanessa Gebbie, John MacKenna, Jonathan Taylor, Ashley Stokes, Gopikrishnan Kottoor, Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Nabina Das, Kevin Kadwallender, Archana Mishra, Gina Gibson and many more.

There is also a special feature that focuses on haiku and related poetic forms, guest edited very effectively by our advisory board member Alan Summers.

Runner Up in the Best Magazine category of Saboteur Awards 2013, London. We got a reader comment that goes ‘Lakeview is a breath of fresh air, no clichés and obvious choices. Here to stay.’ It is indeed a great achievement to get an international recognition soon after the publication of the first issue of our journal.

Jose Varghese
Chief Editor
August 2013

Jose Varghese's work can be found at: http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844719198

He will be appearing at The 13th International Conference on the Short Story in English, (15*)16 to 19 July, 2014, Vienna, Austria: http://www.shortstoryconference.org/jose-varghese

To download the magazine from Issuu.

There is no need to register with Facebook, there is an 'or' choice: 

Once you have confirmed your registration by clicking onto a confirmation email, it will direct you to start your preferences in publications.  You get to a second screen page where top left is a search finder icon of a magnifying glass.  Type in Lakeview Journal, and voilà! :-)

 First, click onto the lower right box with two arrows in different directions (which is highlighted in white).

Then go to top right where the box with an arrow is, and click that, which gives you this:

 

Click onto download and hey presto a pdf version of the magazine!  

I do recommend registering with Issuu as there are other fine magazines of various genres that you can download too.

warm regards,

Alan

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UPDATE: Submissions now closed to the Haiku Section of the Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts

Due to the incredible response, of haiku/haikai submissions, to Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, the haiku section of the journal is now closed.

My many thanks of appreciation to those who submitted to the first haiku section of this literary journal.

Other genres outside haiku such as short fiction, longer poetry etc... will be accepting submissions, please keep checking the website. 

A link to the digital copy:
https://issuu.com/lijla/docs/lijlaaugust2013

Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts: http://lijla.weebly.com/index.html

LIJLA Vol. 1 No. 2 August 2013

Published on Aug 3, 2013  

https://issuu.com/lijla/docs/lijlaaugust2013

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Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts | The G-force of Blue | Touching Base with Gendai haiku

Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts

"Excellent Journal - Truly International!"
 Hanif Kureishi 

The Feburary issue contains poems, short fiction, photography, essays, interviews and paintings by the following writers/artists – Hanif Kureishi, George Szirtes, Sudeep Sen, K Satchidanandan, Meena Alexander, Antonio Casella, Alan Summers, Michelle Cohen Corasanti, C.S. Jayaram, Jose Varghese, Ampat Koshy, Mohammad Zahid, Mariam Henna Naushad, Jude Lopez, Collins Justin Peter, Jesto Thankachan, Kirpal Gordon, Gerrard Williams, Bijay Biswal, Balbir Krishen, Abdul Salim, Ananya S Guha, Mike Keville, Indran Amirthanayagam, Sofiul Azam, Sunandan Roy Chowdhury, Michelle D'costa, Kulpreet Yadav, Nepa Noyal, Krishna Girish, Kalpana, Maria Issac, Hari Krishnan, Kalpana N.S., Reshma G.S., Sethu John, Naina Dey, Archana Kurup, Minu Varghese, Markus Sailor, Glenn Andrew Barr, Barry Charrman, Aishwarya and Rosemary Tom.

The editorial board consists of:

Jose Varghese (Chief Editor - SH College), Aravind R Nair (Associate Editor – SH College), Mariam Henna (Student Editor – SH College), Collins J Peter (Student Editor - SH College), Alan Summers (Advisory Board - U.K.), Bill Ashcroft (Advisory Board - University of New South Wales, Australia), George Szirtes (Advisory Board - University of East Anglia, Norwich), Mel Ulm (Advisory Board - Canada), Rana Nayar (Advisory Board - Punjab University), Sanjukta Dasgupta (Advisory Board - University of Kolkata) and Sudeep Sen (Advisory Board - London).

Our editorial board members and contributors were either born or brought up in countries like India, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Hungary, Australia, United States of America, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, France, Sri Lanka, Peru, Bangladesh, Bahrain and Germany.

 

• website: http://lijla.weebly.com/index.html
• subscribe: http://issuu.com/lijla/docs/feb2013
• February issue: http://issuu.com/lijla/docs/feb2013#download

The current issue is now out, with an essay on gendai haiku by myself:

The G-force of Blue  |  Touching Base with Gendai haiku : http://issuu.com/lijla/docs/feb2013#download

 

I’m also launching a branch of the Kigo Lab Project : 

The Kigo Lab Project

Where fresh new approaches may be made in the experiment of certain well-known words and phrases within the English language, which have potential into being utilised, even evolving, into Japanese style kigo over time.  

This is a long term project, and I’m aware that kigo outside Japan could take anything from decades to hundreds of years. If it’s not started we will never find out if such a thing as a modern source of local/regional/national/global kigo can be made available for writers within the haikai genre, and prove useful to other genre writers.

I am not necessarily looking for nature poems, but haiku that successfully embrace today’s culture and an awareness of where we come from.

Season words, and the Japanese kigo system, are not only derived from observations of nature, they can allude to a country’s historical, cultural and literary past that hint or suggest a time of year.

Kisetsu:  

The seasonal aspect of the vocabulary (kigo) and subject matter (kidai) of traditional tanka, renga, and haiku; a deep feeling for the passage of time, as known through the objects and events of the seasonal cycle.

William J. Higginson with Penny Harter, The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, published by Kodansha International.

If anyone is intrigued into knowing more please contact me at:

haiku [at] dircon [dot] co [dot] uk

Alan Summers

Haiku Editor, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts

The next issue of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts will be out in early August 2013


For anyone wishing to submit short fiction, and the other genres covered in the journal please use this email address: lakeviewjournal@gmail.com 

Submission information webpage: http://lijla.weebly.com/call-for-submissions.html 

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