The review of the Website “Big Ugly Review” Rhetorical Analysis of Publication Venues
Josh Spear
The editor and site are hand and hand …“Elizabeth Bernstein moves their description of the accepted essays in a quirky; we have it all in depth tone. The essays go from being light and politically correct to stronger political fueled stories of people of all back rounds making it in this world. The site also includes music and writing on serious topics such as war. Theoretically this web-site does it all. As listed the site includes
-fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photo-essay, short films and original music based on the theme of the current issue's
The topics mentioned were an eclectic mix from outer space from the dog’s perspective all the way to the horror of Iraq. The accepted works are geared for political correctness and the situations that different people of different ethnic back rounds experience. The tones on both the fiction and non-fiction were very heavy and somewhat traditional in their novel like writing. Also a lot of sad love connection stories and loneness.
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The Visitor (Fiction) by Daniel Alarcón
The visitor was very sad and slow with hard overtones over the loss of a wife and mother. Done from a very sad father mourn and unable to leave his war torn home with his children for fear of leaving his dead wife all told in a manner of letter the info unfold slowly and sadly like a song on a classical string instrument.
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Work in Progress (Fiction) by Kristin Kearns
The discomfort casually described of joy and sadness at becoming pregnant from a man married to another woman. A story that felt as if a friend were sharing a personal and bad situation
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· -Assorted music by Sick of Sarah & Emily Zuzik, Who Killed Michael Vaughn? By Adam Zwig
The selections were all very honest, heavy depression, alternative folk…..I could see sensitive listeners truly enjoying the selections although it is not for me
· Film
The film was a Rap video about Iraq by Ron Najor. I thought I had wondered on the music section but it was actually a strong politically charged Rap about an American born Iraq man, who shares all his feelings on this topic through rap. It includes photos and vivid news clips of war footage.
The two major writings are both segmented with light spaced out areas that have conversation to help transition from one moment to the next. Both stories are heavy and the main charters are out of place or the place they are has changed and left them out of place. The poetry is of the same state of mind.
It centers on their past dealing with different forms of racism or lack of humane treatment.All stories had a journalistic edge to them as well as being narrative. They are slightly scholarly or even pseudo scholarly. They do have artistry for the person who likes a lot of heavy metaphors and people whom write of cheating and sadness.
Short Story: Up to 5,000 words
Flash Fiction: Up to 2,000 words
Creative Nonfiction: Up to 5,000 words
Poetry: Poems of any length and form.
Photo-Essay: A series of up to ten photographs with captions of any length. (Note that photos must have captions - that's the "essay" part of the photo-essay. Please no photos without captions.)
Music: Send us your original song in any genre. Send as an mp3 attachment, direct us to your song on the web, or mail us a CD. Please include the lyrics.
Film: Submit films of five minutes or less. Send us your DVD to the address above or direct us to your film on the web.
Film: Submit films of five minutes or less. Send us your DVD to the address above or direct us to your film on the web.
A non-paying market site
Reading Dates (On hy the site seems to have stopped in May 2010)
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