Could you summarize in a few sentences what The Derelict Voice is? The Derelict Voice is a literary magazine of poetry and prose. It was created as a venue for the writings of the homeless population in Chico, California. Our writing group meets every Wednesday morning at the local homeless resource center. The first volume was

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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

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Monkeybicycle’s editors—Steven Seighman and Shya Scanlon—talked with Luna Park’s Nick Ripatrazone about Monkeybicycle 8 through e-mail. The interview was a follow-up to Ripatrazone’s recent review of the issue. Nick Ripatrazone: Monkeybicycle 8 works so well as a cohesive issue. Could you discuss how this particular edition went from individual submissions to a collective, a completed

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The following interview with publisher André Schiffrin is excerpted from Issue No. 1 of The White Review, a new quarterly arts, culture, and politics magazine edited, designed, and defined by an emergent generation of London-based writers and artists. The name The White Review is a reference to La Revue Blanche, a Parisian political, literary and artistic magazine which ran

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draft: the journal of process—first introduced to me by Luna Park’s editor, Travis Kurowski—is a dream discovery for teachers of creative writing at the secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Although the process of revision is referenced, and sometimes dramatized, through the workshopping process, the work of revision as re-thinking is often a purely personal activity.

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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,

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I teach a year-long Advanced Fiction course at my high school. Enrollment is roughly 20 students, most 17 and 18 years old, and they enter the course with a desire to publish. Former students have been included in the recent Hint Fiction anthology, won The Florida Review fiction contest and the Davidson Scholarship, and have

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  Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and has been editor of the Southwest Review since 1984. His latest book, Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness, was published by Picador in 2010. He lives in Dallas, Texas.   Ben Leubner: How long have you been editing The Southwest Review, and

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Shaking Like a Mountain is an online literary journal featuring writing about music. The journal is edited by Wayne Cresser, Vito Grippi, Jed Griswold, and John Hames, with contributing editors such as Amity Bitzel, Janice Eidus, Marion Winik, and others. Francesca Macchiavelli spoke with co-editor Vito Grippi. Francesca Macchiavelli: How long have you been working

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Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in French, English and Chinese. Her books include Water the Moon (Marick Press, 2010) and Silhouette/Shadow (co-authored with Gao Xingjian, Contours, 2007). Co-director of Vif éditions, an independent Parisian publishing house, and one of the editors at Cerise Press, she is also a zheng (ancient Chinese zither) concertist. Her CD, In One Take/Une seule prise (with

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