About

lunaparkreview.com is an independent website about literary magazines: how little magazines are made, how online publishing changed them, and how writers can read and approach them with some care. It also covers the craft of short writing, from flash fiction to the lyric essay.

What you will find here

• Explainers on how a literary magazine works, from the masthead to the slush pile.
• Context on the history of small and online literary publishing, with sources.
• Plain-language notes on submissions, simultaneous submissions and reading periods.
• Short pieces on the craft of writing briefly and revising well.

How we work

Each article opens with a direct answer, explains terms the first time they appear, and names its sources so you can check them. Figures such as circulation, funding or closures are given only with a source and a year. We describe public facts about magazines and do not rank them.

What this site is not

lunaparkreview.com is an independent project, run by an editorial desk without a personal byline. It is not the literary magazine that once used a similar name, and it does not speak for any magazine, editor or contributor. The site does not publish fiction, poetry or reviews by outside authors, and it does not accept submissions.