Online Lit Mags



An Open Letter to the Online Literary Community

Dear Online Literary Community, I had an idea recently that I want to ask you about. What do you think of having a quantitative award for literature on the Internet? The award would be given to particular stories/poems/pieces that get the most page-views. The prize could have a website too that would rank stories in

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Electric Literature: The Manifesto

[From "Literature, Plugged In" at Publisher's Weekly] A parable: once upon a time, a farmer named Noah noticed a frightening change in the weather. A practical man, he began building a great ark with which to preserve his family and the creatures of the world. Until, one day, Noah’s boss saw what he was up

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Conflict of Interest Part III: Electronic Journals

The Internet is a vibrant scene in relation to literary journals: every couple weeks on Duotrope, a few journals fledge and a few go inactive. The question is what all of the vibrancy adds up to. In the same period that there seem to be fewer poetry readers and more poetry writers than ever before,

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Making Windows: Interview with Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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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InDigest 1207 NYC

InDigest continued its reading series “1207″ the other night at the KGB Bar.  Dustin Nelson founded the quarterly online mag two years ago and has crafted a solid website that plays host to a variety of voices in the arts. InDigest’s analog manifestation is the reading series, which encourages presenters to read something from their own

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Anderbo @ KGB = Lovely

Anderbo had a lovely reading two nights ago at the KGB Bar. This is an excellent journal that boasts a million hits a year thanks to the prodigious efforts of its editor Rick Rofihe, who sat in the center of the bar like a conductor orchestrating the presentation of eight highly enjoyable pieces. Some highlights:

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The New/Old: Rick Magazine & The History of Online Lit Mags

Named after novelist Frederick Barthelme, who edits, Rick Magazine is a new/old online literary magazine. It is new in that Rick Magazine never existed online, old in a couple ways—one stretching back to the beginnings of literary magazines on the internet. The “first” online literary magazine was technically Swift Current in 1984. Begun by Frank

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