By Macy Meyer, 2018-19 Creative Nonfiction Editor Like many other magazines in today’s surplus, The Sienese Shredder was destined for a short life. During its four years of operation, it may not have made a household name out of itself, but it managed to…
By Morgan Middleton, 2018-19 editor-in-chief Honesty? What does it mean? More importantly, what does it feel like? To me, it feels like Little Fiction and Big Truths. The moment I read the journal’s title, I felt inclined to click. Because to me, and I’m…
By Miguel Gracia, 2018-19 managing editor I knew that I needed to read Fence from the moment that I saw its bright pink cover. I thought it was eccentric and intriguing, and that is exactly what the Spring/Winter 2015 issue of Fence is, from cover…
By Natalie Jeffery, 2018-19 managing editor I always looked forward to the number candle placed atop my birthday cake. The years without it always left me with a twinge of disappointment. Sadly, individual memories of birthdays and cakes and candles from childhood have begun…
By Charlotte Smith, 2018-19 Web Director and Assistant Director of Social Media I have often said that I think that literary magazines are very indicative of their time. I enjoy reading old issues and have been known to grab many at a time from…
by Talore Bishop, 2018-19 Baltimore editor and co-director of social media Losing my best friend after high school was a significant moment in my life. We had been friends since the second grade. We knew each other inside and out. I confided in her,…
by Tricia Nichols, 2018-19 Blog Editor McClure’s Magazine is a defunct literary magazine that ran from 1893 to 1929. It was very highly regarded and influential during its time, commonly known for “launching the ‘muckraking’ era in American journalism” (The Modernist Journal Project). Muckraking,…
by Meredith Eilola, 2018-19 Fiction Editor As someone new to the world of literary magazines, I found T. S. Eliot’s “The Idea of the Literary Review” to be a helpful first reading to set guidelines and give warnings for the creation of a literary…
by Abby Gauthier, 2018-19 Social Media Director Just on the edge of some gold-tinged cluster of birches, the title appears in condensed, white font: The Alaska Quarterly Review. This edition, Volume 32, Issue No. 1 and 2, features a cover that seems relevant to…
Alexa Smith, 2018-19 Fiction Editor I find it embarrassingly important to note that I have not had a lot of lit mag experience—and by a lot, I mean zero. But for only twelve dollars, an era of ignorance met its end. The twenty-third issue…