Welcome. Come downstairs. TNC is an online, aethestic-focused poetry journal.
We post only the best. We mostly consider poetry, but other short work [under 200 words] is acceptable.
If you work is chosen, we will post it here, in our online magazine, with just a wisp of a little image and make lovely or gothic, depending on tone. Just like if it was done up in a foreign aethetics mag, a dollop of magazine layout to make it more entrancing.
Sometimes we will ask if we can highlight are particularly excellent line in your work, and showcase it alone. Just as T.S. Eliot was edited by fellow poet Ezra Pound, we want to focus on what sticks in our mind—what makes us pause.
The team only has so much time in their days, so we will only respond to people we have time to feature. We are very selective, and will try to keep up the pace to feature all great work as fast as possible.
ThisNewCentury is a magazine more than a blog. Each post is a page in a periodical, that’s how we envision it. Almost all poetry was written before 2000, now we are in a new century. Everyone is waiting to see what new voices emerge, and who will become the future greats in the history books. That’s where the name comes from: this is our new century.
What will come forth from it? How will it look compared to the rest of history? Sometimes we will feature older poets as well, but the goal is to showcase new writers and give everyone an opportunity to be exposed to their work.
Guidelines:
Send in 3 poems at a time in the body of an email.
If you want to send in more than 3 poems, if your poems are incredibly long, or if you feel that your short fiction, novel [it would be posted serialized of course] or other work is top of the line and want us to consider it, we will need a $1 donation as a reading fee simply for the length of time we’ll have to spend reading and discussing it.
Send your work in the body of the email [try to avoid attaching things] to the gmail here, the name before the @ sign being ‘thecarcanet’.
Here's the button, it's setup on our older account [no 'carcanet' yet]: