Literary Magazines in America: Fence Magazine in Print and Online
No Signs of Decline in Print Media when it Comes to Literary Magazines
But wait! The situation isn't a simple one. As newspapers move to the internet, another print media is on the rise - the literary journal.
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Herein is a review of Fence Magazine's website, a literary magazine based out of...somewhere in America.
Regarding content, Fence presents the same ratio of poetry to fiction as most literary journals, with about 75% of the December 2009 issue being poetry. Four poets out of roughly 30 in the December issue of Fence are available for view online.
Prose poems by Robin Clarke are available for viewing online and represent a fresh departure from more traditional formal poetry. His poetry, as well as the poem included by Kimberly Johnson, demonstrates a focus on emotional force. This is an angst-ridden language.
There is a great openness to the writing in Fence and also a sense that what is here, on the website, is the beginning of many things. Fence feels like a good place for writers to get their start. The attitude represented by these poems is decidedly outside of the establishment, conveying a rebellious and insistent will to speak - almost without regard to being heard. The speech will happen, it says, it's happening now. Read. Listen.
Two pieces of fiction are available online also, one rather short piece and a longer story. Again there is a freshness to the voices and, like the poetry, there is no sense of following rules or adhering to programmed guidelines.
You can submit your work to Fence online, which is nice, by going to their submissions page.
The magazine is exciting in its "open", free style, but really doesn't offer very much information at the magazine website. There is more information available about them on other pages, but this is not exactly convenient.
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For more on literary magazines see the Tin House review.
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Post a CommentThanks. Very informative and gives a sense of what this otherwise publication is all about. No idea they had affiliations with writers like Lethem - very helpful!