S200. Redesigning/Rebranding Your Literary Journal

Room 209ABC, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
Saturday, February 11, 2017
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

Besides consistently publishing excellent writing, what else must your literary journal do to remain relevant? How important is design? Do readers care about your journal's look? This panel gathers editors of literary journals that have recently undergone major redesigns. Each panelist will share the challenges of such an undertaking, editorial considerations taken along the way, inspirations they followed, and reasons why they felt a fresh look was necessary for their publication.


Participants

Moderator:

Aaron Alford's writing appears in Oxford American, Bellingham Review, Memoir, Hobart online, River Teeth, the Los Angeles Review, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. He earned a PhD in literature and creative writing at Texas Tech University and serves as managing editor of Southern Humanities Review.

Abigail Wadsworth Serfass is managing editor of the Kenyon Review. During her tenure, KR has recommitted to print by moving from quarterly to bimonthly publication and enhanced its digital presence by developing a mobile app. Serfass earned a BA from Williams College and a master’s in theology.

Stephanie G'Schwind is the editor of Colorado Review and director of the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. She is also coeditor, with Donald Revell, of the Mountain West Poetry Series and editor of the anthology Man in the Moon: Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood.

Aaron Burch is the editor of Hobart and the author of Stephen King's The Body: Bookmarked and Backswing.

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