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Newly-Expanded Office Grand Opening
The weeks of hammering and painting are finally over, and just before Thanksgiving we celebrated our office expansion with hors d’oeuvres and a ribbon cutting, complete with oversized novelty scissors! Editor-in-chief Kwame Dawes gave a spirited speech to commemorate the grand re-opening, and UNL English Department Chair Susan Belasco (pictured above) made the coveted snip. …
FUSION 7 Now Online
archives (including work by Joyce Carol Oates, John Kinsella, and Alice Friman), centers around the theme of trees, and is now available online. This latest FUSION also includes photos by Maggie Tobin (her The FUSION series is an online, quarterly publication of
Editors of South Asian Literary Zines & Mags
Traditional editors loom large on the literary scene, and their role as gatekeepers is still seen with some reverence as well as consternation. With the expansion of cyber literary forums, literary zines, e-books, and the social media, I looked around to find a bevy of smart eager editors (who are writers too) steering zines as well as print journals that don’t always cater to the mainstream. The editorial practices of these people are not too different from their traditional counterparts.
Interview with Kevin Simmonds
Crooked Letter Year in Review
Prairie Schooner Office Expansion Begins
Construction has officially begun on the Prairie Schooner office expansion in the University of Nebraska’s Andrews Hall. The university maintenance crews are tearing down a section of wall to expand the Prairie Schooner offices into the rooms next door (formerly the media center), thus doubling the journal’s office space. Managing editor Marianne Kunkel (pictured above) …
We Can Talk About These Things
