Fugue

Many journals these days are switching from print to online, or considering publishing a larger proportion of material online rather than in print. I see you are doing the same. “Providing one of our issues per year (we’re semi-annual) online makes sense ($$$... ahem...),” says Editor-in-Chief Warren Bromley-Vogel. “The stigmas associated with online publication are evaporating as more respected journals print online and many writers are eager to promote themselves digitally.”

What were your readers’ responses to your recent “play” issue? What kind of opportunities/challenges did running that issue prove? “There was some backlash to the more aggressively experimental pieces we chose to publish, which opened (we think) an interesting debate about the relationship between author and text.”

Fugue has a contest coming up! “Our contest is open through May 1. We’re giving $1,000 prizes for poetry and prose. Judged by Rodney Jones and Pam Houston.”

Favorite part of the 2012 AWP Conference & Bookfair? “Seeing Benjamin Percy sing Johnny Cash at a karaoke bar, and hearing readings by C.K. Williams, Matthew Zapruder, and Robert Wrigley at Joe Wilkins’s panel on the political poem.”

Website: http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/fugue/

New Ohio Review

When did New Ohio Review begin the audio component to your website? Can you expand a little on what motivated you to do so? I also like that you feature your cover artists on your website.  “We launched the NOR Audio page in 2009, inspired by the incredible reach and convenience made possible by new digital technologies,” says Editor Jill Allyn Rosser. “The instantly global event of a writer reading her or his work out loud makes the work literally jump off the page (um, screen), and brings the unique inflections and emphases of the author directly to the reader. Since we’ve started our Free Copies for Classrooms offer, the role of our audio feature has expanded into a teaching tool as well.”

How has the response to your 2012 contest been so far? “The response to our annual contest has been terrific. We are delighted to get submissions from so many different spheres representing multiple aesthetics. The authors we receive work from range from well-known writers to high school students.”

Favorite part of the 2012 AWP Conference & Bookfair? “For us, the most rewarding part of AWP is always getting to meet the writers we have corresponded with. (We are told that our journal is unusual in the amount of editing we do in consultation with our contributors.) It’s wonderful to get to know those that we have published, and particularly to witness the reaction of those who have not published before, when they see their work displayed in our newest issue.”

Website: http://www.ohio.edu/nor/