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The Revolution Will Be Serialized: Literary Journals & Political Movements

115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

“The literary history of the thirties,” George Orwell warned in 1940, “seems to justify the opinion that a writer does well to keep out of politics.” Yet eighty years later, most literary journals, like most presses and institutions, have felt the need to confront political realities, including assaults on democracy, police brutality, sexual abuse, and more. Are there risks in embracing these aims? What is the effect on the art they produce? Can journals remain relevant without becoming dogmatic?



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Event_Outline_-_The_Revolution_Will_Be_Serialized.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

J.A. Bernstein is the author of Rachel's Tomb (AWP Award Series Novel Prize), Desert Castles, and Northern Cowboy. He’s won a Fulbright, Hackney Prize, and contests at Crab Orchard and Southern Indiana Review. He’s an assistant professor at the Univ. of So. Mississippi and fiction editor of Tikkun.

Katie Edkins Milligan's stories appear in Fiction, Tahoma Literary Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. She is fiction editor at Gulf Coast, the 2021 recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction, and an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow MFA candidate at the University of Houston.

Dustin Pearson is the author of A Season in Hell with Rimbaud, Millennial Roost, and A Family Is a House. He holds an MFA from Arizona State University and has served as an editor to the South Carolina Review, Clemson University Digital Press, the Southeast Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review.

Gilad Elbom is the fiction editor of the North Dakota Quarterly and author of the novel Scream Queens of the Dead Sea. He teaches in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University.

Clayton Bradshaw writes fiction and nonfiction. He holds an MFA in from Texas State and is currently working toward a PhD at Southern Mississippi. He was a 2021 PFTA Emerging Artist and 2021 Kinder-Crump Short Fiction finalist. He currently serves as an assistant editor for Mississippi Review.

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