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Behind the Curtain: An Insider's Look at Four Top Literary Journals
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
For many writers, publishing work in a top journal can change the trajectory of one’s career. This panel will take us behind the scenes at four of America’s best literary journals. Editors will tell us what they look for in submissions, challenges they face in working with writers and running their journals, how their publications have evolved over time, and advice they have for writers hoping to receive that most wonderful of all emails: “We loved your submission and would like to publish it.”
Participants
Matthew Lansburgh's collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the thirtieth Annual Lambda Literary Award and the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo, and MacDowell.
Carolyn Kuebler is the editor of New England Review. Before coming to NER as managing editor in 2004, she was an editor at Library Journal and founding editor of Rain Taxi. She has published her writing in various magazines, literary and otherwise.
Oscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZYVA. He is a former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as a past board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He is also a contributing editor to Literary Hub.
Patrick Ryan is the author of The Dream Life of Astronauts and Send Me, as well as three novels for young adults. His fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories. He is the former associate editor of Granta and is the editor in chief of One Story.
Julia Brown is an editor-at-large at AGNI and a former fiction editor at Gulf Coast. She is a writer, teacher, and doctoral student in the creative writing program at the University of Houston.
