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The Submitter\u27s Dilemma: Choosing the Right Literary Magazine for Your Work
Get PDFThere are over 600 print and online literary magazines today, not to mention dozens of new journals starting up all the time. If you are new to submitting your work, the sheer quantity of literary magazines can be quite terrifying. How do you even begin to sort through the wealth of offerings? How do you know a prestigious journal from a less established one? How do you find the journals that feature the sort of work you like to write? What are your odds of being accepted in one journal over another? Do literary agents read literary magazines, and if so, which ones? In short—how can you, a writer with a burning to be published and recognized, find the literary magazines that are the right match for your work and your ambition
Birmingham Lit Mag Showcases Poetry, Essays About Poetry and Interviews With Poets;Review of Birmingham Poetry Review, Spring 2016
Get PDFBirmingham Poetry Review is a journal dedicated to poetry, essays about poetry, and interviews with poets. The journal is published annually by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was founded in 1987. The spring 2016 issue is roughly 200 pages, neatly bound featuring cover art by Debora Greger
Esteemed Lit Mag Charts Wide Experience of Human Nature; Review of Five Points, Winter 2015 - 2016
Get PDFShall I begin with the Five Points 17.1 contributor’s list? Will you want to know that these pages are spangled with NEA, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller fellowships, Pushcart, Library of Congress, and AWP prizes, magazine editors, professors, and poets-in residence? That the list of their published chapbooks, collections, short stories, and novels would consume the rest of this review if I let it? Or will it be better to turn aside, into a consideration of the issue itself? The latter? By all means, then
Apocalyptic Indeed; Review of Green Mountains Review, 20th Anniversary 2008
Get PDFCelebrating its twentieth anniversary with a double issue entitled American Apocalypse, the Green Mountains Review explores uniquely American dread, tempered with spare, yearning shreds of hope only toward the end. In stark contrast to its last double issue, Comedy in Contemporary American Poetry, ironically readied for publication just before the Towers fell in New York, this issue confronts head-on the changes in the American psyche since that fateful day as exemplified by the work of thirty-six poets and short story writers. Not for the faint-hearted or laugh-seeking reader, this group of writers as collected and edited by GMR\u27s insightful staff found little to applaud and much to lament. With that said the work is well written, thoughtful, and provocative
New Lit Mag Seeks to Create Space for the Provocative; Review of Profane, Fall 2014
Get PDFWhat does it mean for literature to be profane? In the introduction to the first issue of Profane (November 2014), editors Jacob Little and Patrick Chambers say, “We wanted to be open to the profane. We wanted to offer a space for work that was brave or daring or provocative.” There are a few pieces in the inaugural issue that manage to meet all three of these criteria, to use imagery and language in ways that were truly surprising, and often uncomfortable. The problem I had with the journal as a whole, however, was that even a slim collection (101 pages) of work striving to be provocative can quickly become dull. Blood and guts and masturbation and needle marks become a lot less shocking when they’re sandwiched between more of the same
Elegant Writing, Intelligently Curated; Review of Salamander, Fall/Winter 2015
Get PDFSalamander is a twice-annual print magazine published by Suffolk University in Boston. Issue 41, published in fall/winter 2015, has a picture of a dahlia on the cover. A brief, polite note from the editor kicks things off by informing us that Andre Dubus III judged the magazine’s 2015 short story contest, and we get his comments on the winners and a brief enumeration of the other prose works in the issue as well as the names of some of the poets. That is all the introduction anybody gets before we are off to the races
The Decades Have Wings : Esteemed Lit Mag Celebrates 50 Years in Print; Review of Tampa Review, Winter 2016
Get PDFBy its fiftieth issue, you expect a literary magazine to know what it’s doing—and Tampa Review does. As Florida’s oldest literary journal, founded in 1964 and housed at The University of Tampa, Tampa Review celebrated their fiftieth anniversary this winter with a slender, slick and glossy hardcover collection of visual art, fiction, nonfiction and poetry informed by the spirit of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. (Think pre-Etsy and Instagram DIY-ers.
Providing a ‘Safe Space’ for Women to Submit Their Writing : A Chat With Debbie Taylor, Editor of Mslexia
Get PDFMslexia is a British based magazine for women writers. There are unique qualities about the magazine that make it remarkable and interesting. The editor and staff are focused on championing women writers in a variety of unique and exciting ways. I enjoyed this interview and learning more about this successful and far reaching journal. Mslexia has found amazing ways to re-invent itself and stay fresh, compelling, and distinctive
During Turbulent Times, a Reminder: The Ground Beneath Us Has Always Been Shifting
Get PDFThis issue of The Review Review is being released at a remarkable time here in the United States, where we’re based. Global pandemic?Most divisive U.S. election season in living memory?Editor gets Covid?Uncertain economic future due, in large part, to those first two items? All the checks. And those highlights say nothing of related and distinct turmoils around the world. So, what we’re doing here in our humble corner of the web may go unnoticed by writers, readers, and editors who are focused on navigating such turbulence. However, I am excited about what we are offering in this issue
Journal Takes You into the Dark Well of the Soul and Delivers Truth: Review of The Tishman Review, Fall 2018
Get PDFThe Tishman Review is not for the faint of heart but that\u27s not to say it shouldn\u27t be read by anyone and everyone. True, it\u27s unapologetically cruel to happy emotions but the assault is necessary to the mission of the journal. Art, here, mimics life and there is no guarantee of happiness or resolution found in Tishman. Rays of hope and humor are found across the electronic pages prose, poetry, artwork, and photography but one shouldn\u27t expect it. Instead, the writing weaves its way through life\u27s infinite number of variables, imperfections, and capriciousness to paint an honest picture