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Submission Trends

Submission Trends

Just for kicks, here is a list of trends that we’ve been noticing in our submission stacks lately: Stories set in the 50s and 60s: It’s fun to insist that this is due to the popularity of Madmen, even if it’s not true. Stories about ghosts: And we published one of these—Micah Riecker’s “The Drowned …

“In-Between Places”: Why We Like It

“In-Between Places”: Why We Like It

Here in our dusty corner of McMicken Hall, our ragtag group of editors, faculty, and graduate-student volunteers spend a lot of time passing around and discussing the work writers send us. Sometimes one of us stands on a rickety chair and effuses ebulliently about a manuscript he or she likes. Those are fun times, and …

Summer Issue Bonus: Koster, Langemak, Luongo

Summer Issue Bonus: Koster, Langemak, Luongo

While we wait for the winter 2011 issue (out next month!), we’ve assembled some great bonus material from our summer 2010 issue. We asked all the writers in issue 7.1  to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. We’ll be posting their comments all month, until the new issue …

Winner of the Schiff Prize in Poetry

Winner of the Schiff Prize in Poetry

Don Bogen on Ashley Seitz Kramer’s Prize-Winning Poem: What I especially admire in “Winter Storyboard” is the way it builds. There’s a sense of confidence and deft control behind the rhetoric and varied syntax here, and the pacing is exquisite. With each couplet we are led deeper into a world of nature, the eccentric, and …

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