Editor Interviews

We love the work of Charles Simic, Terrance Hayes, Richard Siken, Leila Chatti, and Gabrielle Bates, among others. And we can't get enough of the writing of Syracuse alums like Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Wendy Chen, Mosab Abu Toha, and Chen Chen!

My personal favourites are Edith Wharton, James Salter, Gustave Flaubert and of course Dostoyevsky. Currently reading a lot of Truman Capote.

Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Christian Wiman, Toni Morrison, Carolyn Forche, Linda Hogan, Chigozie Obioma, Flannery O'Connor, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Geoffrey Hill, Louise Glueck, Jon Fosse.

Eliza Victoria, Yvette Tan, Isabel Yap, Vida Cruz-Borja, Dean Alfar

Georges Bataille, Camilo José Cela, Émile Zola, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Karel Capek, Kay Boyle, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Simic, Pablo Neruda, Osip Mandelstam.

Over the past ten years, we have published well-known authors and first-time writers and artists in each of our eight departments: Poetry, Flash, Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Special Features, Video, and Visual Arts. With each new issue, we add new favorites.

Contemporary Fiction: Lucy Corin, Manuel Munoz, Sara Majka, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Contemporary Poetry: Mag Gabbert, Ross Gay, John Murillo, Marianne Boruch,
Contemporary Non-Fic: Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Maggie Nelson, Roxane Gay

Too many to include in this space!

I'm not sure that's a fair question. There are so many writers whose work I enjoy that I'd hesitate to choose one over another, especially since I wouldn't want to imply that only certain people write well. For me, it's less about the author and more about the story itself, how it's told, and the tone it strikes. I'm particularly drawn to perspectives that are less common, overlooked, or underrepresented.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, T.S. Eliot, Gabriel García Márquez, Kurt Vonnegut, Ruskin Bond, Satyajit Ray, Philip Larkin, Charles Simic, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, John Updike, John Steinbeck, Roddy Doyle, Carol Ann Duffy, Agatha Christie, Premchand, Dharamvir Bharati, Shrilal Shukla, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Shih-Li Kow, François Bereaud, etc.

Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ayan Rand,

T. S. Eliot, Billy Collins, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver

The Rebis publishes both artwork and writing. Xaviera Lopez, our creative director, creates all of the artwork for our cover as well as many original pieces for every publication, and has created the visual language that ties the issues together. She’s built a gorgeous universe that helped define the spirit of the magazine. So much of our identity exists because of her artistic care and imagination, so she's one of our favorite artists! We also are inspired by artwork from folks like Ana Mendieta, Leonora Carrington, Kim Krans, Nicolas Bruno, and many others. Our favorite writers are folks who sit at the intersection of spirituality, psychology, and literature. Jessica Dore, Sophie Strand, Francis Weller, Bayo Akomolafe, adrienne maree brown are just some of our favorites that we're inspired by.

I simply loved Sanvi Devanshi’s poem, ‘Litany for a Cold Moon’. The moment I finished reading it for the first time, I knew we had to publish it. I deeply appreciated the poem’s unique comparisons, such as loving the moon through ‘calculation, vigil, and ruin,’ which gave the piece a thoughtful, almost spiritual quality. One particular line — ‘At her fullness, the world grew dangerous. / Even stone remembered water.’ — was especially moving. For potential submitters who want to understand the kind of writing we are looking for, Sanvi’s piece is a stellar example

So many authors have delighted me over the years; I couldn’t possibly begin to list them. The beauty of being in this industry is that the list is always growing and changing. As of this moment, some favorites in our favorite genres are:
Horror: Paul Tremblay, Linda D. Addison, Cynthia Pelayo
Sci-Fi: Martha Wells, Liu Cixin, Nnedi Okorafor
Fantasy: T. Kingfisher, Fonda Lee, N. K. Jemisin
Thriller: Laird Barron, Oyinkan Braithwaite, S. A. Cosby

We champion Asian-descent/Asian-based female voices so R. F. Kuang and Kim Ae-ran are definitely among our favorite writers; there is also the OG Eileen Chang. Among genre fares, one of our unexpected favorites is science fiction and we appreciate the works of Octavia Butler and Greg Egan. We also invite works that speak to social problems such as those of Annie Ernaux. We publish primarily short form fiction and our favorite short story writers include Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, and Claire Keegan. Aside from fiction, we also publish writings in other formats and we enjoy Marina Tsvetaeva's lyrical poetry.

We have been lucky to have found voices which really resonate with our mission, intentionally or not.
Rosa Marin was one of the original editors, and still among the strongest poetic voices we've published to date, in prose and verse.
Fred Pollack, a self-described 'beat-classicist' helped push our efforts to interrogate our writers through interviews, and push the guiding aesthetic (pomoclassicism) further as an editorial vision.
Alice Notley is a visionary and iconoclastic poet, and it was my pleasure to bring some of her visual poetry to our readers.
Speaking beyond those we have ourselves published, we gravitate toward those writers who seem to confirm our biases and literary ideals. Anne Carson. Cormac McCarthy. Susan Howe. Emily Dickinson. William Blake. Dante. Shakespeare. Virgil. William Burroughs. Salinger (who inspired our name, if legend is to be believed). Kurt Vonnegut. Truman Capote. James Joyce. Franz Kafka. Virginia Woolf. Zbignew Herbert, and Pushkin, too. Harold Pinter, but don't forget Brecht. Don't forget Beckett, or Apollinaire. Try to remember Aphra Behn, and James Baldwin. We like Edward Taylor and Nathaniel Hawthorne. We like Melville. We like Thomas Pynchon and Jamaica Kincaid and Aldous Huxley and Fran Ross.

We publish writing in all genres as well as feature art. I couldn't play favorites with our previous contributors, we have so many incredible talents in our pages. Some examples of writers whose work aligns with what we favor publishing would include Haley Wooning, tommy wyatt blake, Margaret Renkl, Tomas Baiza, Ian Hall, Wanda Deglane, Ali Choudhary, Ross Gay, Rios de la Luz, Khodi Dill, and Rolli. Some artists in the same vein would include Donice Bloodworth Jr., Lindsay Payton, Cayce Zavaglia, Jini Kim Veenker, Yazz Atmore, Steph Hennessy, and Luke Dorman. Again, these could be two loooooong lists!

GossamerWight publishes writers – those who submit stories and poetry to us for inclusion in our quarterly digital anthologies. Every writer whose submitted work we accept is a favourite, because they have all achieved a high standard of writing excellence!

Classic: Fritz Lieber, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, C.L. Moore Contemporary: Wole Talabi, N.K. Jemison, T. Kingfisher

We are lucky to publish both art and writing. Some of my favorite writing has come from a wonderful poet, Michaela Godding. Her work consistently blows me away. Diane Lefer was featured in our seventh issue, of hers we published are among my favorites. One of my favorite poems we have published is called, "Collecting," by Reinfred Dziedzorm Addo, that is in our sixth issue. Another poet, Edward Canavan, is featured in many of our past issues, and his short poems are effective gut punches, in a good way. For fiction we had DC Diamondopolous in two issues, her issue 7 submission remains a favorite of mine. In issue 9 we had some amazing artwork from an artist named, Matina Vossou. And two of our covers (Issue 7 and 9) have artwork from a great photographer, Omar Lopez. And lastly, Chaim Jones, and, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, are two artists who have blown us away with submissions in both visual art and poetry. There are so many other artists that I'd love to list, but needless to say we are very proud of the quality of work we have been fortunate to publish.

Marie Howe, Charles Simic, Clint Smith, Imani Perry, Willie Carver Jr., Jessica Cory, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rebecca Solnit, Carmen Maria Machado, Maggie Nelson, Helen Oyeyemi, Annie Dillard, Brian Doyle

Writers Ada Limon, Ruth Ozeki, Diana Whitney, Kristen Iversen, Peter Gizzi, Elizabeth Willis, Kaia Sand, Bob Hass, Joan Retallack, Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Harryette Mullen, Susan Schultz, Karen Skolfield

As an editor, I’m drawn to writers whose work carries emotional depth, formal intelligence, image, voice, narrative force, witness, humor, moral imagination, and imaginative risk. Some writers I return to include Ocean Vuong, Li-Young Lee, Wislawa Szymborska, Eavan Boland, Jericho Brown, Ada Limón, Joy Harjo, Carolyn Forché, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Hass, Federico García Lorca, Fady Joudah, Quan Barry, William Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, Flannery O’Connor, Sandra Cisneros, Joyce Carol Oates, David Sedaris, Raymond Carver, Mary Karr, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, Anton Chekhov, Haruki Murakami, and Gabriel García Márquez.

My favorite authors are Randall Munroe (for his iconic and mind-bending "what if" series) and Ben Orlin (for the intriguing calculus-themed stories in "Change Is The Only Constant" ). Regarding general fiction, Anthony Doerr (for "Cloud Cuckoo Land" and "All The Light We Cannot See") is a genuine #1.

James Joyce, Shirley Jackson, William Shakespeare, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Herman Melville, Vivian Maier, Henry Darger, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Swift, and many, many, many others.

Ron Rash
George Singleton
Cary Holliday

We love Ocean Vuong, Jenny Xie, Victoria Chang, and Terrance Hayes - all poets who value precision, emotional courage, and carry multiple worlds inside them. Our fiction identity could be embodied by Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Strout, Kazuo Ishiguro, or Viet Thanh Nguyen: their work carries grief as a transformative catalyst and trusts the reader. We like complexity, emotional courage, and craft. When it comes to cover art, we are looking for bold, graphic compositions and figurative imagery that lends itself well to interiority over decoration. We like an emphasis on emotion. We enjoy all art that makes us feel something and draws the gaze, think Sally Mann, Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, Lorna Simpson, or Kehinde Wiley.

We select a winner from the entries and our publishing partner (Dreamers Creative Writing) does the actual publishing - our readers are diverse and we select our Fellowship Winner NOT based on genre or a particular style but mostly for the writer achieving what they set out to do. We choose our first-readers for their excellent taste in a broad selection of fiction.

Again, my tastes are all over the place. Among my absolute favorites are Barbara Kingsolver, Ray Bradbury, Pat Conroy, Jonathan Tropper, and N.K. Jemisin, but, really, that's the tip of the iceberg.

As to poetry, my favorites are Sylvia Plath, Mary Oliver, Diane Seuss, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, and so many others. I find artists like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Artemisia Gentileschi incredibly inspiring, but really, FLARE is open to any striking art, including painting, sculpture, collage, fabric, comics, photography, and more. Just don’t send us any AI-generated material. -Lauren Tivey, Faculty Advisor

My favorite authors are George R.R Martin, R.F. Kuang, SenLinYu, and Ottessa Moshfegh. I enjoy their character driven stories, focusing on the flaws of a character, and how that individual moves through a world. -Jaden Rudd, Head Editor

Mark Z. Danielewski, Randy Ribay, F. C. Yee, Gregory David Roberts, and J.D. Salinger. -AJ Lugo Cortes, Managing Editor

We publish both writing and art; however, my focus normally falls under writing, so Ocean Vuong, Caleb Azumah Nelson, and Madeline Miller have always caught my eye. I'm always open to discovering new and emerging artists!

Margaret Atwood, Naomi Alderman, N.K. Jemisin, Ursula Le Guin, Naomi Novik... there are so many!

Allison Whittenberg, Ocean Vuong, Micah Nemerever, Solmaz Sharif, Diana Khoi Nguyen.

Writers: Alice Notley, Anne Carson, James Tiptree Jr., Danez Smith, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Zora Neale Hurston, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Julia Elliot, Mark Doty, George Saunders, Diane Seuss, B. K. Fischer, Erika Meitner, Jo Ann Beard, Marilyn Hacker, Eileen Myles
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Artists: David Lynch, Julio Torres, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Hieronymus Bosch, Sinjun Strom, Trixie Mattel, Laura Plansker, Sylvia Whitman Palacios, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Evgeni Gordiets, Ellis & Tom, Gladis the orca

My favorite writers include Aimee Bender, Stacey Richter, Becky Chambers, and John Scalzi.

I would prefer to skip this question.

It’s hard to narrow down a list of favorite writers, but Megan Fernandes, Andrea Gibson, and Chen Chen are definitely among them, particularly for their poetry. I also love Kaya Dierks’s and K-Ming Chang’s fiction.

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, James Salter, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, Yiyun Li, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Elena Ferrante, Han Kang, and Pico Iyer.

I love reading a variety of flash fiction, but when the following authors pop up on my feed, I’ll stop whatever I’m doing to read their work: Emily Rinkema, Sumitra Singham, Chloe Paige, Ben Daggers and my beta bestie, Dean Koorey.

Favorite writers: Connie Willis, Haruki Murakami, Philip K. Dick
Favorite artists: Chagall, Lyonel Feininger, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Philip Guston, the Hairy Who

My favorite poets are Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück. While my favorite artists are Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Tracey Emin.

Martin Amis, Nathan Hill, Alan Watts, Margaret Atwood, Matt Haig, Tom Robbins, Max Barry, Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace

I am loving the emotion and complexity of Alix E. Harrow and Emilia Hart right now. Generally, I also enjoy Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley, and the masterful way they unravel a thriller, and I love Jennifer McMahon's unsettling and atmospheric writing.

We've published some of the best established and emerging writers around! Our contributors include Faith Adiele, Victoria Cho, Desiree Evans, Lisa Ko, Natalie Lima, Aurielle Marie, Joseph Osmundson, Ploi Pirapokin, Elissa Washuta, Keegan Lawler, and a ton of other voices. Among artists who have published comics with us are Angie Kang, Judy Moore, Helena Pantsis, Ben Montague, and others.

Some of my favorite writers include Donald E. Westlake, Jordan Harper, Megan Abbott, Patricia Highsmith, Mary Thorson, A. D. Schweiss, Nick Kolakowski, and P. G. Wodehouse.

I don't want to influence submitters with listing my favorite writers.

Some of my favorite writers are Meg Wolitzer, Jess Kidd, and Tana French.

Julio Cortázar, Kenneth Fearing, French Surrealists, Caroline Knox, New York School poets, Pablo Neruda, Howard Nemerov, James Tate, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, & Virginia Woolf, among others

We publish short fiction in Canada, and my favourite writers really don't matter in the grand scheme of things. I don't want artists to think they have to write in a certain style to appeal to the press.

Writers: Joan Didion, James Salter, Colm Toibin, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth Strout, Anne Enright, Andre Dubus (father and son), Claire Messud, Carol Shields, F. Scott Fitgerald, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas

Some of my favorite writers are Xiran Jay Zhao, S. A. Chakraborty, and Leigh Bardugo. I love reading queer fantasy and sci-fi, along with the occasional horror. In regards to artwork, I try to put the Starry Night by Van Gogh on all my things. The art we publish is wide-ranging.

Jenny Hval is my favorite weird girl. I highly advise reading one of her novels if you really want to get to know our brains. I also really admire Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, and other outside-of-the-box poets.

Our editors change fairly regularly, and their tastes can vary, but some recent authors we have published or worked with include Leila Chatti, Emily Skaja, Marcus Wicker, Kenton K. Yee, Sarah Minor, Beth Ward, Anita Lo, Tayler Raven Hanxi Bunge, Lydia Mathis, etc...

These have changed over the years and continue to change. I’m a fan of both ‘literary’ fiction (whatever that is) and good old fashioned story-telling so my tastes range from Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ronald Dahl and Stephen King. King's 'On Writing' should be compulsory reading for any would-be author.
In terms of art, widely diverse but not keen on anything twee, or sentimental, or how to put it, ‘over-worked.’ In Volume 1, the photography of Julia Fullerton-Batten has appeared in Anthophile, which is extraordinary. I love it.

My favourites are writers who are able to meld together character and setting for emotional effect. Of the realists, I enjoy Marilynne Robinson, Tara June Winch and Truman Capote. Of the stylists, I adore Jennifer Egan, Han Kang and Kurt Vonnegut. Of the genre writers, I love Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Russell and Kij Johnson. Of poetry, my favourites are Tracy K. Smith, Evelyn Araluen and John Ashbery and whilst I have a conflicted relationship with the so called classics, I do have a bias for Keats. But I also am constantly searching for new favourites - I love authors who are able to show me a new side of the craft I'd never considered before.

Philip Roth, Dara Horn, Ruth Wisse, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Hirshberg, Abigail Pogrebin, Thane Rosenbaum, Haya Molnar, Gary Shteyngart, Howard Jay Smith

So many....if we exclude the authors that we publish (we only publish books that we LOVE) or work with personally (I've co-authored books with Janet Evanovich, for example), or who are close personal friends, or family members (my brother Tod Goldberg is very successful and terrific writer), my favorites include Larry McMurtry, Charles Willeford, John Sandford, Harry Whittington, Elmore Leonard, John Irving, Jonathan Evison, Thomas Perry, Michael Connelly, Frederick Manfred, Elmore Kelton, Robert B. Parker, Ace Atkins, Lawrence Block... I could go on and on and on.

We love all the writers we publish and are especially excited when we come upon writers we were previously unfamiliar with.

We are always finding new voices to admire! In terms of established writers:
Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, Ocean Vuong, Kelly Link, Denis Johnson, Margaret Atwood, Lauren Groff, Marilynne Robinson, Bob Dylan, Alice Munro, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye

Well, the list of favorite writers is always changing as I am introduced to my authors all the time. Lately I'm reading the Russians )Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn) and some of the greatest "pop" crime novels (John D. MacDonald, James W. Hall, Walter Mosley and Charles Williams) at the same time. Loved Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. And recently re-read First Blood (basis for Rambo) and Nothing Last Forever (basis for Die Hard) just for the hell of it and liked both books.
For art, I was really pleased to include Deb Sokolow in Midnight Mind Issue 8. Her witty take on data, almost with a sarcasm and dry humor, laid out in a blueprint style is amazing. I wish the walls of my office were full of her work. Cliche, I know, but I dig Warhol and have only seen 1 Ed Ruscha in my life that didn't make me smile in awe.

Some of my favorite writers include Agatha Christie, James Patterson, and James Baldwin. Their work shaped how I think about story, pacing, and emotional honesty, but I’m not interested in imitation. Original voice and lived interiority matter far more than echoing influence.

We love classical short story writers such as Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, James Baldwin, Anton Chekhov, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Guy de Maupassant, Bernard Malamud, Alice Munro, Philip Roth, & John Steinbeck.
But we also love contemporary authors such as Lisa Alward, Kristen Arnett, Sudha Balagopal, Lori Sambol Brody, Aaron Burch, Exodus Octavia Brownlow, Avitus B. Carle, Michael Czyzniejewski, Paola Ferrante, Jennifer Fliss, Beth Gilstrap, Hannah Grieco, Maureen Langloss, Megan Lucas, Kim Magowan, Heather O’Neill, Deesha Philyaw, Michelle Ross, George Saunders, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Amy Stuber, Tara Stillions Whitehead, & so many more...

Russell Edson, Dean Young, Moisei Fishbein, Ben Lerner, Gertrude Stein, are just a few!

Favorites include Cornell Woolrich, Edgar Allan Poe, Erik Larson, H. P. Lovecraft, Joe R. Lansdale, John W. Campbell, Lee Child, Michael Slade, Norvell Page, Robert E. Howard, Rod Serling, and Stephen King.

We both have quite different tastes in writers. Roger names his three favourites as William Goldman, John Le Carre, and Noel Coward, while I'd slide more toward Chuck Palahniuk, PG Wodehouse, and Oscar Wilde.

Fiction: Willa Cather, Audre Lorde, Gertrude Stein, Jonathan Lethem, John Steinbeck, Jeanette Winterson,
Poetry: Naomi Shihab Nye, Marilyn Chin, Jim Daniels, Tony Hoagland, Cynthia Hogue, Norman Dubie

For writing: John Grey, Veronica Tucker, Ken e Bujold, Oleg Daugovish, Elly Katz, Margaret Anne Kean, E.C. Traganas, Madeleine French, Vivian Faith Prescott, Sara Eddy, W. Barrett Munn, Jacob Friesenhahn, Janet Rives, Kathy O'Fallon, Kathleen Goldblatt, William Doreski, Sara Stegen, Margaret Taylor-Ulizio, R.H. Booker, Naomi Stenburg, Marla Dial Moore, Darrell Petska, Elizabeth Gunn, Robert Harlow, and many more!
For art: Camellia Paul, Anne Mesquita, Lita Marie Bonciolini, Sean Ewing, Kim Sosin, Channie Greenburg, Katie Hughbanks, & Rachel Turney.

The writers and artists I publish are my favourites, of course. I've been lucky enough to publish some astonishing stories by some well known flash writers. In a wider context I have a broad palate for writers. Frances Hardinge, Jess Kidd and E Nesbit spring to mind. They create vivid worlds and have off kilter (in the best possible way) imaginations.

Favorites? That's so difficult and arbitrary. It really depends on the day and my mood. I do really remember and return to every piece I publish. I thought 104 would be too many, and some would get lost in the muddle, but I really could probably name every piece published in the last two years.

We support and encourage all writers.

I like the work of so many writers it’s hard to choose, but recently I’ve enjoyed the work of Daisy Johnson, Emily St John Mandel and Julia Armfield. I read a lot of horror and crime and recently have been reading Francine Toon, Tana French and Andrew Michael Hurley. I like dark fiction with psychological depth and a feeling of the uncanny.

Some personal favorites are Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Ocean Vuong, Andrea Gibson

Truman Capote
Tommy Orange
Joe Brainard
Brittany Ackerman
Lucy K. Shaw
Maya Popa
Esperanza Snyder
Mark Wunderlich

I think it's only fair to mention those who keep coming back and sharing their work with us. Some of them have been with us from our very first issue: François Bereaud, Zary Fekete, Gretchen Filart, Susmita Singam, Chris Cottom, Rachel, Grant Shimmin, and Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos.
We've only recently expanded what we accept from artists and honestly love them all. A few that come to mind immediately are Melissa Fitzpatrick and Joanne Macias, and Adam Jon Miller.

Claudia Rankine, C.D. Wright, Maggie Smith, Kelly Foster Lundquist, Denise Duhamel, Louise Glück, James Wright, Sylvia Plath

Lucia Berlin
Larry Brown
Mary Miller
Poe Ballantine
Brian Allen Carr
Scott McClanahan

There are too many established writers I like to list. One of my favorite things is discovering an author I've never read before.

Czeslaw Milosz
VS Naipaul
AD Hope
Les Murray
Anthony Hecht
Shusaku Endo
Joshua Hren
John Gardner
Flaubert
Melville
Kipling
Many, many more

This is probably the hardest question to answer, because I am absolutely in love with every author we publish. I could go on and on about their work. SO I'm going to list some folks we haven't published. I absolutely adore Jericho Brown; every time I read "The New Testament" I find a new favorite line of poetry. Ocean Vuong's poetry has made me cry, as has Leonard Cohen. Naomi Shahib Nye for every single reason. Christian Collier needs to be on everyone's reading list; his poems come out swinging as he looks at race in America and the South, while using these cultural moments to ground the story he's telling. E.D. Watson is another poet to read and follow; her poetry reflects her life of activism and authenticity. Ron Whitehead, one of the powerhouse poets of our times. Joaquin Zihuatanejo, the former Poet Laureate of Dallas; he's a working poet and his words are sharp, incisive, and sometimes a gut-punch. Charles Russell Price is incredibly bold and so truthful it hurts; I still buy copies of his first book as gifts for friends.

TJ Klune, Tamsyn Muir, Tara Campbell, Kathie Giorgio, Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Martha Wells, Ursula K Le Guin, Eavan Boland, Stephen Dobyns, Joy Harjo

We love writers like Maggie Nelson, Amina Cain, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Renee Gladman (we were thrilled to have her judge our hybrid writing award in 2024)—the list goes on! A few of our favorite visual artists include Chelsea Mosher, Yanique Norman, and Sophie Paquette.

We are drawn to writers whose work is emotionally resonant, structurally intentional, and precise at the line level. Some writers who continually inspire our editorial mindset are: Ocean Vuong, Carmen Maria Machado, Brandon Taylor, Lauren Groff, Alexander Chee, Esmé Weijun Wang, Kaveh Akbar, Garth Greenwell, and Hanya Yanagihara.

Miranda July, Ocean Vuong, Elif Batuman, Rebecca Makkai

Ann Pancake

We adore Aimee Ogden and consider her one of the crop of really great writers who are sliding under a lot of folks radar. We've been really lucky to get to publish two unique stories of hers, and had admired her long before we opened. Jennifer Hudack is another writer we love, and were pleased to see her story from our second issue land in the Years Best Speculative Ecofiction anthology being published by Apex Book company. Honestly, there's too many to mention, from short stories to novels.

Andrew Joron
Christian Bok
Will Alexander
Martin Corless-Smith
Brian Lucas
Aby Kaupang
Brenda Hillman

I like Thomas McGuane, Louise Erdrich, Barry Lopez, and every author I've ever worked with, either through Muleskinner, or at Bread Loaf or Napa Valley.

Sandra Alland, Stephanie Alma, Shahd Alshammari, P. F. Anderson, Khairani Barokka, Jennifer Bartlett, Pelenakeke Brown, Sheila Black, Tommy Carroll, Kate Champlin, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Laurie Clements Lambeth, Karen Christie, John Lee Clark, TJ Cuthand, Meg Day, Kara Dorris, Jim Ferris, Kenny Fries, Emilie L. Gossiaux, Ona Gritz, Jerron Herman, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Stephen Kuusisto, Emily Ladau, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Hana Madness, Sean J. Mahoney, Emily K. Michael, Shane Neilson, Michael Northen, Calvin Seretle Ratladi, David James Savarese, Ralph Savarese, Daniel Simpson, Elsa Sjunneson, Daniel Sluman, Nathan Spoon, Carolina Teixeira, Connie Voisine, Syrus Marcus Ware, Liz Whiteacre, Noa Winter, Kathi Wolfe, Chun-shan (Sandie) Yi, Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri

Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Caitlin Kiernan, TJ Klune, Sean Stewart, SQ McGrath

Our favorite writers are all of our past, present and future contributors. You are why we do this.

Some of my all-time favourite writers are Cormac McCarthy, Ted Chiang, Vladimir Nabokov, George Saunders, Anthony Doerr, Han Kang, Max Porter, Lisa Olstein, and John Steinbeck.
Some favourites that we’ve published or chatted to on the podcast include Matt Bell, Helen Marshall, Kathleen Jennings, Kris Kneen, Alicia Sometimes, Jo Anderton, James Bradley, and Simon Cleary.
I know I’ve forgotten heaps!

Shirey Hazzard, Mavis Gallant, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Katie Kitamura

Atwood, Dickens, Dali, Miro

For writing, exemplar pieces we've published include: "The Life and Times of the Kids on Streeper Street" by Breasia "Bree" Boyd (Issue 2), "Thanks for Your Patience" by Hayley Igarashi Thomas (Issue 2), "For Beginnings" by Otis Sprow (Issue 1), and "rust dyed" by Jordan Byrum (June 2025).
For visual art, exemplar pieces we've published include: "Sunrise at Port Williams" by Judith Skillman (Issue 2), "Unfinished Tree" by Kyrico (Issue 2), and nat raum's January 2025 series.

Another incomplete list: Sheila Heti, Marlowe Granados, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, T Kira Madden, Jamie Hood, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Grace Byron, Sophie Kemp, Stephanie Wambugu, Kimberly Johnson, Louise Gluck.

All the writers we publish become favourites, as our connection with them often continues beyond publication—some return as students in our masterclasses, others as instructors, a few as readers, and even some as editors.

Some of my favorite artists are Soosh, Cameron Gray, Joe Gilronan, Nick Gustafson, and Anita Hubbard. I enjoy publishing a wide variety of art including whimsical, inspirational, or nature scenery.
I also publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that is deeply reflective, inspirational, and spiritual. Some of my favorite writers are C.S. Lewis, Shel Silverstein, Eric Carle, and E.B. White.

Michele Mari, Claudia Rankine, Jeanette Winterson, Jane Hirschfield, Mario Luzi, Valerie Luiselli, Marguerite Duras, Paolo Cognetti, Sallie Tisdale, W.S. Merwin, Annie Dillard, Carol Ann Duffy, Julian Barnes, Paolo Giordano, Luigi Nacci, Antonio Moresco, Vivian Gornick, Lucia Berlin, Don Mee Choi, Elaine Feeney, Sebastian Barry, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Clarice Lispector ...

With editors on staff, I’ve discussed common admiration for Joan Didion, Rainer Maria Rilke, Donald Barthelme, Pablo Neruda, Tom Waits, Annie Dillard, Elizabeth Bishop, and Arundhati Roy.
I come from the poetry world, so I personally admire poets who reach beyond the exactly describable to the world of echoing feeling. I’ve recently been captivated by Sonia Sanchez, Nicolás Guillén, James Tate, and James Merrill.
Individual editors on our staff of thirty have a very wide range and field of interests.

For me personally, a lot of horror. A lot of romance. Clive Barker. Ann Rice. Nancy A. Collins. Emily Brontë. But for cyberpunk, of course, Neal Stephenson and Gibson. And for a weird combo of all of these the Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky I think were some of the finest of writers. Stop reading this and go read Roadside Picnic.

Peter Orner, Emily St. John Mandel, John Williams, Ernest Hemingway.

It's hard to choose a favourite. I love non-fiction and especially feminist writing. bell hooks is a particular favourite, but honestly, if it has to do with gender, feminism, politics and mental health, I love consuming all the knowledge around these subjects, even in fiction writing. I do admire authors such as V.E. Schwab, Silvia Federici, Lola Olufemi, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, to name a few, and I would be in heaven if I ever had the opportunity to publish any of these writers, plus a hundred others.
When it comes to those I have already published, I will refrain from sharing any particular favourites to prevent isolating one from the other. Obviously, I love all the work from the authors I have published.

Oh, I don't think I could possibly choose just one favourite. I do admire authors such as V.E. Schwab, Sally Rooney, Maya Angelou, Silvia Federici, Lola Olufemi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, to name a few, and I would be in heaven if I ever had the opportunity to publish any of these writers, plus a hundred others.
As for artists, I am particularly obsessed with Rachel Lorraine at the moment, whom I had the honour of including her work in our second edition of Thorn & Bloom Magazine. Again, I can't choose a favourite, though you can probably guess that I love feminist and diverse artists/authors.

Rikki Ducornet
Anne Carson
Brian Evenson
Italo Calvino
Brandon Hobson
Laird Hunt
Helen Oyeyemi
Julia Elliott
Bruno Schulz
Franz Kafka
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf

Some of my favorite writers are Charles Bukowski, Emily Dickinson, Dorianne Laux, Sylvia Plath.

Some contemporary writers I deeply admire include Kim Hyesoon, Anne Carson, Megan Milks, Fred Moten, Eli Clare, Larissa Lai, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kathy Acker, Rivers Solomon, and Jeff Vandermeer. My favorite now-deceased writers include Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, and Ursula K. LeGuin.
My favorite artists (all-time) include Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Sam Hensley, Vincent Van Gogh, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Walter M Miller, Dan Simmons, Nnedi Okorafor, Gene Wolfe

There are so many! Cemil Otar (artist and writer), Jim Landwehr (writer), Kerry Langan (writer), Renee Cronley (writer), Andrew Careaga (writer) and Myna Chang (writer) just to name a few.

I don't want to answer this as EIC because what we publish through Cleaver is a team project, not the result of a single editor's aesthetic. We work together to create issues filled with a chorus of voices in many registers: prose and poetry that is specific, authentically voiced, eclectic, and powerful. We don't shy away from writers who take a strong political position, and we value both full-throated passion and quiet, nuanced reflection.

Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Homer, David Herod, Susanna Clarke.

My personal favourites, as a reader, don't actually write in the genre we publish. I am a big fan of Japanese literature and my all-time favourite writer is Haruki Murakami. I'm also a big fan of John Irving, who to me is one of America's greatest storytellers of all time. Other than that, I also like Scarlett Thomas, Ali Smith and Kate Atkinson. There are so many others I could name - I own over 4,000 books!

Some favorites I publish: Robbie Cheadle, Kirsty Mac Dougall, Sam Moe, Walter Bargen, Ian C. Smith, Nancy Bevilaqua, Yongbo Ma, Smitha Vishwanath, Robert Okaji, Nolcha Fox, and so many more.

All of the artists who place their work in our journals are wonderful. But my personal favorite artists in our magazine are a trio of fine artists that have chosen to grace our pages with their work. Award-winning, visionary artists, Denita Benyshek, Lauren Raine, and our arts editor, Helena Domenic are so talented and their work is really inspiring!
I also really want to mention a Ukrainian artist who has graced our pages, Inna Vjuzhanina. She is in Zaporizhzhia and sometimes writes about her daily experiences in her Patreon Blog.
For writers, we get so many great stories that it's hard to pick a favorite, but Lannie Pihajlic made us laugh out loud. There isn't enough humor in speculative fiction and we are always actively seeking science fiction, in particular, more on the lighter side. Irisanya Moon's poetry touched us with their lyrical style. In the upcoming Autumn 2025 issue, there is a story by newcomer, Torger Vedeler that is just beautifully written. In the first issue, Rachel Rodman's
"The Yellow Brick Roooooaaaad…" left us breathless. Illustrated by another fine artist, Shelly Kay, we were thrilled to publish this story.

We publish both writers and artists alongside photographers as well. The most favorite artists that we’ve published so far are Hayley Massena, Lana Grushnik, and Hikari, and the writers/poets would be Kristine Amundrud, Kalpesh Desai, Stephen Buttigieg, Allison Cundiff, Mehrsa Karimi, Maria Mecham, and Michael Barrington, to name a few. There are so many, but these are the ones that surfaced in my mind.

We love discovering new writers. We have special TINY POEM issues in August. We seek out new voices and honor our elders. I lean into Raymond Carver-esque writing and Diana Seuss for poetry but also appreciate the weird, the unexpected, the experimental that challenges me and changes my thinking.

My favorite writers toe the line between exquisite description and sickening accuracy. I'll read anything by Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, PD James, David Mamet, David Foster Wallace, Tessa Hadley, Han Kang, Miranda July, Yoko Ogawa, Manuel Puig, and Magda Szabo. I prefer literature in translation and/or by non-American, non-male, non-traditional writers.

Some of our favorite authors and poets include Walter Bennett, Susan Zurenda, Heath Dollar, James Kimbrell, Adam Johnson, Bobbie Ann Mason, Bruce Craven, Allen Mendenhall, and Julia Nunnally Duncan.

Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen, Judy Waite, Mary Hoffman, Hilary McKay, Philip Pullman

Maeve Binchy, Joanne Harris, Mary Hoffman,

Monte Lin, Angela Liu, Maria Haskins, Riley Tao, Wen Wen Yang are just a few!

Joann Harris, Maeve Binchy, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, Monika Feth, Zola,

Colleen Addison, Chris Scott, Deborah Sale-Butler, Leah Scott-Kirby, Kris Green, Daniel Kipps, Matt Scott, Pierce King,

At Lilith's Diaries we publish both literature and art. My favourite writer currently has to be Donna Tartt (The Secret History is undefeated) and as for art, I'm not too caught up on different artists, so I'll play it safe and pick Van Gogh as I love The Starry Night.

I love discovering new voices that I've never read before!

Autumn Bettinger, Jeff Zentner, Jenny Lawson, Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Jen Sincero

Harry Crews
Clarice Lispector
Denis Johnson
Larry Brown
Raymond Carver
Lisa Carver

Writers who are pushing literary boundaries and who are not afraid to peek into darkness. Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Blake Butler, B.R. Yeager, Gerald Murnane, Noy Holland, Garielle Lutz, Clarice Lispector, Agota Kristof, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Aickmann, Samuel Beckett, Peter Christopher, Johannes Goransson, Joyelle Mcsweeney, Dylan Thomas, G.C. Waldrep, Can Xue, Camilla Grudova, Otessa Moshfegh, Jesse Ball, Anakana Schofield, Marcus Pactor, Djuna Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Paul Auster.

Kitty Felde
Sherri L. Smith
Stuart Gibbs

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

My favorite writers include Annie DIllard, Jean Shepherd, Charles Dickens, Sharyn McCrumb, David McCullough, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Anne Tyler.

Aracelis Girmay, Li-Young Lee, Lucille Clifton, Natalie Diaz, Dan Beachy-Quick, Matthew Olzmann, Arundhati Roy, Pico Iyer, Roxanne Gay, Melissa Febos, Khadijah Queen, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ross Gay.

My biggest influences early on were poets who were radically tapped-in to 'what was happening' — Carolyn Forché, Ernesto Cardenal, Muriel Rukeyser — or opening up possibilities in language I didn't know were there, like the Oulipo, Robyn Schiff, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Paisley Rekdal, Valerie Wallace, Jay David Bolter, and Elissa Washuta. I should speak as well of my friends, Acie Clark, Kate DeLay, Javier Sandoval, Aurielle Marie, Jane Morton, and Grey Wolfe Lajoie. In my research, I've been struck by the poetry in the first 15 years of Ms. Magazine, and some unlikely poetry by celebrities like Jewel and Jimmy Carter.

Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, Richard Siken, Langston Hughes

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

Sierra Simone, Tessa Bailey, Katee Robert, Lillian Lark, Leigh Bardugo, George Saunders, Ann Patchet, Elizabeth Gilbert

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).

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).

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.

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

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...

We are focused on publishing underrepresented, and often, authors who aren't afraid to push genre limits. Some of the authors I've truly enjoyed working with include Francis Daulerio, Elisa Carlsen, Amy Baskin, Mari Matthias, John W. Bateman, Rosalia Scalia, Douglas Cole, and Yvonne Osborne.
If I'm talking about writers beyond the scope of our press, then my go-tos include: Sharon Olds, Maggie Smith, Pam Houston, Joe Wenderoth, Rebecca Solnit, and Rachel Zucker.

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.

Some of my favorite writers are Carmen Maria Machado, Daniel Handler, Samantha Hunt, Isaac Marion, William Shakespeare, William Faulkner (I was in my AP English teacher's "Faulkner Freaks" club), Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Jane Austen, Italo Calvino, Ottessa Moshfegh, and lately, Kelly Link and Karen Russell. Some of my favorite contemporary artists are Rachael Olga Lloyd, Lin Yung Cheng, Fatima Ronquillo, Anastassia Zamaraeva, Jeremy Geddes, Mimi Choi, Miles Johnston, Summer Wagner, and Amy Guidry (who we were lucky enough to have in issue #4!).

Writing: George Saunders, Paulo Coelho, Kate Quinn, Mary Gaitskill
Art: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marina Abramovic, MC Escher, Salvador Dalí
We publish and enthusiastically welcome ekphrastic pieces.

Oh, there are so many writers I admire! Khaled Hosseini is an all-time favorite the way he captures human emotions is just incredible. Ruskin Bond has this beautiful simplicity in his stories, especially about the hills, that feels so comforting. Sudha Murty’s work always inspires me; her storytelling is so heartfelt and relatable. And, of course, Munshi Premchand his stories are timeless and portray Indian society so vividly.
When it comes to art, I’m in love with traditional Madhubani art it’s so intricate and vibrant, and it carries such a deep cultural essence. Artists like Sita Devi and Ganga Devi are truly iconic for bringing this beautiful folk art to the world. Their work reminds me how art and culture are so intertwined in storytelling.

Favorite writers: James Baldwin, Italo Calvino, Louise Erdrich, Mohsin Hamid, Carmen Maria Machado, Elizabeth McCracken, Naomi Shihab Nye, Emily Ruskovich, George Saunders, Jeanette Winterson (to name just a few) ... and of course our fabulous contributors! See our archived online issues.

A few writers whose work has informed Channel's vision include: Rumi, Leonard Cohen, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Camille T. Dungy, Rachel Carson, Eli Clare, Robert Macfarlane and Dara McAnulty.

Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt, Dean Koontz, Philip Pullman, Ursula K Le Guin, Roald Dahl, Spike Milligan, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell

Charles Simic, T.R. Hummer, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Dianee Seuss, G.C. Waldrep, Stephen Dunn

I find myself revisiting the works of Chen Chen, Quinn Rennerfeldt, Roseline Mgbodichinma, Pamilerin Jacobs, Franny Choi, and Abdulbaseet Yusuff. I am still exploring art, but I appreciate the works of Joshua Effiong, Foyinsayemi Kilaso, and Anthony Azekwoh.

Burroughs, Beckett, Ginsberg, Genet, Orwell, Duras, etc.

We have a lot of favorites. If you look at the books published by MP, you will get a picture of our taste.

It doesn't make sense to me to claim favorite writers or artists because to do so implies there's a particular voice we're looking for, which there isn't. We want authors and artists to submit what best represents them and who they are.
But if this non-answer annoys anyone, then here is a more direct response:
Writers: Anne Carson, W.S. Merwin, Claudia Rankine, Faulkner, Hemingway, Didion, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Lyn Hejinian—to name a few.
Artists: Giacometti, Braque, Twombly, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Jonas Mekas...and so on, and so on, etc, etc.

Some of our favorites include: Helen Oyeyemi, Italo Calvino, Ben Lerner, Don DeLillo.

My favorite writers include Ernest Hemingway and Jack Higgins

I publish comedy. My favorite writers are comedians, comedy writers, and comedy shows like South Park and Rick & Morty. To name a few: Kurt Metzger, Harland Williams, Adam Ray, Tim Dillon, and Tony Hinchcliffe.

Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, George RR Martin - writers who combine the best of literary and genre.

Some of our favorite fiction and nonfiction writers include Robert Olen Butler, Alexander Chee, Ruthanna Emrys, Garth Greenwell, Roxane Gay, Robert Jones Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Daniel Lavery, Matt Ruff, George Saunders, Wesley Stace, and Angie Thomas.

Our list of writers is long, and we couldn't even agree on a top three.

We don't have favourites but rather favourite qualities. These include, bold writing that has a strong sense of direction and a powerful word-economy not one that is overly simplistic or mundane. We also believe that accessibility should not mean weakness of diction but rather strength of meaning and clarity of authorial intent.

My favorite writers are Ray Bradbury, Richard Jefferies, Stephen King, James Fenimore Cooper, Haruki Murakami, Becky Chambers, and Michael Cunningham. Aside from Becky Chambers none of them really work in the specific space that we publish. Ray Bradbury comes close at times, especially in his fix-up novel Dandelion Wine.

Our team’s favorite fiction writers include Kathy Fish, Meg Pokrass, Kelly Davio, Robert Vaughn, Dashka Slater, Lydia Davis, Flannery O’Connor, David Sedaris, and many more.
We love reading the poetry of Wendell Berry, Kim Addonizio, Brendan Constantine, Nicole Sealy, Patricia Smith, Wendy Cope, Ron Koertge, Billy Collins, Nicole Sealy, Marilyn Nelson, and many more.
Visual artists we adore include Andrea Kowch, Sarah Sloat, Angela Smyth, Karen Faris, Lorette Luzajic, and many more.

EE "Doc" Murdock

Some of my favorite writers include James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, David Foster Wallace, Joseph McElroy, Garielle Lutz, Gabriel García Márquez, and Alexander Theroux. Some of my favorite artists include Salvador Dalí, Vincent van Gogh, Hieronymus Bosch, Leonora Carrington, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Zbigniew M. Bielak, Eliran Kantor, Frida Kahlo, and Gustav Klimt.

Ginn Hale, Priest, Fumi Yoshinaga, Douglas Adams, John Steinbeck

I publish both. In fiction, social realism is probably what I like best. Though fancy, fantasy, realism with a twist in it is probably best. A fiction writer I published a lot is Jérémy Bérenger. His pieces were straight-forward, well-crafted and always satirical, ironical. He has stopped writing now. I always have in a corner of my brain such great writers as Kafka, Zweig, Rilke, Joyce, James, Wharton, Steinbeck, Zola.
Poetry is probably at the opposite of what I expect from fiction. I don't think poetry can easily fit into an illustration of real life without falling into clichés, using an awkward style. Dreams, unconsciousness, twisted flow. I like to cite poets such as Erich von Neff, JJ Steinfeld, John Grey, or the poets I published through Urtica Press. Past poets would be Blake, Baudelaire, Plath, Dickinson, Prévert, Bishop.
Datura took a turn towards darker work inspired by nihilism, anti-natalism, negative utilitarianism, efilism. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Benatar, Cioran: "Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?"

Shirley Jackson, Salman Rushdie, Mariana Enríquez, Kelly Link, Leesa Gazi, Margaret Atwood, Charles Burns, Mashiul Alam, Kim Bo-Young, Kazuo Ishiguro, George Saunders, Ursula K. Le Guin, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Alan Moore, and Mahmudul Haque, to name a few.

Our tastes are broad and eclectic.

Pathos and finesse are a must. Umberto Eco, Georges Perec, Joy Williams, Helen DeWitt, Lydia Davis. The 'Gryllus Zone' is the heady but heartbreaking.

Marilynne Robinson prose, Elizabeth Robinson poetry, Annie Ernoux essays

Matthew Hughes, Lavie Tidhar, Michael Moorcock, Diana Wynne Jones, Jack Vance, Rhys Hughes, Terrance Dicks, Muriel Spark.

Our tastes are eclectic, but some of our favorite writers include Kurt Vonnegut, Italo Calvino, Anne Lamott, Philip K. Dick, George Saunders, Neil Gaiman, Mark Twain, Bill Oakley, Charles Simic, Jillian Tamaki, Craig Thompson, David Small, Lynda Barry, Joy Harjo, Ada Limón, Louise Erdrich, David Small, Zadie Smith, Daniel Woodrell, Laura McHugh, and on and on and on… Like writing, we adore visual art of all kinds too.

Writers: Jia Tolentino, Sally Rooney, Darcie Wilder, Melissa Broder, Joan Didion, Sarah Perry

We do not focus on displaying personal favourites of any kind; our magazine focuses on our contributors and the creations they want to show to the world.

My tastes range widely, from the timeless insight of Leo Tolstoy and Jane Austen to the contemporary magic of Kazuo Ishiguro, Andre Alexis, and Susanna Clarke. Broadly speaking, I like books that do it all.

Some of our current favorite writers include Roberto Carlos Garcia, Lucille Clifton, Marie Howe, and Jericho Brown.

It wouldn't be fair for me to single out some of our writers or artists as personal favorites. But in the world of authors outside the Hard Case Crime family, three favorites are Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene and (a very different style) Kurt Vonnegut. Some artists I love but that we came around too late to publish include James Avati, James Bama, and Robert Maguire (though Maguire's daughter did kindly give us access to some of his unpublished work after his death).

Chris Kraus, Assata Shakur, Kathy Acker, Joy Harjo, Elizabeth Smart- see magazine guidelines for more.

Asimov, Timothy Zahn, Brian Jacques, N.K. Jemisin.
Joe Kubert, Darwyn Cooke, Roger Dean, Frank Frazetta

Jeanie Mortensen, Jack Ridl, Diane Wakoski, Fleda Brown, Anne-Marie Oomen, Karen Anderson, Linda Sandow, Andy Skinner, and Brian Kainulainen

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Linda Hogan
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lidia Yuknavitch
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Leslie Marmon Silko
Amitav Ghosh
Kathleen Dean Moore
Deena Metzger
Sophie Strand
Alice Walker
Joan Mitchell
Edvard Munch
Suzette Clough

Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain

My all-time favorite is Stephen King, but Jonathan Maberry and Dean Koontz are next up on the list. Their characters will make a home in your heart, and will keep you turning the pages.

I publish poetry and literary criticism, and though I think less in terms of preference and more in terms of curiosity, as in, who might I be most interested in lately—some of my favorite writers rain or shine include C.D. Wright, Lorine Niedecker, Harryette Mullen, Brian Teare, Renee Gladman, Elizabeth Hardwick, Simone White, Timmy Straw, dg nanouk okpik, and Robyn Schiff.

Among our contributors, we love Ace Boggess, Hally Day, Taylor Graham, John Grey, Ruth Holzer, Katharyn Howd Machan, John Muro, Steve Straight, and many others.

Honestly, there are too many to name! My favorite writers range from Virginia Woolf to Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Zadie Smith and V.E. Schwab. My favorite artists also include a wide range from Huang Zhong Yang to Klimt to more modern, indie artists like Mary Syring.

Some of our favorite writers are t.kilgore splake, Kimberly Madura, Jessica Levinson and Elena Botts.

My favorite writers are Kazuo Ishiguro, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carlo Rovelli (technically a physicist but his writing is beautiful), and Emily Dickinson.

Ada Limon, Ann Patchett, Victor Lavalle, Mary Miller, Mark Strand, Terrance Hayes, Celeste Ng (many many more . . .)

Any list of "favorites" can't possibly do justice to the great number of fiction and nonfiction writers and poets we've published over the years. Some authors showed or continue to show remarkable loyalty, having published with us many times, including poets Arlene Ang, Bob Bradshaw, C.E. Chaffin, Antonia Clark, Barbara De Franceschi, Taylor Graham, Ray Templeton; and prose writers Thomas J. Hubschman, Stanley Jenkins, Alex Keegan, Anna Sidak, Paul Silverman, David Taylor, and G.K. Wuori, to name just a few. Some authors have gone on to achieve great things and have been kind enough to keep in touch: Charlie Yu, Ron Currie, Caroline Kepnes, Rachel Maizes, Chika Unigwe, again to name a few.

Joan Didion, Haruki Murakami, Kyung-sook Shin, Richard Siken, Jean Valentine, and Ocean Vuong.

Here's a list some of my favorite writers:
Harold Abramowitz, César Aira, Will Alexander, Roberta Allen, Osama Alomar, Gary Amdahl, A. R. Ammons, Donald Antrim, Louis Armand, John Ashbery, Nicholson Baker, James Baldwin, Djuna Barnes, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Roland Barthes, Augusto Roa Bastos, Paul Beatty, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sarah Blackman, Gabriel Blackwell, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Giannina Braschi, Jeff Bursey, Mary Caponegro, Italo Calvino, Alejo Carpentier, Tobias Carroll, Anne Carson, Olivia Kate Cerrone, Jimmy Chen, Jane Ciabattari, Kim Chinquee, E. M. Cioran, J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Robert Coover, Julio Cortázar, Hart Crane, Lynn Crawford, Stanley Crawford, Rachel Cusk, Susan Daitch, Renée E. D’Aoust, Guy Davenport, Jeremy M. Davies, Lydia Davis, Samuel R. Delany, Sergio de la Pava, Gilles Deleuze, Don DeLillo, Helen DeWitt, Debra Di Blasi, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, John Domini, Rikki Ducornet, Marguerite Duras, Lawrence Durrell, Umberto Eco, Stanley Elkin, Will Eno, Jenny Erpenbeck, Brian Evenson, William Faulkner, Thalia Field, Leon Forrest, Janet Frame, Carlos Fuentes, William Gaddis, Grace Campbell, William H. Gass, Forrest Gander, Renee Gladman, Jaimy Gordon, Tina May Hall, Peter Handke, Barry Hannah, John Haskell, Alissa Hattman, John Hawkes, Lyn Hejinian, Karen Heuler, Brandon Hobson, Noy Holland, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, Gabino Iglesias, Shelley Jackson, Henry James, Andrew Joron, James Joyce, Michael Joyce, John Keene, Michael Kimball, Brian Kiteley, György Konrád, Joshua Kornreich, László Krasznahorkai, Babak Lakghomi, Janice Lee, Karen An-hwei Lee, Hillary Leftwich, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Ursula K. Le Guin, Eugene Lim, José Lezama Lima, Sam Lipsyte, Gordon Lish, Clarice Lispector, Norman Lock, Robert Lopez, Sean Lovelace, Malcolm Lowry, Gary Lutz, Nathaniel Mackey, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Ben Marcus, Peter Markus, David Markson, Michael Martone, Carole Maso, Cris Mazza, Joyelle McSweeney, Herman Melville, Anne Michaels, Marianne Moore, Bradford Morrow, Thylias Moss, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Herta Müller, Vladimir Nabokov, Pedram Navab, Maggie Nelson, David Ohle, Lance Olsen, Grace Paley, Aimee Parkison, Georges Perec, Fernando Pessoa, Vanessa Place, Nick Francis Potter, Padgett Powell, Richard Powers, Lia Purpura, Annie Proulx, Manuel Puig, Thomas Pynchon, Ann Quin, Dawn Raffel, Victoria Redel, Ishmael Reed, Mark Richard, Doug Rice, Rainer Maria Rilke, Fran Ross, Salman Rushdie, Pamela Ryder, Juan José Saer, George Saunders, Christine Schutt, W. G. Sebald, Rone Shavers, Will Self, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Lisa Russ Spaar, Muriel Spark, Ken Sparling, Gertrude Stein, Robert Steiner, Wallace Stevens, Laurie Stone, Terese Svoboda, Cole Swensen, Alexander Theroux, Henry David Thoreau, Jean-Phillipe Toussaint, J. A. Tyler, Mario Vargas Llosa, Paul Valéry, Enrique Vila-Matas, William Vollmann, Antoine Volodine, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Joy Williams, C.D. Wright, Stephen Wright, David Foster Wallace, William Walsh, Paul West, Curtis White, Colson Whitehead, Diane Williams, Tyrone Williams, Virginia Woolf, Can Xue, John Yau, Lidia Yuknavitch, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, Rafi Zabor…

We have a few returning contributors whose work is always a joy to read. A few that come to mind are Mack Cillmahon, Cosima Pellis, Adriana Rocks, Cassie Premo Steele, Maria Tori, and Tim Wilson. And then there are a few standouts that we’re really lucky to have been the first to share one or two of their poems including Seneca Basoalto, Laura Jean Henebry, and Ann Pedone.

We like writers who challenge your perspectives, help you find your inner poet, expand your empathy, and take you to places you’ve never been. Writers like Miranda July, Tao Lin, Roberto Bolaño, and Haruki Murakami do this best.

Fiction: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michael Martone, Thomas Pynchon, Earnest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, Italo Calvino, Lydia Davis; Jamaica Kincaid, Kim Chinquee, Kazou Ishiguro, Jorge Luis Borges, Leslie Marmon Silko
Poetry: Adrienne Rich, Marie Howe, Leslie Scalapino, Jorie Graham, Carolyn Forche, Brenda Hillman, Mark Nowak, Charles Simic, Anne Carson, Lucille Clifton, Larry Levis, Natasha Trethewey, Jenny Xi, Kay Ryan
Nonfiction: James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Roxane Gay, Gloria Anzaldua, Robin Hemley
Art: Donald Judd, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Laurie Anderson, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Chuck Close, James Turrell

The writer's that we have published that most meet the type of story we publish, are by David Shultz and Tyler W. Kurt. However, the writer's in general that influence the publication are Ursula K. Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Keyes, Chuck Palahniuk, George Orwell, David Wong, Descartes, and Aristotle. Again, the issue is, very few write ONLY in our genre, but many have a short story (or two) that fit the kind of thing we love and admire.

We publish a diverse range of writing and visual art, so I am thrilled to be able to respond in both categories! The great figures of the nineteenth century, such as Chekhov, Ibsen, and Gogol in drama; Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allen Poe, and Oscar Wilde in prose; and Emily Dickinson in poetry, are among my favorite authors. Later works by Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, and Tennessee Williams are incredibly close to my heart. Among contemporary authors, E. Lockhart, David Sedaris, Ian McEwan, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Ilya Kaminsky, and Leonard Cohen are the most influential for me. And let's not forget the world of theatre today! The works of Lin Manuel-Miranda, Jonathan Larson, Joseph Stein, and Isobel Lennart all hold a special place in the world of writing for me.
Regarding visual and performance arts, I would say David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Barbara Kruger, Marina Abramovic, Cecily Brown, and Roy Lichtenstein are my absolute favorites.

Stephen King, Colum McCann, Richard Ford, Faulkner, Kafka, Joyce: a real mixed bag.

Lydia Davis, Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Connor, James Salter and Haruki Murakami for short stories in particular. In addition, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Kobo Abe, Olga Tokarczuk. This list could go on and on.

Writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Aldous Huxley, John Irving, Maeve Binchy, Celeste Ng, Gail Honeyman, Philippe Delerm, Cecelia Ahern.
Poets: Charles Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine
Artists: Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Alphonse Maria Mucha, Banksy

We publish blog posts on a variety of craft topics like our lit agent interview series as well as "Story Skeleton" which offers plot analyses of classic and award-winning novels. Right now I'm working with our other senior editor, Michelle Barker, on a craft book called Immersion and Emotion: the Two Pillars of Storytelling." Once we get this title out in the world, we will start working on a series of Story Skeleton compilations. Stay tuned!

Writers: Haruki Murakami, Duncan Birmingham, Lucia Berlin, David Wong, Seth Fried
Artists: Ryan Livingston, Rob Gonsalves, Olive Ayhens, Ann Newman, Patricia Rounds Manwaring, Nora Kelly

We publish art and various forms of writing. I don't have a favorite artist, but some of my favorite writers are Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Li-Young Lee, Ross Gay, David Shumate, Camille Dungy, and Joy Harjo.

We publish fiction and lean into the literary in all genres.

SORTES publishes writing, art, and music. As editor, I'm deeply aware that my personal fandoms -- for Djuna Barnes, Max Ernst, Balzac, John Bellairs, Ezra Pound, Edith Wharton, M. R. James, Thomas Pynchon, Samuel Butler, Frank O'Hara, Egon Schiele, Arcimboldo, Jan Svankmajer -- may have no resemblance to our other editors' or contributors' digs.

Leah Bailly
Hana Choi

We have published interviews of award-winning writers, poets and artists. Our Wall of Fame includes renowned writers like Daisy Rockwell (awarded the International Booker Prize for her translation of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand), Graeme Macrae Burnet and Audrey Magee, both longlisted for Booker Prize 2022, Ireland-based JR Thorp and UK based Will Burns (both ranked among Top 10 Debut novelists of 2021 by The Observer) Denmark-based Tabish Khair, Mumbai-based Arundhathi Subramaniam, Madagascar based poet-diplomat Abhay K, Namita Gokhale, Co-founder of the prestigious Jaipur Literature Festival, among others. We also did an exclusive interview with Roger Frappier, producer of The Power of The Dog, an Oscar winning film.

We have featured artists like Julie Rhodes and Singh Twins from Britain, Harley Brown from Canada, David Zinn from USA, Albert Kiefer from Holland, Madan Lal, Parag Bose from India, Raghu Rai, Father of Indian photography, and many others.
Our magazine showcases poetry, stories, creative non fiction & Reviews (Film & Book) by lovers of literature & art from across the globe. Steve Carr, Jeffrey Feingold & Ranjit Powar are some of our favourite writers while Sudeep Sen, George Freek, Abin Chakraborty, Donna Pucciani are some of our most sought after poets. We also have podcasts where our poets/writers render their work. Our Montage segment showcases short films on contemporary issues. Our magazine is a tapestry that is creative & aesthetic.

Julie Spray, John Colman Wood, Habiba Ibrahim, Page McClean, Amrapali Maitra, Susan Haris, Beth Vale, Susan Wardell, Emanuela Guano, Sally Campbell Galman, Adrie Kusserow, Jamie Davidson

Susan Tepper , Todd Cirillo, Matt Amott, Jim Bourey, J.J.Campbell, Ashley Karlsson, Jake St John, Scott Simmons, Micheal Dwanye Smith, Puma Perl , Dennis Moriarty, Tohm Bakelas, Bradford Middleton, Matt Amott, , Kevin M. Hibshman, Murders Row.

Our staff members' favorite writers include J.D. Salinger, Haruki Murakami, Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Charles Yu. Favorite artists include Ralph Goings, Judy Chicago, Piet Mondrian, Louisiana Bendolph, and Audrey Flack.

Edgar Allan Poe
George Lippard
George Sand
John Biggs
Mary Biggs
William S. Burroughs

Among modern writers - Kevin Young, Danez Smith, Sonia Sanchez, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Wright Thompson, Yusef Komunyakaa.
Among "classic" writers - Langston Hughes, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, John Steinbeck, Emily Dickinson, Ida B. Wells, Washington Irving.

Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk, Lucy Corin, Lucy Ives, Lucy Ellmann, Aysegül Savas, Emily Hall, Roberto Bolaño, Anne Carson, Maggie Nelson, Marcel Proust, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dorrit Cohn.

John Berger
Lydia Davis
John McPhee
Zadie Smith
Eileen Myles
Sharon Olds
David Hayden
Brian Dillon
Vanessa Onwuemezi
Elizabeth Hardwick

We publish poetry and fiction, and look for work that we feel transcends the individual in a certain way, while pushing the English language towards musicality. These are very general comments, and a lot can fall under the definition of "musicality." I do not necessarily look at work and ask myself, does this compare with what is popular in the moment? I believe the poets of earlier generations set the bar high for contemporary writers. Emily Dickinson's work should make any poet nervous. How can anything I write compare with that? The same goes for Whitman. As for 20th century masters, some of the poets I most admire--restricting myself to writers of English--are Theodore Roethke, James Wright, Marianne Moore, H.D., Galway Kinnell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, and Wanda Coleman. (This is a modestly eclectic group, a short list). What all of these poets have in common is a very exacting control of language and (for the most part) an aversion for cliche (sometimes Wright succumbs). I personally detest cliche use of language, and my co-editor Colleen Doody is even more exacting than I am. There is a lot of work now that does not appeal to us because it comes across as little more than advertisement sloganeering. We do not want poems that dwell excessively on the personal pronoun I.
As for short fiction, Ruth Dandrea has similar expectations. She does not tend to favor "genre" fiction (such as sci-fi), although any story which offers a compelling, empathetic look at a human life will get her attention.
I want to emphasize that what I have said is not a matter of maintaining a "tradition." The weight I placed, for example, on Dickinson and Whitman's poetry is not a matter of the "old masters doing it better." Rather, in both cases, the writing in question is both deeply felt and thought-provoking. It's not enough to have a skill at manipulating language in a pretty way. If underneath the rhetoric of the poem, its structure, its use of imagery, etc., there are commonplace ideas left unchanged or unexamined, we will not be (as) interested in the work.

Montaigne
Whitman
Dickinson
Browning
Yeats
Wallace Stevens
Ginsberg
Mann
Proust
Murakami
Infinitely More: Literature doesn't "stop" anywhere. It keeps moving.

short stories: Pamela Painter, Francine Witte, Kathryn Kulpa, Meg Pokrass, John Gould, Dave Eggers, Finnian Burnett, Miranda July, Zsuzsi Gartner, Crad Kilodney, Haruki Murakami; poetry: Leonard Cohen, E.E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Lynn Crosbie, Raymond Souster, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Tennessee Williams; prose on art: Camille Paglia, Julian Barnes, Michael Kimmelman, Sister Wendy, Robert Hughes

My favorite writers are Louise Glück, Leslie Marmon Silko, Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Alejo Carpentier, Jose Donoso, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

Alice Oswald
Toni Morrison
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Helen Oyeyemi
Donika Kelly
Sandra Lim
Sally Keith
Matthew Olzmann
Michael Ondaatje
Louise Glück
Charles Baxter
Jericho Brown
Christine Kitano
Jim Shepard
Sarah Waters
Dean Bakopoulos
Jorge Luis Borges
Camille T. Dungy
Virginia Woolf
Abigail Chabitnoy
Herman Melville

Oh, that is a tough one! I'm going to skip over the bigger names. No one needs to hear Stephen King, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, etc. Some of my personal favorites from the past decade are Gabino Iglesias, Gwendolyn Kiste, V. Castro, Ania Ahlborn, S.P. Miskowski, Aaron Hodges, and H.M. Long. This is barely scratching the surface and I could probably list another 30 easily.

Poets: Edgar Silex, Pablo Neruda, Andrena Zawinski.
Fiction: Margaret Atwood, Laura Del Fuego
art: Elaine Gerard

Frost, Joyce, Atwood

My favorite writers are Wole Soyinka, NoViolet Bulawayo, Thomas Mofolo, and Tsitsi Dagarembga.

Amy Clampitt, Naguib Mahfouz, Cormac McCarthy, Peter Balakian, Richard Powers

The Allegheny Review publishes poetry and prose. My personal favorite writers are Emily St. John Mandel, Richard Siken, Gabrielle Zevin, Adrienne Rich, Lauren K. Alleyne, Ocean Vuong, Ottessa Moshfegh, Octavia Butler, Sarah Waters, Nicky Beer, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and Anne Sexton.

Our favorite writers and Artists are the ones we publish in The Ilanot Review!
Here are some of them: W. Todd Kaneko, Erika Meitner, Jenny Browne, Yehuda Mercado (Supermercado) Dorothy Chan, Tomas Mika, Martha Silano, Roger Camp, Martha Collins, Katrina Roberts, Steve Gehrke, Susanna Childress, Ann Fisher Wirth, Philip Metres, Camille Dungy, Jill Talbot, Octavio Quintanilla, Nicole Callihan, Philip Pardi, Zoe Ryder White, Patty Seaburn, Dante Di Stefano, Rachel Deutsch, Michael Anthony Moreno, Meg Pokrass, Amy Newman, Eli Eliahu, Elizabeth Hughey, Ayelet Tsabari, Deborah Bernhardt, Yehoshua November, Lauren Camp, Camille Dungy, and Abraham Sutzkever

Paul Celan and Sylvia Plath, among the moderns; the traditionalists (Frost, Yeats, Millay, the too-little-known Ruth Pitter); the uncategorizable Mandel'shtam; of course the classics

Uriel Buitrago; Iain McLachlan; Kieran Egan, Leonard Cohen; Harold Robbins; Maeve Binchy; Isaac Asimov; Ray Bradbury; Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde;

Writers: Ottessa Moshfegh; Jesse Ball; Jhumpa Lahiri; Karen Russell; George Saunders; Sharon Olds; Anton Chekhov; John Fante; Charles Bukowski; Marguerite Duras; Nelson Algren; Stephen Dixo; Sherwood Anderson; Marguerite Yourcenar; Romain Gary; Henry Miller; Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Denis Johnson; Flannery O'Connor
Artists: Hopper; Picasso; Basquiat; Ruscha; Hockney

Ursula K. Le Guin
J.R.R. Tolkien
Neil Gaiman

Our magazine's name is an Infinite Jest reference, so David Foster Wallace is the obvious one. Others include Don DeLillo, John Barth, Zadie Smith, Susanna Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Thomas Pynchon, J.D. Salinger, Rick Reiken, Jennifer Egan, and Robert Coover.

Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, Connie Willis, Max Gladstone, Neil Stephenson, Cat Rambo, Nisi Shawl, Eugie Foster

Linda Gregg, C.D. Wright, Dorianne Laux, Carl Phillips, Jenny Xie, Anne Carson, Carolyn Forche, Jack Gilbert, Marie Howe, Charles Wright, Joanna Klink, Frank Stanford, Danez Smith

Madeleine L'Engle; J.R.R. Tolkien; C.S. Lewis; Flannery O'Connor; Eugene Peterson; Metropolitan Anthony Bloom; and others.

It's impossible to pick favorites - we publish the writers we do because they're stunning, exceptional, and their books are incredibly unique. But for anyone looking to get a sense of authors who best encapsulate what Dzanc does, I'd recommend checking out the work of Lindsey Drager, Lance Olsen, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Nino Cipri, John Englehardt, RE Katz, Banah le Ghadbanah, Robert Lopez...I could go on and on, but these are some of the folks doing very interesting work, reimagining what a novel can be and breaking the fiction mold in brilliant ways.

Some writers we love: Rajiv Mohabir, Belle Boggs, Ruth Ozeki, K-Min Chang, Donika Kelly, Sequioa Nagamatsu, Richard Powers, Barbara Kingsolver, Ross Gay, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Matt Bell, Imbolo Mbue, Diane Cooke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alison Cobb, Ben Ehrenreich, Atsuro Riley, Kenan Ince, Patricia Lockwood, Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, Emily St. John Mandel

Toni Morrison, Kafka, Li Po, Herman Hesse, Clive Barker, Richard Wright, Anne Rice, J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Langston Hughes, Jean Michelle Basquiat

Our favourite writers are some of the folks whose work we publish. Dr Charles Oliviero, Dr Bernd Horn, Matt Hardman, Michael Dorosh, Michael Goodspeed, John Barnes, Christopher Lyke, and Sean Claxton, to name a few. Thinking more broadly, who do we love? John Keegan, Bernard Fall, Anthony Lloyd, and many others.

I love all kinds of horror, low brow and high brow. Slashers, hauntings, revenge, possessions, alien invasions, you name it. I'm re-watching Preacher at the moment. Loved the comic books. The theme I put out for my horror submissions have a social issue vibe, because good horror comes from our real fears. I hate horror that has a rapey vibe, where the woman is just a canvas to be ripped apart and good women are only around for "fridging" purposes to inspire a hero to go on a rampage. I'm over women as tropes.
Artists I love are Remidios Varo, Richard Dadd, H.R.Gieger, Max Ernst, Klimt, Hilda Af Klint. I love surrealism, social commentary, dark alienesque. I also love when artists purchase thrift store art and paint weird scenes in/over it. I love a good story behind the art. My summer issue artist had worked in a seedy motel that rented hourly. She made still life images from the sex trash left behind. The inner cover of the summer 2022 issue of LGC is an assortment of used condom wrappers arranged in a large rectangle. The pattern of colors and gold is truly art and the origins are hilarious. She titled it "Pick your pleasure". It looks like a Rothko painting.

just too too many of both

Favorite writers are Robert A Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, A E Van Vogt, Jack Vance, H P Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, Edmund Hamilton, Clifford Simak, among others

The Contest publishes both writers and illustrators, and my favorites are of course, my judges, past & present (some have passed away). They were/are not only brilliant writers/illustrators but had/have the pay-it-forward attitude of mentoring the new person in the field.
Writer Judges: Kevin J. Anderson, Algis Budrys, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, David Farland, Frank Herbert, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Dr. Yoji Kondo, Nancy Kress, Katherine Kurtz, Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey, Rebecca Moesta, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Jody Lynn Nye, Nnedi Okorafor, Fred Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Brandon Sanderson, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Michael Stirling, Dean Wesley Smith, Sean Williams, Jack Williamson, and Roger Zelazny.
Illustrator Judges: Laura Freas Beraha, Edd Cartier, Echo Chernik, Lazarus Chernik, Ciruelo, Vincent Di Fate, Leo & Diane Dillon, Dan dos Santos, Bob Eggleton, Will Eisner, Craig Elliott, Larry Elmore, Frank Frazetta, Frank Kelly-Freas, Brittany Jackson, Jack Kirby, Paul Lehr, Val Lakey Lindahn, Stephan Martiniere, Mike Perkins, Moebius, Sergey Poyarkov, Rob Prior, Alex Schomberg, Shaun Tan, H.R. Van Dongen, Tom Wood & Stephen Youll.

Shakespeare, Eliot, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, CK Williams, Neruda, Stuart Dischell, Cavafy, Milosz, Zagajewski, Charles Wright, Nazim Hikmet, Levertov, Heaney, Robert Bly, Mark Strand, Louise Gluck, Larry Levis, Michael Dickman, Mary Ruefle

We have a long list of amazing contributors, but some of our favourites include Taylor Stoneman, Courtney Le Blanc, Enit'ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya, Arya Kanojia, Ebukun Ogunyemi, Clara McShane, and Elizabeth M. Castillo.

We have published hundreds of writers and artists at this point - in over 24 zine publications in just over 2 years. Some of our favourites are Matt Smith, Angel Rosen, and Cherie Bruce. Coin-Operated Press Co-Founder and Editor, Chloe Henderson, also makes art separate from our company - it's magical!

Current heroes: Poetry: Jos Charles, James Allen Hall, Martin Espada, Eduardo Corral, Trace Peterson, Meg Day, Kay Barrett, Frank O'Hara, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Bidart, Terrance Hayes, Patricia Smith, Tracy K Smith, Solmaz Shariff, and many many others.

Some of our favorite authors are Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Kevin J. Anderson. All of them speak truth to power through their speculative fiction and illuminate issues in our society that would otherwise be overlooked.
Our favorite artists are the unnamed graffiti artists in every city across the world. The ones risking themselves to beautify their area and say what needs to be said.

I'm a bit of a classicist. Virginia Woolf, Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, and George Eliot are favorites in prose. In poetry, I love T.S. Eliot, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore. My favorite writers are those who make the ordinary feel immense, who can take a single expression or mundane detail and make it feel elemental and primordial, as though it's being seen or heard for the first time. They exemplify what I idealize when I think about the vision of the great writer, the ability to take ordinary situations and interactions and strip away the calcified layers of indifference and routine to reveal the true essence of these experiences, imbuing them with an artistic, not merely materialist or conventional, character. Reading them is like gaining the chance to see in color after only seeing in black-and-white your whole life.

I have no favorite authors, but have favorite stories. I loved The Raft by Stephen King, Ghost Story by Peter Straub, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Basically, if it is a good story and good storytelling, I'm interested.

Shirley Jackson, Stephen Graham Jones, Octavia E. Butler, Joel Lane, Nathan Ballingrud, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Robert Aickman, Tananarive Due, Jeff VanderMeer, Pamela Dean, Margaret Mahy, Rebecca Solnit, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Oliver, Stephen King, R.L. Stine.

So many favorite writers! Currently, I'm loving John Boyne, Donna Tartt, Elizabeth Strout, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Maggie Stiefvater, Kazuo Ishiguro, Adrian McKinty, Greg Isles, Julie Orringer . . . I could go on and on!

It's a hard question to answer, however, I can say that sometimes we receive submissions from a writer and they're not selected. Next round, we receive the same story (re-edited) or another story from them, and again and again ... These writers always get published at some point because they're determined to work on their pieces until they become publishable. Yes, I think, these are good writers, and great examples too. When they're longlisted, we publish their interviews and read about their life and writing life. We see how much effort they've put into their work despite the odds; now, that's inspiring.

Kim Addonizio, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Ta Nehesi Coates, Seamus Heaney, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Kay Ryan, Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead,

Favorites range from the 12th c. philosopher, Hildegard von Bingen to 21st millennium offerings: Joan Didion, Richard Powers, Annie Sprinkle, Helene Cixous, Elena Ferrante, George Bataille, Michel Foucault, William Blake, Carlos Casteneda, Jean Genet, Anais Nin, Harold Bloom, etc.
Still & Motion Picture Artists include Eva Hesse, Kathy Acker, Georgia O'Keefe, Guy Debord, Carl Dreyer, Mike Figgis, Werner Hertzog, Sebastao Salgado, Stan Brakhage, Jane Campion, Yoko Ono, Kazimir Malevich, The Starn Twins, Andrei Tarkovsky, Gerhard Richter, etc.
We also feature soundscapes & like Florian Hecker, Carsten Nicolai, Samson Young, Erik Satie, Max Richter, Jon Hopkins, Balmorhea, Hildur Gudnadottir, Nils Frahm, Lorne Balfe, etc.

In literary fiction and nonfiction I love the work of Katherine Govier (especially The Ghost Brush), Michelle Butler Hallett (This Marlowe), Kwame Anthony Appiah (The Lies That Bind), Clifford Jackman (The Braver Thing) and Richard Wagamese (Ragged Company). In speculative fiction, I have to say Laura E. Weymouth's YA fantasy book The Light Between Worlds broke and warmed my heart in all the best ways. China Miéville's The City and The City blew my mind. I love stuff that shows me something new. The more imaginative and immersive, the better.

Some of my favorite living writers are Jane Hirshfield, Marilynne Robinson, Li-Young Lee, Natasha Trethewey, Leila Chatti, Christian Wiman, Mary Doria Russell, Phillip B. Williams, Bruce Beasley--and of course many others!

Will Self, Maeve Binchy, Charles Dickens, Aidan Chambers. Neil Gaiman,

Our favorite writers and styles shift with the turnaround of our editorial staff, but we consistently enjoy work from a variety of voices and writers with diverse backgrounds. To commit ourselves to a certain archetype would invalidate our goal of promoting this new definition of experimentalism.

I have a huge and varied list of favorite authors. Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri and Angela Carter are up there. Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones and Kirsty Logan for something dark. In terms of flash, Lydia Davis, Nancy Stohlman and Kathy Fish are my go-to writers.

My personal favorites include Elmer Kelton, Louis L'Amour, Don Coldsmith, Paul Colt, Velda Brotherton, Dusty Richards, W. Michael Farmer and Sharon Frame Gay..

Kushal Poddar
Ananya Chatterjee

My favourite writers are mainly of the 'classics' genre: Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. I am also a great admirer of the poet, John Clare.

A crowdsourced list from our editorial staff: Jami Attenberg, Dawnie Walton, Diane Seuss, Chris Gonzalez, Raven Leilani, George Saunders, Lorrie Moore, Joan Didion, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alissa Nutting, Juan Martinez, Lindsay Hunter, Joy Williams, Claudia Rankine, Amy Hempel,Chen Chen, Allegra Hyde, Jen George, Morgan Parker, Cathy Linh Che, Terrance Hayes, Frank O'Hara, Larry Levis, Adrienne Rich, Anne Carson, Zachary Schomburg, just to name a few.

Oh I absolutely cannot decide! I will say though, that in the past year or so we've published a lot of amazing essays by queer writers.

Marianne Leone, Rita Ciresi, Mike Fiorito, Edi Giunta, Maria Giura, Jennifer Martelli--great Italian-American writers!

As a Minnesota, I often enjoy reading books by other Minnesota authors. My favorites are David Treuer, Anton Treuer, and Louise Erdrich.

Micro fiction and poetry is ephemerous, we have a favorite or two in each issue, and then shift focus to the next batch of writings.

We run literary competitions (Flash Fiction, Short Story and First Chapter+Synopsis) so we don't actually publish anything, as such. Just winning stories and chapters on the website. Our anthology of top rated entries is planned for 2024/5.

If you haven't read Can Xue, Ted Chiang, Jo Ann Beard, Brian Evenson, Tom Drury, Henry Dumas, Julio Cortazar, Ann Carson, Italo Calvino, Ursula Le Guin, Kaveh Akbar, Leonora Carrington, Philip K. Dick, Kelly Link, Victor LaValle, Ilya Kaminsky, David Ryan, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Samanta Schweblin, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Scanlon, K. Iver, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Thomas Savage, Joy Williams, Samantha Hunt, Alexander Kluge, or Ottessa Moshfegh, get on it.

I'm guessing this is a trick question. Like asking a mother "who is your favorite child?" I love every writer I publish, as well as every artist I publish. All are definitely my favorites. And being a stubborn old mule of an editor, I imagine that this philosophy will continue far far into the future till my mind is totally gone gone gone.

Some of my favorite writers include Stephen King, Betty Rocksteady, Lucy A. Snyder, Bentley Little, Simon R. Greene, Dathan Auerbach, R.A. Salvatore, and Jim Butcher.

I am a vintage soul. So my favorite writers are Jane Austen, Wilfred Owen, Emily Brontee, John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, and of course the father of literature, William Shakespeare.
In modern authors, I would say I truly admire the work of Nicholas Sparks, Mitch Albom, Kristin Cast, and Arundhati Roy.

Favorite writers include Gil Brewer, Day Keene, John D. MacDonald, Charles Williams, Donald Westlake under his Richard Stark pen-name, Max Allan Collins. If your writing is influenced by these writers or similar, we'd be interested in reading it.

My non-baseball answer is Gary Shteyngart as a writer. Outside of The Twin Bill, I do a lot of humor writing. I would love to see more humor in the submissions we get. Baseball is fun. In baseball, KD Casey just released a great book, Unwritten Rules. We were also lucky enough to publish one of her short stories.
I used to edit at a fine arts website, so I was always embarrassed to say Vincent Van Gogh was my favorite artist. I think there's a certain amount of playfulness in his work that I like in the pieces we publish. I take art very seriously. I never had an illustration for anything I published, so I want an image for every piece for our writers. We've been very lucky to publish a number of great artists and there is a fantastic baseball art community. I think Andy Lattimer, John David Cordova, and Sam Williams are some baseball artists doing great things.

Writers: Richard Brautigan, Kiese Layman, Shirley Jackson, Billy Collins, Susan Cain, Oliver Sacks, Roald Dahl, and Octavia Butler.
Artists: Ansel Adams, Gustav Klimt, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, and Vivian Maier

Cavar: I'm always looking for work that pushes genre boundaries, or explodes them entirely. I love Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Eli Clare, Samuel R Delany, Gayl Jones, Kim Hyesoon, Ursula K Le Guin, Helen Oyeyemi, Larissa Lai, Tracy K Smith, Rivers Solomon, Claudia Rankine, Michelle Tea, Bryan Washington, and Jeff VanderMeer. To name "just a few"!

It's so hard to nail down a favourite author. Each has such unique and distinct voices. One of our regular contributors that we always love to hear from, though, is Christi Nogle. But there are so many we're excited to hear from whenever their names pop up in our slush pile.

I admire Sabrina Benaim, Jane Austen, Sarah Dessen, and Jandy Nelson for their real-life perspectives on the constitution of marriage, depression, anxiety, and other real emotions/situations readers can relate to.

Denis Johnson, Ben Fountain, Jeanette Winterson, Penelope Lively, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Salman Rushdie, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Durrell, Charles Dickens, Anthony Powell, AS Byatt, Penelope Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald, JG Ballard, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Rhys, John Le Carre, John Steinbeck, Angela Carter, Anthony Burgess, PG Wodehouse, Beryl Bainbridge, HG Wells, Joseph Heller, Don Delillo, Joseph Conrad, EL Doctorow, Jan Morris, Franz Kafka, Mary Renault, Malcolm Lowry, Geoff Dyer, William Golding, Proust, Virginia Woolf, Charles Portis, Saint-Exupery, Anne Proulx, Joseph Conrad, Chimamanda Adichie, Mario Levrero

Linda Imbler
Karlo Sevilla
Leilah Saafir
Donald Dean Mace
Jana Begovich

Because the Bethlehem Writers Group is an eclectic group of writers, our members have many favorites from diverse genres. Since initial judging of our annual Short Story Award is performed by BWG members, the competition welcomes broad interpretations of our themes. The first-place winner will likely end up in one of our bi-annual anthologies. Looking at past anthologies, readers will see that we cover a broad spectrum of voices and subjects related to our themes. For example, in our dual award-winning anthology, FUR, FEATHERS, AND SCALES: SWEET, FUNNY, AND STRANGE ANIMAL TALES, we have stories that vary from, inter alia, a traditional man-and-his-dog story to those involving trout fishing, a psychic connection between people and animals, a cranky cephalopod, a robotic pet, and mythic beasts. Genres include children's, steampunk, dystopian, literary, humor, women's fiction, science fiction/fantasy, and more. We welcome fresh approaches to our themes.

Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ray Bradbury, Becky Chambers, Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, Margo Lanagan

Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kelly Link, Edward Hirsch, Cixin Liu, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin, Sofia Samatar, Amelia Grey, Ted Chiang, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, Ken Liu, Sabrina Orah Mark, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, and Rita Dove.

I have so many favorite writers. It's hard to choose. I've always been attracted to stories written by women about women. Which is probably why I ended up creating HerStry. I have a deep love for LM Montgomery and the Anne of Green Gables series. But not just that series. LM Montgomery wrote some amazing poetry. Other writers that I've loved over the years: Elswyth Thane, Rufi Thorpe, Chelsea Beiker, Lilly King, Paulette Jiles, J. Ryan Stradal, Ann Napolitano...I could go on and on and never really come to an all time favorite.

We have over 150 authors writing Holmes and its impossible to chose favourites - but a few to mention. David Marcum has written and edited more Holmes stories than anyone else, Daniel Victor has had more translated into Italian, Amy Thomas is our bestselling female author, Richard Ryan our bestselling male author, Don Smith often quoted as the closest to Conan Doyle's style, Phil Growick creator and curator of our Art of Sherlock Holmes project, Maureen Whittaker who has penned our biggest book of 2020 (Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes) and David MacGregor whose 'Sherlock Holmes The Hero With A Thousand Faces' is a two volume epic for 2021. Janina Woods has helped us into the manga light novel arena with 'Beasts of London' and Steve Herczeg's short story collections are storming forward on audio (our fastest growing format). Too many others to mention but those are a few.

The focus is always on moms - published or not. Unpublished writers are especially encouraged to submit so we can help provide a springboard or platform for them within a supportive, encouraging network. The majority of writers and contributors are everyday moms, all ages, struggling just to be heard. So we provide the platform to allow the Voice of Everyday Moms to be heard. Artists who are willing to illustrate our stories, or provide artwork, are also always welcome.

Supremely difficult to answer, so off the top of my head and current reads: Kim Stanley Robinson, Patrick O'Brien, William Gibson, Ellis Peters, Iain M. Banks, Charles Dickens, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frank Herbert, Maureen McHugh, Ted Chiang, Christopher Brown, Ada Palmer, Cormac McCarthy, Ben Aaronovitch... plus John Sandford is a guilty pleasure.

We publish writers who tell of the unique African experience and throw light on human conditions.

In flash fiction: Kathy Fish. Len Kuntz. Meg Pokrass. Bud Smith. Et al.

The ones we honor with our prizes--so it varies.

Joy Harjo, Ocean Vuong, Carmen Maria Machado, Leslie Jamison, Roxane Gay, Chen Chen, Ada Limón, Jhumpa Lahiri, Cathy Park Hong, Sigrid Nunez, Zadie Smith, Bryan Washington, Matthew Salesses, Andrew Sean Greer, Felicia Rose Chavez, Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Among my favorite living authors are Donald Antrim, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Carroll and Sam Lipsyte. In the fantastic genre I would mention Graham Joyce and Lisa (Dark Cities Underground) Goldstein. In art I think Damien Hirst is hilarious and Donald Judd is hip. And Jeff Koons. But the modern occupies a small portion of my mind, as it does a small portion of recorded history. Most of the time I read Kant, Walt Whitman and the Pali Suttas, and look at Goya and Hogarth.

It’s hard to name favorites when there are so many, and our other editors and readers each have their own ever-expanding lists. That being said, IMO anything Lore Segal writes is perfect. I’m also a big fan of the work of our other MER editors and contributors.

Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Brian Evenson, Jean Genet, Renee Gladman, Garielle Lutz, Scott McClanahan, Kathryn Scanlan, Christine Schutt, Bud Smith, B.R. Yeager.

Johnathan Lethem, Anne Proulx, Cory Doctorow, Nancy Kress, David Sedaris, Michael Faber, Paul Harding, David Mitchel, Kevin Barry, Becky Chambers, Miranda July,
Kelly Link, Geoff Ryman, Emily St. John Mandel, Haruki Murakami, Suzanne Clark, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, and so, so many more.

Bryan Washington, Jesmyn Ward, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Yiyun Li, Melissa Febos, Karen Russell, Danielle Evans, Stuart Dybek, Rachel Cusk, Leslie Jamison, Ada Limón, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith, Taneum Bambrick, Heather Christle, Garth Greenwell

We adore the work of Catherynne M. Valente, Angela Carter, Neil Gaiman, Carmen Maria Machado, and Helen Oyeyemi to name but a few!

My longtime favorites include: Joan Didion, Alex Kotlowitz, Ann Patchett. My MFA program gave me: Emily Rapp Black, Ivy Pochoda, Claudia Rankin, Tod Goldberg, Gina Frangello, Susan Mancuso, Natasha Deon. And my work in narrative medicine and Please See Me gave me: Michele Harper, Atul Gawande, Paul Kalanithi, Jenny Lawson. We do publish digital art in all forms - I just saw the immersive Van Gogh exhibit in Chicago and highly recommend it!

Since we publish poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art, I have a lot of opinions on this. Of the authors we've published, I adore Barbara Kingsolver, Sharon Olds, Julia Alvarez, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sandra Cisneros, Penelope Scambly Schott, Frances Payne Adler, Alicia Ostriker, Paulann Petersen, Marty McConnell, Jennifer Givhan, and Ursula K. Le Guin (whose loss I am still feeling pretty deeply). In our upcoming issue, we have an art insert dedicated entirely to street art made by women at the Akumal Arts Festival in Akumal, Mexico. It's vibrant and colorful and deeply impactful. One of my other favorite art inserts we did in Vol. 30:3 featured work from the Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island exhibit that highlighted missing and murdered indigenous women.

There is no one writer or artist we'd call as favorite ones. We admire those artists and writers the most who are talented - ie independent, hard-working, thoughtful, persistent, brave.

Again this is something that could be a lot longer on it's own, and as a place that tries to pride itself on a variety of love for all writers this long list is a mere sampler: Prince Bush, Jason B Crawford, James Baldwin (Skyler); Matt Bookin, Breanna Twohy, Jacob Mayberry, Claudia Rankine (Ben); Moshin Hamid, W. Todd Keneko, Roxanne Gay, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kathy Fish, Richard Matheson, Noah Falck, torrin a. greathouse (J.B.); Denice Frohman, Dominique Christine, Franny Choi, Jericho Brown, Langston Hughes, G Yamazaw (Asela); Frank O'Hara, Sabrina Benaim, Maggie Stiefvater, Cassandra Clare, J.R.R. Tolkien (Ian)

Tony Morrison, W.G. Sebald, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Muhammad Knight, Bohumil Hrabal, Allan Moore, Neil Geiman, Art Spiegelman, Ernest Hemingway.

The authors I've read the most are science fiction writers: Harry Harrison, Robert Heinlein, Douglas Adams, Stanislaw Lem.
I've also enjoyed many books by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Iain Banks.
Some of the best short stories are "children's" stories, such as those by Roald Dahl, Dr Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Julia Donaldson.
And choosing a favourite overall short story writer is impossible, but here are some that mean a lot to me: Fernando Sorrentino, Kurt Vonnegut, Ted Chiang, Mark Twain.

Our favorite writers and poets come from the pages of The Awakenings Review including Bibhu Padhi, Roddy Williams, Nnadi Samuel, Mari-Carmen Marin, and Zan Bockes. There are scores of others.

Poets: Todd Copeland, Russell Rowland, Margaret Avison, St. John of the Cross, T. S. Eliot, Matthew J. Andrews, Michael G. Donkin, D. S. Martin, Tyler James Russell, Brad Davis, Sharon Scholl, Bethany F. Brengan
Fiction Writers: Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, C. S. Lewis, James Joyce, William Faulkner, William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Andrew Reichard
Philosophers: William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, Greg Ganssle, David Horner, William Alston, Douglas Geivett, Richard Fumerton, Brian Leftow
Spiritual Theologians: Dallas Willard, Henri Nouwen, John Coe, Steve Porter
Homilists: St. John Chrysostom, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, St. Augustine
Visual Artists: Stephen Shore

Fiction: Iain Banks, John Burnside, James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, A L Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Anne Donovan, James Robertson, James Meek, Irvine Welsh, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Peter McCarey, Kevin MacNeil, Louise Welsh, Kirsty Logan
Poetry: Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig, Ryan Van Winkle, Mick Imlah, Don Paterson, John Burnside, Carol Ann Duffy, aonghas macneacail, Iain Crichton Smith, Kathleen Jamie, Donnie O'Rourke, Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay

This changes all the time but having just read The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, I’m in awe of Sarah Perry’s ability to create atmosphere steeped in underlying moral complexity. The rhythm and lyricism of language that Elaine Feeney uses in her dark comic fiction, As You Were really drew me in and my old favourite, Alan Bennett, holds a special place on my bookshelf with his insight into the human condition and the ability to displace the worst of us with humour - a masterclass in characterisation.

If forced to pick current favourites whose work I always look out for, I'd have to include Valeria Luiselli, Samanta Schweblin, Fatima Bhutto, Dorthe Nors, Petina Gappah, Leïla Slimani, Andrés Neuman, Borhan Sonmez, Etgar Keret, Colson Whitehead and Edward Carey, all of whom I've interviewed and/or have contributed to Bookanista.

Fiction: Karen Russell, Edwidge Danticat, George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, Manuel Gonzales, Han Kang, Steven Millhauser, Irenosen Okojie, May-Lan Tan
Art: Tracy Emin, Rashid Johnson, Sophie Calle, Albert Oehlen, Yoko Ono, Mariechen Danz and Joseph Beuys (particularly his blackboard drawings), and Francisco Goya (especially his black and white drawings)
Poetry: Vahni Capildeo, Daisy Lafarge, Claudia Rankine, May Ayim, Roseanne Watt, Anne Carson, Sawako Nakayasu, Kaveh Akbar, Feng Sun Chen, Gail Sher
Creative Nonfiction: Sabrina Orah Mark, Ocean Vuong, Sigrid Nunez, Terese Marie Mailhot, Natalia Ginzburg, Claudia Rankine, Ann Carson, Kathleen Jamie, Eileen Myles

Claudia Rankine
Terrance Hayes
Anne Carson
Rita Dove
Brenda Shaughnessy
T.C. Boyle
Killarney Clary
Michelle Elvy
Danez Smith
Tara Isabel Zambrano
Cathy Ulrich
Tommy Dean
Kaveh Akbar
Frederick Barthelme
Jules Archer
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Kim Magowan
Aaron Birch

I like fiction and creative non-fiction that grapples with the issues of the day, so that what I am reading has a commentary about our shared reality. Books then deepen my awareness and understanding. This can include historical fiction like Wolf Hall, or I Claudius. It can speculative fiction like The Handmaid's Tale, 1984 and Animal Farm. It can be sci fi, like The Dispossessed or The Foundation Trilogy or I, Robot. It can deal with the big picture on an epic scale like the epics of Illiad or Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire), or a personal epic like Americanah. Or it can be explicitly a political thriller, like First Among Equals, The Ghost Writer, or A Line of Beauty.

My favorite writers are Louise Erdrich, Cormac McCarthy, James Baldwin, Tessa Fontaine, Michael Martone, James Welch, Denis Johnson, Anne Carson, Leslie Marmon Silko, and so many more!

Kurt Vonnegut, Darcey Steinke, Alice Hoffman, Kate Atkinson, Graham Greene

Wow. There are so many. Writers: Alden Nowlan, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Stephen King, Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl, Charles Bukowski, Aldous Huxley, George RR Martin, Dr. Seuss, Emily Dickinson, Junot Diaz.
Art: Vincent Van Gogh, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Jenn Zed, Pablo Picasso

We’re short story and poetry lovers, and our favorites include Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Pearlman, Haruki Murakami, Koji Suzuki, Gina Ochsner, Die Booth (we were lucky enough to get one of his stories in our first issue!), and Mary Oliver. Mostly, though, we love discovering the work of new writers. We find so many gems in our inbox.

Without naming names, writers who put something honest and emotionally affecting on the page.

Always a tough question, as there are so many, and I fall in love with the writings all over again when I reread some authors after many years. Most recently just in poetry, I've been re-reading W.S. Merwin. Gerald Stern, and Mary Oliver and Louise Gluck, and reading Roger Reeves. Always handy, I keep William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, William Stafford, Hafiz. ...OK I'll stop now.

My favorite writers to publish are upcoming, innovative, and unique in their style and content. Writers who format and edit well get special attention because they put the extra effort. Flora Fiction publishes writers and poets of all ages and background. As for artists, we love publishing all types of painters, illustrators, and photographers. Art is subjective and so it's hard to pick favorites, but we always enjoy those who push the boundaries of their abilities.

living, or dead? rather than being a fanboy & listing my hundred or so favorite writers, i'm going for favorite writers among those that we've published over the last 18 years *:
cristina a´lvarez lopez, tomica bajsic, poe ballantine, carlos barbarito, julienne bušic, karel capek, mahmoud darwish, marija dejanovic´, veronica dintinjana, andrea dworkin, marie étienne, phoebe giannisi, leanne grabel, monika herceg, pecos b. jett, aušra kaziliunaite, ivan klíma, christoph keller, paul krassner, lászló krasznahorkai, pavel lembersky, josh lubin, adrian martin, mark mordue, nastashia minto, les murray, vasileia oikonomou, triin paja, edo popovic, frederic raphael, josip razim, jennifer robin, matthew robinson, sergi sánchez, mark sargent, andre sen-senkov, d. siotis, petros skythiotis, tom spanbauer, douglas spangle, judith steele, coleman stevenson, brenda taulbee, armin tolentino, eleni tzatzimaki, eran tzelgov, rimas uzgiris, luisa valenzuela, nina wieda, koon woon, lidia yuknavitch **
favorite illustrators & artists who are also contributors: migle anušauskaite, tânia cardoso, jo cook, walt curtis, magda dulcic, m.p. fikaris, dušan gacic, leanne grabel, helena klakocar, sarah laing, miroslav nemeth, irena jukic pranjic, liz swados, knut van brijs, shannon wheeler, graham willoughby
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*) which is why it's such an exhaustive list
**) apologies to those i've forgotten or otherwise failed to list

Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Margaret Mahy, Alan Dean Foster, Mary Stewart, Sam Taylor, Christopher Stasheff, some Roberts Heinlein and Silverberg...Hmm...Tim Powers, Lemony Snickett, Robin McKinley...and a library of others I can’t think of just now.

Those who clearly show their meanings through imagery, poetic diction, succinctness, and pictures that carry on beyond their frames.

In writing, we love the style of Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, and Shirley Jackson. We like writing that has a little grit and darkness, with hope, love, and healing of Christ intertwined. We like gravitas, and we like light-hearted.
In art, we love William Blake and other Romantic movement artists. We like art that evokes a strong emotion, whether it is in disgust or terror of sin, or the desperate need for Christ.

Oh, what a difficult question. I grew up in love with John Steinbeck, then moved on to an obsession with Steven King and writing of dystopia and apocalypse. I've read Brave New World about ten times. Now, I'd choose to answer with names like Octavia Butler and Kelly Link, Jonathan Safron Foer, Bill Buford, Tommy Orange, Barbara Kingsolver, Atul Gawande, David Mitchell, Jessmyn Ward, Rion Scott, Bret Anthony Johnston, Lauren Groff, and I could go on forever.

Ann Patchett, Chris Bohjalian, Jane Harper, Lily King, Diane Chamberlain, Celeste Ng

We love writers such as Eavan Boland, Eva Saulitis, Jamaal May, Jericho Brown, Ada Limón, Natalie Diaz, Elizabeth Bradfield, Camille T. Dungy, Sean Hill, Claudia Rankine, Fatima Asghar, Craig Santos Perez, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jemsyn Ward, Ursula Le Guin, Zaina Arafat, Anne Carson, Elvira Sastre...really there are too many too name, but what we love about these writers are their engagement with language play (and this sometimes includes multilingualism), surrealism, environmental writing, and the sense of urgency that is embedded within their works!

We publish the winning story in Asimov's Science Fiction, either online or in print. After more than 25 years of the award, we have a long list of favorite writers who got an early career boost by being a finalist of winning the Dell Magazines Award. Among those many fine writers who went on to find publication in the field are Rebecca Kuang, Rich Larson, Caighlan Smith, Laura Donnelly, Seth Dickinson, E. Lily Yu, Brit Mandelo, Rahul Kanakia, Anthony Ha, Marie Brennan (as Bryn Neuenschwander), Karina Sumner Smith, Marissa Lingen, David Kirtley, Dylan Otto Krider, Eric Choi, Felicity Savage, and many others.

Raymond Carver, Kevin Barry, Ian McEwan, Annie Proulx, Colin Barratt, Nuala O'Connor, Ken Elkes, Hugh Behm-Steinberg,

Lorrie Moore, Denise Mina, Attica Locke, Richard Price
Per Elizabeth Howard, Art Editor, she is a fan of:
Sargent and Matisse and photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Annie Leibovitz

Writers and other creative artists who inspire us include: Douglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, Francis Bacon (the artist), J.G. Ballard, Iain M. Banks, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, James P. Blaylock, Alfred Bester, Ray Bradbury, Pieter Breughel (Elder and Younger), Octavia E. Butler, Italo Calvino, the utopian muralist Mona Caron, Angela Carter, Guy Davis, Charles Dodgson, D’Aulaire’s Greek and Norse mythologies, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Colleen Doran, Lord Dunsany, Electric Velocipede, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Nikolai Gogol, Gong, Goya, Hawkwind, Robyn Hitchock, Robert Hunter, The Inklings, Diana Wynne Jones, Jack Kirby, Damon Knight, R.A. Lafferty, Ursula LeGuin, Mr. Lovecraft, China Mieville, Mike Mignola, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Moorcock, John R. Neill, Pearls Before Swine, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Philip Pullman, Arthur Rackham, Robert Silverberg, Dan Simmons, Cordwainer Smith, Fiona Staples, Theodore Sturgeon, street art, Sir John Tenniel, James Tiptree Jr., Van Gogh, Brian K. Vaughn, Robert Wyatt, Roger Zelazny, science fiction’s New Wave, and a universe of folklore and mythology.

Outside our publication, our favorite writer is currently Carmen Machado, though our own published writers are certainly our favorites!

Jericho Brown, Karen Russell, Max Porter, Hanif Abdurraqib, Harry Crews, Brendan Joyce, Louise Erdrich, Kaveh Akbar, Joshua Clover

We don’t play favorites, but some of my favorite repeat writers we’ve printed include Eli S. Evans, James Spillane, and Kyle Sundby.
I love Pynchon at his funniest, Sedaris at his drollest, Chuck Klosterman most of the time, and Philip K. Dick for warping minds in all the right ways.

Matthew Licht, John D Robinson, Gary D Morton, Leah Mueller, Casey Renee Kiser, and Karina Bush are some of HST's most frequently published authors. As for visual art, the works of Apollonia Saintclair, Van Rjin, Ben Newman, Chas Ray Krider, and Marc Blackie are certainly not to be missed.

Luckily, Lunch Ticket has a diverse editorial staff who read and love different writers. For me, Jeanette Winterson was the first author I read that made me think, yes, I want to do this. I love her passion, magical realism, intellectual curiosity. From her I found Virginia Woolf, who pulls me inside and through the skin of her characters. Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, and Lidia Yuknavitch show me how to take the form the story needs. Katherine Boo and Richard Preston blow me away with their narrative nonfiction.

My favorite writers and there's an ever mutating list as I remember and forget and rediscover authors definitely has the classics on it, Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov - but it also includes a lot of golden-age writers like Edmond Hamilton, William Tell, James Blish and so many others. David Gerrold is another. I gravitate towards the older style of writing subconsciously I think. Really there's so many great authors out there - that I can't name them all without feeling like I'm leaving out someone important, Ken Liu, for example

John Milton, David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt, Oliver Sacks, Helen Keller, Thomas Pynchon, Maggie Nelson, Michael Pollan, Thomas Harris, Patrick Süskind, Mandy Aftel, George R. R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Oscar Wilde

Grace Paley, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Noam Chomsky, Laila Lalami, Maaza Mengiste, Tabish Khair, Edwidge Danticat, too many to mention...

We love promoting the work of new (and often marginalized) voices. Some recent examples: Carmen Maria Machado, Aimee Bender, Jacqueline Woodson, Alex Myers, Anna Claire Hodge, Casey Plett, Kate Milliken, Jericho Brown, Maria Kusnetsova, Lisa Nikolidakis, Kelly Link, Gabby Rivera, and others! Our current favorite artist (a local to New Orleans who did our most recent cover art) is pop artist Ashley Longshore.

Victor Acquista
Curtis Bausse
GD Deckard
Atthys J Gage
Bill McCormick
Perry Palin
Carl E Reed
Mimi Speike

bp nichol, SJ Fowler, Sascha Akhtar, Eileen Tabois, Asta Papachristodoulou, Irene Okojie, Leone Ross, Charles Yu, Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Emmerson, Maggie O'Sullivan, John Keats, Bernadette Meyer

It may sound silly to say that all of the poets we publish are our favorites, but it's true -- RHINO tries to support the writers we publish beyond the page, getting to know their names, sharing their good news, meeting them at events, and seeking their new work for review. We feel honored that we've published both "first timers" and well-known writers, and that so many of our published poets submit to RHINO again.

We accept art as an accompaniment to writing, if the writer wishes to submit an original image for consideration to go along with their piece.
That said, favorite writers:
Virginia Woolf
Albert Camus
Françoise Sagan
Jean Rhys
F. Scott Fitzgerald (even if the writing was via Zelda)
Marguerite Duras
Alberto Moravia
Elsa Morante
Bret Easton Ellis
George Orwell
Agatha Christie
Simone de Beauvoir
Edith Wharton
Sappho
Vladimir Nabokov

Well, let's look at some of the writers we have repeatedly published. Kelsey Kerr and Kerry Trautman and Stephanie L. Harper have appeared in several issues of Slippery Elm; Benjamin Busch has had a poem in every single issue we've done! Richard Ferguson's videopoems have been prominently featured in our online content.
We love it when writers trust us with their work again and again, and we try to publish and promote our authors in a way that will keep them coming back.

Favourite writers are many, but include Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

I do not have any favorites.

We publish writing only, no visual art. Some of the writers we admire include: Kristiana Kahakauwila, Lisa Linn Kanae, Craig Santos Perez, Denis Johnson, Toni Morrison, and many others.

(I am only one editor; I don't want to speak for the entire team on this personal issue.)

In no particular order of preference, our favorite writers are Hemingway, Faulkner, Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Lawrence Durrell, James Joyce, William Gass, Cormac McCarthy, Elizabeth Strout, Paul Harding, Anthony Doerr, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, Mo Yan, Sir Walter Scott and many others. We also have a long list of favorite poets.
In art, we like Expressionists of all varieties, especially Egon Schiele and Franz Marc and their counterparts working today, the Impressionists, especially Toulouse-Latrec and those who are today working in the mode, and painters working in the pure abstract. And we are also fond of William-Adolphe Bougereau, the academic painter. We admire many printmakers and lithographers and several collagists, textile artists, ceramists and sculptors, experimental photographers, digital artists, and watercolorists, as well.

Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Elena Ferrante, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Salman Rushdie, Denis Johnson, Kathy Fish

Jaap Blonk is an amazing composer/performer of words and sounds. Mary Kuryla any day for stories. I will continue to read A Confederacy of Dunces forever, amen. I don't think we could publish an ocean liner (or could we?), but in that category I choose Norman Bel Geddes. Also really into Lucia Sellars' video art.

My personal favourites are Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, JK Rowling.

My favorite writers are Ralph Ellison,Mary Shelley Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edna St. Vinvent Millay, Mark Z. Danielewski, Pablo Neruda, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Twain, Robert Pinsky, Melissa Studdard, Frank Stanford, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
The stars of my art are Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Isabelle Gautier, Michael Parkes, Salvador Dali, and Joseph Stella.

Our favorite writers are those we haven't even discovered yet, who will surprise and delight us with their work when we come across it in the submission queue. We've had that experience with writers like Uzodinma Okehi, whose first book, Over for Rockwell, was published by Short Flight/Long Drive Books in 2015 but was new to us. As for all-time favorites, we're fans of Hilary Mantel, Charles Portis, Edward P. Jones, Jack Pendarvis (yes, we love humor), Penelope Fitzgerald, Joy Williams, Toni Morrison, Tom Drury...the list goes on and on.

Ray Bradbury, CS Lewis, Harry Harrison, Arthur C. Clarke, Alan Moore, Cassandra Khaw, Douglas Adams, Kilgore Trout, Joseph Heller, Rumi, Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Terry Pratchett, Harry Turtledove, Doc Hammer, Christopher McCulloch, Adam Joseph Stump, GD Deckard, Geoff Habiger, Mike Van Horn, Rick Ty, Ian K, Margret A. Treiber.

I don't have favourite writers. I am a wide reader of texts and the notion of favourites is irrelevant to my role as an editor.

John Steinbeck, Dorothy Sayers, Ruta Sepetys, Gary Schmidt

Poets: Michael Symmons Roberts, Alice Oswald, August Kleinzahler, Ilya Kaminsky, Paisley Rekdal, Derek Mahon, Traci Brimhall, Paul Muldoon, Sharon Olds,
Fiction: Haruki Murakami, Claire Keegan, Danielle McLaughlin, Yiyun Li, James Lasdun,

I love writing that is refreshingly unique and unpretentiously genuine. There are too many writers I adore; some of them are Vian, Vonnegut, Lispector, Borges, Calvino, Beckett, Prevert, Edson, Foster Wallace but I also love finding literary qualities in non-fiction books, such as the writings of C.G. Jung, for instance.

All authors whose works always strive to challenge the existing boundaries of literature - its forms, content, themes.
For instance, Milorad Pavic. With his exemplary works, he strived to take the literary form of novels to a different dimension.

Some of my favourite writers include Eavan Boland, Joy Harjo, Li-Young Lee, Linda Gregg, Ayn Rand, Grace Nichols, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, J. D. Salinger & Edgar Allan Poe. As to artists, two of my favourite are Salvador Dali and Leonid Afremov.

Walter Mosley, Anne Sexton, Mahmoud Darwish, Larry David Nevil, Bansky

If I say all of our contributors, it sounds cheesy, but we have had the good fortune to publish some amazing writers, so: yes. All of our contributors.

My favorite authors are Jean Thompson, Dan Chaon, Donna Tartt, Margaret Atwood, TC Boyle, Jincy Willet, Amanda Davis, Matt Bell, Amy Hempel, Lorrie Moore, Celeste Ng, Roxane Gay, Kate Harding, Elizabeth McCracken, and Louise Erdrich, off the top of my head.

Marilynne Robinson, Chase Twichell, Russell Banks, Daniel Harris, Carryl Philllips, Dubravka Ugresic, Phillip Lopate, Vijay Seshadri, Ann Beattie, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Nick Flynn, Katha Pollitt, Susie Linfield, Carolyn FOrché, Richie Hoffmann, Tom Healy, Robert Pinsky, Frank Bidart, Louise Gluck, Carl Phillips...many others!

I read everything - fiction, non-fiction, journalism, poetry. I am addicted to the New Yorker and the New York Times, but always have a murder mystery on hand to wild away an hour or so. My favorite writers are too many and varied to name, but my favorite book is “Lying Awake” by Mark Salzman- a jewel that barely reaches novel length.
My favorite artists are the impressionists, although my taste is eclectic. In photography I favor those who capture a moment on the brink of happening, or an opportunity slipping away as we watch. Stephen Shore embodies this for me.

Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, O Henry, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Rice, Alexander Dumas, Robert Stevenson, Robert Paltock and most other classical writers.

Also changes all the time: Laila Lalami, Victor LaValle, Rebecca Makkai, Carmen Maria Machado, Elizabeth McCracken, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead

My favorite writers are the ones who have written my favorite stories, so I'll approach the question from a story-based angle.
"The One Who Waits" by Ray Bradbury is, in my opinion, one of the great quintessential science fiction stories of all time. That, along with Martian Chronicles and so many others makes Bradbury one of my favorite writers in terms of short stories.
"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" locks down Roger Zelazny as one of my favorite writers.
I don't want to orbit around classic writers exclusively, so I'll finish that category off with James Tiptree Jr. because of how much I love "A Momentary Taste of Being." Alice Bradley Sheldon lived one of the most fascinating lives a person could live.
In terms of today's writers, I'm a big fan of Patrick Rothfuss for fantasy because of his Kingkiller Chronicle. Really hope he finishes that third book. And for modern SF, it's almost impossible to pick a favorite Ted Chiang story. Chiang is the guy writing the most moving, remarkable science fiction of our age.

Authors: Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Christopher Moore, Philip Pullman, Deborah Harkness, Dan Brown, Roald Dahl, and our own authors, of course.

Joshilyn Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Carl Hiaasen, Bobbie Ann Mason, Donna Tartt

My favourite Canadian writer is the late Leonard Cohen. His unapologetic world view encourages tolerance and love in a truly human fashion.

Some of my favorite writers have appeared in our digital pages: Lydia Davis, Dan Beachy-Quick, Mathias Svalina, Chelsey Minnis, TC Tolbert, Sy Hoahwah, Grant Faulkner, Kiki Petrosino.

Roger Zelazny
Ursula Le Guin
Issac Asimov
Philip K Dick
Anne Nocenti
Ryan North
Randall Monroe

Gloria Mindock
Neil Silberblatt
Jennifer Martelli
Cindy Veach
Hannah Larrabee
Annie Pluto
Rusty Barnes
Mari Deweese
Matt Borczon

In classic literature, we favor the works of Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, and others. In contemporary literature, we enjoy the works of Carolyn Forche, Kevin Young, and others. Our art editor enjoys the work of Cecily Brown, Miquel Barcelo, and others.

Writers: George Saunders, Achy Obejas, Sandra Cisneros, Dorothy Allison, Zadie Smith, David Sedaris, Mary Gaitskill
Artists: Henri Matisse, Robert Gober, Frida Kahlo

Our favorite writers and artists express a universal beauty or sublime nature with a unique voice and perspective.

My favorite writers run the gamut from Mark Twain to Bill Moyers, including John Steinbeck, Barbara Tuckman, Mary Oliver, and so many more, I could go on for pages. Our purpose is to publish the writing of our members, first, and those unsolicited entries of quality that never stop coming via regular mail and email.
Fine Lines does publish art, too. We focus on photography of our members the most.

We most enjoy poetry and writing that speaks from the reality of working people. Some of our favorites include poets Tom McGrath, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Robert Edwards, Mary Franke, E.F Shcraeder, Peggy Saffire, Martin Espada, Fred Voss, T.K. O'Rourke, E.P. Fischer, Marge Piercy and many others

Writers I admire at the moment are Eve Ensler, Emily Rapp Black, Roxanne Gay, Sarah Ruhl, China Mieville, Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Jeanette Winterson, Peter Shaffer, and Tom Robbins, to name a few.

Personally, I'm a great fan of Trace K. Smith (poet with a deep human touch), of Haruki Murakami (novelist that explored a depth few others reach), and Neil Gaiman (amazing story-teller).

Red Cedar Review publishes both undergraduate writing and artwork. My favorite submissions surprise me, challenge genre conventions, and showcase a ringing voice. My favorite writers include Lynda Barry, Jeffrey Eugenides, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick.

Writers
Yoko Ogawa
Hitomi Kanehara
Ryu Murakami
William Gibson
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ted Chiang
Madeleine Thien
Artists
Jon Fox
Hong Seung Hye
Takashi Murakami
Jeff Wall
Tracy Pitts
Emma Sywyj

Our most recent issue is always our favorite.

Rilke, Neruda, Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield, Stephen Dunn, W.S. Merwin -- too many others to list.

James Baldwin and Hanya Yanagihara, Maxine Hong Kingston and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mary Oliver and Osip Mandelstam, Justyna Mielnikiewicz and Ashima Narain.

This answer changes with every new writer I read. Currently I’m reading Trevor Noah, Tabitha Blankenbiller, Robert James Russell, Pia Ceres, Melissa Yi, Alison Coffelt. Up next are J. Ryan Stradal and Sarai Walker.

Our editors! Our staff is widely published and share a wide range of expertise with the writers whose work we publish.

We are a large, diverse group of readers, but we agree on loving Kelly Link, Louise Gluck, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, Dorothea Lasky, WS Merwin, Roxane Gay, Ann Carson, Colson Whitehead, Carson McCullers, Dorianne Laux, Carmen Maria Machado, Frank X Walker, Maggie Nelson, Emily Fridlund, etc., etc....

Yusef Komunyakaa, Ryo Yamaguchi, Dorothea Lasky, Mary Ruefle, Some People You Ain't Never Heard Of, Ross Gay, Brandon Courtney.
For art, we like Cosmo Whyte, Dolan Cyr, Stephanie Dowda, Kahn & Selesnick, Alex Kuno, and Some People You Ain't Never Heard Of.

Layli Song Solider and Don Mee Choi are always on my mind. I'd love to read someone who can write the way Nobuyoshi Araki approaches photography. Craig Santos Perez, Michael Wasson, Sherrie Flick, jayy dodd, KOKUMO, and Natalie Eilbert have been my major recommendations this past year.

I'm assuming you mean favorite writers and artists not published in AHC, in which case Jorie Graham, Helene Cixous, Kathy Acker, Cheryl Strayed, Toby Olson, Alice Notley, Joyce Carol Oates, Fanny Howe for writers. Artists; Francesca Woodman, Henry Darger, Sally Mann, Marisa Chafetz, Karen Finley.

Natalie Eilbert, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Danez Smith, Marie Howe, Tracy K. Smith, Sharon Olds, Ocean Vuong, Chen Chen, Eve Ewing, Natalie Shapero, Paisley Rekdal

Considering our focus on the well-crafted sentence, language, and rhythm, it may be no surprise that the writers and artists we most love are as follows: William Faulkner, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, Don Delillo, Graham Greene, T.S. Eliot, Adrienne Rich, Mary Ruefle, Aase Berg, Anders Nilsen, Jaime and GIlbert Hernandez, Michael DeForge, and David Lapham.

DeLillo, Atwood, Nin, Sexton, Plath, Baudelaire

My personal favorites for fiction (other editors have other favorites) include Stephen King, Tawni O'Dell, Daphne DuMarier, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, Amy Tan, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Flannery O'Connor & Alice Walker. For poetry, my favorites include Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Marge Piercy, Mark Strand, Lewis Carroll (fiction as well), Anne Sexton, and Gwendolyn Brooks. I also read a lot of nonfiction and memoir.

James Baldwin: Every sentence he wrote is a work of art. Dave Eggers is brilliant and hilarious. He's also the first author I ever met, so I'll always have a soft spot for him. Colum McCann is brilliant, with so much vision, and he rocks the scarf look like nobody's business! Colin D. Halloran is definitely a poet to watch--I'm not biased at all, I'm just engaged to him :) Charles Simic, David Finkel, Jennifer Weiner when I'm feeling girly. And pretty much anything in The Rumpus.

We love great writing, both long and short. Some of our favorites include: Jeannette Winterson, Jeffrey Euginedes, Michael Cunningham, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, A.M. Homes, and Donna Tartt. One of us loves Charles Dickens; the other prefers Ernest Hemingway.
With regard to art, we both love Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, and Edward Hopper. As a technique, Lesley is quite taken with trompe-l'oeil. She is also enamored with mid-20th century black and white photojournalism. Mary Lynn is particularly fond of Greek and Roman sculpture.

Writers: Philip K. Dick, China Mieville, Ursula Le Guin, Roger Zelazny
Artists: M.C. Escher, Julie Dillon, any fractal art or surrealism

Recent authors we've published that I love include Neel Patel, Julialicia Case, Bret Anthony Johnston, Olabajo Dada, Jessica Soffer, Meg Wolitzer, and Tiffany Yanique. We've also published some incredible nonfiction by George Saunders, Thea Lim, Scott Latta, and Mary Kudenov. Among my favorite poets we've published are Timothy Liu, Alicia Mountain, Nausheen Eusuf, Shelley Wong, and Michelle Whittaker.
Of the fine art and photographs that we print, Jonathan Smith, Andrea Kowch, a collaboration between poet Major Jackson and artist Jill Moser, and Julio Reyes really stand out.
The thing is, I'm one of six people who solicit work and read submissions in Submittable. This is just my personal taste—but browse through the archives of TSR and you'll see we publish a wide variety of styles.

We admire the work of all of our contributors and have a particular admiration for those who push the boundaries in terms of form and language. For examples of writers who exemplify what we're looking for, turn to: Bonnie Nadzam, Bryan Hurt, Christian Winn, Kristen Arnett, Debra Deblasi, Tracy K. Smith, Kaveh Akbar, Paige Lewis, and Safiya Sinclair.

Anne Carson, Lydia Davis, Paul Auster, Bernadette Mayer, Cormac McCarthy, Tracy K. Smith, George Saunders, Neil Gaiman, Danez Smith, Michael Cunningham, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Samuel Delany, and Said Sayrafiezadeh.

Our favorite writers and artists are those whose works are both wonderfully creative and politically progressive.

Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland

In no particular order: Borges; Flannery O'Connor; Alice Munro; Neruda; Toni Morrison; Garcia Marquez; Martin Espada;

Lars Gustafsson, Grace Paley, Maj Sjowall, Pers Peterson, Lydia Netzer, Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, Eugen Ruge, Patrick Modiano, David Shields, Kate Atkinson, George Orwell

E.O. Wilson, James Lovelock, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, E.E. Cummings, Patricia Smith, George Saunders, Jeff Vandermeer, Kim Stanley Robinson, Geoff Ryman, China Mieville, Carmen Maria Machado, Matt Sumell, Ambrose Bierce, Kei Miller, Thomas Ligotti, Lewis Thomas, Paolo Bacigalupi, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Kai Ashante Wilson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Junot Diaz, Elizabeth McCracken, Jennifer Egan, Brenda Shaughnessy, Alice Walker...

Junot Díaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Richard Brautigan, Sarah Kay, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Jeannette Walls, Joan Didion, Ann Patchett, Marcelle Maurette, and many, many more.

In Fiction, we love the work of George Saunders, Margaret Atwood, Flannery O'Connor and Amy Hempel. For poetry, we admire the work of poets such as Mary Oliver, Heather McHugh, William Stafford, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. For essay and creative nonfiction, we look to writers like Wendell Berry and Joan Didion.

A handful in no particular order because each one is fantastic: Christopher Moore, Douglas Adams, Nicky Drayden, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Max Barry, R. A. Salvatore, Raymond E. Feist

Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Horacio Quiroga, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, Juan Rulfo, Gabariel Garcia Márquez, Stephen King, Toni Morrison

Favorite writers: Jorges Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano, Italo Calvino, Anne Carson, Michael Ondaatje, Virginia Woolf, Carol Guess, David Mitchell, Ottessa Moshfegh, Shane Jones, Michael Robbins, Tim Earley, Anne Weisgerger, Hugo Esteban Rodriguez, Russell Edson, Bob Hicok.

Peter Orner, Ishion Hutchinson, Rick Barot, Dubravka Ugrešic, Sidney Wade, ZZ Packer, Clare Cavanagh, Wiszlawa Szymborska, Donald Justice, Richard Wilbur, AE Stallings, Christian Wiman, Cody Walker, Esther Allen, Claudia Rankine, Eric McHenry, Anne Carson, Les Murray, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrizia Cavalli, Susan Bernofsky, Marian Schwartz, Marilyn Nelson, Breon Mitchell, Bill Johnston, Elizabeth Harris, Roger Reeves, C.D. Wright, Roberto Bolaño, Sigrid Nunez, Randall Mann, Michael Hofmann, Stephen Elliott, Eric Puchner, Miriam Toews, Maile Chapman, Rebecca Solnit, Mary Gaitskill, David Bezmozgis, Zadie Smith, Valeria Luiselli...

Marilynne Robinson, Jennifer Egan, Ethan Canin, Virginia Woolf, Abraham Verghese, Siddhartha Mukherjee, David McCullough, Atul Gawande, Emily Dickinson, Richard Wright.

Monica Youn, Natalie Diaz, Diane Seuss, Anne Carson, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Aaron Coleman, Suzanne Buffam, Richard Siken, Danez Smith, Kaveh Akbar, Roxane Gay, Miranda July, Stacey Richter, Lorrie Moore, Lauren Groff, Lauren Holmes, Karla Kelsey, Maggie Nelson, Joan Didion, Bhanu Kapil, Audre Lorde, Leslie Jamison, Han Kang, Zadie Smith, Karen Russell, Junot Diaz, Colson Whitehead, Matthea Harvey, Sandra Lim, Aracelis Girmay, Jayy Dodd.

The tastes of our editors is quite diverse, and we couldn't really come up with a definitive list. Among our favorites, however, are:
Elizabeth Stroud
Hilary Mantel
Anthony Doerr
George Saunders
and Roxane Gay, who is one of our great heroes for the grace that she brings to everything she does.

Willa Cather, Haruki Maurakami Juliana Spallholz

Writers: Terrance Hayes, Richard Siken, Tarfia Faizullah, Ocean Vuong, Franny Choi, Fatimah Asghar, Danez Smith, Laura Kasischke, Bruce Snider, Lorrie Moore, Valeria Luiselli, Anne Carson, Stephen Graham Jones, Selah Saterstrom, Roxane Gay.

One of my favourite has to be Tom Leins. He's just a sick puppy when it comes to descriptive technique. What he sucks from the depths of his mind is truly sickening, that I just have to put it on the site. Some of it is ferocious, and bewildering, but doesn't cross that line we will not step over.

so.many.people are so.damn.good we can't choose favorites. we love to love writers and love even the ones we hate.

A partial list of writers:
Remy Charlip
Lucille Clifton
John Cheever
Pico Iyer
Shirley Jackson
Phyllis Koestenbaum
Grace Paley
Daniel Pinkwater
Harold Pinter
Bruno Schulz
Charles Simic
Patti Smith
Gertrude Stein
Shaun Tan
Teffi
Cecilia Vicuña
E.B. White
Dean Young

A partial list of artists:
Robert Rauschenberg
Joseph Cornell
Michael C. McMullen
Georgia O'Keeffe
Maira Kalman
Henrik Drescher
James Castle
David Fullarton
Shaun Tan
Margaret Kilgallen
Lisa Kokin

We publish only one visual art portfolio per issue, so mostly we're focused on writing. Personal faves include Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss, Leslie Jamison, Alison Hawthorn Deming, Marisha Pessl, Claudia Rankine. Looking at that list, I realize it's all women, which is kind of awesome, but wasn't intentional. I also love Richard Powers, Junot Diaz, and Ben Marcus, among others.

Isn't that a little personal, like what kind of bra I have on? There are writers I keep close to my heart, but any time I answer this question I cringe because I leave out some of the best. Let's say instead here are a few terrific writers I've read in the past year or so. That way I'm not going to harp on the past. Paul Lisicky, Rigoberto Gonzales, Claudia Rankine, Stephen Kuusisto, George Saunders, Toni Morrison, Joan Wickersham, and, okay, a little of the past I've been rereading, Flannery O'Connor.
I love writers who revel in the language, but who also have a gritty, steely-eyed quality about them. I love writers who have a wicked sense of humor, but who know that humor is there to protect us from the sadness of our mortal lives. Yet, of course, every time I outline what I love there comes along some writer who does something completely else, and I love that, too.

I’m a book devourer in four languages across genres...almost impossible to come up with a manageable name list. What follows is more like a sprinkling. Poetry: VictoríaTheodhórou, Elytis, Seferis, Rilke, Yeats, mid-Piercy, Celan; SF/F: Melissa Scott, Tanith Lee, Alex Jablokov, Vandana Singh, Dunsany, non-Amber Zelazny, Emma Bull, pre-Thrones George Martin, parts of Le Guin; Mystery: Tana French, Martin Cruz Smith, Elsa Hart, John le Carré; non-genre: Isak DInesen, Tracy Chevalier, Jim Harrison, Nadine Gordimer, Savyon Liebrecht, Bharati Mukherjee, Andre Dubus, early-to-mid Atwood.

I love so many! From the world of fiction, a few of my faves are Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, and Jonathan Maberry. From poetry, Mike Allen and, of course, Linda Addison.

Melville, Mrs. Shelley, Asimov, Sheckley, Shaara, Charles Frazier, Mark Z. Danielewski, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Coplin, Monica Byrne, Helene Wecker, Laine Cunningham.

Yiyun Li, Sara Majka, Donald Barthelme, Sophie Calle, Vivian Gornick, Amy Leach, Friederike Mayröcker, James Alan McPherson, Marie NDiaye, Dorthe Nors, Juan José Saer

We have a multi-tier selection process; no single person's predilections or preferences dominate. Each of our editors has different tastes, but all of them are cognizant of a broad range of contemporary writing. Some might lean more traditional while others tend toward the avant-garde; part of the fun is seeing the range of quality work that comes in, then debating the merits of various pieces.

As an editor, I am particularly drawn to writers who are willing to be dazzling and reckless and brutal and lovely, writers whose voices are utterly singular, writers who are willing to take risks with their pieces' architecture and content. Some of the fiction writers I most admire defy narrative conventions and employ language that is both lyrical and fierce. I find myself particularly interested in stories that risk shifting my world paradigm, as opposed to stories that are "relatable." Similarly, poets I like tend to be simultaneously formally tenacious and wildly innovative. I come to poetry because I want to come away seeing and thinking differently, to allow someone else's flights of language and image and idea to affect my own reasoning, vision, and language. Writers who excite me most represent a multitude of perspectives and persuasions, creating work that communicates and celebrates difference, the singularity and pluralism of human experience.

I'm a big fan of my own authors but I'd say James Herbert, Clive Barker, early Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Michael Stewart, Whitley Strieber, John Skipp, Craig Spector, and many more...

Hanya Yanagihara, G. Willow Wilson, Colson Whitehead, Lauren Beukes, Susanna Clarke... Anyone interested in contemporary issues and tackles them with sensitivity and imagination.

Ha! These questions are hard. I'm leaving out so many, but at the moment, I'll go with: Anne Carson, Paul Celan, Adam Dickinson, David Dowker, Brecken Hancock, Erina Harris, Bessie Head, Liz Howard, Susan Howe, Franz Kafka, Anna Kavan, Myung Mi Kim, Julia Kristeva, Sylvia Legris, Tim Lilburn, Clarice Lispector, Christopher Logue, Nathanaël, Alice Oswald, M. NourbeSe-Phillip, Sylvia Plath, Lisa Robertson, Natalie Simpson, Sarah Waters. Better stop before I explode.

The ones we publish. ;)

Joe R. Lansdale, Cormac McCarthy, George Orwell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, John Steinbeck, Bentley Little, Lisa Morton, Poppy Z. Brite, Mira Grant/ Seanan McGuire, Neil Gaiman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Steve Rasnic Tem, Helen Marshall, Weston Ochse, John Langan, Ernest Hemingway, Robert McCammon, Mark Bowden, O. Henry, James Ellroy, and many, many more... (particularly smart, literary horror authors)

out-on-the-edge of writing Mark Z. Danielewski, epic-novelist Dan Simmons, philosophy professor Ron Cooper, Holly Day (poet out of Minneapolis), blogger Joe Buonfiglio, NC storytellers Charles Frazier and Ron Rash, poet-songwriter Paul Allen. Patiently waiting for second novel by Amanda Coplin (The Orchardist) and next work by Laura Hillenbrand. Will re-read Joseph Heller, Howard Fast, Humphrey Cobb, and keep my Complete Wallace Stevens on bedside table.

I love all writers! It sort of depends on who I'm reading... RIght now I'm especially loving Connie Willis, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Lev Grossman, and Cassandra Clare.

Lee Child, Terry Pratchett,

Currently I love Colin Barrett who won the Guardian First Book Award 2014 for his debut collection Young Skins. Gerard Woodward's novels and short stories. Lucia Berlin's short stories and the novels of Kate Atkinson.

Flannery O'Connor, Yusef Komunyakaa, Shakespeare, Donald Barthelme, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace, Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), William Carlos Williams, Nikki Giovanni, Lewis Thomas, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, E B White, etc.

Toni Morrison, Junot Díaz, Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, José Saramago, Gabriel García Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, Alejandra Pizarnik.

Julian May, Roger Zelazny, Elizabeth Hand, Connie Willis, Dan Simmons,Kurt Vonnegut,David Brin,Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, James Tiptree Jr.

Lois McMaster Bujold, C.J. Cherryh, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Stross, Anne Perry, Tom Clancy, Anne McCaffrey, David Weber, Issac Asimov, Ilona Andrews, Madeline L'Engle, John Grisham, Poul Anderson, Ben Bova, Peter R. Brent, Brad Torgersen, Victoria Holt, Vernor Vinge

Too many to list but Saramago, Ray Carver, Mark Brazaitis, Herman Hesse, etc.

Space Squid loves every single writer we've published equally, Chris Nakashima-Brown, J.M. McDermott, Chris Roberson, Jennifer Pelland, Rahul Kanakia, and too many others to mention. If they wrote stories in the 1000 word range, then Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and E.E. 'Doc' Smith would all have a free pass into Space Squid.

B.J. Hollars, Dinty Moore, Doug Kearney, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, David Foster Wallace, John Berryman, C.D. Wright, Karen Russell

Our fiction editors are fond of Raymond Carver, George Saunders, and Kelly Link. Our favorite poets include Louise Glück, George Oppen, and Jake Adam York.

In no particular order: Scott Russell Sanders, Barbara Hurd, Terrance Hayes, Eula Biss, Mark Doty, Jane Hirschfield

It's so hard just to choose a few. Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Mary Gentle and CJ Cherryh are the ones that float to the top of my mind first. I grew up on a diet of Tolkien, Lewis, Asimov, Norton, McCaffrey, Heinlein and Silverberg, all of whom definitely have shaped my tastes and my own writing.

Poetry People: Anne Carson, Frank Stanford, Maggie Nelson, Jenny Zhang, Sasha Steenson, Aimé Césaire, Catherine Wagner, Nikky Finney, Lucas de Lima, Tim Earley, Joyelle McSweeney, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Natalie Eilbert, Kina Viola, Jack Spicer, Carrie Lorig, C.D. Wright, Hiromi Ito, Shel Silverstein.
Fiction Writers: Denis Johnson, Daniel Woodrell, Kate Braverman, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Junot Diaz, John Edgar Wideman, Borges, R.L. Stine.

HP Lovecraft, Eugène François Vidocq, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Erik Larson, Stephen King, Jo Nesbo, Josephine Tey, Oscar Wilde, Stieg Larsson, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes.

Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Nora Ephron, Ruth Ozeki, M.L. Stedman, Kate Atkinson

How can I possibly answer this? Right now it's Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Claire Vaye Watkins, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Amelia Gray. If I were to include the scope of literary history, obviously there would be many more.

My favorite writers at the moment depend upon my mood. Since I read all genres as well as non-fiction it is difficult to limit authors I admire to just a few. But I must include Diana Gabaldon, Stephen King, Roger Zelazney, Andre Norton, Douglas Adams, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Kevin Hearne, Karen Marie Moaning, just from the top of my head. I love authors that create dynamic characters engaged with active plots.

In no particular order: Terese Svoboda, Colson Whitehead, Mary Miller, Matt Bell, Amber Sparks, Dennis Johnson, Teju Cole, Roxanne Gay, Rachel B. Glaser, Catherine Lacey, Blake Butler, Alissa Nutting, Amanda Goldblatt, Leni Zumas, Madeline ffitch, among many others.

My favourite writers is a list that is ever changing and growing, but a few all timers for me are: Hemingway, Salinger, Dickens, Roddy Doyle, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Bill Bryson and loads of upcoming Irish writers.

Susan Howe, Claudia Rankine, Lisa Robertson, Bin Ramke, Mary Jo Bang, Jorie Graham, Timothy Donnelly, Etel Adnan, Dan Beachy-Quick, A.R. Ammons, among others.

Kevin Barry, Jennifer Egan, Lorrie Moore, Anthony Doerr, Junot Diaz, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, Ben Marcus, Hilary Mantel, Kelly Link, Paul Murray, Richard Ford, Chris Adrian...

JK Rowling, Alice Munro, Ursula LeGuin, Diana Gabaldon, Flannery O'Connor, Bob Thurber, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, CS Lewis

John Steinbeck, Pearl Buck, and Arthur C. Clarke

William Blake, Sylvia Plath, Charles Bukowski, Ayn Rand.
Phillip Lamantia, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac

For me personally, it's Roald Dahl and Mikhail Bulgakov.

This is a long list. A very difficult list, as there is so much out there that I haven't read yet. A pile some 50-60 high of books at home, a Book Depository wish list in the triple figures, and a constant stream of new and talented authors bursting onto the scene. So, I'm going to go with a top ten: Joe Abercrombie, George RR Martin, Mark Lawrence, R Scott Bakker, Scott Lynch, Patrick Rothfuss, Richard K Morgan, Brent Weeks, Graham McNeill and Daniel Abraham. Authors I'm addicted to but didn't make the top ten include, but is no way limited to: Dan Abnett, Brandon Sanderson, Stephen King, Steven Erikson and Anthony Ryan. Authors on my list that I haven't read yet include Kameron Hurley, Aliette De Bodard, Richard Ford, Luke Scull, Rob J Hayes, Peter V Brett... man these lists could just keep going, going and going.

Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, David Gemmell, JRR Tolkien, Andy McNab and Tom Holt.

Charles D’Ambrosio, Kathryn Davis, Lydia Davis, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Amy Hempel, Yiyun Li, Elizabeth McCracken, Maggie Nelson, ZZ Packer, Grace Paley, Karen Russell, Joy Williams.

Angela Carter, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, J.G Ballard, W.S Burroughs, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Zamyatin, Colette, Jeanette Winterson, Georges Perec, Haruki Murakami, Bapsi Sidhwa, Rukhsana Ahmad, Katherine Mansfield, Talat Abbasi---I have so many favourite writers that to list them all I would be writing this all day.

Of what era? I'll stay contemporary: Ilya Kaminsky, Valzhyna Mort, Tim Seibles, Terrance Hayes, and Patricia Smith for the poets; Michael Chabon, Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, and Toni Morrison for the fiction writers; Anne Lamott, bell hooks, Joan Didion, and Marion Winik for non-fiction.

I don't play favorites!

Michael Shea, Elizabeth Bear, Laird Barron, Jorge Luis Borges, PKD, Irvine Welsh, Caitlin R. Kiernan, James Lasdun, Italo Calvino, Mark Z. Danielewski.

far, far too many to list but here's a sampling ...
Paul Auster
e.e. cummings
Dorothy Parker
Billy Collins
Michael Chabon
Cornelious Eady
Joshua Ferris
Jennifer Egan
Sarah Ruhl

Raymond Williams, Octavia Butler, Patricia Monaghan,

Kate Bernheimer, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Joni Tevis, Salman Rushdie, Ander Monson, Aurelie Sheehan, Manuel Munoz, Lucy Corin, Dawn Lundy Martin, Jonathan Safran Foer, Annie Dillard, Dinty Moore, John McPhee, Claudie Rankin, Joan Didion, Kazim Ali, Nick Flynn, C. D. Wright, Italo Calvino, Kevin Brockmeier, Jenny Boully, Pablo Neruda, Clarice Lispector, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, George Saunders, Steven Millhauser, Joy Williams, Lydia Millet

Larry Levis, Lynda Hull, Raymond Carver, Kim Barnes, Philip Levine, Dorianne Laux, Kim Addonizio, Erin Belieu, Robert Wrigley, Paisley Rekdal,

In fiction, we were killed in the past three months by Jacob Appel, Claire Donato and Jennifer Pashley. Of course we like Strand and Gilbert and Dexter Gordon. For newer poets, Melissa Broder makes our ears drunk.

Stuart Dybek, Amy Hempel, Junot Diaz, Marilynne Robinson, Steve Almond, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Sherman Alexie, Raymond Carver, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Walls, Breece D’J Pancake, Harry Crews, Russell Banks, Andre Dubus, Anton Chekhov, ZZ Packer, Edward P. Jones, J.D. Salinger, Simon J. Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, Cormac McCarthy, and the list goes on and on.

Gibbons
Winston Churchill
George MacDonnald Frazer
Sonia Meyer
John Hanson Mitchell

Rose Flint, Marna Hauk, Starhawk, Rae Abileah, Donna Henes, Alice Walker, Heather Roan-Robins, Gretchen Lawlor, Bethroot Gwynn, Sandra Pastorius, Susan Levitt, Mooncat, Musawa!

Mary Gaitskill, Tony Hogland, Antonya Nelson, Junot Diaz, A.M. Homes, Robert Boswell, William Trevor, Melissa Pritchard, Mat Johnson, Caitlin Horrocks, Danielle Evans, Lauren Slater, Jane Hirshfield, Norman Dubie, Victor Lavalle, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Lauren Groff, Quan Barry, Ramona Ausubel, Jonathan Lethem, Jim Shepherd, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Jenny Boully, Alissa Nutting

Thomas Pynchon, J.D. Salinger, Henry Miller, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Too many to name.

Henry Miller, Italo Calvino, Daniil Kharms, Antonin Artaud, J G Ballard, Djuna Barnes, James Ellroy, Marina Warner, Dawn Ades, Julia Kristeva, Violette Leduc, Anne Sexton, Andrew Vachss, Philip K Dick, Georges Batailles, Michel Faber...

More than naming individual writers, what we' like to say is that we want pieces that resonate strongly. We are not interested in esoteric art. We like poems and flash fiction with a strong narrative element. We like a "hook" for readers, whether it's sound, subject, or form. We favor earnest over clever, incisive over sentimental. We're not afraid of political work, but it's got to sing, too.

Adam Zagajewski, Joshua Weiner, Elizabeth Gross, Adonis, Mark Terrill, Cralan Kelder, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, John Cheever, Frederick Seidel, James Salter, Stanley Plumly, Joseph Roth, Keith Driver, Jack Spicer, Ernest Hilbert, Sara Peters, James Wright, Don Paterson, Kenneth Rexroth, Mark Strand, Anne Carson, Georg Trakl, Tomas Tranströmer, Louise Glück, Bobby Parker, Kirsten Irving, Jon Stone, Bradley Paul, Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Roberto Bolaño, Jeffery Eugenides, John Steinbeck, Philip Roth, William McIlvanney, Roald Dahl, Robert Bly, Valery Ronshin, Stephen King, Petr Borkovec, Sarah Manguso, Anthony Madrid, Tadeusz Dabrowski, Daniil Kharms, Anne Sexton, Nick Demske, Natashia Déon, Flannery O'Connor, Vítezslav Nezval.

It ranges vastly ... as a short story writer myself, I love Amy Hempel and other masters of the form; as an environmental publisher, I admire a great many writers who are paying attention to what's happening with the planet and wildlife and sharing what they know. We'd love to see more environmental fiction out there, which is one of the reasons we focus on eco-literature.

Jostein Gaarder, Alexander McCall Smith and Salley Vickers.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Gene Wolfe, Ursula K Le Guin, Robert Charles Wilson, Michael Cisco, Zamyatin

Alice Munro, Allegra Goodman, Annie Proulx, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Chabon, Barbara Pym; and from previous centuries, Henry James, Fyodor Doestoevsky, Edith Wharton, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens. Our poetry editors' favorites: Bob Hicok, Czeslaw Milosz, William Matthews, Emily Dickinson, Jack Gilbert, Heather McHugh, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Anne Carson, Matthew Zapruder, Ai

Chase Twichell, Billy Collins

The writers we publish; consult our index.

Gene Wolfe, Henry Miller, Michael Chabon, Emily Dickenson, Stanislaw Lem

Raymond Carver, Ethan Canin, Pam Houston, John Steinbeck, Jeanette Wintersen, Tim O'Brien, F.X. Toole, Denis Johnson, Thom Jones

Adrienne Rich, Kazua Ishiguro, Alain Robbes-Grillet, Toni Morrison, Wassily Szymborska, Colum McCann, Michael Cunningham, Pam Houston, Robert Gluck

John Steinbeck, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Leo Tolstoy

Chuck Palahniuk
Bret Easton Ellis
Stephen King
J.D. Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jared Carter, Sheryl St. Germain, T. R. Hummer, David Baker, David Bottoms.

Our Review Editors could name all the classic authors and many contemporary ones, but that would be pointless. As for our own contributors, Bewildering Stories has well over a thousand, and it would be unfair choose between them.
However, one acknowledgment is in order: Bewildering Stories owes its continued existence to an annotated translation -- the only one in modern English on the Net -- of the original manuscript of Cyrano de Bergerac's novel "The Other World" (1655). But we have plenty else besides.

Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Toni Morrison, Milan Kundera, Barry Hannah, Denis Johnson, Cather and Hemingway, Tim O’Brien

Tatyana Tolstoya, D.F. Wallace, McPhee, Sontag, Didion, Hersey, Ford, Marquez, D. Barthelme, Heller, Mailer, Bellow, Woolf, Chekhov, Twain, Flaubert.

We enjoy the writing of Kim Addonizio, Jane Austen, S.T. Coleridge, Andre Dubus, Alice Munro, George Saunders, Alan Sillitoe to name a few.

My favorite fiction authors are Sherrilyn Kennyon, Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Robert B. Parker, and Shakespeare. Additionally, I enjoy Eoin Colfer, Ursula LeGuin, Neil Gaiman, and J.K.Rowling. My list of authors is long and windy, but these are the ones I read repeatedly.

Anne Carson, Italo Calvino, Ursula K. LeGuin, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marguerite Duras, Percival Everett, C.D. Wright, Lydia Davis.

It's easy to see which authors we admire, as each issue of The Los Angeles Review is dedicated to a writer we love. Our dedications include Wanda Coleman, John Rechy, Ron Carlson, Judy Grahn, Juan Felipe Herrera, Ishmael Reed, Bruce Holland Rogers, Eloise Klein Healey, and others.

Fiction: I have no particular favorite.
Poetry: Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, James Wright

I think Martin Friel is a good story teller, if only I could persuade him to do more for us...
Outside of the site I'll vote for Ian Rankin, and you can't beat Herge's Tintin stories!

I do publish fiction. Again no ideals. In poetry, some of my favorites are not contemporary. That said I avoid heavily regular meter and exact rhyme as they feel stilted and dated, and few writers can pull it off these days. Free verse that's integrated and well formed often works as a vehicle.

Fiction: Kerouac, Hemingway, Kafka
Poetry: Neruda, Ginsberg, Sexton, Levine

Fiction: Tobias Wolff, Yiyun Li, Wendell Berry, Javier Marias, David Malouf, Hilary Mantel, Richard Price, Gary Shteyngart, Alice Munro (to choose just among the living)
Poetry: Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, David Ferry, Dean Young, Frank Bidart, W. S. Di Piero, Michael Chitwood, D. Nurkse (again, just choosing among the living)

Edgar Allan Poe, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Matheson, Robert Aickman, many, many others.

Our editors change every year, so I don't want to speak for them. We admire all sorts of writers and writing.

FICTION Lydia Davis, Alexander Maksik, Jane Hamilton, Joan Silber, Andee Lockwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Cade Bambara, Albert Camus, Dale Peck, Edward P. Jones. Grace Paley.
POETRY James Wright, CP Cavafy, Edward Hirsch, Sappho, Robert Frost, Sarah Stern, Marie Howe, Sharon Olds, Charles Simic, Nasrudin, Derek Walcott, Emily Dickinson, Barbara Howes, Phillip Larkin, Geoffrey Chaucer, Martin Edmunds
NONFICTION E.B. White, Anna Kushner, Harilyn Rousso, Joan Didion, Sherwood Anderson, George Orwell, Wendell Berry, Sabine Heinlein, Raymond Queneau, Adrienne Rich, Edmund White.

I love the classics, so Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, and Jonathan Swift are all at the top of my list. For more contemporary authors, I'm a big fan of Orson Scott Card, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and a whole lot more.

I publish genre fiction: science fiction, horror, supernatural, and thrillers. My favorite fiction authors are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Crichton, and James Patterson.

Our contributors offer a strong indication of the work we enjoy.

Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Colm Tobin, Elizabeth Hay, Alan Hollinghurst.
Poetry: Louise Gluck, Carolyn Forche, Erin Moure, Mark Doty.

Prose: Terry Pratchett, Edith Wharton, John Hodgman, Douglas Adams, Truman Capote, David Sedaris, Edgar Allen Poe, Carrie Fischer, Oscar Wilde, and Mark Twain.
Poetry: Frank O'Hara, e.e. cummings, John Ashbery, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe (again). I'm also going to be daring and say Shel Silverstein.

Jonathan Coe, Billy Collins, Ian McEwan, Peter Reading.

We publish both. Favorite fiction writers are Jennifer Egan, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Fyodor Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov

We love every single writer who has ever appeared, or will appear, in FRiGG. Also, we love (in no particular order): Franz Kafka, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Marilynne Robinson, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Tobias Wolff, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, J.D. Salinger, Jane Austen, Cormac McCarthy, Larry Brown, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Don DeLillo.

Hans Christian Andersen
Brothers Grimm
Madame D'Alnouy
Charles Perrault
William Blake
Coleridge
Wordsworth

Fiction writers: Barry Longyear; Dan Simmons; Gene Wolf; Ray Bradbury; J.R.R. Tolkien; Ursula le Guin; Louis L'Amour; C.S.Lewis

Our favourite fictionistas include:
Douglas Glover
Mark Anthony Jarman
Lisa Moore
Betty Jane Hegerat
Rebecca Rosenblum
Alexander MacLeod
Our favourite poets include:
Patricia Young
Don Coles
Carmine Starnino
Asa Boxer
Richard Harrison
Rosemary Griebel
Stephanie Bolster

Fiction: Tony Ballantyne, Clive Barker, Julian Barnes, Donald Barthelme, Jorge Luis Borges, A. S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Stephen Clarke, Mark Z. Danielewski, Ted Dekker, David Louis Edelman, William Gibson, Thomas Hardy, Russel Hoban, Kazuo Ishiguro, A. L. Kennedy, Daniil Kharms, Milan Kundera, Tom McCarthy, China Miéville, Haruki Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, Nick Sagan, Rachel Seiffert, Ashley Stokes, Donna Tartt, J. R. R. Tolkien.
Poetry: Alfian Sa'at, Caroline Bird, Elizabeth Bishop, E. E. Cummings, Mark Doty, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ted Hughes, Michael Hulse, John Keats, Luke Kennard, Philip Larkin, Adam O'Riordan, Sharon Olds, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Toh Hsien Min, Cyril Wong.

James Patterson, J.A. Jance, Joan Didion, Hugh Fox

This is a difficult question to answer because I publish so many terrific writers. While singling out some now, I'm sure to miss many of my favorites. Some of my most recognized authors include Connie Willis, Robert Silverberg, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Carol Emshwiller, Neal Barrett, Jr., Tanith Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Rudy Rucker, Paul McAuley, Paul Cornell, Allen M. Steele, Stephen Baxter, and John Kessel. Other excellent authors are Chris Beckett, Christopher Barzak, Kij Johnson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, and Theodora Goss. Some new writers include Felicity Shoulders, Ted Kosmatka, Will McIntosh, Sara Genge, Alice Sola Kim, Aliette de Bodard, Ken Liu, and William Preston. There are many names that I'm leaving out because I'm not thinking of them at the moment.

William Trevor

My favorites may just be found in the poem more so than the poet. I cut teeth on Brautiagn, then Bukowski. My current favorites began this publication: A.D. Winans, William Taylor, MK Chavez, Hosho McCreesh. From there I have published many more and have added many more to the list. I guess you could say my favorites are listed in the sidebar at the Rusty Truck.

Fiction: Dave Eggers, Tim O'Brien, Tanyo Ravicz, David Vann, Nancy Lord, Rick Bass, Jim Sweeney
Poetry: Sandra Alcosser, Anne Coray, Olena Kalytiak Davis, David McElroy, Simon Langham, Tom Sexton, Jack Gilbert, Eva Saulitis, Gretchen Diemer

Larry Brown
Sharon Olds
Chris Ware
George Saunders
Gina Berriault

Kim Addonizio, John Ashbery, Marion Boyer, Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel, Russell Edson, Andrew Griffith, Tony Hoagland, Louis Jenkins, Michael Kriesel, Ann K. Schwader.

Philip Roth, Hunter Thompson, David Lodge, Jhumpa Lahiri, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney

Tom Sheehan is the best living fiction writer on the planet. As far as dead folks go, Hemingway and Joyce and Heinlein are pretty good.

We love Cormac McCarthy, Mary Gaitskill, JD Salinger, Virginia Woolf, Aimee Bender, Peter Cameron, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Terese Svoboda, Sam Lipsyte, Madison Smartt Bell, and hell, even Joyce Carol Oates.
We've already published Terese Svoboda Madison Smartt Bell. We'd love to publish you as well.

Our favorite fiction writers include George Garrett, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Randall Keanan, Christine Schutt, Steve Yarborough, Charles Johnson, Zachary Mason, Guy Davenport, George Singleton, Lorrie Moore, Josh Wheedon, John Gardner. Our favorite poets include Charles Wright, James Wright, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, David Wojahn, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Gerald Stern, Louise Gluck, Eleanor Ross Taylor, John Ashberry, Norman Dubie, Joshua Poteat, William Matthews, David St. John, Ann Lauterbach, Claudia Emerson, Terence Hayes, Anna Journey, Nicky Beer, Rita Dove.

Stieg Larsen, James Lee Burke, Nora Roberts, Kim Harrison, Lee Child, Larissa Ilone, Sue Grafton, Jonathan Franzan, MIchael Cunningham, Lilith St. Crowe

Margaret Atwood, Ian M. Banks, Laird Barron, Clive Barker, Donald Bartheleme, Alfred Bester, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Carroll, Gemma Files, Charles de Lint, Roald Dahl, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Joe Haldeman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert E. Howard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Caitlin R Kiernan, Joe R Lansdale, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, Andrew Vachss, Gene Wolfe

Haruki Murakami, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S Thompson, Alistair MacLean, Michael Chabon, Chuck Palahniuk, James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Donald Hamilton, Mark SaFranko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Isaac Asimov, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe series), Clive Barker, Frank Miller, Alan Moore,Frederick Forsyth, Robert Ludlum, Orson Scott Card, Tom Clancy, Ian Rankin, Anne Rice, Ursula K LeGuin, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, Clive Cussler, Michael Connely, Kevin J Anderson, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Eric Van Lustbader, James Rollins, Patricia Cornwell, Barry Eisler, Ken MacLeod,...

Kurt Vonnegut
Raymond Carver
Thom Jones
Ron Carlson
Denis Johnson
Phillip K. Dick
Gore Vidal
Joyce Carol Oates
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Brady Udall

Fiction writers we admire and have published include John Barth, Allan Gurganus, Roy Kesey, Eileen Pollack, John Brandon, Olga Slavnikova, Padgett Powell. Poets we admire and have published include D. A. Powell, Billy Collins, Idra Novey, Kevin Prufer, Lucia Perillo, Matthea Harvey, Richard Kenney, and Kathleen Rooney.
In our fiction pantheon: Grace Paley, John Cheever, Joy Williams, Penelope Fitzgerald, Barry Hannah, Donald Barthelme.

Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, John Scalzi, Paolo Bacigalupi, Chine Mieville, Pat Cadigan, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, John Kessel, Eugie Foster

My personal favourite fiction writers (especially short stories) are Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Martin Amis, Helen Simpson, Will Self, Miranda July, Clare Wigfall, Saki, Bukowski, Fitzgerald, Waugh and Arthur Conan Doyle. In terms of the writers Liars' League has published, I'm a big fan of Niall Boyce, Emily Cleaver, Liam Hogan, Jessica Lott, C.T. Kingston, Gregory Norminton and Kachi Ozumba (the last two also have novels out - you should buy them!)

My taste in fiction ranges from Voltaire to John Irving with a special place for Virginia Woolf. As far as poets go, I don't have any particular favorites - I like them all.

Fiction: Franz Kafka, Chekhov, Maupassant, Martha Gellhorn, Richard Yates, Richard Ford
Poetry: Wallace Stevens, Bob Dylan, Robert Frost, Alexander Pope

Poetry (in no particular order): Philip Larkin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Wilbur, Anne Stevenson, Jennifer Reeser, Victor Hugo, P.B. Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, Weldon Kees, Lorca, A.E. Stallings, David Mason, Joshua Mehigan, Bill Coyle, and more!
Short story/ Fiction: Flanery O'Connor, D. H. Lawrence, Cormac McCarthy, Connie Harrington, Ernest Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Frank Conroy, James Baldwin, Joseph Conrad, John Fowles, and others.

Poets: Callimachus, Janine Canan, Andrew Gyll, Seamus Heaney, Hesiod, Galina Krasskova, P Sufenas Virius Lupus, Lykeia, Robert McDowell, Ovid, Robert Pinsky, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Jane Yolen; Prose Authors: Lloyd Alexander, Christine de Pizan, Diane Duane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kazu Kibuishi, Robin McKinley, Alan Moore, CL Moore, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Yolen

Lydia Davis, Rick Moody

My favorite short story writers are those who cross literary writing with speculative fiction ideas. Ursula Le Guin, Kevin Brockmeyer, Dan Chaon, George Saunders, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, and yes, Stephen King and Ray Bradbury. I also admire, for their stunning writing skills and/or creative story ideas, T. C. Boyle, David Gates, Alice Munro, Mary Gordon, and Robert Olen Butler.

Favorite Fiction Writer: W.G. Sebald.
Favourite Poet: Seamus Heaney.

Our fiction editor Patrick Burn chooses Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Marilynne Robinson, Ian McEwan, Wiliam Faulkner, and Salman Rushdie.
For poetry, my old standby list-toppers are A.R. Ammons, Mary Oliver, the Mexican poet Tedi López Mills (tr. Wendy Burk), E.E. Cummings, and Billy Collins. Recently I’ve read books or sets of poems by Pamela Uschuk, Suzanne Frischkorn, Lex Runciman, Cynthia Huntington, and Derek Sheffield that have knocked my socks off.

Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, Linda Hogan, Mary Oliver; Rilke, Holderin.

I would never under the sun state any currently accepted writers as "favorites". And truthfully, because so much of my time is taken reading submissions (I read hundreds of pages of submissions every week), at this point in the game I do not have the time to lazily pick up a book to peruse.
But yes, we do publish both fiction and poetry. Who do I like for fiction? Well, historically I liked the fiction (and non-fiction) of Ayn Rand, and maybe her descriptiveness and attention to detail in her fiction writing somehow relates to what we ask for in our guidelines: "Make us feel like you're living through the story, not just reading about it. Make the reader feel like they are there."

Aimee Bender, John Cheever, Elizabeth Crane, Lisa Glatt, Tod Goldberg, Steven Millhauser, Katherin Nolte, Shellie Zacharia

As far as broad scheme, dead-guys-we’d-like-to-have-published-but-can’t, I’d say Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut. That’s the stuff I’m going to read on my down time, and probably the closest to what we’re looking for thematically as far as “big” names go.
Current short fiction writers, though? I’m a huge fan of Mike Sweeney’s work. The man doesn’t write nearly enough. And, of course, yt sumner. She writes plenty, and, as far as I'm concerned, she can do no wrong. Seriously, if you don’t recognize her name, you should feel pretty terrible about yourself.

Fiction: Ursula Le Guin; James Tiptree jr.; Nalo Hopkinson; Nisi Shawl; Ekaterina Sedia; Nancy Kress; China Miéville; Richard Morgan; Vernor Vinge; Ted Chiang; Vandana Singh; Poppy Z. Brite; Nnedi Okorafor; Isabel Allende; Philip K. Dick; Pat Cadigan; Octavia Butler; Elizabeth Vonarburg.