The New Dentists Blog

We accept flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, flash drama, short screenplays, non-fiction, essays, interviews, and experimental fiction (basically, anything written that’s not longer than 5 pages) in English or Filipino.

We currently do not accept fan fiction or previously published material.

Attach your work(s) as a .doc, .docx, .txt, or .rtf file, in any non-fancy, non-pretentious, non-confusing font.

Please remember to include your name, your pseudonym (if you have one), and some information about yourself.

Have a subject line that reads “SUBMISSION”.

Thank you — and please reblog so that we may gain a larger audience.

Don’t hesitate to submit to us!

It’s not too late.

Email your submissions to thenewdentists@gmail.com

The final meeting before the launch takes place today at 6PM.

Expect us up in a week or so!

Launch: Imminent

Life has been tough for us literature majors these past couple of weeks. Midterms, and various other academic issues that required our attention. Things have more or less calmed down now and we’re ready to get back to work. The launch will be soon. We’ve compiled all accepted works. All we really need now is a good designer for our website (it’s really tough finding one, apparently) and we’ll be all set!

Now, you’re still free to submit your works: thenewdentists@gmail.com. Submission details is on the site. You can search for it. Thanks for the support, everyone. We wouldn’t have gotten this far without you guys.

Hoping to fulfill your literary desires soon.

—Cholo

P.S. If you know how to design a good website, and you’re willing to do it for free, please contact us through the same email address above. Thanks!

Ladies and gentlemen, we're very close to launch time.

Thank you, Dragon Lady.

Now, that being said, if you have any works on your computer or in your old notebooks, and you want your talent to be exhibited, if you believe that your work can share a bit of human wisdom and/or amusement then send it in!

Forward your works to thenewdentists@gmail.com or use the submission form in our site.

There’s really nothing to lose.

Check this out for more submission details.

—Cholo

Extended Deadlines & Other Things

A few important points to rattle off:

Our new deadline will be on November 10.
We will officially launch the maiden issue five days after (November 15).
We are still working on the venue for the launch, but we encourage you to come once we finalize things. There will be a poetry reading, in which anyone willing may take turns going onstage to read his or her works.

Also: we will be posting ads like crazy. You might see some of our fliers up on your college billboards.

—Grace

Look at that dentist, profaning the sanctity of her teeth.

That’s Artistic Director Ayu Martinez, by the way; enjoying herself quite a lot, apparently.

Submit your work.

(via scienceofverse)

Considering my desire to spread the love for poetry, I’ve come up with this tumblog, where people can submit their work and have it put up. Submissions will be moderated, but that doesn’t mean standards will be unreachable.(This is just to avoid complete crap, offensive material and all that. Best for everyone.)

If you even just attempt poetry once in a while, I suggest that you share your works and submit. Following the blog is also helpful.

Hopefully, after a while, we will be reading each other’s poetry and we will get people interested in poetry enough to learn it, and all of us can get better together.

Don’t be shy now. Express yourself.

Exceptional works may also be published in the launch issue of The New Dentists.

(Reblogging this will also help. Thanks.)

Our technical director is giving out a free book!

(He made me reblog this because he wanted me to have a smaller chance of winning. Bastard.)

—Cholo

dreamsofelectricsheep:

Aldrin in Wonderland

I know, I know. Putting my name in the title of this post is nothing short of pretentious. But what can I say? When you’d just completed your Vintage Classic Twins collection of wonderful books of wonderment, where else would you find yourself in?

That’s right, boys and girls. After almost a week of driving customer service reps up the wall and making a mess out of the bookshelves of numerous bookstores within the metro and on the Web, I managed to collect all twenty titles in the limited edition Vintage Classic Twins treasury: (in order of acquisition) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atonement, Atomised, Frankenstein, Gulliver’s Travels, Ripley’s Game, The Rachel Papers, What Maisie Knew, Trainspotting, Sexing the Cherry, Crime and Punishment, Sabbath’s Theater, Tom Jones, Inferno, Oliver Twist, Possession, Middlemarch, The Complete Fairy Tales, The Bloody Chamber, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which I finally got ahold of tonight when I, armed only with a stored value MRT ticket and a degree of determination such as I have never exhibited before, went to every bookstore located along or near EDSA in search of Haruki Murakami’s modern fantasy, which I was required to purchase along with its twin, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen. I ended up with not one, but two Vintage Classic limited edition copies of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece. And, taking a leaf from this guy’s book, I’ve decided to give one of them away. And it could be yours. If you want it, just do whatever you can do with this post. Like it, reblog it, comment on it, or celebrate your un-birthday with it. Whatever. Just be sure (be very sure) you’re currently residing in the Philippines, so I can ship the book to your address if you win the draw, raffle, whatever.

So who wants this bizarrely beautiful book?

We've moved!

We’ve moved our development blog to http://thenewdentistsblog.tumblr.com as part of the process of acquiring our website. We’re almost up — but we still want your works! Remember to send them to thenewdentists@gmail.com!