Dan over at Emerging Writers Network points out a new trend among literary journals, such as Fence and American Short Fiction, to “pay what you can” for a subscription to their journal. A smart move, I believe. Journals need some kind of marketing to jumpstart their subscription base.
How literary journal rejections that take over a year at least let you imagine that you made it past the first five readers (only to be squashed by the sixth).
A low-residency MFA program that went terribly, terribly, wrong.
An interview with Benjamin Percy, whose two short story collections (“Refresh, Refresh,” and “The Language of Elk”) have made waves.
Thanks for the blog reference. The post continues the next day. It’s mind-boggling.