Introducing The Scofield
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 its...
View ArticleStill Alive
Far from dying out, short stories have become more popular over the last five years. For the New York Times, Paris Review editor Lorin Stein articulates the value of literary solitude in a public...
View ArticleGiving Voice to the Homeless Writing Community
Boston-based literary magazine The Pilgrim was founded by journalist James Parker with the aim to bring the unheard voices of the homeless community to print while encouraging, teaching, and healing...
View ArticleAn Explanation, Not a Justification
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 a household name; we simply wanted...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction
Sometimes, literary magazines fold. It happens all the time because of funding, or manpower, or editorial differences. Usually, print back issues remain for sale and online content is preserved...
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FUNNY WOMEN #148: The Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop
Dear Participant, Welcome to the Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop! You were selected out of a pool of thousands of candidates by our unpaid summer intern, who put the manuscripts you submitted with...
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The Rumpus Interview with Erik Kennedy
Erik Kennedy and I have an interesting history. We both studied at Rutgers University, we were both writers in New Brunswick, and we both edited rival literary magazines. I edited Objet d’Art, an...
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Slush Piles in White
Any story of success, as any relative or friend will tell the aspiring but beleaguered artist, begins with rejection. JK Rowling’s extremely famous Harry Potter franchise (yes, you heard correct,...
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FUNNY WOMEN: A Poetry Editor’s Note, by Dick Shear
An earlier statement sent to legions of poetry readers and signed “The Editors” was disseminated in response to the poem “Knoll’s Yacht Ave” by Bradberry Mandinkle in the paper volume of Poets with...
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Life Is Odd: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore
I first met Dinty W. Moore at the River Teeth Nonfiction Conference back in 2016. I’d been an avid reader of Brevity for some time, and so by the time I was face-to-face with the man (whom I thought of...
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