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Our process for copyediting pieces accepted for the magazine.
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From Our Contributors: Erika Gallion Velasquez Shares a Playlist to Accompany “Paradise is Ours”
Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner Erika Gallion Velasquez shares a playlist to accompany her prize-winning essay.
Special Feature: “Eli Plays Along” by Rob Macaisa Colgate
A poem that brings together a spoken monologue, an enactment of the kinds of listening that can happen, and incredible wordplay.
Special Feature: “A Heartbeat in a Cemetery in Tennessee” by Kimberly Reyes
Our latest special feature, a poem by Kimberly Reyes about natural interdependence, the physicality of intimacy, and cicadas.
Folio: Family Secrets
In this folio to accompany issue 22.1, five writers explore family secrets.
Video: “Your Inbox Is Too Much With Us—a correspondence,” by Jaye Kranz
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.
Notes from the (Re)Design Studio: Introducing Our New Look
We recently reached a milestone: I handed our web design prototypes over to our developer.
Our Copyediting Philosophy
What copyediting is and isn’t, based on our managing editor’s experience
A Note On miCRo Collaborations & Announcing the Winner of SmokeLong Quarterly’s March Micro Marathon, Judged by Us!
Collaborating on the editorial level brought me back to what this is all about: community. We’re gathering work that we want to celebrate with readers.
Cross-Training
Both gaming and writing are practices in which past behavior is not the best predictor of future results.