Our general reading period may be over, but that doesn’t mean our work is finished. Instead, we’re focusing on our summer contest, which is now open for submissions (submit!). Rumor has it that an armored truck, possibly filled with bees, will deliver the prize money in special-ops fashion, though we suspect it will probably be Nicola’s Honda, …
The summer issue is here! In an effort to save on shipping, and because our out-of-the-way attic office affords us lots of quality time with the sizable population of campus birds, we’ve decided to send issues via pigeon post. Though our dry runs were largely unsuccessful (and not especially dry), we finally figured out that …
When volunteer Brandon Whiting ate eight billiard balls, he began to bawl. He tried to explain, plainly, why he wanted to eat the balls, but his bass voice grew coarse, he clutched the base of his throat, and then the blue ball—not the cue ball—blew on a trajectory course right out of his gullet, straight …
Word has it that the new issue is on its way! We’re super excited—the cover, featuring Bill Wolff’s sculpture More, looks great, and we have a terrific group of poems, stories, and essays from a wide range of writers. We’ll be mailing it out in the coming days, but in the meantime we want to …
We’re done proofreading! We learned a few new style rules. iPods, for example, have earned their own special rule in the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style: “Brand names that begin with a lowercase letter followed by a capital letter now retain the lowercase letter even at the beginning of a sentence or …
Our policy is that we don’t eat, drink, or sleep until we finish proofreading the forthcoming issue. However, when Assistant Editor Matt McBride learned of the following, recent change to The Chicago Manual of Style he stiffened, stopped blinking in response to stimuli, and developed an impressive head of mouth-foam: “In a return to the …
We’re still proofreading our forthcoming issue. Our blue pencils are worn to nubs. We’re pinching them between pennies to make our marks. Our last geeky proofreading factoid caused a riot on the quad of our campus, with pro-hyphenation factions dance-fighting anti-hyphenation factions, so we thought we’d fuel the revolution by pointing out another change to …
We’re busy proofreading our next issue (8.1), and we can hardly wait until it’s ready—keep an eye out for it in May. Click on “issues” in the pull-down menu above to see the cover and a list of contributors. Here’s a geeky proofreading factoid: Did you know that the Chicago Manual of Style changed the …
Michael, our fiction editor, talked five smart writers—Alexander Chee, John McNally, Keith Lee Morris, Leah Stewart, and Justin Tussing—into reassessing the 1961 National Book Award for fiction. There’s no medal or cash prize to hand out, but we have a winner. To find out which book won, and to read our judges’ essays on the …
According to our sources, the very large truck circling campus contains our new issue! Unfortunately, the driver is apparently unable to locate the mossy nook we call our office. But do not worry! Editor Matt McBride is in hot pursuit. After only three mile-long laps, the distance between Matt and the truck has barely widened. …
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