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Read all the editors' answers to Duotrope's interview question: What other current publications (or publishers) do you admire most? Learn more.

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Q: What other current publications (or publishers) do you admire most?

A: Flying Island, Poetry, Paris Review

A: Spellbinder, Radon Journal, Berlin lit, Broken Antler, Livina Press and many, many more.

A: Transit Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Coach House Books, Coffee House Press

A: We admire the work of local small presses who focus on publishing a diverse range of voices including CavanKerry, Poets Wear Prada, Pink Trees Press, Get Fresh Books, and Paterson Literary Review.

A: Psaltery & Lyre, Poetry Northwest, Stone Circle Review, Beestung, Ethel Zine, American Poetry Review, River Mouth Review

A: Per Contra

A: Neon Hemlock, Lethe Press, Erewhon, Interzone, Foundation

Phoenix Alexander, Editor-in-Chief, Vector of Vector, 29 February 2024

A: One of the reasons I started Witcraft was because there are very few, if any, sites that are dedicated to the craft involved in creating inspired wit, humour and absurdity that appeals to me (and obviously our growing list of followers and authors). Many fine journals will accept humorous stories but they are difficult to track down. The 25 or so 'usual suspects' in any humor website list tend to look for work that is quirky, appeals to an American sense of humour, favours snark and put-downs, feeds obsession with pop and media culture, finds excretory functions and genitalia hilarious, and promotes lame political satire.

Doug Jacquier, Editor of Witcraft, 28 February 2024

A: As far as publishers we love who are doing a similar thang, Reckoning, Ecotone Magazine, and Gone Lawn come to mind. But many of the publishers we love most aren’t doing what we (or anybody else) are doing—and that’s what we love about them. To name a few, we adore Split Lip, Boulevard, Willow Springs, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Sixth Finch, Waxwing Literary Journal, Sequestrum, swamp pink, Okay Donkey, JMWW, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, X-R-A-Y Lit… There are so many great publications out there!

A: There a number of other small publishers who have a similar goal to ours, namely celebrating and reviving the old-fashioned paperback crime fiction of the 1940s and 1950s. For instance, Stark House has done some terrific books, and Centipede Press. In the magazine world, I'm thrilled that ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE is still publishing (non-stop since 1941!).

A: Poetry, AGNI, Wildness, Lean & Loafe, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Arteidolia-Swifts & Slows, Amsterdam Review, Apple Valley Review, Bombay Literary Magazine, The Florida Review, DIAGRAM, The Dodge, The Pinch, sin cesar, Indicia, The Los Angeles Review, Rise Up Review, VIDA, The Westchester Review, Heavy Feather Review, Kartika Review, TAB Journal, Sixth Finch and more.

A: Clarkesworld, Atomic Carnival