S218. The Tabula Rasa Conundrum: How to Thrive Despite High Staff Turnover Rates

Room 007C, Henry B. González Convention Center, River Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

The challenges facing literary journals are many—shrinking budgets, ballooning submission pools, etc.—but one chronic difficulty plaguing the industry remains strangely underexamined: the loss of institutional knowledge that often comes with the arrival of a fresh, new editorial staff. Editors from Barrelhouse, The Cincinnati Review, Juked, Miracle Monocle, and Salamander discuss best practices for overcoming the tabula rasa conundrum: how do we grow, but also maintain aesthetic consistency?


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Event_Outline.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Sarah Anne Strickley is the author of the short story collection, Fall Together. She teaches creative writing and serves as faculty editor of Miracle Monocle at the University of Louisville. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati.

Ryan Ridge is the author of five books and four chapbooks. He codirects the creative writing program at Weber State University and edits the literary magazine Juked.

Dave Housley is the author of four story collections, most recently Massive Cleansing Fire and If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home, and the novel This Darkness Got to Give. He is a cofounder of Barrelhouse magazine and co-organizer of the Conversations and Connections writer's conference.

Lisa Ampleman is the managing editor of he Cincinnati Review and the poetry series editor at Acre Books. She is the author of two books of poetry, Romances and Full Cry, and a chapbook, I've Been Collecting This to Tell You.

Misty Matin

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