A General Introduction

Good Morning/Night/Meridian (whichever one you may occupy),

I am happy to proclaim that soon the world will have another exalted, ridiculous arts and literary magazine through which to judge other struggling human beings and the arts society.

Are you one of those who peruses various local and online outlets of creativity and says to yeeself, "Pshaw! I could do better than this!" Well, we are too. But now we've got to prove it, and so do you.

You Can Do Better Magazine is a new platform for constructive criticism, positive complaining, if you will.

No more coddling.

No more vagueness.

No more form-letter rejections:

"Thanks for your submission. We know you weren't pinning that peanut-sized amount of confidence and spirit you have left after raising the courage and the work ethic to put yourself out there on being accepted at this institution [or any other for the matter]. ...Oh. You were. Well, here's a form-letter instead. Let's keep this as sanitary as possible."

Sincerely,

The Editors

FIE!

The people want answers!

That's the point: You Can Do Better Magazine seeks to take submissions from a variety of art forms, involve a rotating team of judges both trained and untrained in those art forms, and provide critical feedback on works. It's a conversation which seeks to excite those who submit, rather than reward a couple and neglect so many (with little transparency as to why.)

So with that I end by saying: Submit! and dare to hear the truth.

-The Editors

P.S. Thanks for reading, or at minimum skipping to the end to catch this message. Our official website will be up soon at youcandobetterzine.com, so please check back for more updates as well as submission guidelines, deadlines, and all that good stuff.