these are people and projects we either admire or without which we'd not exist

OpenOffice -- next-generation, free office suite which everyone can and should use
Gimp -- GNU Image Manipulation Program which is nearly as capable as the over-priced Adobe Photoshop
Scribus -- an open-source design and layout program aiming to be as functional as Adobe InDesign

elimae -- the grandfather of us all, going strong since 1996
FRiGG Magazine -- the one and only
Thieves Jargon -- online, free, and weekly publications are rare (this one closed in June, 2009)
Everyday Genius -- a Monday-Friday project of Publishing Genius (see below)
NOÖ Journal -- the free online & print journal (another rarity)
Narrative Magazine -- perhaps the highest-paying online literary magazine
Juked -- another from the 1990's, still keeping on
HTMLGiant -- a yellow journalism site with a healthy mix of newcomers and oldtimers
Smokelong Quarterly -- a journal of high-standards and high-quality flash fiction
Underground Voices -- high-quality paying magazine featuring the novella "american loser"
Every Day Yeah -- daily sweetness(!), features a chapbook by mourning silence alumnus Andy Riverbed
One Story -- a journal not unlike dispatch which costs money

ml press -- subscription-based publisher of brilliant, tiny, and inexpensive literature
Publishing Genius Press -- Adam Robinson's Baltimore-based project hive
1. Is Reads -- the nationally recognized outdoor poetry/grafitti project
2. This PDF Chapbook Series -- free chapbooks that take themselves seriously
3. Light Boxes by Shane Jones & More -- a compendium of valuable paperbacks
PistolPress -- gorgeous & literate Canadian girls with guns
Bear Parade -- publisher of stylized freEbooks (includes Tao LIn, Ofelia Hunt, Ellen Kennedy, & others)
Orange Alert Press -- a project of dedicated artsy Chicagoans
Word Riot Press -- stable and ever-present
featherproof books -- Chicago-based publisher of Amelia Gray's AM/PM
1. paperegg books -- subscription-based publisher of novellae, short stories, and poetry

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