Literary magazine

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Please tune in for episode 349 with Jason Thornberry, whose writing appears in World Literature Today, Los Angeles View of Books, Maryland Literary Review, Maudlin House, and many others.

He was nominated in 2023 and 2024 for Best of the Net, and Jason's chapbook, The Finish Line, is available now through Sand and Gravel Press.

And this episode airs on September 11th or 12th.

I liked this piece.

And I know that that's something agents used to do is read the literary journals and look for, you know, quote unquote talent.

and i don't know like i feel like agents are so busy now are they still doing that are they still reaching out to authors i think maybe more with non-fiction like i've seen that agents will reach out to somebody who's written an article and say hey this would be a great book but i just wonder i don't know if you have any thoughts if that still happens

so my partner who's also a writer He's been solicited a couple of times through because he publishes a lot more.

That's good to know that it's still happening.

And it helps to have a website, even if you don't have an agent or a book, one should have a website so that people can contact you.

Yeah, no, it's, I mean, I think it's very probably helpful for people to hear that, you know, still publishing in literary journals, it's not only a place to get your work out, but an agent might happen to see it and take an interest.

Okay, so yeah, so then you got your second agent and you guys worked on revising your novel for years.

Although I did This is also part of the background of the journal.

So the all four founding editors, we all worked on the literary magazine Waterstone, which is a fantastic literary journal published out of university where we all went to school.

We weren't all in the same cohort, but we were all there at the same time.

And we all lived in Midway area, right? And so we lived close to each other and But we all worked on that journal at some point during our time at Hamlin, and we knew we wanted to extend that experience.

So I'm assuming that currently it's 20 years now.

So currently it's no longer out of pocket.

Where is the money actually coming from? Like if you could just give me 25% of this, 75% of this, 80% of this, because a lot of people have intention to start a literary magazine.

And I feel, I believe there's a lot of lessons to be learned from someone who's been running a literary magazine for 20 years.