3. Literary Journals: “Over the past decade, several magazines known for their stellar short fiction have ceased publication: Story, DoubleTake, and Ontario Review. Others have seen their budgets slashed… Still others, typically high-circulation, general-interest magazines, publish far less short fiction than they used to… “News like this makes me queasy… I read about fifty fewer magazines this year than Katrina Kenison read in 2000, although I suspect that if more online magazines submitted their stories to me, the numbers would be comparable. Still, it is indisputable that American literary journals are in danger” -Heidi Pitlor , series editor of The Best American Short Stories
4. Literary Journals: With this in mind, I separated online literary journals from print literary journals because they diverge in questions of circulation, presentation, and how they use online space.
5. Literary Journals: Still, according to www.duotrope.com, there are over 3,300 Fiction and Poetry Publications active right now– online and in print!
9. Because they don’t have to print and distribute…Can publish more authors, take greater risks with material, focus closer on specific genres, blur genres, use white space more and can change formats altogether…
10. Online Journals: The cost of this is that anybody can have an online literary journal. There is much less qualification on who is publishing, and there is little history of these e-zine brands…
11. Online Journals: The cost of this is that anybody can have an online literary journal. There is much less qualification on who is publishing, and there is little history of these e-zine brands… This means that the prestige of the journal is completely bound up with the featured authors and the quality of the content– two referents back into the print and academic worlds
21. Primarily use online literary space to reach customers and build buzz. Many journals remain completely in paper (everybody has a website), but the ones that are active on the internet use lots of social media.