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Accepting sumissions for the "Second Annual NC-17 Issue"

The submission deadline for Issue III.1 is January 1, 2006. The issue will go live on or about February 1, 2006 and runs through April 2006; so please send submissions as soon as possible.

Our theme for this issue is, once again, "NC-17", copied from the MPAA movie rating system as used in the US:

NC-17: A trademark used for a movie rating indicating that admission will not be granted to anyone under the age of 17. This could be because of excessive violence; sex scenes; an accumulation of drug, violent or sexually-oriented language, and/or other features that the Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Rating Administration believes most American parents would feel is patently adult and that children age 17 and under should not be admitted.

The NC-17 designation does not, however, signify that the rated film is obscene or pornographic in terms of sex, language or violence.

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In other words, if you know what "gratuitous" means, and how to avoid it, please steam up our monitor screens.

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The Hiss Quarterly showcases emerging and established writers, cartoonists and general nonsense makers for our "Deliberate Nonsense(TM)" department. For the full 'zine, we seek short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, essays, <100-wd Deliberate Nonsense(TM) and original *anythings*, based on what you interpret the issue's theme to be.

Be aware that Poetry is always the hardest department to crack at our 'zine (and most submitted). If you write fiction or prose of any type, your chances increase greatly.