About Swallow

Swallow is an erratic webzine with occasional literary pretensions, founded in February 1997, and edited, if you can call it that, by Wayne Myers, who really should know better, or at least do a better job of it, even if he will insist on using the pseudonym 'Bad Editor' for all Swallow-related dealings.

The editorial policy of Swallow is to have no editorial policy, and simply to include whatever the editor sees fit at any given time. This has, in the past, ranged from random short stories by Tolstoy, through articles on cryptography by Rivest, to poetry by the editor himself, which is normally fairly whiney and deals with the subject of ex-girlfriends.

This stodgy, unappetising fodder is leavened with a regular sprinkling, each issue, of work by writers of the high calibre of Mez, Paul Kriwaczek, Parm Kaur, Durlab Singh, Rebecca Lu Kiernan and others, along with various short random things the editor believed at the time to be funny.

For reasons utterly beyond anyone's ken, new issues of Swallow are currently publicised on the nettime-l mailing list at nettime.org, and nowhere else. No-one, including the members of the nettime list, knows why this is, although the editor's inability to think of anything else may well have a lot to do with it.

Unsolicited contributions are always welcome at Swallow, although would-be contributors should be aware that the editor is a slack bastard, takes months between issues, and has a propensity for losing things, so you may be required to send stuff a couple of times.

Also, the editor of Swallow is one of those Linux people who doesn't actually have a copy of Word, so you'll have to figure out how to save as plain-text, or copy and paste your text directly into an email. He's been known to editorialise tangentially on the subject of illegal characters in emails, so please do be patient with him.

Contributors who can cope with all that should send email to badeditor at waz.easynet.co.uk.