Tag Archives: Jen Michalski

Getting the word out is a challenge, especially with so many other journals out there, the numbers for I find staggering. Is that something you ever consider, ever lament, that there are just too many out there…that even if you are heard there is some sort of dilution, or do all these journals satisfy a need?

I think, as a writer and editor, the more, the better. There are so many tastes out there and so many levels of writers. I think it’s a bad thing to decide one or two arbiters of taste and then put writers into three or four boxes. Of course there’s some junk out there, but I’d rather the audience be the judge of that than the literary world–because we know what Ploughshares considers junk may not be junk at all for jmww or Emprise Review or anyone else. I think it gives everyone a fair shot. If you didn’t go to a big program (or any program), you don’t have to fret that the big-programs aren’t going to publish you in their journals because you’re a nobody. The larger field is very democratic, and the newer journals springing up keep everyone else who’s more established on their toes (i.e., podcasts, blog designs, daily content, multimedia, shorter response times, cheaper operating costs).

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