Archive for July, 2007

Quick update before I leave for happy hour in Arlington: This morning, mail services came by and picked up the rest of the issues that we needed to send out to the contest entrants. That was a relief to get those out of here. Hopefully not too many will come back to us with...
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I finally had a chance to finish the newest issue of Redivider the other night. The Spring 2007 issue (4.2) is about 160 pages of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, and reviews, with the usual mix of art scattered throughout, all bound together beneath the simple cover by Helen Kim: an oil painting of a...
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I’ve been going through some of our emails and found the following fiction withdrawals: Mary Akers‘ story “Pygmalion (Recast)” will appear in the next issue of The Fiddlehead, Canada’s longest living literary journal. It is a quarterly published at the University of New Brunswick. Apparently, they are famous for their rejection notes. Ingrid Satelmajer’s...
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Well it’s been a little slow around here: I just got back from the Tin House Workshop, and Nat just left for a week of vacation, so we’re sort of getting in and out of the office less nowadays. Nat tells me he went ahead and mailed out this fall’s issue to our subscribers...
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Taylor Antrim, a past winner of our Winter Fiction Contest, just released his first novel, The Headmaster Ritual, in June. I meant to point this out earlier, but frankly, I got busy with other things. Anyhow, I haven’t been able to find any reviews of the book yet, but I did find a sort...
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It came to Wade’s attention a few weeks ago that there’s another journal out there called Phoebe. Apparently a few poets thanked him for accepting their poems, when in fact he hadn’t. After a bit of research, Wade figured it out. Apparently, the Women’s and Gender Studies department at SUNY-Oneonta publishes a semiannual journal,...
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Two more withdrawals to note on the fiction side of things: David Hammel recently withdrew a story titled “Tables” from consideration; the editors of The Distillery have picked it up for their next issue. The Distillery is a literary and creative arts journal out of Motlow State Community College in Lynchburg, TN. And according...
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Last week, NewPages posted a batch of reviews of literary journals here. Scroll down to read what Danielle LaVaque-Manty thought about our Spring 07 effort. (Hint: the reviews are in alphabetical order)
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