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We Want to Read Stories and Poems that Leave Us Feeling Electric : A Chat with Daniel Finkel, Editor of The Penn Review
Get PDFThe Penn Review, founded in 1951, showcases writing and artwork from around the world. Daniel Finkel, Editor-in-Chief of The Penn Review, talks to us about the magazine’s writer-friendly focus and its recent new initiatives
Making Every Word Count : A Chat With David Galef, Author of Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
Get PDFThe first draft of this Introduction had reached 300 words when I remembered I was writing about a book titled Brevity, proof enough that shorter forms can be just as challenging as longer works. An entertaining mix of instruction, exercises, and fiction from a diverse slate of writers, Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook is a much-needed guide to writing flash fiction. David Galef, who directs the Creative Writing Program at Montclair State University, has written an insightful and useful new book for teachers and writers of flash. Galef shared his thoughts in a recent interview
“A Good Editor is Such a Fantastic Learning Experience”: A Chat with Memoirist Jean Harper
Get PDFJean Harper is the author of, most recently, Still Life with Horses, a memoir (Howling Bird Press, 2017). Her other writings have appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, Florida Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Prose, and has been in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches writing at Indiana University East. More at www.jeanharper.org
Writing Residency 101: What the Heck is a Writing Residency and How Can I Get One?
Get PDFDo you ever dream of a magical place, away from your house and job, where you can write for weeks at a time without being interrupted? A place of solitude where you can finish that long tangled novel draft or revise those poems you\u27ve been meaning to finish? If so, a writing residency might be right for you
Journal Has Heart, but Not Without Faults; Review of december, Spring/Summer 2018
Get PDFIt is a sense of unease, a creeping evil, that december brings front and center to the Spring/Summer issue of 2018. The cover image, stitched woolwork by Lisa Ann Auerbach, depicts a cobwebbed bookcase, half full of books on wealth and deal making, written by and for the current president. On the bottom shelf, a revolver is wedged between Think Big and Kick Ass and The America We Deserve. Above, two books by Adolf Hitler—which the president reportedly owns—are bookended by a handgun. In her artist’s statement, Auerbach says she made the piece “before the election, back when everyone thought it would never happen.
Esteemed Australian Lit Mag Brims With Dynamic Culture; Review of Meanjin, Winter 2014
Get PDFAs the opening editorial points out, Meanjin began as a poetry magazine nearly 75 years ago, and it continues to count the verse-driven art as its lifeblood. The poems in this edition are scattered throughout, running like veins through the entire edition, keeping the pulse and purpose of the magazine always at the forefront of the reader’s mind. Varying in style and composition, full of free verse and experimental forms, these poems are written by seasoned professionals and burgeoning artists alike. Meanjin Volume 73 begins with several brief articles under the heading, Perspectives, which explore the topics of modern day racism, the warmth of a grandmother’s kitchen, the pain of losing a neighborhood to a government buy-out, and the dramatic changes brought upon modern day journalism by the digital age
South Asian Literary Journal Shines in Debut; Review of Shoreline Review, January 2018
Get PDFThe Shoreline Review is a new literary journal that provides a digital space specifically for South Asian poets to be read and recognized for their unique contributions to the realm of poetry. TSR is edited by Sreshtha Sen and Shyamolie Singh, two poets who are from India. All the poetry in TSR is in English, some appearing to be written originally in English while others have been translated from their original language. Some poets are living in their home countries, while others are living abroad, mostly in the United States. TSR’s inaugural issue, which was published in January 2018, presents poems by ten poets whose voices vary as much as their roots
The Beauty of Bilingual: A Chat with Roberto Santos, Editor of Rio Grande Review.
Get PDFRoberto Santos has been one of three editors of the Rio Grande Review since the fall of 2008
A Lit Mag By and For The Incarcerated
Get PDFIn the United States, there are over 2.2 million adults incarcerated (1 in 110 adults) and over 54,000 juveniles detained, making the U.S. home to more than 22% of the world\u27s prisoners (despite being home to only 4.3% of the world’s people). Not only are prisoners taken out of sight, but they are often forgotten by the general public. Then, when they are released back into society (95% are released at some point), they are still irreversibly labeled with the terms “convicted felon” or “ex-con,” diminishing their opportunities for successful employment and respectable housing. Degrading labels like these encourage many people, including prison officials, to deny prisoners an outlet for self-expression—a crucial tool for survival and identity development. Fortunately, Iron City Magazine, a national print and online journal, is devoted to ensuring that incarcerated men, women, and children are given the opportunity to share their unique voices with anyone who chooses to acknowledge them
Where Are the Female Lit Mag Editors? Here.
Get PDFWhat has always stuck with me about the VIDA count isn’t the statistics themselves—horrid but not, if you’re from any underrepresented group, shocking—but the discussion, mostly anecdotal, of how women are not repeat submitters to literary magazines; men are more likely to send out again once they’ve been rejected. This was me: I have many kind rejections, years old, that say “please send again,” or “we’d like to see more work,” and yet, I didn’t