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
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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
One of Singapore’s most admired and respected poets, Yeow Kai Chai has two poetry collections, Pretend I’m Not Here (2006) and Secret Manta (2001), which was adapted from an entry shortlisted for the 1995 Singapore Literature Prize. In 2009, he edited the anthology Reflecting on the Merlion with Edwin Thumboo, with his own poems included
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé: It’s a wet 4.33am in Singapore, and I’m plugged in to Motohiro Nakashima’s “Duck Pond Evening.” Versal Seven is beside me, to the opening poem by Lizzi Thistlethwayte, and its lines: through the scratch and the song thrush lay you down yourself a rope tight to the sea bed This interview is about
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
Interview with Laura van den Berg, Part II [Read the first part of this interview here.] Luna Park: StoryQuarterly was a great, great magazine for fiction—I remember the first time I read a piece by Steve Almond there and thought that nobody is writing fiction like that, like me and my friends talked, but better.
Interview with Laura van den Berg, Part I I first came across a story of Laura van den Berg’s in an issue of One Story featuring the title work from her first collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, published by Dzanc Books earlier this month. The story intrigued
Note: The following interview was conducted back in March of 2009, before Seay moved on to Lynchburg College. Jordan Elliott: Would The Greensboro Review ever consider changing to an online-only format for publication, or is the magazine comfortable enough in its own skin to resist the changing tides of technology? And what does this say
I recently had the chance to have a brief Q&A session with the editor of Nimrod International Journal, Eilis O’Neal. Nimrod is one of the most well-known literary journals in America. The University of Tulsa has been publishing Nimrod continuously since 1956, and its list of past contributors reads like the table of contents in
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
“I liked to say things to shock him, the truth. Like my father, he had sent me out into the big world all alone and I was going to show him how ugly it was.” —from the story “Big World” Mary Miller’s short story collection, Big World, was published by Short Flight/Long Drive Books in
