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Xenith Book Club: The Waste Land

By PatrickNathan • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: News

Xenith makes a valiant attempt to discuss T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece.



The Less Generalized Xenith Prose Contest

By PatrickNathan • Jul 30th, 2008 • Category: News

Xenith’s first attempt at a more structured prose contest, awarding the winner with a novel or short story collection of their choice.



July ESSAY: a short and free Philip K. Dick

By admin • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: News

Just one brief assignment for this demanding month, a mere essay, online and free to all:
“How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” by Philip K. Dick
As made famous in the film Waking Life’s “Tango of Yes” scene, this essay regards the mystical claims made about Dick’s celebrated novel, Flow My [...]



Ask the Xenith Oracle

By admin • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: News

I’ve randomized our MySpace friendlist after deciding that Xenith’s collection of friends is a work of art in itself.
Aside from allowing me absurd hyperbole that is nonetheless true, this lets us play a game I like to call Ask the Xenith Oracle.
Just hold a question in your mind, view Xenith’s profile, and see what our [...]



revised beauty.

By admin • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: News

I have reformatted Issue 43 into a work of sheer magnifique. Come one, come all to see!



Brag Board: post your successes, projects, news, etc.

By admin • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: News

The Hall of Fame forum has been renamed and repurposed into something more useful.
It’s now called the Brag Board and you are encouraged to post publishing successes, acceptances, wins, and personal projects like chapbooks and whatnot.
Brand yourselves!



Book for June: The Iliad

By admin • May 26th, 2008 • Category: News

The latest book for Xenith’s Book-of-the-Month club has been chosen and we are going classic. June’s book is The Iliad by Homer and the discussion will be led by our resident expert, Hannah E. V. Culik, a Classics undergraduate at University of Oxford in England.



Xenith Book Club: May Discussion Questions

By PatrickNathan • May 16th, 2008 • Category: News

Contains discussion questions for May’s book of the month: Autobiography of Red.



Issue #43 released

By admin • May 14th, 2008 • Category: News

Xenith’s first issue in over four years serves as both a return to form and the harbinger of a new era. Accordingly, several pieces in this issue deal with loss, transformation and new beginnings. We’ve collected writing from some of our finest authors and present them here, to you, as an introduction to that inimitable [...]



The Less Generalized Xenith Poetry Contest

By PatrickNathan • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: News

Why hello my fellow Xenithites.
I post this with the hope that we can give the old poetry contest another try. I have decided that I will run it this time, and believe me, I will track you down if I think you would be a good contestant and you haven’t entered yet.
It will go like [...]