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"If we take Ford Madox Ford's The English Review as a plausible first instance of "the little magazine" that we've since come to know, then we'll be marking the centenary of this peculiar cultural form in 2008, just the blink of an eye from now in literary time."

         --Steve Allen, The Modern Review
              2.2 (Fall 2006)

JULY 2008:
The Literary Magazine
at 100

Edited by Travis Kurowski & Gary Percesepe

MR seeks pieces from editors and writers on the contemporary literary magazine. A century in the making, are literary magazines distinguishable today from television's repetitive content on countless channels? Now seems ideal to reexamine the literary magazine. Technology has changed. Magazines now publish on the internet, as podcasts, CDs, DIY printable magazines, and film/magazine hybrids. There are also more lit mags than ever before, most begun by creative writing programs or by program graduates. Yet they continue to flourish outside the academy as well, the obsessions of editors just as often working over laptops in Ann Arbor apartments as in Manhattan lofts. Kayak editor George Hitchcock once called literary magazines "the furnace where American literature is being forged." Later adding, "At the same time I am afraid of the new wave of little magazines, by their very number and fundamental sameness." How has this technology and abundance changed the literary magazine? Who are its readers now? Whom does it benefit and what are its uses? How have literary magazines changed, and how might they change in the future?

Send submissions to: travis@mississippireview.com

Deadline: June 15, 2008