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Koalas, Blowback and Ick Factor: Finding Ways to Write From the Heart
Get PDFAt a reading many years ago, Tobias Wolff (award winning author of In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and This Boy’s Life) talked about the fear factor in writing. Good writing, he said, the best writing, should make the author nervous. Actually, he didn’t use the word nervous. He said “scared”—as in, “Do I really want to know this about myself? Do I want the world to know this about me? Oh my god, is it too late to buy up all the copies and burn them?!
8 Reasons Your Submission Strategy Sucks (And What You Can Do About It)
Get PDFIt\u27s a new year, friends, which means time for some serious resolution-ising. If you\u27ve been writing and submitting up a storm lately, good for you. Please ignore everything below and get back to whatever you were doing before. If, though, you feel like something is wrong, like your strategy for submitting to lit mags is not quite working, if you want to be published more frequently and in more venues you love and lust after, then perhaps some of what\u27s below applies to you
Go On and Strut Your Short Shorts: The Greatness of Flash Fiction
Get PDFIt\u27s summer here in Boston, and I can think of no better time to talk about short shorts. That\u27s right. Micro-minis. Stories so short they\u27ll make your mother drag you back into the house until you promise to write something decent, like a novel
From Pen to Print: 8 Tips for Getting Published in Literary Magazines
Get PDF1. Be professional. You have done the first part of your homework by visiting this site. Next, take the time to visit the individual sites of lit mags that you are interested in. Read their guidelines. For some reason, people often consider themselves exempt from rules. You\u27re not. You must play by the rules like everyone else. It doesn\u27t make you boring. It makes your writing accessible
Lit Mags for the Ladies
Get PDFSome people are opposed to the idea of special interest literary magazines. Perhaps this is for good reason: Why should women or minorities need their own space to publish? For crying out loud it\u27s 2011. Can\u27t we all publish together by now? Still others see nothing wrong with these types of journals. Why not have a space where one particular group knows they will have their voices heard? It\u27s nice for readers too who want to feel part of a certain kind of community. Hate them or love them, special interest journals do exist. So for all you literary ladies out there, this list is for you. (Unless otherwise noted, all content is from the journals\u27 websites.) If you know of any journals not mentioned here, please add them to the list
A Tribute to Beauty; Review of Chicago Review, Summer 2008
Get PDFThe voluminous Summer 2008 edition of Chicago Review is really two journals in one. The first half is a tribute to American New York School poet Barbara Guest (1920-2006), featuring three of her short plays, many poems, and commentary by twelve contributors. Guest is best known by this reviewer for her excellent book, Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World (1984). The second half of the journal features seventeen poems, three short stories, one essay, one interview, ten reviews, and a note by C.D. Wright and letter by John Ashbery
Highs and Lows in this 40th Anniversary Edition; Review of Rip Rap, Spring 2018
Get PDFAfter 40 years, and 40 editions, I expected a little more out of Rip Rap. The cover of the 40th-anniversary issue is pretty cool, a red on black maze with the journal’s title boxed and centered. But beyond that, everything falls a bit flat - a disappointment from a journal with such an interesting name and long tenure
Broad, Substantive, and Deeply Humanist: Lit Mag Digs Deep; Review of Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2016
Get PDFHere’s one of the best general literary magazines you may not have heard of. The Virginia Quarterly Review (its cover now sports the more hip and hashtagable VQR) was founded by the University of Virginia in 1925. Still supported in part by the university, this quarterly magazine features a variety of topics both national and international and a uniformly high level of writing regardless of the subject. I would say more than half of the material falls under various nonfiction categories such as memoir, essay, interviews, reporting, and criticism. Clocking in at nearly 200 pages, there is something for every kind of reader here. The overall impression is of a broad, substantive, deeply humanist endeavor
Fixing the System, A Lit Mag Finds Compassion For its Contributors: A Chat with Alexis Santi, Editor of Our Stories
Get PDFAlexis E. Santi earned his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in Fiction. In 2005, he founded Our Stories because of his commitment to helping emerging writers find not only a home for their work but to legitimize the work of countless others who feel that their work would be otherwise ignored. His own creative writing has been published in Word Riot, In Posse Review, Dark Sky Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Cubista Magazine, Revista 22, and The Plum Ruby Review. In 2006 he was one of two Americans awarded a translation grant to live in a castle for three months. He has reviewed thousands of manuscripts since Our Stories was founded six years ago and written extensively on his unique perspective of being a writer and editor of a literary journal with a unique humanistic mission
Inequality in Publishing: What Can be Done?
Get PDFBy now you’ve surely seen the numbers. VIDA, an organization dedicated to women in the literary arts, has done an incredible service to the literary community by amassing the statistics regarding gender breakdown in publishing. If you’ve seen the pie charts, then you know: women writers are in trouble. So we must now ask ourselves: What can be done in the interest of equality