Synchronized Chaos newsflash

Check out our literary/cultural/art/natural history/social issues/science writing webzine at www.synchchaos.com ! Synchronized Chaos is now accepting submissions on any style/topic, please send them to cedeptula@sbcglobal.net with Synchronized Chaos in the subject line. Currently featuring an interview with Melissa Peabody, documentary artist who created Wild at Heart about the coyote's return to San Francisco, and Caryn West, artist who created pictures of children and an illustrated poetic guide to helping end poverty and child exploitation around the world. She's created the Trouble with the Alphabet and is at www.ttwta.org - also artwork from whimsical painter Paul Gamble and introspective poet Faracy Grouse. Please do check out our October issue - theme is Transformation by Surprise. I never impose a theme in advance, just look over the variety of submissions received and let them show me the theme.

We're also hosting a benefit auction similar to the ones Sweet Charity in the UK puts on for RAINN's support programs for sexual violence survivors. You may donate art, poetry, writing, or offer your services to write or produce art on commission given a prompt or requests from a donor. The auction funds will be split between two current projects for those in the Synchronized Chaos network of family and friends - Christmas presents for the kids of a single mother on disability who's in the process of writing for us, and a hospital bill for a friend of a contributor who works in food service and has no way of paying. Check out the Benefit Auction tab on the Synchronized Chaos main page - and we plan to host these auctions occasionally for the holidays or as the need arises. The process of choosing beneficiaries is democratic - please let us know on our Facebook/LiveJournal groups or by emailing the magazine if someone needs help and we'll do what we can to set something up if you can provide some sort of documentation verifying the need.

Submissions welcome also for November's issue :) And if you have extra art for a benefit auction please check out the lovely folks at www.helphealfran.org - they're putting on something similar for performance artist Fran Varian who's ill with Lyme disease.