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The Rumpus Interview with Erik Kennedy

  • Rita Banerjee
  • February 8, 2017
Poet Erik Kennedy discusses literary community and his formative years as a young writer in New Jersey, and shares two new prose poems.
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Combating Lit Journal Bias

  • Victor Luo
  • August 11, 2016
In the latest installment of “The Blunt Instrument” over at Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert tackles the delicate question of bias in literary journals. Her answer? Take thoughtful reflections and make careful adjustments.
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An Explanation, Not a Justification

  • Roxie Pell
  • August 9, 2016
At Lit Hub, Joyce Chen explains The Seventh Wave’s reason for being (not that she needs to): We were not trying to prove ourselves “right” or defy any odds to become…
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The Rumpus Interview with Becky Tuch

  • Max Gray
  • July 1, 2016
Becky Tuch discusses founding The Review Review, motherhood, creativity, and the future of literary magazines.
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Pressing Send

  • Guia Cortassa
  • June 28, 2016
A writer friend recently asked me a brief but not-so-simple question: How do you decide where to send your work? Over at Lit Hub, Erika Dreifus answers this simple yet…
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Reading Outside the Curriculum

  • Amanda Hildebrand
  • June 23, 2016
Unseen, a literary magazine founded by Singaporean university students, wants us to release ourselves from “the pressure-cooker environment of examinations” and all the literature we’re required to read for them.…
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Net Worth

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 31, 2016
…we’re all still struggling to ascribe value to a digital product. Keeping a literary magazine alive in 2016 may seem impossible, but there are still those out there who are…
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Men Explain Submissions To Me

  • Sarah Blake
  • March 15, 2016
Perhaps he thought he was doing me a favor by explaining this to me so I might not get into further trouble. I’m afraid I have continued to get myself into trouble instead.
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The Submitting Editor

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 16, 2016
At The Review Review, Allison Linville offers some tips on submitting based on her time working as a managing editor for a major literary magazine.
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I Get My Favorite Short Stories From the CIA

  • Charley Locke
  • August 28, 2015
The Kenyon Review. Mundo Nuevo. The Paris Review. Check out whether you’ve been unknowingly colluding with secret agents whilst reading your favorite lit mags. Patrick Iber writes, “The CIA became…
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Introducing The Scofield

  • Guia Cortassa
  • August 18, 2015
Welcome online to The Scofield, a brand new lit mag inspired by Scofield Thayer’s legendary The Dial. Edited by Tyler Malone, Dustin Illingworth, and Scott Cheshire, The Scofield aims for all…
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