GET CONNECTED with . . .
Literary Magazines
Thursday, September 30, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
This event is free for Writers Place members.
Our next Get Connected event will focus on publishing in literary magazines-- the journals that publish poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Many poets and writers first see print on the pages of literary magazines, and The Writers Place invites you to meet the esteemed editors of three of the best in our area: The Missouri Review, New Letters, and Pleiades. Each editor will recall the story of an unsolicited submission that made it into print, or of an unknown writer he published for the first time. John Mark Eberhart of the Johnson County Library will lead the discussion.
In addition, editors of a rich selection of other literary magazines in the area will be on-hand to display issues and distribute guidelines and advice. Here's your chance to ask questions! Come for the program and stay for drinks, food, and networking with fellow writers.
The panelists and their publications:
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Robert Stewart, New Letters
Robert Stewart is editor of New Letters magazine, New Letters on the Air, a nationally syndicated literary radio program, and BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he also teaches poetry writing, nonfiction writing, and magazine editing. In 2008, he was awarded the National Magazine Award for Editing in the category of the Essay, by the American Society of Magazine Editors. His books include Outside Language: Essays (Helicon Nine Editions, a finalist in the PEN Center USA Literary Awards for 2004; and winner of the 2004 Thorpe Menn Award), Plumbers (poems, BkMk Press), and others.
Now in its 76th year, New Letters quarterly magazine of writing and art has been called "virtually a who's who of international writers" (Magazines for Libraries). Read more about it here: http://www.newletters.org/
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Speer Morgan, The Missouri Review
Speer Morgan teaches fiction writing at the University of Missouri and is the editor of The Missouri Review. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Frog Gig and Other Stories (University of Missouri Press, 1976), and five novels—Belle Starr: A Novel (Little Brown, 1979), Brother Enemy (Little Brown, 1981), The Assemblers (Dutton, 1986), The Whipping Boy (Houghton Mifflin, 1994), and The Freshour Cylinders (Macmurray and Beck, 1998), winner of an American Book Award. He is also the co-editor of The Best of the Missouri Review (University of Missouri Press, 1991) and For Our Beloved Country: Diaries of Americans in War (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993).
The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly-regarded literary magazines in the United States. For the past twenty-five years they've upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains new fiction, poetry and essays. They also run interviews with famous authors and found-text features where we print never before published works such as a short story by William Faulkner or one of Tennessee Williams' plays. Recently we did a feature on famous rejection letters of novels such as Lolita and The Bell Jar. http://www.missourireview.com/
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Wayne Miller, Pleiades
Wayne Miller is the author of Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006) and The Book of Props (Milkweed, 2009) and the translator of Moiqom Zeqo's I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007). With Kevin Prufer, he recently edited New European Poets for Graywolf Press. He has received both the Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine. He's also the recipient of several prizes from the Poetry Society of America and has poems in Paris Review, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Lit, and Notre Dame Review. His personal website is here.
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing is a literary semiannual devoted to publishing new poetry, fiction, essays, and extensive reviews of recent small/university press titles. Pleiades has received many national awards for content and is available in bookstores, libraries, or by subscription. Read more about it here.
http://www.ucmo.edu/englphil/pleiades/
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