Our managing editor, Rachel Hamsmith, takes us through the production process at FWJ and discusses what’s in store for Fall 2012 Issue 11.
Stay tuned for more news about the Fall 2012 issue, the release event at the Book Cellar in Chicago, and other FWJ events coming soon.
The Fall 2012 issue will arrive in November, but you can pre-order the issue here for $1 off the cover price. Order yours today!
Gro Flatebo takes us through the submissions evaluation process at FWJ.
The room is packed beyond capacity. I’m at an Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference listening to the panel “What Editors Look For” for the fifth time. It’s hot, the room is overcapacity, and I sit 300 feet away from the presenter. (“Can you hear me in the back?”) The presenters mirror the hundreds of submission guidelines for literary journals I read each year: “It’s all about the writing. Surprise me. Make me miss my subway stop as I read your story.” After two years of reading submissions for a literary journal, I can tell you that piece of advice is true. (more…)
Andrea Witzke Slot, our new book reviews editor starting in fall 2012, has recently published a book of poems titled To find a new beauty. The book has spent time on both Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Poetry and Amazon’s Hot New Releases in General. We encourage everyone to support Andrea and help her book continue to make waves!
Andrea’s work has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Translation Review, Pacific Review, Southern Women’s Review, and Chiron Review, among other print and online journals. She teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is also on the editorial board of Rhino Poetry. To find a new beauty borrows its title from a line of H.D.’s and has been described by Marge Piercy as being “rich with cool, intelligent, and carefully crafted poems that often have a subtext of terror and darkness.”
