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Dear Elissa

You're a treasure trove of information, and a very caring person for sharing it!

Dream of Things is currently accepting creative nonfiction stories for anthologies on 13 topics:
http://dreamofthings.com/workshop-2

Creative Nonfiction "Immortality"-themed anthology (Deadline 9/17):
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm

I've just been wowed by the way paper.li is being used to report this weekend's Science Online London 2010 conference -- while it's in progress:

http://paper.li/tag/solo10

Great question, Steve!  I love that idea!

I think there may be a way (or several) to do it, since paper.li has three ways to create digests: by individual Twitter ID, by hashtag, and by list.
1. Blog your own articles and commentary, so that you have a link to tweet.
2. (a) If creating a digest by individual Twitter ID, create a Twitter ID dedicated to the literary journal.  Within that ID, retweet AP-style stories and tweet links to the blog entries with your articles/commentary.
(b) If creating a digest by hashtag, create a tag dedicated to the literary journal.  Use your regular Twitter ID, but manually retweet AP-style stories (i.e., type "RT @[source]" rather than just pressing the "Retweet" button), leaving room to add your hashtag.  Tweet links to your blog entries, adding the hashtag.
(c) If creating a digest by list, create a Twitter ID dedicated to the literary journal as in 2(a).  Then create a Twitter list of your literary journal "contributors," including your own lit journal Twitter ID.  Note that this technique would import all the links supplied by everyone on the list: comprehensive but unfiltered.

Could be that paper.li will streamline that process when it launches its beta version!  Also, my first impression of the digests is that the layout options are limited, but I haven't explored them that deeply yet.

Delicious food for thought, though!  Thanks.

Elissa,
This is a very interesting idea.  It really takes your using-Twitter-as-a-clipping-service idea and produces a cohesive newspaper feel. 

Can you add commentary and your own articles?  (I'll do some digging later.)  This might be a unique way to publish a literary journal that is a hybrid of daily AP-style stories and self-produced commentary, essays, interviews, poems, short stories,  etc.

Thanks for posting this!

Steve

 

Thanks to this post by Jane Friedman, I have discovered and fallen in love with Paper.li.  Now that I have high-speed at home, I've been creating Twitter lists, which I then turn into online "newspapers" for me to peruse.

I've put together four, so far, centered on general science, psychology in particular, publishing, and general news.  The "newspapers" are updated daily, and I can add "contributors" by adding Twitter follows to the lists from which the digests are drawn.  One can create up to ten digests.  It's a neat way to organize information.

U. Chicago Press is offering the first (1906) edition of the Chicago Manual as a free e-book download through September:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html

They're offering a different free e-book each month.

Dorothee Lang (whom I recently met online through Folded Word's "24/7" event) has put together this list of calls for submissions.  They include various nonfiction markets:
http://just1m.blogspot.com/2010/08/calls-calls-calls.html

Peter has it right.  A lot of the discussions in things like the Chicago Manual of Style are the mechanics of "house style."  I spent a lot of my career concerned (because the bosses said to be) that things were written according to the "style" of the NY Times. That had an awful lot to do with how things were hyphenated or abbreviated, and very little to do with grammar. 

I think I'll just hang on to the style manuals I already have, and refer to them when the old brain just doesn't recall items any more (which, the way things are going, could be any day now  ).

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LOL!  Now that's funny!