ZYZZYVA 93 / San Francisco, CA
New England Review 32.3 / Middlebury, VT
DIAGRAM 11.4 / Tucson, AZ
Camera Obscura 3 / Addison, TX
Fiddleblack 2 / Peninsula, OH
Barrelhouse 9 / Washington, DC
Antioch Review Fall 2011 / Yellow Springs, OH
Birkensnake 4 / Providence, RI
Gigantic Sequins 2.2 / Philadelphia, PA
Paris Review 199 / Manhattan, NY
Bateau 4.2 / Northhampton, MA
6x6 24 / Brooklyn, NY
Marcelle Heath is an assistant & online editor for Luna Park. Heath's work has been published by PANK, Necessary Fiction, Storychord, Portland Review, and elsewhere. Her website is: http://marcelleheath.com
Molly Gaudry is the muti-talented author of We Take Me Apart, which has been nominated for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative, founding editor of Willows Wept Review, co-founding editor of Twelve Stories, and founder of Cow Heavy Books. Below, Marcelle Heath talks to her about
In February 2011, VIDA, an organization for women writers, released what has been called the VIDA Count, a totalling of male vs. female writer bylines for 14 of the top 2010 literary-type magazines. The numbers found the—perhaps expected—much greater representation of male writers in these publications. VIDA has also “counted” female writers in other publishing venues,
Words without Borders is seeking to raise $7,000 to publish their first issue dedicated to Afghanistan. According to their Kickstarter page, they’ve already secured a story from Mohammad Hosain Mohammad’s collection Anjirha-ye Sorkh-e Mazar, which was awarded the prestigious Golshiri prize, as well as a story by Mohammad Asif Soltanzadah, and another by Pashto writer Sher
Happy New Year! I’m thrilled to be bringing you the new Luna Digest while Travis takes some much-needed time to spend with his family. So, if you have any news to share, feel free to pass it along. In my virtual travels over break, I was happy to see Madras Press get some press in David
What makes an object, a practice, a custom, or a movement defunct? When its use value has been exhausted? Or when its emissaries have abandoned it for something else? These are just a few of the questions Defunct, a new literary magazine, raises. In his essay Sum of Zero, Chris Offutt writes about the defunct
PANK’s Queer Issue, edited by Tim Jones-Yelvington, presents some of the finest writing from around the globe. In his introduction, “Why Queer?” Jones-Yelvington writes a eloquent if circumspect analysis of Queer identity and writing. He writes, For an issue of a literary magazine to mark itself as Queer is necessarily a political act. It is
Interview with professor and novelist Timothy Schaffert, the new web editor of Prairie Schooner. Founded in 1926, Prairie Schooner is today a literary quarterly published with the support of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press. Current editor Hilda Raz recently won the 2010 Stanley W. Lindberg Award
Named after the inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, Corium‘s debut issue features some terrific writers and writing, including Kim Chinquee, Laura Ellen Scott, Sheldon Compton, Sam Rasnake, Cami Park and more—not surprising, considering its veteran team: Lauren Becker, Heather Fowler, and Greg Gerke. The site’s minimalist design is deceiving. What seems to be
The idea for a series on race, class, gender, and sexuality evolved organically from reading literary magazines, blogs, sites, small and large press catalogs, reviews, best of lists, and the like. Discussions about these issues are robust within the academy, and I wanted to respond to how they surface in literary communities. There were two
As Richard Nash writes on his recent blog post” The Emergent Landscape, or, The Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing”: “transformation is irrevocable, continuous, multivalent, and potentially asymmetric.” One of the latest reinventions to emerge is the Espresso Book Machine, On Demand Books’s digital photocopier, book trimmer and binder, and desktop computer that can produce a
