Present Tense at New Frontier this Saturday - June 4

The Present Tense writer’s journal will be holding a reading (with live music) at New Frontier Lounge on Saturday June 4th at 4pm. This recently-organized group of Northwest writing enthusiasts is looking to share unique new writers with the community.

Just releasing their first folio of works, the organizers of Present Tense are seeking interested writers for the second and will be accepting submissions at the reading. We’ve been told that half of the writers in the first folio are from the Tacoma area, and the group enjoyed an enthusiastic turnout at their Portland launch event.

The mission statement of Present Tense is included below for your reference. You can also go to www.hubrispress.com for more information.

The staff of this publication believes the time has come to focus a spotlight on those writers whose work moves beyond the traditional publishing industry standard. We want more tension. We want this journal to serve as a launchpad for the emerging writers of today, for those readers who want to be entertained. The stories in our journal are filled with desperate, lonely, and weird, with characters at the end of their ropes. This is a springboard for a new era of writers. This is a means to distribute carefully crafted stories of action and tension using all the technological means of the modern literary world. This is the Present Tense.