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Inspired by her experience teaching a zine workshop at the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute, the author overcame financial and logistical obstacles to start her own press devoted to work by Indigenous writers.
An editor recounts her motivation to start a literary magazine: to generate constructive and interactive conversations around poetry, art, and publishing—and to redefine the way journals are produced and shared with readers and writers.
Reflecting on the beginning and end of a small press devoted to poetry, a former publisher takes stock of the people and work—the singular surviving beauty of books—that defined his press, which closed in the early months of the pandemic.
The author recounts his calling to create a journal for LGBT writers, its successful launch, hiatus, resurrection, and closing, and considers a relaunch while realizing the end of one thing can be the beginning of another.
A publisher finds his press occupying a different book ecosystem than the one he imagined as a teenager, but by addressing issues of distribution, marketing, and publicity, and strengthening its operational infrastructure, Nightboat is thriving.
The longstanding journal of work by Black writers and artists, a manifestation of a collective vision to affirm and sustain Black people through literature, art, and scholarship, continues to evolve, expanding to a full publishing platform.
Felicia Rose Chavez, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Matthew Salesses join Namrata Poddar to discuss decolonizing the writing workshop and the effects of gatekeeping on BIPOC writers.
Literary agents Maggie Cooper, Larissa Melo Pienkowski, Kat Kerr, and Eric Smith describe their reading habits off the clock.
The first call between an agent and a writer to discuss representation is considered a milestone for an aspiring writer. The author talks to agents and published writers about what to expect during “the call.”
A look at two real-life query letters from a published and soon-to-be published author, Gina Frangello and Beth Morgan, with commentary from their respective agents on what caught their attention.
