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The New Yorker Rejects Itself: A Quasi-Scientific Analysis of Slush Piles
Get PDFIt began as the kind of logical argument that seems airtight to anyone who has never studied logic. If the New Yorker is the most desirable literary magazine in the world, and if the New Yorker can have any short story the New Yorker wants, then whatever story the New Yorker gets would—logically—be so intrinsically desirable that all lesser literary pubs (e.g., everyone) would pine for it. Just like the prettiest girl at the dance: the guy she picks is the guy chicks dig. Basic deduction 101
Advice To My Pre-Published Self
Get PDFRecently at the pediatrician’s office I fell into conversation with a man in the waiting room, the father of a 7-month-old with some undiagnosed problem. We talked as parents do in these situations when you cut to the chase. About the toughness required of parents, developed over time for that limbo of uncertainty and worry. Somewhat sheepishly he told me about a video he’d seen online that had stuck with him. In it, mothers were asked what advice they would offer their younger, pre-parenthood selves. Which got me thinking about the long gestation writers go through for their first book. Not because creating a novel is the same creating a baby, because it isn’t, but it’s often used as a metaphor. What advice would published authors offer their pre-published selves
Hidden Gems: Publishing Novel Excerpts
Get PDFAre you too busy working on a novel (or blog post) to devote time to revising and sending out that stack of unfinished short stories? Fear not: You may already have a few almost-ready-for-publication stories sitting idle on your hard drive and not even know it
Publishing Advice: The Best and The Worst
Get PDFThere is a lot of advice out there for writers trying to perfect their material and send it out into the world. But how much of the advice we receive is in our best interest? What should we heed, and what should we discard? I asked some writers and editors for the best and worst of publishing advice
A Lit Mag Unafraid to Try Something New (and a Writing Contest for Teens!); Review of Sierra Nevada Review, Winter 2014
Get PDFIf there’s a theme underlying the latest issue of the Sierra Nevada Review, it’s summed up well in a line from contributor Clayton Adam Clark’s poem, “Reverberations:” … “all things / have a pitch.” The intensity of memory, the complexity of ethnicity, the sacrifices of democracy and the definitions of family—weave subtly through this hard copy journal produced by Sierra Nevada College’s English Department and Low-Residency MFA Program
If You\u27re Alive You\u27re Recovering : A Chat with Mary Akers, Editor of r.k.vr.y
Get PDFMary Akers is the author of the short-story collection Women Up On Blocks, which won the 2010 IPPY gold medal for short fiction. Her work has appeared Bellevue Literary Review, The Fiddlehead, and Brevity. She was awarded a 2012 Pushcart Special Mention and won the 2011 American Pen Women Mary Mackey Short Story Prize for her story, “Viewing Medusa.” She has been the editor of r.kv.r.y since 2010 and lives in Western New York with her family
Fearlessly Claiming Your Own Experience: A Chat with Rebecca Olson, Editor of Calyx
Get PDFRebecca Olson is the Senior Editor at CALYX. She joined the journal that publishes art and literature by women in 2008 as an intern. A year later she was hired for the editorial position, armed with a new MFA in Poetry from Oregon State University and deeper understanding of publishing, writing and editing. In the following interview, the St. Paul, Minnesota native discusses her love for the CALYX family, how she balances her creativity with work and why feminist literature is empowering
Beyond Privilege: Building a Writing Life When You Have No Room of Your Own
Get PDFWhat do you need to write? A pen and paper, for some people. Keyboard. You need a table or a lap or a drawing board. If you’re making an outline or storyboard, you need a wall to pin your notes on and watch them as they migrate. These objects and surfaces have to be secure, too. The worst fear is leaving a notebook open and losing pages to the wind. A writer is usually one hard drive crash away from total misery. But, looking more deeply, the writer’s craft requires space. And time. The combination of these, in the act of writing, translates to privacy
An Open Letter to Poetry International: From the Editors of Versal
Get PDFIn your own words, the Poetry International Rotterdam festival brings together the most noteworthy poetry of the groundbreaking great masters, alongside that of new and original poetic talents from around the world. It is clear, however, that your mission statement applies mostly to men
Our Little Publication Brings the Kind of Understanding and Acceptance that Is Much Needed When Those Feelings of Isolation and Shame Kick In” A Conversation with Célia Schouteden, Editor of peculiars magazine
No full textCélia Schouteden is the founder and editor-in-chief of peculiars magazine (@peculiarsmag). Her contribution to the artistic world has also been expressed through her passion for film photography. She is originally from Belgium, and currently attends university there to study Psychology. Her efforts to promote mental health awareness have reached all corners of the world