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Digital publisher Electric Literature has a new digital lit magazine called Okey-Panky.
The new site promises to be “a weekly magazine of short things,” edited by J. Robert Lennon. “Okey-Panky is a weekly online magazine of short, darkly comic, ironic, and experimental fiction, essay, poetry, and graphic narrative,” explains Lennon in a statement. “We’ll be publishing something new every Monday morning, to confirm, at the start of each working week, your suspicion that life is strange, unfair, hilarious, and possibly meaningless.”
The latest issue features: A NEW COMIC, “The Bully: Part I” by Simeon Mills; A NEW ESSAY, “The Rib Room,” by Anne Giselson; A NEW STORY, “Bisbee,” by Chris Offutt; and NEW POEMS by Heather Altfeld.
The New Yorker is publishing its entire print magazine online for free through the end of the summer.
The free giveaway is part of the magazine’s digital redesign, which includes a new website, as well as a new mobile experience. With the redesign comes new content. The site already publishes fifteen original stories a day and has plans to increase this number.Check it out:
We are promising more, as well as an even greater responsiveness to what is going on in the world. For instance, in addition to Daily Comment, which usually concerns itself with political matters, we will also feature a Daily Cultural Comment, a regular column in which our critics and other writers confront everything from the latest debates over the impact of technology to the latest volume from Chicago, Oslo, or Lima and the ongoing sagas of Don Draper, Daenerys Targaryen, and Hannah Horvath.
In the fall, the magazine will return to a limited access website, giving only subscribers full access with the implementation of a new paywall.
Vice's annual fiction issue hit newsstands this week. The theme of this year's issue is Hollywood and all of the stories have something to do with movies.
The issue includes contributions from: David Mamet, Michel Gondry, Louis Mellis, Alec Sokolow, John Romano, Merrill Markoe, Kevin McEnroe, Emily McLaughlin and Benjamin Nugent. James Franco even wrote a story about Lindsey Lohan.
Vice explained their approach to attracting so much talent on their site: "We shared an intuition that a lot of the most interesting writing being done today is being done for movies and TV. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that we watch a lot of movies. So we made a long list of our favorite movies and looked up the writers who worked on them, and we harassed them and their agents and their publicists for months. We started with a really long pitch letter, but we learned that in LA it's proper etiquette to write three-word-long emails. We tried to romance them by inviting them to dinner at the Chateau Marmont."
The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) has plans to publish a series of online magazines under a new division which is called, "LARB Channels."
The division will produce a number of new nonprofit digital literary magazines aimed at fostering culture around books and the arts. The first five are called: Boom: A Journal of California, The Marginalia Review of Books, The Levantine Review, Avidly and The Philosophers Plant. There will be more in the series.
"The Channels division gives us the opportunity to extend our support to other independent magazines who, like us, want to build a community around vanguard writing in literary criticism, politics, science, the arts, and culture" explained Tom Lutz, the Editor in Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, in a statement. "We intend for these publications to form a new, cutting edge literary collective in tandem with our flagship magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books.
McSweeney’s literary magazine The Believer has teamed up with Los Angeles public radio station KCRW on a new monthly podcast dedicated to experimental arts-and-culture.
The Organist, hosted by Believer editor Andrew Leland, will publish monthly. Content will include: reported stories, interviews, comic radio drama, and reviews. Here is more from KCRW’s website:
The scope of the podcast reflects that of the print edition: its contributors take a thoughtful approach to pop culture, along with an irreverent attitude toward the highbrow. From philosophy to daytime TV, from poetry to martial arts, the show scrutinizes and interrogates the world with an affectionate and rigorous intelligence. Pieces from the podcast grow out of stories in the magazine, and vice versa. Weaving together the voices of its contributors, which include the brightest talents in literature and the arts, The Organist is an elegant, impressionistic, funny, and sharp cultural magazine that itself becomes an object of inquiry, discussion, and wonder.
The latest episode, Another Planet, explores the 1980s avant guard theater scene on Skid Row in Los Angeles.
Literary journal ZYZZYVA is publishing its 100th issue next month.
The issue will include poems by Robert Hass, Kay Ryan, Christopher Buckley, and Austin Smith; fiction by Daniel Handler, Ron Carlson, Elizabeth Tallent, Hector Tobar, Michelle Latiolais, Scott O’Connor, and Erika Recordon; and creative nonfiction by Rebecca Solnit, Jim Gavin, Glen David Gold, Katie Crouch, David L. Ulin, and Edie Meidav.
In the past 30 years, the journal has published the works of authors including: Raymond Carver, Kay Ryan, Sherman Alexie, Jessica Hagedorn, Kathy Acker, Kobo Abe, and Haruki Murakami.
To celebrate, ZYZZYVA and City Lights Books are hosting a fundraiser in San Francisco at the California Historical Society on May 8th.
Looking for the ideal place to publish your writing? Check out The Big List, a collection of 1,500+ links to literary journals around the world.
You can also explore the literary magazine list in a searchable database format. Anybody worried about the future of literature should check out this massive collection of literary journals compiled by Every Writers’ Resource–well over 1,500 places that publish great writing. Check it out:
This big list of literary magazines just will not die. June 2013 we went all the way through this list and checked for broken urls. We hope that you will use ourEWR: Literary Magazines database instead of this list, but we have found that many diehards really like a long list like this one. If you are a literary magazine editor and you want your site listed with detail, and promoted, go here and fill out our form. If you are a writer and you want complete listings, go here.
Struggling to publish your stories in literary journals?
One editor who worked at “a top literary journal” fielded a long list of questions at Reddit, giving some practical advice for writers submitting stories to any kind of literary journal or magazine.
We’ve collected some of the best advice below, complete with links and quotes from the interview.
More than 500,000 magazines have been created on Flipboard in the last two weeks as readers share their favorite stories, links and online content. If you want to create a literary journal on Flipboard, simply download the free app and save stories in a personalized magazine within Flipboard.
We created a GalleyCat magazine in Flipboard–look us up if you have the app! You could make your own literary journal, for instance, mixing short stories from your favorite online outlets along with publishing news. AppNewser has all the details:
News aggregation app Flipboard has updated its iOS app to Version 2 and the update allows readers to curate and share their own personalized magazines. Users can now use the app to “collect and save content into your own magazines,” explains the iTunes update, using a new bookmarklet icon to add items from a browser. These personalized Flipboard magazines can be public or private. If you want to make it public, other people can like, comment and subscribe to your magazines and you’ll get an update when they do. You can also share your creations via email, Facebook, Twitter, and G+.
Harper’s Magazine has revised its Folio section, printing the first chapter novelist John le Carré‘s A Delicate Truth. The magazine also published Afterword by the great spy novelist.
The series began in 1992 with “Pafko at the Wall” by Don DeLillo. In a publisher’s note, John R. MacArthur shared a bit of history about the Folio section, adding some editorial history about fears for long form writing in magazines. Check it out:
Like many things in the history of Harper’s, Folio was conjured from a mix of editorial vision and practical necessity. When Tina Brown was appointed editor of The New Yorker in June 1992, I assumed she would begin running much shorter pieces. Harper’s response, I told Lewis Lapham, Michael Pollan, and Gerry Marzorati at a hastily organized lunch, should be from time to time to run much longer pieces that might not only satisfy the cravings of frustrated New Yorker readers but also accommodate Harper’s contributors who simply needed more space to say what they wanted to say … We’re still committed to concision, of course, but in this age of web-driven snippets, we believe there’s all the more need for writers to be able to think in depth and at sufficient length to tell complex stories.
Wish you could read your favorite literary journal on your digital devices? LitRagger has recently launched, giving indie journals a chance to publish on Apple devices.
Inside of the app, you can subscribe to Bellevue Literary Review, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Sycamore Review and Willow Springs. If you are interested in adding your literary journal to the mix, you can contact adam [at] litragger [dot] com for more details.
Here’s more from the company: “Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch that is designed specifically for literary journals. Built with the needs of small publishers and university-run magazines in mind, LitRagger simplifies the process of digital publication. No more fancy file types. No more formatting nightmares. LitRagger integrates with the print publishing process you already use, making it easier than ever to put your content on the world’s most popular tablet.”
Brain, Child is not your typical parenting pub. It’s as much a literary mag as it is a parenting one, so it wants writers who can pen more than the usual service angle of most family mags.
The brainy book recently switched leadership, and its new editor in chief, Marcelle Soviero, said “I’m definitely keeping the major tenants of the magazine, which are that we’re a literary magazine for women and that we publish essays, short stories and a feature article in each issue.”
Soviero also said she hopes to develop a poetry section and expand the book reviews. Bonus: she loves working with new writers. ”I’ve been that new author. I know what that’s like, and I always appreciated when magazines would take a chance on me. I like to do that for people, as well, as long as the work is excellent and meets our needs,” she said.
Canadian non-profit publisher The Walrus Foundation has relaunched its online version of The Walrus magazine as TheWalrus.ca. Formerly TheWalrus.com, which won best digital design at the Canadian National Magazine Awards in 2011 and 2012, the new site includes articles from publication as well as exclusive web content like news and videos.
The site, which was designed by Walrus online editor Matthew McKinnon and web developer John Piasetzki, also includes a community aspect such as discussion groups and poetry readings. There is also an e-commerce aspect as users can buy ticket to events, and purchase eBooks and podcasts. The site is optimized for reading on 10-inch tablets and four-inch phones, and its social media-ready.
The magazine is always looking for contributors. Here is more from the site: “If you are a writer interested in contributing to The Walrus, please read the magazine and follow our submission guidelines. Aspiring editors, art directors, developers, and bloggers should have a look at our internship program; advertisers and partners can find dates and rates on our advertising page.”
Roger D. Hodge has joined The Oxford American as editor.
Hodge’s experience includes more than a decade at Harper’s Magazine where he served as editor from 2006-2010. He is also the author of the book The Mendacity of Hope.
Hodge will discuss his new role on stage as part of the Clinton School of Public Service‘s Distinguished Speaker Series on Wednesday September 19th. This link has the details.
Follow this link to read the whole issue online. Below, we’ve included links to the fiction in the issue. Here’s more from Dark Sky Magazine editor Gabe Durham:
For the last year, Christy Crutchfield, Sarah Boyer, Brian Mihok, Ted Powers, and I have been working the journal together. About a month ago, we completed our most recent issue, DSM #17 and I sent it off to the Founder/Publisher. A week later, he gave me the bad news: Dark Sky was shutting down. In fact, he’d already shut it down. The press too. Bummer. So would we put up DSM #17 on a new site? Call it something different? All we knew was that this issue had to come out. It was too good. We were too excited about it. Then the editors of Barrelhouse stepped in and generously offered to host the issue on their site. The editors and contributors were unanimously in favor of this idea.
Mad Men star Jon Hamm and Girls creator Lena Dunham took a kooky turn in a five-minute video introducing The New Yorker‘s iPhone app.
We’ve embedded the video above–what do you think? Hamm plays a sleazy night show host and Dunham plays a disinterested actress, but somehow, they manage to outline all of the new features on the app as well.
All Things D has more about the app: “If you’ve used the New Yorker’s iPad app, then you’ll have a very good sense of what you’re getting here: All of the magazine’s content, along with a small handful of digital goodies, delivered to your device via Apple’s Newsstand. Access is free for print subscribers, or you can buy a digital-only subscription that includes iPad and iPhone access; you can also buy individual issues. Publisher Conde Nast is giving away this week’s edition free, so you can try it out yourself.”
Comedian and author Andy Borowitz revealed today that The New Yorker has acquired his blog, The Borowitz Report. Starting today, readers will find his satirical pieces at the magazine’s website.
Borowitz joked that editor David Remnick will allow the humorist to write for the magazine as long as “I don’t make fun of Malcolm Gladwell.”
The announcement ended with a serious dedication to the writer’s mother. Here’s more: “if you’ll forgive me, I’d like to say one last thing that’s true. My mom, Helen Borowitz, who died this month at the age of eighty-three, loved The New Yorker all her life and introduced me to it when I was a little boy. Seeing the Borowitz Report at The New Yorker would have made her so happy. I dedicate all my columns to her memory.”
Granta magazine worked with fashion designer Paul Smith to create the cover for its upcoming issue, Granta 119.
Dedicated to the theme of “Britain,” the issue will be released in the U.K. on May 10th and in the U.S. on May 17th. Contributing writers include Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Robert Macfarlane and Rachel Seiffert.
In the release, Granta artistic director Michael Saluexplained the cover: “Britain’s oldest literary magazine creating an issue on ‘home’ needed a package of distinction. Why not ask a revered British designer to collaborate on creating the cover for ‘Britain?’ We worked with Sir Paul Smith and his team to create an image that we feel is beautiful yet disquieting and saturated with generations of British identity and understanding.”
Granta magazine worked with fashion designer Paul Smith to create the cover for its upcoming issue, Granta 119.
Dedicated to the theme of “Britain,” the issue will be released in the U.K. on May 10th and in the U.S. on May 17th. Contributing writers include Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Robert Macfarlane and Rachel Seiffert.
In the release, Granta artistic director Michael Saluexplained the cover: “Britain’s oldest literary magazine creating an issue on ‘home’ needed a package of distinction. Why not ask a revered British designer to collaborate on creating the cover for ‘Britain?’ We worked with Sir Paul Smith and his team to create an image that we feel is beautiful yet disquieting and saturated with generations of British identity and understanding.”
Jane Friedmanhas been appointed web editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review. She starts in June, tasked with expanding the literary journal’s “online and digital content and a larger social media presence.”
Friedman has served as the editorial director of Writer’s Digest, but she now serves as the assistant professor of e-media at the University of Cincinnati.
Virginia Quarterly Review publisher Jon Parrish Peedeannounced the news: “I had the pleasure of watching Jane serve on a National Endowment for the Arts funding panel, and I can state from firsthand experience that she is gifted, energetic, and deeply knowledgeable about publishing and new trends in the field. We are particularly excited about her leadership in developing a greater community of online readers for VQR.” (Via Calvin Reid)
Amazon has given the Los Angeles Review of Books a $25,000 grant. The literary journal will use the funds to pay its contributors and launch the complete site.
Founding editor Tom Lutz had this statement: “Corporate underwriting grants like these are crucial to helping us realize our vision: to create and sustain the most innovative new multimedia forum for the vibrant, ongoing dialogue about books and culture.”
The grant was part of Amazon’s “Supporting the Writing Community” program, helping fund groups like 826 Seattle, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the AWP, Copper Canyon Press, The Lambda Literary Foundation, Write Girl and PEN American Center.
Today the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) launched LARB ePubs, a biweekly eBook series that will republish essays from the review’s growing archive that already counts 150 literary essays.
The individual issues will be sold at Amazon and the literary journal’s store for $4.99.
Here’s more about the series: “LARB ePubs will feature book reviews and cultural essays by prominent writers such as David Shields, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Tolkin, and others, delivering LARB’s exceptional content in a format that is tailored to the e-reader platform … LARB ePubs is part of an industry trend towards making long-form journalistic content available for e-publication.”
Television critic Nancy Franklin will no longer serve as the TV critic at The New Yorker.
She broke the story on Twitter: “Some news: I’m leaving my job as The New Yorker’s TV critic. Happy to have had, for 13 yrs, the best job ever, and happy to be giving it up.”
Franklin had worked at the magazine since 1978. She served as an editorial assistant and fact checker before becoming the nonfiction editor in 1985. She began writing for the magazine in 1995 with the feature, “How Did I Get Here?” (Via Motoko Rich)
The “10 Years Later” issue of Granta focuses on 9/11 and its aftermath, and the literary journal will sponsor nearly 50 events around the globe to continue the conversation.
The events will be held through October 11, ranging from the Wordstock Festival in Oregon to the Brooklyn Book Festival. Follow these links to find events in your neigborhood: USA & Canada,UK, Europe and South Asia. RSVP for free events at [email protected].
Here’s more from the journal: “A street vendor in Tunisia, an American marine going home and a signals operator on a North Korean fishing trawler. From the battlefields of Afganistan to the streets of Mogadishu and Toronto, these are just a few of the stories in the issue of Granta that conjure the complexity and sorrow of life since 11 September 2001.”
Digital publisher Electric Literature has a new digital lit magazine called Okey-Panky.
McSweeney’s literary magazine The Believer has teamed up with Los Angeles public radio station KCRW on a new monthly podcast dedicated to experimental arts-and-culture.
Literary journal ZYZZYVA is publishing its 100th issue next month.
Harper’s Magazine has revised its Folio section, printing the first chapter novelist John le Carré‘s A Delicate Truth. The magazine also published 
Brain, Child is not your typical parenting pub. It’s as much a literary mag as it is a parenting one, so it wants writers who can pen more than the usual service angle of most family mags.
Canadian non-profit publisher The Walrus Foundation has relaunched its online version of The Walrus magazine as 
Comedian and author Andy Borowitz revealed today that The New Yorker has acquired his blog, The Borowitz Report. Starting today, readers will find his satirical pieces 
Jane Friedman 
Sadie Stein has been named the new editor of 
Amazon has given the 
Today the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) launched LARB ePubs, a biweekly eBook series that will republish essays from the review’s growing archive that already counts 150 literary essays.
Television critic Nancy Franklin will no longer serve as the TV critic at The New Yorker.
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