Winter is off
Winter went off to the printer yesterday.
Let the euphoria begin.
Actually, it began Friday, when it became clear that there would, in fact, be enough to fill the issue.
If, of course, a couple of promised ads came through over the weekend—they don't always.
This time they did.
Even more amazing: Winter has six writers who have appeared in ZYZZYVA before.
I don't know how that happened.
Actually, I do know: Paul Flores, whose first story in print appeared in Fall '98, while he was still working for his MFA at SF State, , and whose first novel, Along the Border Lies, was one of the four we did in 2002 (it won a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award), did a play, which I thought we should publish...
...one writer had changed her name after a divorce, so I didn't recognize it on her submission...a poet I've published a lot (and rejected a lot as well) sent in a poem I really liked...etc.
Still, my policy is to avoid maintaining a Stable of Writers. I am committed to New Voices.
For Winter, however, it seems that all bets are off.
Maybe in Spring, I'll start including writers who live in Idaho and Arizona.
New Mexico would be a stretch.
Let the euphoria begin.
Actually, it began Friday, when it became clear that there would, in fact, be enough to fill the issue.
If, of course, a couple of promised ads came through over the weekend—they don't always.
This time they did.
Even more amazing: Winter has six writers who have appeared in ZYZZYVA before.
I don't know how that happened.
Actually, I do know: Paul Flores, whose first story in print appeared in Fall '98, while he was still working for his MFA at SF State, , and whose first novel, Along the Border Lies, was one of the four we did in 2002 (it won a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award), did a play, which I thought we should publish...
...one writer had changed her name after a divorce, so I didn't recognize it on her submission...a poet I've published a lot (and rejected a lot as well) sent in a poem I really liked...etc.
Still, my policy is to avoid maintaining a Stable of Writers. I am committed to New Voices.
For Winter, however, it seems that all bets are off.
Maybe in Spring, I'll start including writers who live in Idaho and Arizona.
New Mexico would be a stretch.
posted by Howard Junker at 7:20 AM
2 Comments:
You could include, among "West Coast writers," anyone whose watershed drains to the Pacific. You would catch Idaho and western Montana by that definition.
EMW
I'm not finished with Fall!
Too much to read, too little time.
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