Ecotone :: The Craft Issue

Ecotone‘s mission is to publish place-based work exploring “the ecotones between landscapes, literary genres, scientific and artistic disciplines, modes of thought.” The Fall/Winter 2017 issue is themed on “Craft” and opens with Editor Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s “From the Editor: The Craft of Editing,” which includes the insightful list of eight “Guiding Principles for Ecotone Editors.”

Content includes fiction by Jill McCorckle, Alexis Schaitkin, and Farah Alie, nonfiction by Ellie A. Rogers, Andrea Mummert Puccini, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ben Miller, and poetry by Cortney Lamar Charleston, Nina Sudhakar, George David Clark, Jessica Guzman Alderman, Dawn Manning, Lauren Camp, Cate Lycurgus, Lynne Thompson, David Macey, Athena Kildegaard, and Molly Tenenbaum. Each contributor also offers one sentence on craft, “what hopes and concerns about craft, writerly and/or otherwise, the writers and artists who are part of the issue might have.”

The gorgeous cover and bookmark insert for this issue deserves recognition: designed and printed by Rory Sparks at Working Library in Portland, Oregon, with text hand-set in Lining Gothic, Franklin Gothic, And Garamond Italic, and printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell 100lb on a Vandercook Universal I AB P.