Relocating!

Hello, all. LIT is now blogging over at http://litmagazine.wordpress.com, so please update your bookmarks!

(News on LIT 15/16, photos from AWP '09 and more to come, so check us out!)

—The Management

AWP, LIT 15, Guidelines, etc.

Hey kids, long time, no post. LIT is busy at work on issue 15, which will be coming out in the spring. We know that's later than previously promised, but trust that it's going to be an amazing issue. It's our official 10th anniversary release, and it's chock full of features and poetry, prose and art that will blow your mind, your mom's mind, and your dog's mind, if your dog is aesthetically inclined.

And yes, LIT will be at AWP Chicago! Please come find our table, purchase discounted copies of LIT 13 and 14, grab a LIT button (new!) and take a subscription form! We'll also be handing out teaser fliers about LIT 15 and all the good stuff it will contain.

We may also have chocolate. :x

For the curious, we are currently taking submissions and will be until May. Here's everything you need to know...

Send your submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction to:

LIT
The New School
Writing Program, Room 514
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011

And here's our current masthead:

Peter Bogart Johnson & Nicole Steinberg, Editors
Graeme Bezanson, Poetry Editor
Emily Taylor & Yvonne Garrett, Prose Editors
Jackie Clark, Associate Poetry Editor
Benjamin Kendrick, Associate Prose Editor
Mark Bibbins, Shanna Compton, Justin Marks & Kathleen Ossip, Editors at Large
David Lehman, Robert Polito & Jackson Taylor, Faculty Advisors
Brian McMullen, Design Consultant

And, of course, our very important submission guidelines:

- Poetry submissions should be no more than 5 poems or 10 pages.
- Prose submissions should be no longer than 25 pages, double-spaced, single-sided.
- All submissions must include a SASE for reply and a cover letter. Cover letters let us know that you're a real person who actually has some knowledge about LIT. We appreciate that sort of thing. Submissions without cover letters will NOT be considered.
- Contributors must receive a reply from LIT before submitting new work; additional submissions received before we have sent a reply to a previous submission will be returned unread!
- Our reading periods are from September to mid-December and January to May. Do not submit more than twice in either period.
- We do not consider submissions filed by professional coordinating services.

Assorted goodies.

Hi folks,

We are busy bees here at LIT, gearing up for production on LIT 15, which will (hopefully) be out in late winter/early spring. All current submissions will be considered for LIT 16, in case you were curious.

A few announcements:

LIT is pleased to announce its 2009 Pushcart Prize nominees, all of whom were published in issue 14, Spring 2008:

Poetry:
"Letter of Explanation to My Dead Arctic Explorer" by Paige Ackerson-Kiely
"Hat Dance Comma Mexican" by Heather Christle
"To Bed in a Broke Boat" by CJ Evans

Prose:
"Bunkerisms" by Caren Beilin
"Brzezinski's Gambit" by Jamey Gallagher
"The Firebird" by Irina Reyn

We wish our nominees the best of luck! We're so proud to have published your work and wish we could have more than six nominations. Darn it all.

*****

LIT will be in attendance at the 21st Annual Indie & Small Press Fair on December 6 & 7! Admission is FREE!

The fair, as always, is hosted by the New York Center for Independent Publishing and will take place at the General Society at 20 West 44th Street in NYC. Come for the one-of-a-kind events and stay to buy books and copies of lit mags for your stocking stuffers (and maybe a few for yourself).

And don't forget to visit the LIT table! We'll be in the grand company of other lit mags including Guernica, H.O.W., and more! And we'll be offering special discounts on copies of LIT, as well as subscriptions! Huzzah.

The fair takes place on Saturday, December 6th from 10 AM to 6 PM, and Sunday, December 7th from 11 AM to 5 PM. See their website for details: http://www.nycip.org/bookfair/

LIT 14 LAUNCH PARTY: FRIDAY, JUNE 6th, 6-10 PM!

LIT 14 LAUNCH PARTY AND CELEBRATION!

Friday, September 7th from 6-10 PM
Kellen Gallery @ The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center of Parsons
The Corner of Fifth Avenue & 13th Street

Featuring readings by...

NOELLE KOCOT
WILL COMERFORD
HEATHER CHRISTLE
IRINA REYN


Come eat, drink and be merry, surrounded by gorgeous art in the brand new Kellen Gallery! Come to say goodbye to LIT’s departing prose editor, Scott Dahlie! But most of all, come for the memories.


Reader bios:

Noelle Kocot’s first two books, 4 and The Raving Fortune, were published by Four Way Books in 2001 and 2004, respectively. Her book, Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems, was published by Wave Books in 2006. Sunny Wednesday is forthcoming from Wave Books in spring 2009. Noelle has won grants and awards from The Academy of American Poets, The American Poetry Review (The S.J. Marks Prize), The National Endowment for the Arts and The Fund for Poetry, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised.

Will Comerford has worked as a music journalist and a medical writer. He lives in Brooklyn. His stories have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Zone 3, and Fourteen Hills.

Heather Christle is the assistant editor of jubilat and blogs for the Kenyon Review. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Fence, NO: A Journal of the Arts, Skein, and Tarpaulin Sky. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Irina Reyn’s first novel, What Happened to Anna K., is forthcoming from Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. She is also the editor of the nonfiction anthology Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State. Her short stories, essays and book criticism have appeared in such publications as One Story, Post Road, Nextbook, Ballyhoo Stories, The Forward, San Francisco Chronicle and The Moscow Times.


LIT 14: Available NEXT MONTH!

Featuring poetry and prose by...

Seth Abramson * Paige Ackerson-Kiely * Kim Addonizio * Michael Aird * Jeanne Marie Beaumont * Caren Beilin * James Belflower * Wyatt Bonikowski * Heather Christle * Will Comerford * Nicole Cooley * Rhiannon Dickerson * Chris Edgar * Joshua Edwards * Elaine Equi * John Estes * CJ Evans * Jennifer S. Flescher * Jamey Gallagher * Regan Good * Ian Grody * Kimiko Hahn * Christopher Harris * Anne Heide * Megin Jimenez * Karla Kelsey * Amy King * Noelle Kocot * Lance Larsen * J. Michael Martinez * Karyna McGlynn * Amy McNamara * Joe Meno * Robert Miltner * Sally Molini * Carol Novack * Idra Novey * Irina Reyn * Anne Marie Rooney * Mary Ruefle * Jerome Sala * Peter Jay Shippy * Bronwen Tate * Greg Wrenn * Mark Yakich

AND!

Art by...

Gregory L. Blackstock * Tiffany Matula


Secure your copy by SUBSCRIBING to LIT! Send a check or money order made out to LIT to the address below:

LIT
The New School
Writing Program, Room 514
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011

Single Issue: $8

1-year subscription (2 issues): $14
Save 13% off the cover price!

2-year subscription (4 issues): $25
Save 22% off the cover price!

Good News and More Good News

As per the title of this post, we can finally announce that LIT 14 will be available very soon and the official launch party will be Friday, June 6th. Stay tuned for more details, like location/readers, etc.

More good news? Former LIT editor-in-chief Justin Marks was announced today as the winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript, A Million in Prizes. The book, due out in 2009, will be Justin's first full-length. Congrats, Justin!

P.S. As mentioned in the last post, May 15th was the last day for submissions to LIT until September. If you want to submit work at this point, please wait until September 1st, or your work will be discarded.

LIT Submission Guidelines

Some folks at AWP asked about submission guidelines, so now is a good time to update you. LIT is currently accepting submissions through May. When in May? Oh, let's say May 15th. After that, we'll be at the beach.


Send your submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction to:

LIT
The New School
Writing Program, Room 514
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011

And here's our current masthead:

Peter Bogart Johnson & Nicole Steinberg, Editors
Graeme Bezanson, Poetry Editor
Emily Taylor, Prose Editor
Jackie Clark, Associate Poetry Editor
Yvonne Garrett, Associate Prose Editor
Mark Bibbins, Shanna Compton, Justin Marks & Kathleen Ossip, Editors at Large
David Lehman, Robert Polito & Jackson Taylor, Faculty Advisors
Brian McMullen, Design Consultant


PLEASE READ our very important submission guidelines:

- Poetry submissions should be no more than 5 poems or 10 pages.
- Prose submissions should be no longer than 25 pages, double-spaced, single-sided.
- All submissions must include a SASE for reply and a cover letter. Cover letters let us know that you're a real person who actually has some knowledge about LIT. We appreciate that sort of thing. Submissions without cover letters will NOT be considered.
- Contributors must receive a reply from LIT before submitting new work; additional submissions received before we have sent a reply to a previous submission will be returned unread!
- Our reading periods are from September to mid-December and January to May. Do not submit more than twice in either period.
- We do not consider submissions filed by professional coordinating services.


If you are waiting ever so patiently for LIT 14, we're working on it right now and expect to have it done by May. A launch party will be announced preceding its release, naturally.

As for any lingering questions or inquiries (but NOT e-mailed submissions, we don't accept those): litmagaz@gmail.com.

Did You See Us?

Photos from AWP 2008 in NYC






















Featured above: Jackie Clark (Associate Poetry Editor), Peter Bogart Johnson (Co-Editor), Justin Marks (former Editor), Graeme Bezanson (Poetry Editor), Emily Taylor (Prose Editor). Photos by Nicole Steinberg (Co-Editor).