Here's an interview featuring two of my favorite new online literary magazines. GREG DYBEC from FIX IT BROKEN interviews the still anonymous folks over at KILL AUTHOR. Here's a small piece from the interview then CLICK HERE to read it in its entirety:
FIB: You have recently been listed as one of the “Top Ten Lit Mags You Should be Reading” by flavorwire. Congratulations on the success and recognition. Any words of advice for other online publications that may be just starting off? (Is this a selfish question? Yes. Yes it is.)
KA: We don't want to repeat ourselves, but it's what we've been talking about in the previous answers. Have some firm ideas about the personality you want your whole publication to put across. Don't just rely on your own personality as editors to do it for you. This next statement might seem a bit too strong and too dismissive of some fine publications, but if you just want to put together a lit mag because you like publishing people's writing and want to have a go at editing a journal, is that really enough to sustain your venture? In a very crowded field, how will that come across to readers in a way other than, "Oh here's another one…send us your best shot and we'll maybe publish some of them”? Does that excite you and make you want to get involved? Because it doesn't excite us.
FIB: You have recently been listed as one of the “Top Ten Lit Mags You Should be Reading” by flavorwire. Congratulations on the success and recognition. Any words of advice for other online publications that may be just starting off? (Is this a selfish question? Yes. Yes it is.)
KA: We don't want to repeat ourselves, but it's what we've been talking about in the previous answers. Have some firm ideas about the personality you want your whole publication to put across. Don't just rely on your own personality as editors to do it for you. This next statement might seem a bit too strong and too dismissive of some fine publications, but if you just want to put together a lit mag because you like publishing people's writing and want to have a go at editing a journal, is that really enough to sustain your venture? In a very crowded field, how will that come across to readers in a way other than, "Oh here's another one…send us your best shot and we'll maybe publish some of them”? Does that excite you and make you want to get involved? Because it doesn't excite us.
Also included in the TOP TEN LIT MAGS YOU SHOULD BE READING are:
1. MOON MILK REVIEW
2. BLIP
3. PANK
4. KILL AUTHOR
5. BARTLEBY SNOPES
6. MCSWEENEYS
7. THE EXQUISITE CORPSE
8. DECOMP
9. TWELVE STORIES
10. ANDERBO
If I may, I'd like to do a little top ten of my own here. These are the places I turn to online again and again if I wanna read the good shit:
1. STORYGLOSSIA
2. WIGLEAF
3. EVERYDAY GENIUS
4. PANK
5. FRIGG
6. SMOKELONG QUARTERLY
7. ELIMAE
8. KILL AUTHOR
9. MUD LUSCIOUS
10. HOBART
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