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Craft Lessons from the Submission Queue: Writing & Editing Short Fiction
Saturday, March 26, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Many lit mag editors participate on both sides of the submission process: reading unsolicited stories and sending out their own for consideration. What do editors learn about writing from reading and editing submissions? How does evaluating, accepting, and declining stories change the work of drafting new short fiction? This panel dives into the editorial selection process on a craft level, with editors from American Short Fiction, Apogee, The Common, The Offing, and One Story.
Participants
Emily Everett is managing editor of the Common magazine. Her short fiction appears in the Kenyon Review, Tin House online, Electric Lit, Mississippi Review, and other publications. She studied literature at Smith College, University College London, and Queen Mary University of London.
Alex Watson is a fiction writer and poet from Syracuse, New York currently based in Newburgh, New York. She writes about mixed race identity, class, mental illness, and addiction. She’s the executive editor of Apogee Journal, and a lecturer in Barnard College's First-Year Writing Program.
Lena Valencia is the managing editor of One Story and teaches writing at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop and Catapult. She has held positions at A Public Space and BOMB Magazine. She has an MFA in fiction from The New School and is the recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant.
Adeena Reitberger is the editor and codirector of American Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published in Fence, Black Warrior Review, Mississippi Review, Cimarron Review, Nimrod International, and Sierra Nevada Review.
Mimi Wong is editor in chief of The Offing. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Catapult, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, Literary Hub and Refinery29. Her fiction has been published in Cicada, Crab Orchard Review, Day One, Joyland, and Wildness. She teaches writing at The New School.
