Editor Interview: The A3 Review

Prose, poems, art, stuff.

BOMB Magazine, The White Review, One Story, n+1.

Andrew Holleran, Carole Maso, Leonard Michaels, Damon Galgut, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis, gail Scott, Jean Rhys, janet Frame, Tim Winton.

We're just one big page that folds down to smaller pages. We provide a democratic reading experience. There's no first and last page. We encourage readers to wonder around our magazine that behaves like a map.

Be honest and open. Take risks and be adventurous. Make sure there are multiple things happening in your story or poem. Never just one thing. Send us work that was created in a moment of intense feeling.

Work that surprises in its honesty, even if it's clearly fiction. All our written work is less than 151 words long - a submission that conveys the complexity of a single, simple experience in so few words, is what I love to read.

They don't use up all the words they're allowed to. If you're offered 150 words - use them all!

I like to know about their writing life.

I can usually tell from the first line. As the pieces are only 150 words or less, I often read more than just the first line before I decide.

There are no additional evaluations, but there is an editing process before the piece appears in print.

There's a monthly deadline, so I usually read submissions just after the deadline so I can announce the winners a week later. I'll read all the submissions on screen and print out the shortlist. I'll let them sit for a day or two, then read the shortlist and decide on the three winners for that month.