New! - 'April Fool's Day & Other Foolishness', 1 April 2013 issue

200 pages, 7.5" x 7.5", printed, perfect bound, colour laminated cover, bw interior, laid out in reverse page order.

Reviews:

'a very interesting and particularly quirky issue' by Debbie Robson

Once again the editor Matthew Ward has put together a very interesting and particularly quirky issue - this time for April Fool’s Day with the issue needing to be read backwards. The editor has always been a whizz with graphics and there are a number of pics in this issue that are very clever - my favourites are the Suit Yourself Ad and the Edgar Allen Poe Pourri Ad- dried gothic writer and flowers!!
There is also an extensive collection of poems sprinkled through the mag touching upon the theme of the edition or on occasion completely ignoring it! Favourites are "Dear Editor/s" by Jeffrey Zable - inversely astute, "6 weeks" by Susan G Duncan - very succinct, "This Poem is One" and "What is the Question" both by excellent poems by Maren O. Mitchell. I also enjoyed "Listen!" by Lucy Cole Gratten and it's translation - a nice reminder that we often don't listen and "nonsense candy" by Diane Havens raises some very interesting points.
Absolute favourite of the short stories is a tie with "Do You Take This Clown?" by Allen Kopp. Delightfully absurd! And "Ardent Mirrors" by Grove Koger strangely captivating and definitely too short! Other favourites are "Perchance" by Michael Price with its cast of characters, "My April Girl" by Eric Scott with an ending I should have seen coming but didn't and "Crazy Lovebirds" by Carla Sarett is just plain crazy!
Highly recommended!

— Debbie Robson

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What others have said:

 (Lulu.com sales) By Eric Hubbard
Apr 27, 2013
I feel very fortunate to be included in this issue. The softcover looks great on my bookcase.

 (Lulu.com sales) By Maren O. Mitchell
Apr 25, 2013
A break from the usual literary journal - full of creative foolishness. Page after page of non-realistic fun. Pleased to be a part of it.

 (Lulu.com sales) By kpaulholmes
11/04/2013
Fun issue. Very creative and silly.

 (Lulu.com sales) By Bonnie Quan Symons
04/04/2013
What an honor it is to be published in this issue! What a great issue to read. My colleagues were impressed by the glossy front and back covers and the quality of content of the pages within. Thank you!

 (Lulu.com sales) By Wendy Schmidt
29/03/2013
Come on! Ya got to love a book dedicated to tomfoolery. So much fun and such good therapy for those days when you need a laugh. Just remember, the book reads back to front, which is very beneficial for ridding your brain of those corner cobwebs. Forget the counseling sessions that cost a cool fifty bucks an hour, this is all you need to put a smile back on your face and it cost a lot less.

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Authors & Artists:   (42 Contributors, short stories / poetry / fake advertisements , photography):
Jon Alston, Andrew Bennett, Mark Burchard, Tom Burkett, Rachel Cann, Fern G. Z. Carr, Ushiku Crisafulli, Susan G. Duncan, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jaimie M. Engle, Claire T. Feild, Greg Freier, Tom Frozart, Brady Gerber, Roger Gilroy, Ricky Ginsburg, Lucy Cole Gratton, Bob Grove, Diane Havens, Grove Koger, Allen Kopp, John A. Grochalski, Karen Paul Holmes, Violet Magallanes, Lance Manion, Paul Malone, Maren O. Mitchell, Konrad Muller, Tadhg Muller, Brennan O'Shea, Michael Price, Carla Sarett, Wendy L. Schmidt, Eric Scott, LB Sedlacek, Mike Sheedy, Bonnie Quan Symons, Warren Tang, Maggie Veness, Mel Waldman Ph.D., Chryss Yost, Jeffrey Zable.

from the EDITORIAL
by Matthew Glenn Ward
Welcome to the beginning of THIS ISSUE OF Skive!
This nutso-formatted issue is dedicated to ‘April Fools’ Day’ or ‘All Fools Day’ (the 1st day of April). As you might have guessed, reading starts at the back of the magazine and finishes at the front, in a conventional sense that is (perhaps this will be the issue that gets us to strike it rich in Japan, where right-to-left publications are more de rigueur). There are direction arrows in the headers, just in case you get lost.
Firstly, the cover, blatantly borrowed from Monty Python’s LP ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ (1970). The Python titles have been scribbled out and Skive info has been written elsewhere on the image. “April Fool’s, Terry Gilliam!” (Actually, Python did something similar in 1971 with a Beethoven LP, so our cover ‘vandalism’ is an homage to their cover ‘vandalism’).
Next, a big thankyou to the many writers and artists who contributed their inspired craziness to the magazine you are about to read; in such large numbers, in fact, I am pushed to a 1 x page Editorial
;-)
cheers,
Matt Ward, Editor