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 Written by Jazzy Danziger on June 1st, 2010Issue 25 is here, featuring our 2010 Editors’ Prize Winners and an interview with poet Temple Cone, in addition to some excellent (and gutsy) new fiction and poetry. We hope you’ll order the issue or consider a subscription. In addition, our new editors have been selected for next year. Hannah Holtzman will take over as Editor [...] Written by Jazzy Danziger on January 11th, 2010The launch of the newest issue of Meridian will be feted with a reading during which contributors from across the nation will converge at the Bridge PAI for an evening of poetry, fiction, a dramatic interpretation of a creative non-fiction by Lisa K. Buchanan and previously unpublished poems by Breece D’J Pancake. The slate of readers [...] Category: Fiction, Meridian News, Nonfiction, Poetry, Publishing, Readings | Tags: issue 24, launch party, meridian |  4 comments | Share:
Written by Meridian on January 4th, 2010Current MFAs in fiction and poetry at UVA had a great fall semester. Here is some recent publication news. (This may not be a complete list.) Steve Barbaro had poems chosen for Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, and Spinning Jenny. Jazzy Danziger’s poem “Earthquake in Wabash Valley, Three Months Before Our Engagement” will appear in the spring 2010 issue [...] Category: Fiction, MFA, Poetry, Publishing, UVA MFA News | Tags: journals, MFA, Publishing, uva | 2 comments | Share:
Written by Dave Serafino on October 22nd, 2009Blue Boy: Seeing beyond Perception by Dash Cox There is a particular kind of poetry that I’ve seen in literary magazines: so-called literary works from literary minds, masters of fine arts, doctors of poetry with the passion schooled straight out of them. Some are clever, some surprising, some witty, some are examples of [...] Category: Poetry, Publishing, reviews | Tags: blue boy, dash cox, Poetry, review | 4 comments | Share:
Written by Kevin Allardice on September 22nd, 2009Once again, I’m fairly upset that I didn’t make the cut (I thought I filled out the application perfectly this year — this time I made sure to spell “genius” correctly), but I’m glad to see that our beloved teacher Deborah Eisenberg is getting some recognition from (Douglas?) MacArthur. Category: Fiction, Publishing, UVA MFA News | Tags: deborah eisenberg, Fiction, macarthur genius grant, uva | Leave a comment | Share:
Written by Kevin Allardice on September 21st, 2009The Grish is coming out in defense of Dan Brown, all his terrible sentences and absurd notions of character. But I’m not posting this to resurrect the tired and pointless debate of literature versus entertainment, God no. Please, none of that here. I’m just bringing this up because, yes, we can all agree that Dan [...] Written by Kevin Allardice on September 20th, 2009Here’s some good news, I think. And it’s great that she picked something that wasn’t already a bestseller. Written by Kevin Allardice on September 14th, 2009The trailer for John Krasinski’s David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is up online, and I have to say: it looks surprisingly bland and sitcomish. But maybe I’m saying that because it features the best friend from The Single Guy as Subject #59. (Not that I have anything against former sitcom actors trying [...] Written by Jonterri Gadson on September 13th, 2009There’s lots of talk about the future of publishing, how technology has changed everything, and how paper is doomed etc.. From minor changes like offering online/email submissions to the entire lit mag being an online entity, the literary journal world has made adjustments to try and keep up. Online lit mags are [...] |
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