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Crows are known and beloved for bringing their human friends shiny gifts. We at Crow Name see your writing as the most gorgeous bric-a-brac glinting in the sun and we want to share its blinding glory with everyone!

Crow Name is a literary magazine and creative studio founded by Gail Bello and Mel Jones, both of whom previously co-edited their alma mater’s online literary journal. Inspired by their shared appreciation for crows—known for bringing shiny gifts to humans—they established Crow Name to serve as a platform for unique and eclectic creative works. The magazine embraces a wide array of genres, including fiction, poetry, scripts, comics, podcasts, audio essays, nonfiction, art, short films, and animations. It encourages submissions that are funky, fantasy, sci-fi, realistic fiction, eccentric, and playful in formatting. Crow Name is committed to fostering a safe and positive environment, explicitly rejecting any content that is racist, sexist, bigoted, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, queerphobic, acephobic, Hinduphobic, Islamophobic, ableist, violent, or otherwise hateful or discriminatory. The magazine also prohibits the submission of works created with or assisted by artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT or other generative AI models. Submissions are accepted from August 1st to March 1st, with each issue centered around a specific theme. While Crow Name currently does not offer payment for publication, contributors receive a high-quality PDF of the magazine for personal use. The magazine has published multiple issues, each featuring a diverse range of creative works. For instance, Issue 7: Red includes contributions from Amber Kusching, Rachel Turney, Bennett Durkan, Cathy Ulrich, and Tara Labovich, with a special Editor's note by Mel Jones. Crow Name also offers merchandise, such as the Unisex Crow Name Shirt, available for purchase on their website. The magazine's mission is to be a fun, creative studio that helps all the odds and ends of the world find their place, sharing the blinding glory of unique creative works with everyone. (crowname.com)

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For the first time, we are revealing the cover of the issue before accepting submissions! Behold Asterisk* – Crow Name Issue 8!

The Asterisk is a typographical symbol that is a stylized image of a star. It is usually five or six pointed in print and six or eight pointed when written, and its most common use is to call attention to a footnote. It is often used to censor words, or redact information. It can also be used to denote *action* in comics, and in online chats, it can be placed around words and phrases to indicate italics, or *feeling*.

There are a wide variety of uses for the Asterisk beyond those listed above, but Issue 8 will be focusing the most on the afterthought – the footnote, the overlooked, the redacted, the censored, and the unseen*.

*Please submit writing and art you feel represents a topic, item, people, etc. that is often overlooked, censored, or pushed into the footnotes. Examples: disability, LBGTQIA+, homelessness, women’s rights, underserved and neglected communities, etc. If you are part of any of these communities, you are strongly urged to submit!

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