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Q: If you publish writing, who are your favorite writers? If you publish art, who are your favorite artists?
A: Carol Ann Duffy, Stephen Dunn, Marianne Boruch, Simon Armitage, Sharon Olds, Patricia Lockwood, Tommy Pico, and Morgan Parker
A: Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, Richard Siken, Langston Hughes
A: A very hard question to answer! How about a completely arbitrary sample from the last few centuries?
16th century: William Shakespeare
17th century: Aphra Behn
18th century: Daniel Defoe
19th century: Oscar Wilde
20th century: Philip Roth
Contemporary: Zadie Smith
A: Sierra Simone, Tessa Bailey, Katee Robert, Lillian Lark, Leigh Bardugo, George Saunders, Ann Patchet, Elizabeth Gilbert
A: My favorite writer is Joan T. Zeier, if you allow me to be timeless.
I seriously have dozens of favorite artists, but for the attributes listed in parens, my favorites today are: Ericco (for never limiting what can be done); Shan Ogdemli (for new world creations); Duane Kirby Jensen (for pure prolificacy); and Goro Endow (selfishly, for putting ZO on his forehead when we first met).
A: We publish a range of Poetry, Fiction (Travel and Flash Fiction), Nonfiction (General and Speculative, Travel Flash works, Memoir, New Nature Writing, Decolonising Travel, Eaten/Gastronomy, Streetview), Books (Reviews, Excerpts), Visual Arts (Photography, Video Essays, Art Moving Image, Documentary Film, Exhibition Reviews). This broad offering reflects our diverse interests, team, and voice. Inspiration is drawn from a broad array of authors, editors, artists, filmmakers.
My personal writing heroes include James Baldwin, John Muir, Toni Morrison, Orhan Pamuk, Maya Angelou, Susan Sontag, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Hannah Arendt. Anton Chekhov. Mikhail Bulgakov. Anna Akhmatova. Chika Unigwe. Ali Smith. My bookshelves are filled with guides to places, cities, countries, maps, travelogues but also historians, philosophers, artists. There are writers who inspire through their writing but many are so much more. Bernadine Everisto, Rebecca Solnit, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood have inspired as a person, teacher, interviewee and author. Editors regularly recount Bourdain, Amis, and others who lit their interest in travel and writing.
Authors who've inspired us now also call Panorama home. Paul McVeigh, Robin Hemley, Faith Adiele, Anne Louise Avery, Dato Magradze, Katie Ives, Sarge Lacuesta. We've featured excerpts from talents such as Chika Unigwe, Lola Akinmade Akerstrom and always look to do more.
Editors have also taken particular inspiration from Joan Didion (incisive), Beryl Markha (pioneer), Don DeLillo (prophetic), Haruki Murakami (cross-cultural and boundary/paradigm shattering).
A: My favorite authors tend to be classic authors: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Poe, Kerouac, Hermann Hesse, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Kafka, Nietzsche, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron, Truman Capote, Jack London, etc. I have been into horror for many years and so some of my favorites are King, Barker, Poe, Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Robert W. Chambers, W.W. Jacobs, M.R. James, Richard Matheson, Anne Rice, Mary Shelley, etc. I have been interested in playwriting recently and so have been reading or watching the film adaptations of Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, and Peter Shaffer. That's all I have time to list for the moment. You can find most of the books I have read on my Goodreads page.
A: We don't really have favorites, though we have a few regular contributors we love. We have a history of debuting new writers, and since taking over the magazine a few years ago, I've made more of a commitment to writing in translation. I fear that singling out particular writers and artists could give people a wrong impression about our style and taste; we're really open to anything. Artists should check out our archive of cover images to see what kind of thing we've liked in the past.
A: Ella Frears
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Jeremy Reed
Roger Robinson
A: We love to pieces the work of our Converse low-res MFA core faculty !
Rick Mulkey
Marlin Barton
Robert Olmstead
Susan Tekulve
Denise Duhamel
Leslie Pietrzyk
Geoff Herbach
Suzanne Cleary
Tyree Daye
Ashley M. Jones
Sheila O'Connor
A: Ash Douglas - poetry and short stories
Bob MacAfee - poetry
Devon Webb - poetry
Katie Fitzgerald - flash romance
Scott MacLeod - flash fiction/microfiction
Johannah Simon - microfiction
Mina Beckett - romance
Pam Martin-Lawrence - romantasy/romance
Just to name a few...
A: Writers: Clarice Lispector, Toni Morrison, Terrance Hayes, Mary Oliver, Audre Lorde, Franz Kafka, Maggie Nelson, Kaveh Akbar, Julia Armfield, Zadie Smith, Yukio Mishima, James Baldwin, Fernanda Melchor, Ottessa Moshfegh, Yaa Gyasi.
Artists: Remedios Varo, Danielle McKinney, Zanele Muholi, Candice Breitz, Sheila Metzner, Xaviera Simmons, Darren Almond, Ai Weiwei, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Meghann Stephenson, Kara Walker.