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
Random news from the lit mag world.
New York City based literary magazine Armchair/Shotgun is looking for a new graphic & book designer: Job Posting: Graphic and Book Designer Armchair/Shotgun is seeking a graphic and book designer to assist in the design, layout, and production of a Brooklyn-based literary magazine which twice yearly publishes (on paper!) exemplary new fiction, poetry, and visual
The following is a message about an interesting new book project: Dear Internet, We are very excited to announce the coming existence of The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature. The Catalog is to consist of a series of blurbs/short descriptions of books that do not exist. In order to compile that Catalog,
Christmas Card Translated by Sondra Silverston There was this guy who could walk on water. Not that that’s such a big deal. Lots of people can walk on water. They usually don’t know that because they don’t try. They don’t try because they don’t believe they can do it. In any case, that guy believed,
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,
To win a signed copy of Mary Miller’s short story collection, Big World, be the first to email lunaparkreview@gmail.com with your name, mailing address, and the correct answer to the following piece of lit mag trivia: What U.S. literary magazine editor was fined $100 for publishing portions of James Joyce’s Ulysses? Answer: Margaret Anderson, founding
The storySouth Million Writers 2008 list of notable stories has gone up online. The storySouth Million Writers award recognizes “the best online short stories” published each year. The notable stories on the list are from AGNI, eyeshot, Blackbird, Hot Metal Bridge, Keyhole, Lamination Colony, and many other literary magazines—some, like failbetter and Anderbo, are online
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,
The Academy of American Poets—the founding organization of National Poetry Month—offers a poem a day online and by email in order to promote the reading and appreciation of poetry, if only for the month of April. (To sign up for a daily poem, visit Poets.org.) Today’s poem, “The National Interest” by Ted Mathys, seems, in
