We strive to create images that intrigue the reader by offering them a vision of the world that is slightly skewed, that give us a picture of the commonplace made new and strange...

Both the "bulk" submitter and the "no sim sub" journal seem gripped by a mutual paranoia. But in the world of small press publishing, where the only way to stay sane is to write, edit, and publish for a coterie of lovers of indie lit, this paranoia is unfounded...

Most writers are not trying to scam the system when they simultaneously submit; they're just hoping they can see their work in print before they die...

Writing, as most of you know, is a lonely business. But language doesn't exist without addressing someone. It is that space which interests me. "Word is a two-sided act," says Bakhtin...

Can you tell which shopping center is actually in Wyoming? Neither can we.Back in Cheyenne, Wyoming, another patient at my chiropractor's said he recalled when Dell Range Boulevard, one of Cheyenne's busiest thoroughfares, was barely more than a dirt…

As I have become increasingly obsessed with literary translation, I was surprised a few months ago to realize I had never tried to read a Saunders story in Spanish...

I can't speak for all writers, but...[I] feel a kinship with Phil when he observes early in the film, "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was the same and nothing you did mattered?"

If Dvorak wove the plaintive melodies of his homeland into his modernist music, and T. S. Eliot incorporated the speech of Cockneys in experimental poems, Celia Dropkin used Yiddish lullabies and children's rhymes to set a certain folk innocence and experience beside her modernist concerns with the experiences of a woman's body...

I. When I was a sophomore in college, I drove from Charleston to Columbia, SC to spend the day with my parents at the local zoo. I couldn't tell you all of the exhibits we saw, or if the Siberian tigers were stalking back and forth in their exhibit or…

In 2004, art historian Hal Foster coined the phrase "archival impulse" to describe artistic practices that create idiosyncratic archives of particular moments, people, or places in modern history1. For Foster, this trend marks a shift from the predominant…