F264. Crossing the Veil: Engaging the Editor who Rejects your Work

Room 302, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 3
Friday, February 28, 2014
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

The editor may always be right but, more importantly, he or she always has the final say. Two poets and two prose writers open up about personalized rejection notes—glimpses into literary journals’ behind-the-scenes discussions—and instances in which editors wrestled with publishing their somewhat risky work. This panel will showcase accomplished authors speaking frankly about respectfully talking back to editors and will promote a submission culture of professionalism, transparency, and candor.


Participants

Moderator:

Marianne Kunkel is the Managing Editor of Prairie Schooner and a PhD student in poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, and Rattle, and her chapbook is The Laughing Game.

Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of How to Leave Hialeah, which won the John Gardner Book Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and the Devil’s Kitchen Award. Winner of a PEN/O. Henry Prize, she was a recent Picador Fellow at the University of Leipzig. She is an assistant professor at Florida State.

Tim Johnston is the author of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize-winning collection of stories Irish Girl, the novel Never So Green, and the forthcoming novel The Life Before. He currently teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Memphis University.

Stacey Waite is the author of Butch Geography, the lake has no saint, love poem to androgyny, and choke, which won of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry. She is assistant professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is the co-host of Prairie Schooner's podcast Air Schooner.

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