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- Job title:
- Assistant Editor, Opium Magazine
- Company/organization name:
- Opium Magazine
- Company/organization's primary business:
- magazines
- Company/organization website:
- http://www.opiumden.org/
- Professional interests:
- editorial, digital publishing
- What steps are you taking to reduce your footprint? (reducing travel, improving energy efficiency, reducing office waste, carbon audit, etc.)
- Our aim is to improve the recycled content in our paper and to streamline our printing process to reduce waste.
- Publication frequency:
- 2x/year, continually on the web
- Publication circulation:
- newsstand- regional, paid subscription, digital edition, by membership
- What percentage of your paper is recycled fiber?
- >80% recycled content
- What paper do you use? (manufacturer name, sheet name and mill location)
- Arbor
- What is the basis weight of your text paper?
- 70lbs
- What is the trim size of your publication?
- 7"x10"
Opium is a journal of literary humor for the deliriously captivated. Founded by Todd Zuniga, Opium Magazine first appeared online in 2001 and in print in 2005. Opium Magazine features many notable writers and artists including Etgar Keret, Aimee Bender, Jack Handey, Tao Lin, and Art Spiegelman.
Opium hosts the Literary Death Match, a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four writers in a read-off, all critiqued by three judges. The Literary Death Match occurs monthly in New York City and San Francisco, and has recently expanded to Chicago, Beijing and Denver.
Opium 8, "The Infinity Issue," was published in June 2009. The issue features "The Longest Story Ever Told" by conceptual artist Jonathan Keats.
Opium hosts the Literary Death Match, a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four writers in a read-off, all critiqued by three judges. The Literary Death Match occurs monthly in New York City and San Francisco, and has recently expanded to Chicago, Beijing and Denver.
Opium 8, "The Infinity Issue," was published in June 2009. The issue features "The Longest Story Ever Told" by conceptual artist Jonathan Keats.
© 2009 Created by Keaty Gross
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