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The blog was down for a couple of weeks due to computer maintenance.  Apologies for that–we’re back now!   BUT, The Externalist is going to be coming down for a few days later this week for site maintenance and a full redesign.  This might or might not affect the blog while the site is down, but will definitely affect the blog once the site comes back up.  The new site will have closer alignment with this general blog as well as blogs by both editors.  This is part of a significant change in the direction of The Externalist; however, our vision and mission remains the same: to publish and promote the most socially significant literature possible.  Thanks so much for your continued support!

The Externalist will be down for at least one weekend during the first week of July for site maintenance and redesign.  While we hate to bring the site down, we’re confident that our readers will appreciate our new format and some new features.  Beginning in August, we will no longer be publishing formal issues.   Instead, we’ll be posting new content over time and including only selected pieces in a .pdf edition that will carry the best of the most recent three months.   One annual .pdf will include content that hasn’t appeared on our web site as well.   We’re also looking at more blogs, a new web forum, and a directory of anyone that has ever appeared in The Externalist.   Do you have ideas for making The Externalist even better?  Is there something you want to see that you haven’t yet?  Tell us about it with an email to editor@theexternalist.com or just post a comment here. 

Note: Due to excessive comment spam, all comments must be approved before appearing on the site.  This can take up to 48 hours, though I try to get to them much sooner than that.  Thanks for your patience!

The Externalist is now on Twitter!  Join us there.  We’ll be tweeting contributor announcements, news from The Externalist, and maybe some news-based writing prompts. 

If you’re interested, you can also follow my personal Twitter account.  I tweet about writing opportunities, readings and events, and so on and so forth. 

See you there!

I know it has been several weeks since I updated the blog and I wanted to give a brief explanation to our readers.  My son had surgery on March 9th and has been in and out of the hospital since then.  He is home now and recovering, but a few more interruptions in blog service wouldn’t come as a big surprise to me at this point.  I will be updating as able until life returns to normal. 

The latest issue of The Externalist is live, but I haven’t had an opportunity to finish the .pdf version.  The contributor links are also not up-to-date on the main site.  I am planning to fix that within the next two weeks.

Submissions in all genres are currently backlogged.  If you are waiting to hear from us, please accept our apologies and bear with us.  I anticipate catching up with prose submissions by the end of April.  Poets who haven’t heard regarding submissions sent more than 3 months ago should send a status inquiry email to the appropriate editor.

Thanks so much for your patience and understanding.

Larina