Here’s good news on the magazine front from The Guardian newspaper.
The death of journalism has been grossly exaggerated, according to a band of ambitious young New York writers and editors who are shaking up the publishing world
Here’s an interesting blog/lit mag concept called Twenty-Four Hours that’s online. It’s more of a chat about literature and other performance art but many of the posts are interesting enough to check in on now and then.
Sipscard is another unique idea that allows authors of short prose to get their work out to a wide readership. From the publishers:
Sips Card puts short fiction and poetry into local coffee shop venues around the country (and in Scotland). We are a publication run by artists, for artists. Each card contains a QR code, loaded with a short story, or set of poems, from a writer meant to last as long as a cup of coffee. The cards include the issue’s author, story title, and website/e-mail.
The American Reader is a relatively new journal you should keep an eye on.
Not your typical place to submit, I’ll admit, but this is a great place for those short prose bits. Here’s info from their newsletter:
Papirmasse is a subscription that delivers an art print to your mailbox every month. For each issue we choose a new artist to showcase and ask them to design a print for us. On the backside of Papirmasse we publish short stories, essays, graphic novel excerpts, and poems. We then mail these prints to subscribers for the ridiculously low price of $5.00 a month. What can we say? We’re waging a war against blank walls.
Bedlam is an independent online arts journal showcasing the work of writers, artists, and musicians from all over the world. The journal is dedicated to promoting work that is passionate, daring, and inspiring.
We seek art, writing, and music that demonstrate a dedication to craftsmanship, a willingness to challenge boundaries, and a deep passion for the work. We welcome art that compels, provokes, inspires, or amuses. We’re seeking out manifestos and rhapsodies, confessions and litanies, crimes of passion, stolen moments, and loves. We’re looking for something brave, something gone a bit ’round the bend, something on the run, something gone wild.
Here’s a listing of calls for submissions from The Review Review.
About Fjords: Fjords is an arts and literary review for the 21st century reader edited by John Gosslee. The twice yearly magazine features new art and literature alongside translations and reviews. Fjords is the first journal to publish some of its authors in a strictly audio format.
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Straight from the land down under comes the spring 2012 edition of Meanjin, a literary journal founded in Brisbane in 1940 by journalist and editor Clem Christesen. For more than 70 years, the journal, now an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing, has delved into the Australian cultural and literary scene,
Revival is the literary journal of the Limerick Writers’ Centre.
It is published four time a year. Submissions, poetry and short fiction,
extracts (500 words), reviews or criticism pieces.
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RATTAPALLAX ONLINE MAGAZINE is a new chapter in Rattapallax Press’ 10 year history. It is the natural path to a magazine that has been since the very beginning committed to poetry in various forms, medias and languages. Rattapallax was the first literary magazine to include a CD with every issue, with audio files, interviews and music in connection to poetry, expanding the reading experience. Later, it started to include video content as well in DVD.
Another database stuffed with information about literary magazines. From Literary Magazines Online!
This is a link to Poets & Writer’s list of literary magazines.
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