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Frances Locke Memorial Prize & Sze-Lorrain

The newest issue of The Bitter Oleander (v17 n2) includes The Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award Winner for 2011: Gardenia’s Scent by Sunghui Chang.

Also featured in this issue with an in depth interview and a large selection of her poetry is the French poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain, as well as translations from the Chinese of poets Yi Lu and Bai Hua likewise translated by Sze-Lorrain. The Bitter Oleander includes both original language texts as well as translations in English.

Matchbook

Don’t let the size (nor former function) fool you – these matchbooks pack a lotta lit into them. Published by Small Fire Press, this third volume includes poets Anna Moschovakis, Jen Hofer, Tony Mancus, MC Hyland, Kate Lebo, Vince Gotera, Daniela Olszewska, Sophie Klahr, Brooklyn Copeland, Anne Marie Rooney, Ben Pelham, Trey Moody, Justin Runge, Marshall Walker Lee, Lisa Ciccarello, W. Vandoren Wheeler, Greg Weiss, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Chris Hosea, Fred Schmalz, & Stacy Blint with letter-pressed illustrations by Cherie Weaver. Yes, all in a matchbook cover.

Due to the vintage upcycling, each cover is different. I got: Loyal Order of Moose, Lodge No. 1151 (“For Fun and Fellowship”), Greensburg, PA, and the other: Larry’s Utoco Service, Twin, Idaho. Considering the number of no-smoking cities cropping up, it’s a treat to see these covers given new life and purpose.

As for reading, the font is maybe a 10-point, not difficult at all (even for my elder eyes) thanks to quality printing – which includes color. The stapled edge makes some of the margins a bit close, needing a precarious pull to read final lines, but the construction held firm to every tug. And again, don’t let the size fool you. The density of the writing is not one I would recommended reading all in one sitting, though it could be done. These are great ‘volumes’ to carry along in a purse, bag, or pocket, and pull out on those bus rides or while in queues (though not a recommended pun for smokers looking for a light).

The only unfortunate issue I had with one Matchbook I received was that some pages were out of order. I found following one of the poems difficult when it dawned on me that this might be the issue. I looked through the second copy of the matchbook I’d received and realized this had been the error. Well, oops. While it detracted momentarily from my reading, I had a certain level of empathy in considering these are most likely DIY hand-pieced together. Still, in fairness, I need to mention it. I’m sure as a subscriber, I could have contacted Small Fire Press for a replacement.

For lovers of literature and the simple oddities of life, Matchbook is truly a publication small and cute enough to coddle, but big enough to feed your soul. Pack it along, I say.

The Broad River Review Awards

The current issue of Gardner-Webb University’s annual The Broad River Review features a number of award winners.

In 2010, The Broad River Review began The Rash Awards, named in honor of Ron Rash, a 1976 graduate of Gardner-Webb University. Sarah Gordon was the selected winner in poetry for “Apertures: Andalusia” and Christine Bates the winner in fiction for “The Night I Killed the Devil.”

Each year, The Broad River Review recognizes certain undergraduate students for outstanding achievement and publishes their works. The J. Calvin Koonts Poetry Award is awarded to a senior English major at Gardner-Webb University whose group of poems is judged most outstanding by a committee of department members. This year’s winner is Nikki Raye Rice, and two of her poems “Transformation” and “Stranded” appear in this year’s issue.

Finally, The Broad River Review Editors’ Prizes in Poetry and Fiction are selected from among all Gardner-Webb student submissions for a given issue. J. Lauren Fletcher’s “Woman” was selected for poetry and Amy Snyder’s “Fire” for fiction.

The Broad River Review welcomes submissions of original poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and we also encourage visual artists to submit samples for possible cover art.

Videopoem Collection & Contest

Curated by Dave Bonta, Moving Poems is “an on-going anthology of the best videopoems, filmpoems, animated poems, and other poetry videos from around the web, appearing at a rate of one every weekday most weeks.” The videos can be searched using a directory by poet, nationality, filmmakers, and several other tags.

Moving Poems also provides web resources for videopoem makers covering issues such as determining what’s free to use, free and Creative Commons-licensed film and video, spoken word, sounds, and music as well as free software.

2011 New South Contest Winners

The 2011 New South Contest winners appear in the newest issue:

Poetry, judged by Rodney Jones
First Place: “Benthos” by Bruce Bond
Second Place: “Archery With Alex” by Maya Jewell Zeller

Prose, judged by Karen E. Bender
First Place: “Who’s Akela?” by Gregory J. Wolos
Second Place: “Palimpsests” by Jill Kronstadt

New South is Georgia State University’s Journal of Art and Literature.

From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet

Winner of the 2009 Hudson Prize, Patrick Michael Finn’s short story collection From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet includes plenty of dark circumstances, all set in the industrial sinkhole of Joliet, Illinois in the mid- to late 20th century. The stories are of the type popular in the early 20th century literature, when American Naturalism dominated the landscape. Every character’s fate feels pre-determined, based upon heredity and social conditioning. Continue reading “From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet”

Correct Animal

Rebecca Farivar’s Correct Animal, released in July from Octopus Books, is not unexpected or aggressive or raw or surprising. It is not a collection of poetry that blew me away. But this isn’t to say that I disliked Correct Animal—in fact, I liked it quite a bit, and I liked it for not being unexpected or aggressive or raw or surprising. I liked Farivar’s methods of quiet, of understatement, the lithe quality of her poems: Continue reading “Correct Animal”

The Other Walk

We’re walking. We’re walking. Like “those colored paddles and banners (the new tourist universal)” that tour guides wield to direct their charges’ attention, Sven Birkerts holds up a metaphorical banner to keep us following along. When he wanders, it is not without direction. Invoking Robert Frost’s diverging road: “This morning, going against all convention, I turned right instead of left and took my circuit…in reverse.” The author, one of the country’s foremost literary critics and editor of the literary journal AGNI, links walking with thought: “There is the rhythm, the physics, of walking, the drumbeat of repetition, stride, stride, stride, and then there is the fugue of the walking mind, laid over it, always different, always tied in some way to the panning of the gaze and the eye’s quirky meandering.” Continue reading “The Other Walk”

Lucky Fish

With “The Secret of Soil,” Aimee Nezhukumatathil opens her new book of poems, her fourth, within a secret: “The secret of smoke is that it will fill / any space with walls.” This secret truly belongs to the poetic imagination, of course, and speaks to how we daily embody the world, “no matter how delicate” the space, by giving it breaths of us, taking back lungfuls, placing ourselves here, and pressing our weight onto it: Continue reading “Lucky Fish”

The New Moscow Philosophy

The New Moscow Philosophy by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh, translated in many languages since its publication in 1989, has finally been translated into English this year by Krystyna Anna Steiger. As Steiger notes, this is a gentle parody of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, but even if the reader is unfamiliar with that book, The New Moscow Philosophy is easy reading and full of insights into literature—particularly the Russian reverence for it. The book offers a mystery story and a debate, often humorous, over good and evil. And the reader may have heard of the competition for apartments in Moscow, which is at the heart of this book. Continue reading “The New Moscow Philosophy”

War of the Crazies

For better and usually much worse, fictional runaway teenage girls end up on ships bound for the colonies, the big city of offices and/or brothels, behind enemy lines, or never far from an estate with a wealthy young landowner. Ruth is the Florida native taking refuge in an upstate New York commune in John Oliver Hodges’ neo-Gothic coming-of-age novella, War of the Crazies. Though set in 1989, the situations this 19-year-old beauty finds herself in recall those of her literary ancestresses: growing up too fast, local men and boys falling hard for her, the hysterical obsessive of love (Silva, who prefers “meditation over medication”), and a serious household accident. Continue reading “War of the Crazies”

Gloss

Musical and deeply rooted in a sense of place, Ida Stewart’s debut poetry collection highlights the essential element of sound within contemporary poetry. In a series of free verse poems that engage with the lyric quality of traditional nature poetry, Stewart delves beyond a simple examination of nature; instead, nature ties into a sense of past and place, ever-present in the depths of memory. Set within the concrete of ground, the minuteness of soil, Gloss condenses language to its potential as rich medium for the human voice and soul. Continue reading “Gloss”

Drifting into Darien

Drifting into Darien, part memoir and part natural history, logs the memory of not only the people of the Altamaha River region in Georgia, but the landscape itself. In a multi-part larger essay and a series of smaller essays, Janisse Ray reminds us of this essential but little-known river. Readers who already possess knowledge of ecology and biology, as well as novice environmentalists, will appreciate the detail displayed by Ray’s knowledge of her native landscape. A strong environmental focus propels this collection of essays forward, urging the reader to take action to preserve not only the Altamaha, but their own rivers as well. Continue reading “Drifting into Darien”

The Trees The Trees

The Trees The Trees, the second poetry collection from Heather Christle, is a loosely-knit collection of poems that sometimes has to do with trees, that often has to do with the dichotomy of relationships, and that always has an overwhelmingly and wonderfully infectious use of rhythm: Continue reading “The Trees The Trees”

Damn Sure Right

Meg Pokrass’s collection Damn Sure Right packs in a whopping eighty-eight stories. Short-shorts. Flash fiction. Whatever you call them, Meg Pokrass is their queen. She’s made a career out of flash fiction. She teaches flash fiction workshops nationally and has published over a hundred pieces in journals. In a market that goads short story writers to crank out novels, she’s firm in her commitment to keep it tight. But while most of us literature lovers have enjoyed a brilliant short-short in our time, few of us have read a whole book of them or even know how. Continue reading “Damn Sure Right”

Called

The Battleship Potemkin, either the film or the ship itself—the allusion, in any case—makes its appearance early on in Kate Greenstreet’s single-poem chapbook, Called: “First we hear it. Trucks, helicopters. The / Battleship Potemkin. He’s building the shape.” Throughout the poem, Greenstreet works in concise stanzas such as this, each image and line constructed with a controlled hand. As such, the Potemkin is no toss-away detail. Its facts and mythology, of restless soldiers and fledging revolutions, and of propaganda, get bundled and pulled into the poem, while calling to mind the montage theories made standard by director Sergei Eisenstein, the great-grandfather of all modern film editing techniques. Continue reading “Called”

The Rest of the Voyage

Bernard Noël is a cerebral, urban-realist mystic caught up by the extraordinary in everyday language as it passes by, carried in things themselves. He captures the instant of wonder, filled with longing, lust, and above all necessity, grounding it in earthy satisfaction. What the eyes see wanes but lives on as a concern of thought. The book is a record of a life of such sight: Continue reading “The Rest of the Voyage”

A Symposium on John Keats

The newest issue of The Kenyon Review features “A Symposium on John Keats” which includes:

David Baker, “Re: Keats” (Introduction)
David Baker, “Corresponding Keats”
Stanley Plumly, “The Odes for Their Own Sake”
Ann Townsend, “Myopic Keats”

NewPages Classifieds

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Updates to NewPages Guides :: October 03, 2011

Added to The NewPages Big List of Literary Magazines:
Shangri-La Shack [O]
Adventum [O]
Blue Lake Review [O]
Certain Circuits [O]
Ragazine [O]
Spittoon [O]
Journal of Renga & Renku Image
West Marin Review Image
Stone Highway [O]
Broad River Review Image
The Carolina Quarterly Image
The Citron Review [O]
The Rusty Toque [O]
The Sandstar Review [O]
Buddhist Poetry Review [LO]
The Helix Image

[O] = mainly online
Image = mainly print

Added to The NewPages Big List of Alternative Magazines:
Mental Shoes [O]
Places Image
Satellite Image
Stone Voices Image

Added to The NewPages List of Independent Publishers & University Presses:
Anthem Press
Vagabondage Press
Western State College Press
Chain Links
Verse Chorus Press

Added to The NewPages List of Literary Websites:
Art Faccia
MOLT
O Sweet Flowery Roses
The Public Domain Review
Slow Muse
Sundryed Affairs – nonfiction prose
Whale Sound

Closings: Earth Song Books, Del Mar, CA

Earth Song Books & Gifts, which has been part of the Del Mar community for more than 40 years, will close its doors in November.

“For a long time, we’ve been competing with Amazon and Kindle, and our customers haven’t been supporting us in this economy,” said owner Annette Palmer. “We have to close because the funding just isn’t there. The numbers just don’t add up.”

Read the rest by staff writer Claire Harlin on Del Mar Times.

Creative Nonfiction Winning Essays

Issue 42 of Creative Nonfiction features a number of winning essays. Cosponsored by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies for best essay related to the them of “The Night,” Bud Shaw’s essay “My Night with Ellen Hutchinson” was selected by Susan Orlean from among 350 entries. Also included in this issue is Minh Phuong Nguyen’s “Suffering Self,” the 2010 Norman Mailer College Nonfiction Writing Award winner, and S.J. Dunning’s “for(e)closure,” the winner of the Creative Nonfiction’s MFA Program-Off.

New Art Publication :: Stone Voices

Stone Voices is “an exploration of the connections between visual arts and the spiritual journey.” Each print issue of Stone Voices contains extensive portfolios of notable artists along with feature articles, essays, regular columns, and poems.

Stone Voices is a trade-sized publication sparing no expense in heavyweight, full-color, semi-gloss paper throughout. As a publication, Stone Voices is exemplary in its treatment of art as equal to text, and more often as is due, primary.

Stone Voices also invites artists to share their art and their stories – exploring the connections between art and spirituality. Artists may create their own virtual gallery within Stone Voices larger virtual Art Gallery. Artists may show as many as ten images and may post information about themselves as well as an artist statement at no charge. Full guidelines are available on the publication website.

On Rejection and the Limitations of Space

Magnapoets edito-in-cheif, Aurora Antonovic, writes this “Editor’s Lament” in the most recent issue:

“Editors have various methods of choosing what gets into an issue and what doesn’t. I liken putting together a magazine like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. Some images may be quite pretty and deserving on their own merit, but they don’t necessarily fit into this particular puzzle. In other words, sometimes I have to turn down high quality work because there simply isn’t space for it, or it doesn’t fit an unintentional theme that’s developed all on its own for the issue…I am both a writer and editor, and believe me when I say it is much harder to send a rejection letter than to receive one myself.

“So, if you’ve sent work to this magazine in the past and been rejected, or if you sent work to another publication and it’s not been accepted, rather than assuming it’s not ‘good enough,’ realize that maybe there’s a harried editor somewhere who feels badly about the limitations of space.”

Big Muddy 2010 Contest Winners in Print

Winners of the Big Muddy 2010 contests appear in the newest issue (11.1) of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. A full list of finalists is available on the Big Muddy website. Published winners include:

Mighty River Short Story Winner: Kathleen Knutsen Rowell, California – “The Resolution”

The Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Winner: Natalie Hamm DeVaull, New York – “In the Kitchen”

New Lit on the Block :: Buddhist Poetry Review

Edited by Jason Barber, Buddhist Poetry Review is a quarterly online poetry magazine “dedicated to publishing fresh and insightful Buddhist poetry.”

Issue One includes works by Alison Clayburn, Yvette Doss, Peter J. Greico, Paul Hostovsky, Becky Jaffe, Stephen Jones, Ed Krizek, Hal W. Lanse, J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden, Andrew K. Peterson, Ron Riekki, Stephen Rozwenc, J.R. Solonche, and Alex Stein.

Issue Two features poetry by Gary Gach, Allison Grayhurst, David Guterson, David Iasevoli, Leslie Ihde, James Mc Elroy, Mark J. Mitchell, Kaveri Patel, Emeniano Acain Somoza, Jr., and Lucien Zell.

Buddhist Poetry Review is open for submissions from October through November.

Art :: Fred Valentine Paintings

Fred Valentine‘s paintings are featured in the literary section of the newest issue of Bomb. The website features an exclusive video interview of Valentine in his studio where he discusses his process, working with individuals under psychiatric care, and his own consideration of ‘psyche’ in his work.

Persecuted Cartoonists

Sampsonia Way is an online magazine that provides global leadership in support of the value of freedom of speech and creative expression, and provides a forum for the work and support the careers of writers in exile. The newest issue features “Persecuted Cartoonists” with interviews with Tony Namate (Zimbabwe), Alfredo Pong (Cuba), Pedro Le

New Lit on the Block :: The Rusty Toque

Founding and Managing Editors Kathryn Mockler and Aaron Schneider, along with issue editors and advisors, introduce readers to The Rusty Toque, an online literary journal produced and edited by the faculty and students of the University of Western Ontario Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program. The Rusty Toque publishes students nominated from their writing program and also welcomes submissions from all writers – both new and established.

The first issue (Summer 2011)includes fiction by Josh Romphf, Marshall John Christie, Rhiannon Dickson, and Jamie Lively; screenplays by Jessica Kotzer and Lauren Wing; nonfiction by Ashley McCallan, G.P. Parhar, Cam Parkes, and Spencer Matheson; and poetry by Scott Beckett and Blair Swann.

The Rusty Toque accepts unpublished literary and experimental poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and unproduced drama (both short film and short play scripts). Artwork for the homepage is also accepted.

Glimmer Train July Very Short Fiction Winners :: 2011

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their July Very Short Fiction competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories with a word count not exceeding 3000 with no theme restrictions. The next Very Short Fiction competition will take place again in January. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Sanja Jagesic [pictured], of Chicago, IL, wins $1200 for “Bibby Challenge.” Her story will be published in the Winter 2013 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in November. This is her first story accepted for publication.

Second place: Meredith Luby, of Springield, VA, wins $500 for “Boxes.” Her story will also be published in a future issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700. This is also Meredith’s first story accepted for publication.

Third place: Rafael Alvarez, of Linthicum, MD, wins $300 for “The Spaniards.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline for the September Fiction Open is September 30. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers. Most submissions to this category are running 2,000-8,000, but up to 20,000 words are welcome. No theme restrictions.

Solstice MFA Announces New Partnership, Fellowships

The Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College (Chestnut Hill, MA) has announced a new partnership with The Foundation for Children’s Books (FCB), a nonprofit organization that “cultivates children’s curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement by igniting in them a love of good books.” Pine Manor College is one of the few low-residency MFA programs to offer a concentration in writing for children and young adults.

The FCB and Solstice MFA Program will co-host the first in a series of biannual events, “What’s New in Children’s Books” — a half-day conference featuring authors, illustrators, and library and bookstore professionals — Saturday, November 5th from 8 a.m.– noon.

The Solstice Low-Residency MFA is also offers four $1,000 fellowships for writers: The Dennis Lehane Fellowship for Fiction; the Michael Steinberg Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction; the Jacqueline Woodson Fellowship for a Young People’s Writer of African or Caribbean Descent; and the Sharon Olds Fellowship for Poetry. All fellowship awards are based on the quality of a writing sample. Fellowship applications are due October 14, 2011 (not a postmark date; materials must be received in our offices before or on October 14).

New Lit on the Block :: The Sandstar Review

Editors Lin Wang and Tyler Pratt bring readers The Sandstar Review, an online literary journal that “strives to publish polished, lyrical work that seeks an active connection between places and people.”

The first issue is poetry only, featuring works by William Doreski, Eva Eliav, Antoinette Forstall, Howie Good, Kenneth Gurney, Danielle Hurd, Steven Mayoff, Corey Mesler, Ananya Mishra, Rodney Nelson, Nathanael O’Reilly, Kenneth Pobo, Eric Rawson, Fiona Sinclair, Mark Stopforth, Persephonae Velasquez, Musing on Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, Nicola Walls, and William Winfield Wright.

The Sandstar Review seeks unpublished prose for its second issue. Poetry is also accepted, but will be deferred to the third issue. Prose deadline is November 15, 2011.

The Kenyon Review Fellowships

The Kenyon Review Editor David H. Lynn writes: “In our enduring effort to support authors in the early stages of promising careers, I am delighted to announce a new model for the Kenyon Review Fellowships. Beginning in the autumn of 2012, two outstanding writers, one poet and one prose author, will be invited to join us in Gambier, Ohio, in each two-year cycle. Our expectation is that candidates will have completed an MFA or PhD. Selected in a rigorous process that will evaluate their gifts as writers as well as teachers, KR Fellows will pursue a significant creative project in consultation with a mentor. They will also each teach one course in creative writing per year, also mentored by faculty of the Kenyon College English Department. In addition, they will work closely with the staff of The Kenyon Review, gaining editorial and production experience, from letterpress to Internet.”

The Fellowship is open for application October 1 – December 1, 2011.

Art :: Fred Valentine

Fred Valentine‘s paintings are featured in the literary section of the newest issue of Bomb. The website features an exclusive video interview of Valentine in his studio where he discusses his process, working with individuals under psychiatric care, and his own consideration of ‘psyche’ in his work.

Brevity: New Craft & Pay for Writers

Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction online features two new craft essays for September:

“Silence and Not-Knowing: An Introduction, and Silence Is My Playlist (On Being Asked for One to Go with My Work)” by Lia Purpura

“Ignorance, Lies, Imagination and Subversion in the Writing of Memoir and the Personal Essay” by Lee Martin

Brevity has also announced that it will begin paying its writers: “For years, we have struggled as a volunteer effort with no revenue through advertising or subscriptions. So with great pride we announce that we will be able to pay our writers starting with the January 2011 issue, and, with luck and hard work, every issue forward.”

Of course, it takes money to pay money, so Brevity is also asking readers to consider making a “self-determined subscription fee.” All donations to this fund are promised to go directly to the writers whose works are selected for publication.

Stunning Covers :: Rain Taxi

Just when I thought I’d seen my fill of doll head art comes this newest issue of Rain Taxi, and for some creepy reason, I just can’t stop staring back at this one-eyed Kwepie winker.

If not already on your regular reading list, do add Rain Taxi Review of Books, both in print and online. Fall 2011 online edition features an interview with novelist Bonnie Jo Campbell and the mnartists.org featured essay Ghost Crawl through the Warehouse District of Minneapolis. The print issue features interviews with Peter Grandbois and Adam Hines, and reviews of books by Grant Morrison, JoAnn Verburg, Ron Hansen, Siri Hustvedt, Juan Goytisolo, Will Alexander, Kabir, and more.

Terry Tempest Williams Broadside

A limited-edition broadside of “Finding Beauty In A Broken World” by Terry Tempest Williams with artwork by Nancy Stein is available for $20 as a fundraiser for West Marin Review. I’m a sucker for a beautiful broadside, and this one most certainly satisfies. It’s letterpress printed on a 9×14 ivory linen and signed by both author and artist. The poem can be read on the website, and is a most appropriate expression for our times.

Black Lawrence Book Sale

Get three Black Lawrence Press story & poetry titles at reduced pricing, or all three with shipping included for $25 – September only:

Pictures of Houses with Water Damage
Stories by Michael Hemmingson

From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet
Stories by Patrick Michael Finn

The Giving of Pears
Poems by Abayomi Animashaun

New Lit on the Block :: Stone Highway Review

Edited by Mary Stone Dockery and Amanda Hash, Stone Highway Review is a biannual publication featuring poetry, short prose, and artwork, available online via PDF as well as POD via Lulu. For writers, Stone Highway Review likes “work that haunts, electrifies, tingles. We like creativity. We believe the imagination contains as much truth as ‘truth.'” The editors also comment that they like prose that “slips into the surreal or plays with language in new and exciting ways,” and that “if your fiction is more poetry than prose, we want it.”

The first issue features works by Paul David Adkins, James W. Hritz, Michelle Reale, Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Kim Kin, Peter Schireson, Jenny Catlin, Maggie Koger, Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson, Christina Dubach, Len Kuntz, Christopher Woods, William Doreski, Devon Miller-Duggan, Dr. Ernest Williamson III, Tom Holmes Christina Murphy, Alex Yuschik, Ruth Holzer, and Jenny Ortiz.

Stone Highway Review accepts submissions online via Submishmash and has a Facebook page.

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ZYZZYVA Redesign

Editor Laura Cogan is making a big splash with this newest issues of ZYZZYVA. Cogan says the publication has worked on a redesign with Three Steps Ahead, the same California firm behind ZYZZYVA’s new website. “ZYZZYVA’s original print design, created with care by Thomas Ingalls & Associates in 1985, was elegant and restrained,” Cogan writes in her editor’s note. “We kept in mind the clarity and the spare beauty of their vision as we sought to add other elements speaking to the pleasures of print, to the craft of bookmaking, and to the stimulating quietude of reading. We considered paper weight and tone, typesetting and titles, mingled serifs with sans-serifs, discussed the old-fashioned whimsy of endpapers — always with a view toward presenting stories, poetry, and art in the best way possible.”

Additionally – and probably most stunning for regular readers of ZYZZYVA is the cover design, which is reflective of the addition of the journal’s first-ever full-color art feature: photographic portraits by Katy Grannan and paintings by Julio Cesar Morales.