Asia Literary Review 16 / Hong Kong
Hobart 11 / Ann Arbor, MI
American Short Fiction 47 / Austin, TX
Witness XXIII / University of Nevada Las Vegas
Conjunctions 54 / Bard College
Lumberyard 5 / St. Louis, MO
Birkensnake 2 / West Kingston, RI
Gigantic 2 / New York, NY.
Versal 8 / Amsterdam
Marcelle Heath is assistant editor of Luna Park. Her website is: writingoffisland.wordpress.com
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
Fall Literary Links This is a fruitful season for litmag lovers. > kill author’s Dorothy Parker issue features work by Audri Sousa, Jason Jordan, Mel Bosworth, Michelle Reale and others. Ajay Vishwanathan’s “A Serial Killer’s First Day in Medical School” and Amanda Marbais’ “Horns” channel Parker’s devious humor. Mississippi Review’s Nonfiction Nonpoetry Issue includes works
Monkeybicycle features two new stories by Avital Gad-Cykman. Poetry by Sarah J. Sloat and Darren C. Demaree and fiction by D.E. Fredd and Scott Elliott are up at Juked. Dzanc Books announces its new online journal, The Collagist. Michael Copperman has a new essay at Guernica. Triple Canopy features work by Jules Treneer, Angie Waller,
The following is another installment of our writers/editors interview series, with Marcelle Heath talking with Northville Review editor Erin Fitzgerald about pop culture, flash fiction, and inside jokes in April 2009. Fitzgerald likes to note that TNR was “named for Northville, CT—a town that Google thinks exists, but was never independently incorporated.” An unintentionally imaginary
The current issue of elimae includes work by Norman Lock, Anya Yurchyshyn, Eric Beeny, Edward Mullany, and Sarah Mirza. Five Chapters posts “Sleeping with Pigs” by Jay McInerney. New stories by Suzanne Scanlon and Jason Rice, and multimedia by James Paterson are featured at failbetter. DIAGRAM announces its 2009 Hybrid Essay Contest Winner, Matthew Glenwood,
One of the few of its kind on the web, Born Magazine describes itself as “an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media” where writers and media artists collaborate on projects. Setting aside, for now, its ideological nomenclature, its appeal lies in the interpretative dynamic between text and image. The first project, “Inferno (Minor),”
Literary Bohemian’s current issue is BYOB, a literary party where “RSVP[s] will be analyzed for errata.” I imagine party-goers huddled around a fire pit as they share stories about stalking a would-be lover in Laurie Byro’s “Tetraimeros“, about following the circus in “Learning to Travel” by Julene Tripp Weaver, and about the intimacy of shorn
