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Opening & Growing: Adapting & Sustaining a Literary Magazine in the 2020s

111AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Saturday, March 26, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

This panel of five long-term Typehouse Literary Magazine editors will discuss the challenges of and techniques for dealing with and adapting with the changing publishing world, including structure for dealing with submissions, printing formats, soliciting and publishing ownvoices, establishing consistency in a rapidly changing publishing market, budgeting, and engaging in activism within the magazine industry.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AdaptingAndSustainingLiteraryMagazine2020s.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Val Gryphin is an author, educator, and editor in chief of Typehouse Literary Magazine, founded in 2013. Their fiction, poetry, and queer literary research are published in markets such as BUST and The Writer’s Chronicle. They hold an MFA from Spalding University and teach creative writing and queer literature.

Troy E. Wilderson is an African American writer living in the Midwest. She's an editor and graphic designer. Her work is in The Louisville Review, Notre Dame Review, and F(r)iction. She has an MFA from Spalding University and is a 2019 McKnight Foundation Writing Fellow.

Lily Blackburn has been an editor with Typehouse Literary since 2016. She is also a writer of short prose and book reviews, as well as a workshop facilitator based in Portland, Oregon. You can find her work in World Literature Today, JMWW, Little Fictions | Big Truths, and elsewhere.

Yukyan Lam is a senior prose editor at Typehouse Literary Magazine. She is especially interested in work that elevates social justice issues and underrepresented voices. She brings over fifteen years of experience researching and advocating on racial and environmental justice in Latin America, Asia, and the US.

Kameron Ray Morton is a senior prose editor at Typehouse Literary Magzine. All together, they have been working with online and print literary magazines for nearly five years, starting at the age of twenty. A true Zillenial, Morton considers the internet incredibly valuable to the literary scene.

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