Q: Describe what you publish in 25 characters or less.
A: all forms of craft
Q: What other current publications (or publishers) do you admire most?
A: Gettysburg Review, Harold Bloom, MAMMOTH Books
Q: If you publish writing, who are your favorite writers? If you publish art, who are your favorite artists?
A: Fiction: I have no particular favorite.
Poetry: Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, James Wright
Q: What sets your publication apart from others that publish similar material?
A: We welcome not only poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction but also critical work, interviews and book reviews.
Q: What is the best advice you can give people who are considering submitting work to your publication?
A: Do not simultaneously submit.
Q: Describe the ideal submission.
A: The ideal submission follows ALL submission guidelines, which are clearly stated.
Q: What do submitters most often get wrong about your submissions process?
A: They simultaneously submit. They upload all work in one file when we request separate file uploads. They list their name on the submission.
Q: How much do you want to know about the person submitting to you?
A: A brief bio. approx. 100 - 200 words
Q: If you publish writing, how much of a piece do you read before making the decision to reject it?
A: This varies, as we employ a different board of referees for each annual issue.
Q: What additional evaluations, if any, does a piece go through before it is accepted?
A: We have a team of readers who vote on each piece and assign a score. We tally the score and begin acceptances from the top. In the event of a tie, the associate editors break it.
Q: What is a day in the life of an editor like for you?
A: While teaching full-time, completing several conference papers and then conferencing with them, publishing my own critical work, and taking care of my toddler, I organize the reading process, send out reminders to the board, work on publicizing the journal. When it comes time to assemble the new issue, the editors work long hours typesetting and formatting and soft proofing for hard proof-readers to begin combing the issue for errors. It is a lot of work, but the product is worth the time.
Q: How important do you feel it is for publishers to embrace modern technologies?
A: It is important to keep current with technological advancements in order to retain a portion of the clientele and to promote the product globally. Electronic submissions open the doors for a large submission collection. Facebook and the like allow for promotion of the journal and events associated with the journal with the ease and flexibility of no time constraints or pricey mailings. However, it is imperative for publishers to keep traditional in the format of the journal so as to maintain integrity of the written PAGE. A hard copy of a journal will remain. A web copy may not.