Final Issue

Final issues of discontinued literary magazines.



The Final Issue of Dark Sky Magazine

The following text—along with “Dark Sky #17″—was published on the Barrelhouse magazine website yesterday: Gabe Durham here, Editor of the ghost of Dark Sky Magazine. For the last year, Christy Crutchfield, Sarah Boyer, Brian Mihok, Ted Powers, and I have been working the journal together. About a month ago, we completed our most recent issue,

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The End of the Anonymous Editor Project: > kill author’s Final Issue

As noted earlier, the anonymously edited online journal > kill author is calling it quits after three years. The final issue, dedicated to David Markson, went live today, with writing and audio recordings from Adam Atkinson, Laura Goldstein, Shane Jones, and others. What’s more, the editor has at last stepped out from behind the curtain;

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The End of > Kill Author

With great sadness, we’re announcing today that the forthcoming twentieth issue of > kill author, due online at the start of August, will also be the last. After three years of bi-monthly issues, featuring a total of 403 different writers (we think, if we’ve counted correctly), it’s time for us to go elsewhere and do

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R.I.P. Open City, Hello Little Star

Here is the full-text story “Housekeeping Observations” by Lydia Davis from the first issue of Little Star (Davis’s work from the issue will be included in the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology): Under all this dirt, the floor is really very clean. And here is the complete poem “The Terms” by Alissa Quart from the final issue

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