DOWNLOAD NOW | VIEW NOW Submission Guidelines We publish stories, jokes, photos, artwork, videos, music, poems and reports from the world. Send to mfinley98-at-gmail.com. Be sure and visit Lief's Facebook page and like us. In all things, be economical. Write like you are telling your best friend what you just learned. At all costs, don't just pull something from a drawer. People are still doing this, and a dark judgment awaits. Have a heartbeat. Most artists are depressed -- but don't show it to us. Items about grieving will be cast into the fire. We don't care what trouble you've seen or been.  We are not interested in your wonderful mind. We are interested in just about everything else. Items should be fun to encounter. An inner child is a terrible thing to waste. Don't be the hero of your own story. Or its victim.  Be useful. Always be thinking, what is the reader going to do with this?  Humor is wonderful, but surprisingly hard to pull off. Don't be the only one laughing. And please don't have the joke be on us. We like news, things that you yourself saw, things that actually exist. Be a reporter of something outside yourself. No submissions with the word grey. Avoid most other adjectives, as well. NOTE: LIEF will likely continue for another issue. Commencing around mid-January and creating an issue quickly. When we are moved, we may offer critiques of work. This past issue we learned that critiques are not always welcome. Tell us if you would rather we not comment on how to make your work succeed with us. Acceptance comes quickly; rejections, because they are painful to us, may not come at all. After two weeks, be discouraged. Be assured that there other cool things to be doing in this often beautiful world.

LIEF Magazine Summer 2013 EDITORS Mike Finley Danny Klecko Dara Syrkin, QA SEE THE MAGAZINE Click on the starfish's face. You will then have the options of VIEWING the magazine immediately, or DOWNLOADING it (it takes longer)  and reading it at your leisure. SUBMISSIONS See below. Summer 2012 Issue DOWNLOAD | VIEW An UNSOLICITED LETTER From JACK LARGE (Jack is donor of our new online home, at www.familography.com/lief. Thanks, Jack!) Now that I've perused every page of LIEF 2, I wish I'd done something, anything to help out sooner. I really like everything with grandparents and/or grandchildren in. I'm a fan of everything Sean Poole has lavished on me the past year. I'd love to sneak up and grab Jeanne Lutz from behind some time. I'd love a slice of Bundt cake. Finley's movies make me feel stoned. I love feeling stoned. I hope LIEF and the Familographer have each other's love children. I most profoundly hope everyone in my lief, and in theirs, has a fantastic new year. I REALLY love the sound of that thumb harp the way it works with the poems of Roy McBride, who I love, and the way Mike Hazard treats his story. The art, the photos, the spirit...I love LIEF.