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the WELCOME SUMMER RAFFLE is here! brought to you by Gigantic Sequins! We have TEN prize packages-- that's right, TEN-- that each include between 2-4 prizes. Here's what you can win: SIGNED BOOKS : Tea by D.A. Powell, The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn & Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamist by Matthew Zapruder, Cocktails by D.A. Powell & Lunch by D.A. Powell, Like a Sea by Sam Amadon HARDCOVER BOOKS: Landing Light by Don Paterson, Hart Crane, a life by Clive Fisher, The Bigger World by Nicole Kocot, Destroyer and Preserver by Matthew Rohrer & I <3 Your Fate by Anthony McCann PAPERBACK BOOKS: Glass City by John Grochalski, Revisions Of by Goodloe Byron ART: pins handcrafted by Savannah Schroll Guz & animal sculptures made by Darla Jackson CDs: blanketfort records Sampler 1.1, Bright Day by Emily Rodgers, VDMA by VDMA, Glenrose by Brendan Little VINYL: Emily Easterly/J Seger split 45''...

RAFFLE NOW CLOSED. Check back to this website soon for a video drawing of the winners as well as a list of who they are, what they won and where they're from! Thanks to everyone who entered! We'll leave the FAQ up in case anyone is still curious about things. ALSO: check out our sponsors! -GS staff FAQ 1) What can I win? You can win one of FIVE prizes. Our sponsors are listed below. ALL of our prizes were provided by our sponsors, so click around to see how great they are! Our GRAND PRIZE consists of the following: complete collection of the publications from Wave Books in 2010 bag, book & change purse from ModCloth shirt, LP, CD & buttons from Anna Vogelzang CD from Christine Lyons novel by Tao Lin EP by shoney lamar & the equal rights with exclusive art by shoney book of poems by Peter Jay Shippy & a book of short short stories from Rose Metal Press chapbook by Paul Siegell from Splitleaves Press original movie poster from “Little Miss Sunshine” exclusive ch...

I am sometimes a "bad" blogger. August, I out and about a lot. I spent a week at the Old Pool Farm in PA volunteering at the Philadelphia Folk Festival as I do every year. Following that, the semester began. I am teaching four classes right now, two semester long and one five week. I will be teaching another five-week course immediately following the one I'm teaching now. No wonder I have yet to make it through Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion ! ...However, there's some exciting Gigantic Sequins news! We are almost at our financial goal that will send us to print. Help us out by becoming a Friend of Gigantic Sequins or buying a copy of our 1.1 or 1.2 issues. Or both of them. We are holding a RAFFLE with prizes from... ModCloth, Rose Metal Press, Tao Lin and MORE. An itemized list of EVERYTHING you can win will soon be available here and on our Official Website. So it looks like our 2.1 issue with me as editor in chief, Sophie Klahr as poetry editor and Jordan ...

Hello! It's that time again! When GIGANTIC SEQUINS asks you for your donations to our quatrannual raffle! Twice a year, this is a bigger deal than the other two times. And this is one of those times. We will be having a release party for our 1.2 issue coming up soon, and would like for you to donate something, anything to our raffle! It's good for you, because it gets the name of your small press / store / product out there! And it's good for us because people love raffles! Well. We hope people love raffles as much as our editors (especially Kimberly) do. The better the prizes are, the more likely people are to buy raffle tickets. If you yourself can't offer us anything, but know someone who might, please let us know soon! EMAIL US if you'd like to donate something. send questions and suggestions to: giganticsequins@gmail.com THANKS for your continued and amazing amounts of support!

Check out the EVENTS PAGE at the GiGANTiC SEQUiNS website for information on our BOSTON and NYC release parties. here's a summary of the awesomeness to come... NYC Release Party : Saturday April 25, 2009 : McKibben Lofts 8pm / $1 at the door gets you in + a raffle ticket 255 Mckibben St. #507 Bushwick : $1 @ the door also gets you a free raffle ticket. we will be raffling awesome things donated to us from local businesses! we will be selling GIGANTIC sequins for $5 a pop. you’ll want one. they’re pretty. your friends’ writing is in there. if you are a contributor or Friend Of the magazine, you can show up to get your free issue, to participate in our raffle, and to come out to a night of fun and music and awesomeness. PLEASE show your support. we had fun last time and expect to have fun again this time. music provided by… Christopher P. Stelling & Benjamin Shepherd & Chris Peck poetry provided by… Evan Ross Burton & Jeff Laughlin : L to Montrose or J or Z to Flushing...

GIGANTIC sequins is nearly available! We have gone off to press and are tingling with anticipation for our magazine to be out! Meanwhile, we are busy planning our two release parties! They will be in mid-April. In the spirit of our first bash, we have decided again to have a raffle at each event! What we need, though, is stuff to raffle off! We are accepting donations for the raffle at this time. If you run a business or a non-profit, a small press, a magazine of your own, a venue, a bookstore, a coffeeshop, etc! and would like to donate something small for us to include in our Grand Prize at one of our raffles (in either New York or Boston) please contact us at [ Giganticmagazine@gmail.com ]. We are offering to run ads on our website for your business if you do decide to donate something to us. Let us know soon! Thanks GS editors