Editor Interview: La Piccioletta Barca

Insightful prose & verse.

Asymptote, Buenos Aires Poetry, Códice, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail.

Anna Akhmatova, Clarice Lispector, Paco Urondo, Romain Gary, Elvira Hernández.

We invite our contributors to experiment, and as such, our archive is a melting pot of styles and genres, featuring from Noh theatre performance to comics, from photo-essays to original compositions, along with more conventional, but equally intriguing pieces of prose and verse.

To be a fan of literature and arts.

For us, the ideal submission is a piece on which the passion and the genuine interest of the creator are reflected, a piece that one reads or sees and feels that it has a life of its own. And perhaps, a piece that inspires something to the audience so that they are, too, encouraged to experiment with and explore the intricacies of thought.

We are often sent pieces that quite clearly do not fit with the style or voice of the magazine. However, the implication of this is not to artificially constrain your artistic voice to conform with our style, but rather, to make sure that our magazine is the right fit for your writing.

Nothing at all. We only look at the piece itself, since we do not believe that its value is measured by where this person has studied, worked, or published.

We always read through the whole submission.

We trust our contributors and if they say that something is finished, we treat is as such. Of course, we do have a team of readers that go through the piece before publication to make sure that no minor, unintended errors of grammar or formatting exist. If there is a more substantive comment, we always discuss it with the contributor himself/herself and always expect his/her consent before changing anything.

We first read through all the new submissions individually on the day that they are sent, and assign one of three labels: Accept, Decline or Uncertain. In the cases where all the editors agree on a piece being accepted or declined, we proceed accordingly without further discussion. In the cases where opinions are mixed, we discuss our differences on the following day. The majority's decision holds.

Due to the fast-turnaround times and frequent publications, we do not provide substantive editing for pieces in our monthly issues. If we do change anything, it will most likely be any grammatical discrepancies or typos. These are sent over to the author for approval prior to publication.

Yes.