miCRo: “The News” by Laurie Blauner
From the very first line of “The News,” we’re plunged into an absurdist reality that we slowly come to realize is just reality as we know it.
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | May 28, 2025 | miCRo
From the very first line of “The News,” we’re plunged into an absurdist reality that we slowly come to realize is just reality as we know it.
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | May 23, 2025 | From our Contributors
Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner Erika Gallion Velasquez shares a playlist to accompany her prize-winning essay.
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | May 12, 2025 | Family Secrets, Special Features
In this folio to accompany issue 22.1, five writers explore family secrets.
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | May 9, 2025 | From our Contributors
Jaye Kranz shares this haunting excerpt of her poem, that takes us on journeys through email exchanges and ASCII landscapes that feel both déjà vu-like and oddly tranquil.
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | May 2, 2025 | Notes from the (Re)Design Studio
We recently reached a milestone: I handed our web design prototypes over to our developer.
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | Apr 2, 2025 | Interviews
An interview with novelist Adam Ehrlich Sachs, one of four writers participating in UC’s Fiction Festival
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | Apr 1, 2025 | Interviews
An interview with novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin, one of four writers participating in UC’s Fiction Festival
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | Jan 17, 2025 | Notes from the (Re)Design Studio
How does a literary journal shape a web presence that’s both accessible and pleasurable to use, without breaking the bank?
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | Sep 27, 2024 | Notes from the (Re)Design Studio
We made some surprising discoveries about the way people do–or don’t– use literary journals’ homepages.
Read MorePosted by Bess Winter | May 3, 2024 | Notes from the (Re)Design Studio
Literary journals have been slow to embrace technological change. Maybe we should rethink that.
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