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New Lit on the Block :: Hawk & Handsaw

Hawk & Handsaw
The Journal of Creative Sustainability
Unity College, Maine

“Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the contributors to Hawk & Handsaw know which way the wind blows. They know that a sustainable lifestyle can be messy and meaningful that it requires reflection, deep philosophical commitment and, more often than not, a good sense of humor. To this end, Hawk & Handsaw celebrates the thinking and reflection that ground sustainable practices and practitioners.

Hawk & Handsaw is published annually and accepts poetry, nonfiction, stories, and visual art from Aug 15 – Nov 15.

Contributors to the first issue include written works by James Engelhardt, Jennifer A. Barton, John Lane, Luisa A. Igloria, Bibi Wein, Andrew Tertes, Bruce Pratt, Michael Bennett, Mimi White, Christie Stark,, Paul Sergi, David Trame, Holli Cederholm, Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Michael P. Branch; and visual works by: Suzanne Caporael, Christopher Becker, Karen Gelardi, Lisa B. Martin, Emily Brown, Mark Newport, Emily Brown, Christopher Becker, Emily Brown, Karen Gelardi, Emily Brown, Suzanne Caporael

Jeanne Lieby Sighting

Jeanne Lieby has been sighted in her new post as editor of The Southern Review: “The summer 2008 issue of The Southern Review is editor Jeanne Leiby’s first issue. She comes to Louisiana State University and the Baton Rouge community from Orlando, Florida, where she was previously the editor of The Florida Review.” Jeanne is also author of Downriver, a collection of short stories, some previously published in Fiction, New Orleans Review, The Greensboro Review, and Indiana Review, among others. The title comes from Jeanne’s having grown up “downriver” Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earned her MA from the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and her MFA from the University of Alabama. She has always been a great supporter of and steadfast advisor to our work here at NewPages, and we’re pleased as punch to see her happy in her new role.

CUTTHROAT’s Online Only Issue

What’s the issue with CUTTHROAT‘s online only issue? I posed a few questions to Pamela Uschuk, editor-in-chief, about why, the decision-making behind this, and what it might indicate for the future of CUTTHROAT (does going online mean no more print?). Her resonse gives some great insight into how a magazine is run and all the behind-the-scenes people and work required to maintain a quality publication. Here’s her response:

“I can tell you why we made the decision to publish one online edition and one print edition per year. The reason is mainly monetary, but there are side issues worth discussing.

CUTTHROAT is largely unfunded, so Bill Root and I pay to publish this magazine. We receive so many worthy submissions in poetry and short fiction, we felt that printing one issue a year didn’t allow us to publish enough of these wonderful submissions.

CUTTHROAT is truly a labor of love.

None of our editors/staff is paid – except for the judges we hire to judge our national literary prizes. All work is volunteer, and our editors work hard, reading through a mountain of material for each issue.

For the present, we decided that the best option for us is to publish one print edition (this past year’s issue ran to 180 pages!), and to publish one online edition per year. Because we don’t have to pay for reproduction of art work inside the magazine, this online edition allows us to feature visual artists as well as writers.

We choose one guest fiction editor each year to edit the online fiction submissions. This year’s guest editor was William Luvaas. Our poetry editor, William Pitt Root, edits for both online and print editions each year.

The future of CUTTHROAT is bright. We are all committed to publishing this magazine for the long term. We are old-fashioned and love the feel of the print edition in our hands, so we have no plans to to to an entirely online format. We are lucky, each year, to have interns to help us out with logging in submissions, creating data bases, mailings, etc. We also have two terrific web designers, Laura Prendergast and Kevin Watson, who help me maintain our website and set up the magazines.”

Volumes 3 and 5 of CUTTHROAT are available online in PDF format.

New Lit on the Block :: The Broome Review

From Editor Andrei Guruianu: “The Broome Review is a new national literary magazine that seeks to bring further local and national exposure to the Broome County, NY arts community by attracting writers and artists of many genres from across the country and across the world. The journal promotes cultural development in and outside the immediate area through the creation of a wider audience for the works of established and emerging artists.”

The annual publication accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and art July-November of each year and currently is accepting works through November for the Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry.

Authors included in Issue Number 1 whose works can also be found on The Broome Review website include Stephen Dunn, Timothy Liu, Katharyn Howd Machan, Carmen Firan, and Katherine Lien Chariott. Also available on the website is an artist gallery of works not found in the publication.

The Broome Review is also active in their community, in cooperation with The Center for Gender, Art & Culture, sponsoring several series of free creative writing workshops through the end of 2008. The workshops are led by magazine editors, and participants’ works will be considered for possible inclusion in a perfect-bound collection, titled Our Voices, to be published December 2008.

The Broome Review has really hit the ground running – c’mon everyone, catch up!

Kenyon Review Online Gets Sassy(er)

From Kenyon Review Editor David Lynn:

Kenyon Review Online will be a lively and innovative bridge between the world of the very best print literature and the emerging potential of the electronic universe. We’ll be offering innovative and delightful stories, poems, essays, memoirs, and reviews online. They will be renewed and refreshed regularly and then collected into electronic “issues” over time.

By and large, pieces appearing electronically will be distinct from work in the printed version of The Kenyon Review. I like to think of those pages as timeless. After all, readers turn to them for pleasure and enlightenment years and even decades after they first appear.

KR Online, however, will definitely be more timely, published more quickly than we’re able to do with print. And the pieces here will also be a little more experimental, a little more “out there.” Who knows?—maybe a little sassier too.

Of course, despite a new flavor, all the great writing on KRO will be held to the same high standards and expectations as The Kenyon Review. They’ll be considered as carefully, copyedited to our exacting standards. This will truly be the best writing from around the world, brought to you in this exciting new medium. After all, it’s our name, our tradition, our reputation on the line as well.

Online now: Read Bonnie Jo Campbell’s “Boar Taint” and Kevin Young’s “I Shall be Released” from the Summer 2008 issue of KR. Read new poetry from Christian Ward, an essay on poet Thom Gunn by Alfred Corn, a review of Daniel Hall’s Under Sleep by Janet Chalmers, and a review of Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Daniel Torday.

Question of Funding for Lit Mags

Susan of Rock and Sling recently wrote to inform me that they will be suspending publication of the magazine due to funding issues. As an independent non-profit, Rock and Sling is not alone in this struggle.

Susan writes: “Over the last few months we have been trying not to make the hard decision to suspend publication of Rock & Sling — pending procurement of long-term sustainable funding (tell me there is such a thing!). The problem of finances for independent presses runs deep. Without university backing to absorb some of the costs, the independent press must put an inordinate amount of time and energy into finding funding. We have found ourselves without sufficient partners and subscriptions alone haven’t proved to be enough. Suspending publication will allow our (all volunteer) staff to spend their time in the donations, grants, and endowments world more effectively.

“It seems a shame to have gotten this far and feel like we have established a niche for ourselves, only to have to stop production and turn all attention to finding support. I suppose any business major would have seen it coming from the get-go. Perhaps on your blog you can throw out the question of how independent presses can maintain financial stability. Where they can find funding—is govt. funding the answer? How does a journal like Rock & Sling (with a Christian bent to its content) get past the hyper vigilance of separation of church and state? Clearly we don’t want to be under any denomination—so church monies are not to be had.”

Susan also humorously added that it should be the law that writers who submit to lit mags should have to subscribe to at least one (another ongoing issue…). But, are subscriptions even enough in this day of increased postal rates and overall higher costs?

Any comments/advice? I’m sure this is an issue of concern for many. And, I already know what some will say – that even publications with university affiliation are not guarnteed funding. So, where does the money come from?

Mag Mailbag July 17

After a couple weeks of “host issues,” I am finally able to update the site!

Stop by NewPages Magazine Stand to find publisher descriptions and cover art from our sponsor magazines, and a list of all new issues of other literary magazines received here at NewPages World Headquarters.

Trying something new once again, this page will combine print and online lit mags.

The alternative magazines page has also been recently updated, but as we aren’t getting a lot of these coming through NPWHQ, and visitor traffic to this page is discouraging low, this may be the last time this page is updated. (Unless there’s some huge public outcry opposed to its elimination…)

If you’d like to be listed, as well as considered for review, be sure we get a copy of your publication (see our FAQ page for more information). For online lit mags, you only need to e-mail notification of when you have a new issue posted online: denisehill-at-newpages.com

Giveaway :: Indiana Review Funk Trivia

To celebrate Indiana Review 30.1 (summer 2008) – The Funk Feature – Associate Editor Nina Mamikunian let me know about the “Five Hump Days of Funk” going on at Under the Blue Light, IR’s blog.

“Here’s how it’s going to work: on Wednesday, we’ll ask a question, you’ll answer it an an e-mail to us, and we’ll select a winner based on response accuracy first, and then on response speed. The following Monday, we’ll announce who gets the copy of the issue.”

Click quickly, and get your free issue – it’s a dandy!

New Lit on the Block :: Oval

The Oval is a brand new literary magazine from the University of Montana published by undergraduate students.

Oval‘s website says they are “devoted to the publishing of writing and artwork from the University of Montana,” and the first issue features UofM students exclusively. However, future issues are open to submissions from undergraduate college and university students in the U.S. Their mission: “to provide a fresh outlet for new and young artists to express themselves, their ideas and passions to the world through the medium of print.”

Oval accepts e-mail submissions year-round: poetry (translations welcome), short stories, creative nonfiction, short plays, interviews, and visual art (such as photography, paintings, drawings, prints, cartoons, and graphic literature).

The Spring 2008 inagural issue is available online (pdf) and includes “Buss, Buss” by poet Laura Anne Nicole Foster, “Just Fine” by author Crystal Corrigan, and “Wolverine and Rabbitt” by artist Eli Suzukovich III.

How Do Lit Mags Survive? A Look at Thema

The Summer 2008 issue of Thema is the second of this quarterly’s celebration of 20 years in print. With the ongoing cycle of lit mags folding and new ones beginning, such anniversaries as this are indeed cause for celebration. It is also cause for curiosity: What does it take for a lit mag to survive?

One of the features in Thema are letters to the editor run at the end of the publication. I was particularly drawn to these, the first from Tina M. Klimas, whose work was actually rejected, but her letter is in praise of Thema‘s process: “Although you were writing to decline my piece, I appreciated knowing that my work came close… I wanted you to know that your encouragement is valued…getting the poem back gave me an opportunity to improve it… So, thank you for giving me the chance to make a better poem.”

The second letter is from Matthew Petti, who writes about leaving his job as a clinical psychologist to pursue his writing: “I gave myself five years to get something published; if I didn’t get a bite in five years, I told myself, I’d give up.”

It was Thema that published Petti’s first short story back in 2000 (“Toby Came Today”). This encouraged his pursuit, leading to an MFA, an Assistant Professorship teaching writing and literature, and more publishing. He sums up the whole of this experience: “I’ve loved this part of my life’s journey, and your thumbs-up was the encouragement I needed to begin.”

Looking back on the question of how lit mags survive, it would seem one way would be in treating prospective writers and their submissions with respect, whether accepted or rejected, and offering the opportunity for new and developing writers to be given the chance with a poem or a story – whether it be their only one or the first of many. When we talk about the “community” of writers and publications, there are many facets involved. Reading these letters and taking a look at the long history of Thema, community seems apt to describe what they have built, and a viable one at that.

New Lit on the Block :: Low Rent

Low Rent is an independent journal from New York (though distributed beyond), published six times a year. The frequency of publication sounds ambitious for a New Lit on the Block, but the format is modest – including (so far) two stories and eight poems every issue*. I’m not sure if there are plans to increase the content, but as a bimonthly, lower quantity and higher quality would seem to be the ideal balance to keep both writers and readers coming back. For the low-rent cover price – $4.95 – it is likely to keep attracting new and repeat readers.

Edited by W.P Hughes, Jeff Bernard, Robert Liddell, and Jason Koo, Issue 1 features stories by Trevor J. Houser and Tracy Jo Barnwell, poetry by Marc McKee (winner of the 2008 DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest) and Ciaran Berry, and design by Hiroko Mizuno. Issue 2 includes stories by Murray Farish and Robert Taylor Brewer, and poetry by Sasha West and Jason Bredle, cover design by Hiroko Mizuno, inspired by EMIGRE. Excerpts of pieces from both issues are available online* (click on covers).

Low Rent is accepting submissions via e-mail of stories under 6k and poetry. Small stipends are paid to writers as it becomes available*. It’s worth reading their creatively smarmy FAQs to get to know them better, and just to put a smile on your face.

*Updated information via Bill Hughes at Low Rent (7/11).

Can Your Writing Do That?

I liked this comment from the Editor’s Notes of the latest issue of Tin House:

“We are frequently asked what we look for in a story or poem. The answer is simple: To see things anew, to be reminded of what it is to be alive. To miss our subway stop because we are so consumed with what we are reading. That’s all we ask for. And we hope that you will find the same.”

They make it sound so simple, don’t they? I know exactly the kind of writing they’re talking about, and I imagine it is neither simple to write, nor as an editor, easy to select. But, as a reader, greatly appreciated.

New Lit on the Block :: Oranges & Sardines

“Menendez Publishing introduces Oranges & Sardines, the new print magazine dedicated to spanning the two genres of poetry and art in an effort to fuse both communities in a fresh and exciting way. The staff of Oranges & Sardines are poets and artists who are dedicated not only to publishing the best content submitted in both genres, but also to the aesthetic appearance of our magazine. We welcome submissions from the established as well as the emerging and unknown.” (No sim/subs.) The 8×10 format is extremely well styled in this quarterly publication, and the editors ask that writers consider this format when submitting works.

The Summer 2008 issue (1.1) is edited by David Krump, Andy Nicholson, Meghan Punschke, Didi Menendez, and features:

Artists Ethan Diehl, Marcia Molnar, Holly Picano, Cheryl Kelley, Jennifer Wildermuth, L.D. Grant, Niel Hollingsworth, Steph Chard, Jeremy Baum, Jeff Filipski and E.B. Goodale.

Poems by Blake Butler, Dana King, J.P. Dancing Bear, Josh Olsen, Steffi Drewes, Matthew Hittinger, Patrick Leonard, Diana Adams and Graeme Mullen.

Short story by Kirk Curnutt. Reviews by Miguel Murphy, Michael Parker, Cheryl Townsend, Courtney Campbell and Jim Knowles.

Columns by Talia Reed and Caridad McCormick.

Grace Cavalieri interviews Mark Doty.

New Lit on the Block :: Canarium Journal

Canarium is the occasional journal of Canarium Books. The first issue, Canarium 1, was published in early 2008 at the University of Michigan, and is sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the International Institute, Arts on Earth, the MFA in Creative Writing Program, and Rackham Graduate School. Two of Canarium’s editors, Joshua Edwards and Nick Twemlow have co-edited an independent occasional journal, The Canary, with Anthony Robinson since 2002.

Issue 1 includes: Arda Collins, Takashi Hiraide, Sawako Nakayasu, Ed Roberson, Alan Gilbert, Suzanne Doppelt, Cole Swensen, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Suzanne Buffam, Betsy Andrews, Erica Bernheim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Carter, Eula Biss, Srikanth Reddy, Philip Jenks, Simone Muench, Dunya Mikhail.

“We are dedicated to publishing poetry by established and emerging authors from the United States and abroad.”

New Lit on the Block :: First City Review

First City Review is “a quarterly journal of pop culture, fiction, essay, poetry, travel, and review that covers the contemporary and idiosyncratic experience of life in Philadelphia and the world beyond.”

Issue 1 features new fiction from Thaddeus Rutkowski, Paula Bomer, Johannah Rodgers, Brooke Comer, Leslie Bienen, Alexa Beattie and Chad Willenborg. Poetry from John Grey, Bryon D. Howell, Youssef Rakha and James R. Whitley. Essay by James Wagner. And featuring new photography work from Heather Weston, found photos, and sketches and pencil drawings.

FCR accepts submissions year-round in fiction, essay, poetry, criticism, review and travel.

Backwards City Throws in the Towel – Permanently?

It seems a bit odd, but shortly after posting an “Original Editor’s Farewell” on the site, which spoke of the new blood taking over teh publicaiton, this was posted on the Backwards City Review Blog, Thursday, March 20, 2008:

“And With That…
And with that, I have some sad news. Backwards City Review is suspending operation as of its 7th issue, which is now back from the printer and being mailed out shortly. There’ll be more details forthcoming, but for now let me say, on behalf of all the editors, past, past, and future, it’s been a lot of fun, and thanks.”

I dropped BCR an e-mail to ask if this was permanent or not, as so often there is “hiatus” status while publications re-organize themselves, but I have not heard back from them. Sadly, in that founding editor’s farewell was the following comment:

“Yes, the founders of the BCR are stepping down. Our city is ripe for regime change. Citizens with pitchforks. Rhythmic chants. But we have not thrown the baby out with the bathwater. This little toddler will continue, there’s a new mayor in town, and remember, it takes a village. Another squad of hungry editors, right at this very moment, is waiting to get their hands on the next batch of oddities that you so crave. The magazine is in excellent hands. Our neighborhood, our city, our backwards nation is strong. It will prosper, thrive, probably get better, as hard as that is to imagine. And if it doesn’t, we’ll bash the kneecaps of each of those youngbloods.”

I don’t think I want to know if any knees were bashed, but I would hope there is some truth to the strength that can prosper and thrive, and that we might not yet have seen the last of BCR. If not, then perhaps the message is one much more prophetically overarching – as one lit mag fades away, I sit here with three inaugural issues of the new lit mag ventures, the next generation of hope and high energy. It is the way of our world.

New Lit on the Block :: First City Review

“First City Review is a quarterly journal of pop culture, fiction, essay, poetry, travel, and review that covers the contemporary and idiosyncratic experience of life in Philadelphia and the world beyond. We accept submissions year-round in fiction, essay, poetry, criticism, review and travel. All work must be accompanied by an SASE and cover letters are encouraged.”

Issue 1 features new fiction from Thaddeus Rutkowski, Paula Bomer, Johannah Rodgers, Brooke Comer, Leslie Bienen, Alexa Beattie and Chad Willenborg. Poetry from John Grey, Bryon D. Howell, Youssef Rakha and James R. Whitley. Essay by James Wagner. And featuring new photography work from Heather Weston, found photos, and sketches and pencil drawings from some of our friends.

New Lit on the Block :: The Farallon Review

“The Farallon Review is a new literary review featuring contemporary, engaging, and literary prose fiction with a modern view, a classic sensibility, and a west-coast flavor. The Premier Issue contains stories by Jamey Genna, Abeer Hoque, Ken Rodgers, Lynka Adams, and S.J. Sasken.Read about river rafting in the Rocky Mountains, weddings in India, soldiers seeking comfort, families struggling with their past, pigeons mirroring the emotional wasteland around them. We are currently reviewing submissions for our second issue.”

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Created through an imaginative collaboration between faculty and students in the Writing, Literature and Film program at ASU Polytechnic, the magazine is student edited, student written, and student maintained. Superstition Review is published twice yearly in May and December. Submissions (art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction) read fall (September and October) and spring (February and March).

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Bellingham Review Adapts

Brenda Miller, Editor of Bellingham Review, writes in issue 60 of recent changes at BR, brought on by a number of factors, not the least of which include the increased costs of both printing and mailing two issues a year. In response to this, BR shows an adaptive turn:

“So, beginning in 2008, the Bellingham Review will experiment with publishing and mailing only one print edition a year (a hefty edition, with same high production values you’ve come to expect), and we will finally overcome our technology phobias and work on making the Bellingham Review website a much more impressive and interactive venue for our readers. We plan to post more of our content online, with special features—such as current book reviews and author interviews—available only in this format…” [read the full letter here]

BR isn’t the first to make this response in the face of hard economic times (or should I say “harder” since the MO of small press endeavors is always hard). As much as we did, will continue, and have every right to grumble and complain about the plight of “small publications,” and fight against rising costs, for those who can respond as BR has, the change can create new avenues. Better? Time will tell, but for now: “You think I’d crumble, you think I’d lay down and die? Oh no, not I. I will survive…”

New Lit on the Block :: Southern California Review


Southern California Review, formerly known as the Southern California Anthology, is the literary journal of the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California. It has been publishing fiction and poetry since 1982 and now also accepts submissions of creative nonfiction, plays, and screenplays. Printed every October and April with original cover artwork, every issue contains new, emerging, and established authors.

Unsolicited manuscripts are read year-round; response time for submissions is three to six months. Sim/subs accepted. No queries required.

The inagural issue – Volume 1 Number 1, Spring 2008 – was released late April under Editor-in-Chief Annlee Ellingson, and features:

Cover art by Amber Arseneau
Fiction by Gary Fincke, Judith Freeman, and Michael Buckley
Poetry by Richard Foerster, Bonnie Louise Barrett, Susanna Rich, Jennifer Jean, Daniel Polikoff, Moira Mageson, and Paul Brancato
Nonfiction by Christopher Buckley
Stageplay by Lee Wochner
An Interview with Nathan Englander
And prize-winners in One-Act Play – Kristna Sisco Romero, and Poetry – Elisabeth Murawski, CB Follett, Leonard Kress.

SCR is also holding a fiction contest, deadline August 31, 2008, and a poetry contest, deadline December 31, 2008.

New to U.S. :: The Drawbridge, London

Alice Waugh, Commissioning Editor of The Drawbridge, London, wrote recently to give us the heads up that their publication will be jumping the pond to make its way to the U.S. later this year. She writes:

“The Drawbridge is an independent quarterly magazine, established in 2006 with the aim of delivering wit, thought and reflection. It takes the form of a full-colour broadsheet newspaper. It has attracted written contributions from Isabel Allende, J.G. Ballard, John Berger, Hugo Chavez, Tishani Doshi, Terry Eagleton, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Ondaatje, DBC Pierre, David Rieff, Slavoj Zizek and many others, including a number of emerging writers, along with a wide array of top photography and drawing from renowned image-makers including Edward Burtynsky, Paul Fryer, Robert Polidori, David Shrigley and Joel Sternfeld. Each issue has a theme. Earlier topics include Failure, Freedom, Risk, and Memory. Our next issue, on Rage is published in May.”

We’ll look forward to seeing this one hit the stands!

Ontario Review Retires after 34 Years

Posted on Crossing the Border: Joyce Carol Oates News and Opinion
March 14, 2008 by Randy Souther

“With the passing of its editor, Raymond J. Smith, Ontario Review itself will cease publication with the forthcoming Spring 2008 issue. Smith began Ontario Review in 1974 in Windsor, Ontario, with his wife Joyce Carol Oates as associate editor; the Review later moved with its editors to Princeton, NJ…” Read the rest here.

Share Food Writings on Alimentum

Alimentum Journal, the only literary review all about food, invites you to share your food writings: “We’d love for you to post short pieces of your food thoughts on our new website Bulletin Board. We’re looking for menupoems and secret food confessions. 250 words tops. Post for the world to read (and possibly comment upon) and and for Alimentum Editors to peruse.”

New Journal :: Conclave

Conclave is an annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and prose poems; also black and white photographs, and excerpts from plays: monologues, scenes, single acts, or one-act plays. Conclave seeks writing that centers around well-crafted characters—complex and authentic: like Leopold Bloom, Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Hamlet, Miss Havisham, Hannibal Lecter, Hester Prynne, and others.

Issuu :: Online Book Publishing

Issuu
“Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, catalogs, documents, and stuff you’d normally find on print. It’s the place where YOU become the publisher: Upload a document, it’s fast, easy, and totally FREE. Find and comment on thousands of great publications. Join a living library, where anyone finds publications about anything and share them with friends.”

I was introduced to this site thanks to Keyhole, who has put their first two issues on the site. It looks just like the magazine, and as you view it, you can see the pages visibly turning. You can also “rate” publications and leave feedback, among other networking features.

It’s fun, easy to upload and use (except search categories are a bit limited right now – a lot getting glommed into a few categories). Good for mags to keep the print “look and feel” – even online. Also good for mags that run out of issues before the next one is out.

Downside? Searchability of content using tools like Google. Might be able to find the publication itself, but not content – ? It would be a good duplicate resource for readers, but probably best to keep key searchables (like author names) on individual sites.

Pick Your Price Subscriptions to Fence

An intriguing marketing move from Fence Magazine, good until April 30, 2008:

“We at Fence love Radiohead, and so jumped at the chance to buy their newest album (I’m so old I call it an “album”) at the price of our choosing. One of us paid $1 for it; another of us paid $17 for it; these seemed like fair prices. We have heard some paid two months’ salary.

“And now we’re offering a similar opportunity for you to choose your own price for subscribing to Fence (or re-upping your current subscription). It’s very important to us that Fence have readers–that the work inside Fence have readers, really–and so we want you to pay us whatever you want for your year’s subscription.”

The page is their standard donation page with a PayPal link: here. It will be interesting to see how this works out for Fence.

Poem :: David Rabeeya

Moments and Memories
by Dr. David Rabeeya
Featured on Poetica Magazine, February 2008

I. In Iraq

My placenta has tasted the aroma of my mother’s Mesopotamian cardamon
Its aroma has been planted in me in the Baghdadi Bedouim market
My nostrils still breathe its mist in my everyday coffee and tea
When she separated its shells from its grains
I have witnessed the splitting of my world

II. In Israel
The seeds have traveled in my pockets to the Promised Land
It has dried and withered in the sun
No more rivers to quench
My appetite for the yellow cardamon
Its black seed has turned brown and pale

III. In America
I saw it in a book of Iraqi recipes
Shinning in nearby supermarkets in glossy jars
It was idle, almost quiet to its grain

IV. Now
Only leaves of cardamon are lying now on my suburban shelf
And I can easily read traces of my records in my empty coffee

Lit Mag & Alt Mag Mailbag :: March 13

Yet another shift from the blog to the site. The Lit Mag and Alt Mag Mailbag will be regularly updated on the NewPages.com site: NewPages Magazine Stand. This will include new issues of literary and alternative magazine recieved here at NewPages World Headquaters.

I will blog when new postings have been made to the Magazine Stand. The stand will include hotlinks, longer descriptions from NewPages sponsors, and a short note for all other mags. This will allow for more information to be included for each magazine, sometimes even sooner than the mags have it on their own web sites and sooner than in bookstores/libraries! Yes, we’re that good sometimes…

Oxford American Holds Strong – Again

Office Manager Plunders ‘Oxford American’ Magazine
By Edward Nawotka
Publishers Weekly
2/27/2008

The saga of the Oxford American magazine, which has twice ceased publication after financial setbacks, added yet another episode when earlier this month the magazine’s office manager was arrested after being accused of embezzling $30,000. The woman, Renae Maxwell, may face as much as 30 years in prison; she has been released on $15,000 bail and awaits trial.

“We’ve now found out she may have taken as much as $70,000,” said founder and editor Marc Smirnoff. “She’s left us with just $3,000 in the bank.”

He doesn’t believe restitution is an option. “I just don’t expect Renae has any of the money left: she bought cars, got a tattoo, spent it on a ‘sweet sixteen’ party for her daughter at the best hotel in town. Who knows, she might have even used the money she stole from us to pay for bail,” he said.

Originally established in 1992 in Oxford, Miss. with the assistance of John Grisham, Oxford became a widely respected showcase for Southern writing and went on to win numerous National Magazine Awards. When Grisham ended his support it closed for a year, was bought by At Home Media Group, based in Little Rock, Ark., and revived, but was shuttered again one year later. In 2004 the magazine was again re-launched, this time as a non-profit affiliated with the University of Central Arkansas, which put up the money to keep it going. The magazine has about 19,000 paid subscribers and a print run of 35,000 copies.

The new twist has made the resilient Smirnoff even more determined and, surprisingly, optimistic. “I’m confident that this year we’ll get an infusion of cash. I don’t know why, I just am,” he said. “Soon, I know we’ll be able to pay back the money the university loaned us and begin paying our writers better.” Publisher Ray Wittenberg concurred. “This has been a set-back, but not one that we can’t overcome,” he said.

Smirnoff said that despite the lack of ready cash, the quarterly magazine will ship its April issue on time. Other forthcoming editions will cover Southern film and the magazine’s popular music issue. In the fall, the University of Arkansas Press will publish The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing, the second anthology to emerge from the magazine.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: March 9

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68
Winter 2008
Biannual

The Dos Passos Review
Volume 4 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Fairy Tale Review
The Violet Issue
2007
Annual

Habitus
“Buenos Aires”
Number 3
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

Jubilat
14
2007
Biannual

Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse
Number 58
Autumn 2007

Lilies and Cannonballs Review
Volume 3 Number 2
2008
Biannual

Marginalia
Volume 3 Issue 2
Fall 2007
Annual

The New Quarterly
Number 105
Winter 2008

Northwest Review
Volume 46 Number 1
2008
Triannual

Lit Mag Mailbag :: Feb 24

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Columbia Poetry Review
Number 20
Spring 2007
Annual

Forge
“little people opening things”
Volume 1 Issue 2
Winter 2007
Biannual

Greensboro Review
Number 83
Spring 2008
Biannual

Harpur Palate
Volume 7 Issue 2
Winter 2008
Biannual

International Poetry Review
Volume 33 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Manoa
A Pacific Journal of International Writing
“Maps of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination”
Edited by Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez
Volume 19 Number 2
Winter 2007
Biannual

The Missouri Review
“Fractured”
Volume 30 Number 4
Winter 2007
Quarterly

New South
(Formerly GSU Review)
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

Notre Dame Review
Number 25
Winter/Spring 2008
Biannual

One Story
“Beanball” by Ron Carlson
Issue Number 99 & 100
2007
Monthly

Pleiades
Volume 28 Number 1
2008
Biannual

Quick Fiction
Issue 12
Fall 2007
Biannual

Rock and Sling
A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith
Volume 4 Issue 2
Winter 2008
Biannual

Salmagundi
Number 157
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Spinning Jenny
Number 10
2007

Sport Literate
Volume 5 Issue 1
2007
Biannual

Western Humanities Review
Volume 62 Number 1
Winter 2008
Biannual

Witness
“The Modern Writer as Witness”
Volume 21
2007
Annual

Zahir
A Journal of Speculative Fiction
Issue 15
Spring 2008
Triannual

New Online Lit Mag :: Wigleaf

“Just-launched Wigleaf features stories under 1000 words. Updating regularly (at least once a week), we hope to showcase the diverse possibilities of a genre we see as still in emergence. In our first four weeks, we’ve run work by Joe Wenderoth, Debora Kuan, Dawn Corrigan and Leah Browning, and Karyna McGlynn. Forthcoming are stories by Pedro Ponce and Pirooz Kalayeh. Stop by!”

Update :: Iron Horse Literary Review

iron_horse News from Iron Horse Literary Review:

In January, we’ll begin publishing five slim chapbooks and an annual summer-read issue (a double-issue) instead of our usual, traditional two-issues-per-year. So our subscribers will receive the best fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography we can find, packaged in beautiful books, every August, October, December, February, April, and May. And we’ll be seeking the work from writers like you to fill our six new issues! AND we still pay our contributors: $100 per prose piece; $40 per poem.

Thematic and Open Issues

In addition to increasing the number of issues we produce, we’ll be designating three of our annual six issues as special publications.

• HOLIDAY IRON HORSE: Once a year, we’ll release a holiday Iron Horse, celebrating a designated holiday of our choosing, like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, etc.

• NaPoMo IRON HORSE: Every year in April, we’ll publish an issue in honor of National Poetry Month; it will contain poems by the most respected poets writing today and by
several up-and-coming poets who are starting to garner critical attention.

• SUMMER IRON HORSE: Every year in May, we’ll release a summer issue, one that is slightly longer than the other five. It will contain some great prose and our annual book review section, featuring our editorial staffs summer read recommendations.

Finally, every year, we’ll publish one or two additional thematic issues and one or two open issues: For example, in 2008, our February issue is a Valentine Issue (perfect to send to a loved one as a Valentine), and our August issue will feature manuscripts about school experiences, class reunions, teachers and students.

Email [email protected] for themes and open issue information.

Discovered Voices Award

Each year, Iron Horse gives out three $100-prizes to graduate students currently enrolled in AWP-affiliated programs. These programs may nominate one poet (3-5 poems), one fiction writer (one story up to 20 pages), and one nonfiction writer (one essay up to 20 pages). We will select a winner from each genre. Applications must be accompanied by a letter from the program’s director, and they should include the students’ contact information and bio statements. Applications are due Feb. 15 of each year.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: February 12

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Antioch Review
“Breaking the Rules”
Volume 66 Number 1
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Ascent
Volume 31 Number 1
Fall 2007
Triannual

Barn Owl Review
Number 1
2008
Annual

The Bloomsbury Review
Volume 28 Issue 1
Jan/Feb 2008
Bimonthly

Canteen
Issue 2
2008
Quarterly

Connecticut Review
“Underneath Story”
Volume 30 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Dirty Goat
18
2008
Biannual

ep;phany
“Derek Walcott, Elean Ferrante & much more”
Winter/Spring 2007-2008
Biannual

Fiddlehead
Number 234
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Glimmer TrainIssue 66
Spring 2008
Quarterly

Jabberwock Review
Volume 28 Number 2
Summer/Fall 2007
Biannual

The Journal of Ordinary Thought
“The Daily Grind”
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Kaleidoscope
“Life Stories II”
Number 56
Winter/Spring 2008
Biannual

Meridian
Issue 20
January 2008
Biannual

Michigan Quarterly Review
Volume 47 Number 1
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Natural Bridge
“The Temptation Issue”
Number 18
Fall 2007
Biannual

New Madrid
“Mexico in the Heartland: featuring The Mexican Mural Project”
Volume 3 Number 1
Winter 2008
Biannual

Salt Hill
20
Winter 2008
Biannual

The Yale Review
Volume 96 Number 1
January 2008
Quarterly

Lit Mag Grab Bag :: Picked Up AWP 2008

Our lost luggage finally made it home, and I *finally* had time to sort through it all. This is only a fraction of those mags represented at AWP – given the bag/weight restrictions at the airport, we had to really limit ourselves this year…

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Broken Bridge Review
Volume 2
2007
Annual

Cannibal
Issue 3
Winter 2008

Copper Nickel
Issue 9
2007-2008
Biannual

Evansville Review
Volume 17
2007
Annual

Florida English
Volume 5
2007
Annual

Florida Review
Volume 32 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Forklift, Ohio
“A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety”
Number 18
2008
Biannual-ish

The Fourth River
Issue 4
Autumn 2007
Biannual

Grist
University of Tennessee
Issue 1
2008

Hobart
“Hobart in America” on one side
“Candian Hobart” on the flip side
(or vice versa)
Number 8,
Late 2007
Biannual

Juked
Issue Number 5
Winter 2007/2008

Measure
An Annual Review of Formal Poetry
Volume 2
2007
Annual

Mid-American Review
Volume 28 Number 1
2007
Biannual

Mikrokosmos
Volume 53
Spring 2007
Annual

Phoebe
Volume 37 Number 1
Spring 2008
Biannual

The Pinch
Volume 28 Issue 1
Spring 2008
Biannual

Smartish Pace
Issue 15
April 2008
Biannual

Tin House
The Dead of Winter
Volume 9 Number 2
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Turnrow
Volume 5 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

The Tusculum Review
Volume 3
2007
Annual

Washington Square
Winter/Spring 2008
Biannual

Weber
The Contemporary West
(Formerly Weber Studies)
Volume 24 Number 2
Winter 2008
Biannual

Sad to See You Go :: Small Sprial Notebook

From Small Sprial Notebook: “After six years of publication, articles in major newspapers and magazines, and solicitations from top agents and publishers, which have helped our writers score agents and book deals, I’m sad to announce that SSN will cease publication on 12.31.07. We are not reviewing or publishing any new work, so please do not submit work for consideration. Thank you for supporting Small Spiral Notebook! If you have any queries, please email them to: editor – at – smallspiralnotebook -dot- com.”

Lit Mag Mailbag :: Jan 20

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Bateau
Volume 1 Issue 1
2007
Biannual

Beloit Poetry Journal
“Split This Rock” Chapbook Issue
Volume 58 Number 3
Spring 2008
Quarterly

The Chattahoochee Review
Special Focus: Japanese Fiction
Volume 28 Number 1
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Court Green
5
2008
Annual
Dossier: Sylvia Plath

Cream City Review
Siblinghood
Volume 31 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Dimensions2
“A bilingual magazine for contemporary German-language literature in English Translation”
Volume 9 Numbers 1&2
2007
Triannual

Fence
Volume 1 Numbers 1 & 2
Fall/Winter 2007-08
Biannual

Harvard Review
Number 32 and Number 33
2007
Biannual

Image
“Art, Faith, Mystery”
Number 56
Winter 2007-08
Quarterly

The Kenyon Review
Volume 30 Number 1
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Keyhole
Issue 1
Fall 2007

Knock
“Hurt on Purpose”
Number 8
2007
Biannual

Main Street Rag
Volume 13 Number 1
Winter 2008
Quarterly

The Malahat Review
Number 161
December 2007
Quarterly

Margie
“The American Journal of Poetry”
Volume 6
2007
Annual

New England Review
Volume 28 Number 4
2007
Quarterly

One Less
“Film”
Issue 3
Fall 2007
Annual

Poetry
Volume 191 Number 4
January 2008
Monthly

Poetry Flash
Numbers 299/300
Fall2007/Winter 2007
Bimonthly

The Rambler
Volume 5 Number 1
Jan-Feb 2008
Bi-monthly

Shenandoah
Volume 57 Number 3
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Short Story
Number 3
Fall 2007
Biannual

The Spoon River Poetry Review
Volume 32 Number 2
Summer/Fall 2007
Biannual

Writers Ask
Glimmer Train Stories
Issue 38
Quarterly

Lit Mag Mailbag :: January 2

American Book Review
Volume 29 Number 2
January/February 2008
Bimonthly

College Literature
“General Issue: Essays about Literature”
Volume 35 Issue 1
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Ecotone
Volume 3 Number 1
Fall 2007
Biannual

Hollins Critic
“Beautiful Lamptown: The Writings of Dawn Powell”
Volume 44 Number 5
December 2007
Five Times Yearly

The Journal
“Narrative & Science Issue”
Volume 31 Number 2
Autumn/Winter 2007
Biannual

The MacGuffin
Volume 24 Number 1
Fall 2007
Triannual

The Massachusetts Review
Volume 48 Number 4
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Other Voices
“Special Issue: All-Chicago (Fiction)”
Volume 21 Number 47
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

Salamander
Volume 13 Number 1
2007
Biannual

South Dakota Review
Volume 45 Number 3
Fall 2007
Quarterly

The Threepenny Review
Issue 112
Winter 2008
Quarterly

World Literature Today
“Performance Poetry”
Volume 82 Number 1
January-February 2008
Quarterly

Lit Mag Mailbag :: December 18

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6×6
Issue 14
Fall 2007
Triannualish

Alimentum
Issue 5
Winter 2008
Biannual
The Literature of Food

The Antigonish Review
Number 151
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

College Literature
General Issue
Volume 35 Issue 1
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Crazyhorse
Number 72
Fall 2007
Biannual

Creative Nonfiction
Essays from patients, their family members, and caregivers
Number 33
2007
Quarterly

Drash
Volume 1
Spring/Summer 2007
Annual

Eclipse
Volume 18
Fall 2007
Annual

Ecotone
Volume 3 Number 1
Fall 2007
Biannual

The Georgia Review
“Special Feature: Harry Crews Autobiography and Letters”
Volume 61 Number 4
Winter 2007
Quarterly

GreenPrints
“The Weeder’s Digest”
Number 72
Winter 2007-08
Quarterly

Iconoclast
Issue 97
2007
Biannual

Isotope
Issue 5 Number 2
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

The Literary Review
Featuring: PEN Translation Fund Grant Recipients
Volume 51 Number 1
Fall 2007
Quarterly

One Story
“Fire Season” by Amelia Kahaney
Issue Number 98
2007
Monthly

Open Minds Quarterly
“Your psychosocial literary journal”
Volume 9 Issue 3
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Paterson Literary Review
Issue 36
2008-2009
Annual

Poetry
Volume 191 Number 3
December 2007
Monthly

Poetry East
Number 60
Fall 2007
Biannual

Prairie Schooner
Volume 81 Number 4
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Redivider
Volume 5 Issue 1
Fall 2007
Biannual

Ruminate
“faith in literature and art”
Issue 6
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Southern Humanities Review
Volume 41 Number 4
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Western Humanities Review
“What is City?”
Volume 61 Number 3
Fall 2007
Biannual

Zyzzyva
Volume 23 Number 3
Winter 2007
Triannual

Lit Mag Mailbag :: December 12

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American Short Fiction
Volume 10 Issue 39
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Beloit Poetry Journal
Volume 58 Number 2
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Brick
Issue 80
Winter 2007
Biannual

Freefall
Canada’s magazine of Exquisite Writing
Volume 17 Number 2
Winter/Spring 2007-08
Biannual

Gulf Coast
Volume 20 Number 1
Winter 2007
Spring 2008
Biannual

Louisville Review
Number 62
Fall 2007
Biannual

Mississippi Review
New Fiction Issue
Volume 35 Number 3
Fall 2007
Biannual

New Letters
Volume 74 Number 1
2007-2008
Quarterly

Rattle
Conversation with Tess Gallagher, Arthur Sze; Tribute to Nurses; Rattle Poetry Prize Winner
Volume 13 Number 2
Winter 2007
Biannual

relief
A Quarterly Christian Expression
Volume 1 Issue 4
Summer 2007
Quarterly

River Styx
75
2007
Triannual

The Sewanee Review
“Ancestral Voices of War”
Volume 115 Number 4
Fall 2007
Quarterly

subTerrain
The Best in Outlaw Literature: “The Best of Campus Writing from Coast to Coast”
Volume 5 Number 47
2007
Biannual

Lit Mag Mailbag :: December 10

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32 Poems
Volume 5 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Absinthe
Number 8
2007
Biannual

Agni
Number 66
2007
Biannual

Atlanta Review
Volume 13 Number 2
Spring/Summer 2007
Biannual

Bellingham Review
30th Anniversary Edition
Volume 30 Numbers 1 & 2 Issue 59
Spring/Fall 2007
Biannual

Chicago Review
Volume 53 Number 2/3
Autumn 2007
Triannual

Colorado Review
“The Winner of the 2007 Neddligan Prize for Short Fiction”
Volume 34 Number 3
Fall/Winter 2007
Triannual

Conjunctions
49
2007
Biannual

Contemporary Verse 2
The Open Issue
Volume 30 Issue 2
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

Crab Creek Review
Volume 21 Number 1
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

Diner
A Journal of Poetry: Final Issue
Volume 7
2007
Biannual

Fiddlehead
Number 233
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Field
Number 77
Fall 2007
Biannual

Glimmer Train
Issue 65
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Ibbetson Street Press
Issue 22
November 2007

Knockout
Volume 1 Issue 1
Spring 2008
Biannual

The New Centennial Review
Volume 7 Number 2
Fall 2007
Triannual

/nor
(New Ohio Review)
Issue 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Poet Lore
Volume 102 Numbers 3/4
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

The Rambler
Volume 4 Number 6
Nov-Dec 2007
Bi-monthly

Tarpaulin Sky
Issue 13 Print Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2007
Online mag that prints issue

Thereby Hangs a Thread
Issue 2
Summer 2007
Biannual

Tuesday: An Art Project
Poems Photographs Prints (Postcard Packet)
Volume 1 Number 2
Fall 2007

New Lit on the Block :: Knockout

“Knockout is here, and the first issue features some of the finest writers working today. Half of the proceeds from sales of issue one will go to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, an organizaiton established to help those affected by the civil war in Sudan, and a portion of the proceeds from teh sale of future issues will go to other charitable causes.

“The first issue, all poetry, includes work by a number of well-known writers, including Marvin Bell, Thomas Lux, Todd Boss, Aaron Smith, Carl Phillips, Carol Guess, Larissa Szporluk, Laurie Blauner, Lynn Levin, Timothy Liu, Jonathan Williams, Thomas Meyer, Jim Elledge, Christopher Hennessy, Ronald H. Bayes, CAConrad, Gerard Wozek, Jeff Mann, Michael Montlack, Jeffery Beam, Robert Bly, Ger Killeen, Denver Butson, Dan Pinkerton, Charles Jensen, Brent Goodman, Theodore Enslin, Alberto Rios, David Mason, Billy Collins, Mabel Yu, Kim Lambright and Joseph Massey, among others.

“Knockout is considering poems for #2 & #3. Translations are welcome, as long as you have permission of the author (as long as they are still kicking), and we’re particularly interested in translations in German, Chinese, the Nordic Languages, and translations from the Middle East.”

On Vacation :: Diner Literary Journal

“Diner is going on a hiatus – the “On Vacation” sign is taped to the window. We are feeling the financial burden of printing, mailing and lack of staff. The cost of mailing alone went up over 30% last May. Diner as an independent journal has been a labor of love done by volunteers. The Tips jar doesn’t begin to cover the printer, the postage, the envelopes, and all the other sundry expenses. We have survived for 7 years – 2 issues printing astounding work – by the skin of our teeth. We thank each and every one of you who have submitted your work – and all those who have subscribed at whatever level – you all count. I wish I could hold a party and make my special blackberry pancakes, with a side of home fries, for all of you.

“Nevertheless we are going out with an explosion of outstanding poetry, fiction, essays and art. Of particular notice is award-winning author Adria Bernard ‘s elegy to her teacher and friend Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota who died October 22, 2002, in a plane crash. Also of note are our two Blue Plate Specials: James Dempsey with new translations of Chaucer’s court poetry and Martha Carlson-Bradley, with an excerpt from her latest manuscript The Sea Called Fruitfulness, poems inspired by the two Jesuits who first mapped the moon.

“Our last issue proclaimed, ‘Our intention is not only to preserve the light (of discourse in the midst of increasing darkness) that shines today, but to increase the brightness of that light with every issue.’ It is with great sadness that the lights of Diner are flickering off.

“There is a chance that Diner will open again as an online journal or a print journal if we can find a school or sponsor willing to finance what has turned out to be one the best journals in the country. We are proud of every issue we published and whatever happens, we have no regrets. All the effort has been worth it.”

Eve Rifkah & Michael Milligan