Narrative has become the current gold standard for online literary magazines, wading in the fray and dominating the competition in a relatively short time. Well, watch out. Electric Literature just launched, and it looks like a doozy. True to the name, EL is distributing electronically, through a host of formats: e-book, Kindle, and iPhone, plus […]
The Daily Beast has an article about the five best literary journals, but two of the journals — N+1 and The Believer — I’d describe more as book reviews. One Story deserves its place on this list, but it’s interesting that Quick canadian pharmacy onhealthy Fiction gets a nod — as the name implies, it’s […]
In the spirit of Harper’s Readings, I offer this trivia about literary journals. Below are the journals that use the adjective “oldest” as a badge of pride. And no — despite readers’ assumptions that only one journal would use the term “oldest,” with others using only “older” or “not as young as most,” quite a […]
For all my readers who are writers, click on the link to the left under Pages: Journals Accepting Electronic Submissions. I found there wasn’t a good list up anywhere, and decided to make my own. It’s a list which will change fairly frequently, but I’ll try to keep it updated.
Columbia College Chicago has put together a database of literary journal information. It gives you a snapshot of the type of fiction/poetry published in each journal, with currently more than fifty journals listed. While Duotrope‘s best information is statistic based — how many submissions a journal receives and how quickly they reject/accept — and the […]
The Minnesota Review is in danger of shutting down, due to Carnegie Mellon’s intransigence regarding funding. It’s an age-old struggle between English departments squeezed for money, who want to shift funds to other seemingly more tangible benefits, and literary journals that are rarely self-supporting. David Kaufer, the head of the English department, insists that The […]
On this lovely Monday morning, I’d like to direct your attention to the left column, under “Pages.” I’ve added a new one: Ranking of Literary Journals. Although I realize the dangers of such an attempt and the impossibility of creating a list that will not be debated, I wrote this because when I was first […]
So recently I’ve been seeing a number of publications that seek out pre-published material. Think of it as a second chance for your piece to find an audience. Here are three different magazines focusing on round two. Second Writes is a new literary journal specializing in material already published. The publishers of the journal are […]
Interview with Jeanne Leiby from Sam Armstrong on Vimeo. I talked with Jeanne Leiby, editor of the Southern Review, about a weak-kneed and shaky-voiced solicitation of Philip Levine, Bret Lott’s aesthetic changes to the journal, a special issue about the circus, and cultivating the emerging writers of this generation. Interviewer: John Matthew Fox Videographer: Joel […]
[[ THIS IS THE 2008 LIST. GO TO THE UPDATED 2015 LIST. ]] Here are the top twelve online literary journals, at least according to the number of Million Writers Award nominations each journal has received in the last five years. Eclectica (31 nominations) Pindeldyboz (26) Agni (16) Strange Horizons (16) Word Riot (16) Narrative […]
