R243. Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain: Are Literary Magazines Too Secretive About Slushpile Submissions?

Liberty Salon L, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Thursday, February 9, 2017
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

What happens behind the scenes with a slushpile of submissions at a literary magazine? Editors from Carve, the Baltimore Review, Midway Journal, and the Chattahoochee Review candidly discuss their approach for managing the slushpile, including how to form a diverse reading committee, increase transparency, reduce response times, and offer feedback. An insightful look that aims to draw back the curtain for both writers and other editors on the inner workings of literary magazines.


Participants

Moderator:

Matthew Limpede has been the editor of Carve magazine since 2007. He has attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and he earned his BA at UT Dallas. He is dedicated to discovering new voices in fiction and building a stronger literary community across North Texas.

Barbara Westwood Diehl is founding editor of the Baltimore Review. Her short stories and poems have been published in publications including Potomac Review, Measure, SmokeLong Quarterly, Gargoyle, Superstition Review, NANO Fiction, Per Contra, Quiddity, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

Lydia Ship is managing editor of the Chattahoochee Review. Her poems and stories have appeared in Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, New Delta Review as winner of the Matt Clark Prize, Pleiades, Sonora Review, West Branch, and others.

Ralph Pennel teaches poetry and writing at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is founding/fiction editor of Midway Journal, an online journal published out of St. Paul, Minnesota. Ralph was a finalist for poet laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts, in 2014 and his poetry was nominated for a Pushcart in 2015.

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