A Very Special Episode: Meant to Last: Highlights on Maintaining Longevity as a Literary Journal

06/07/2023 18 min Temporada 3 Episodio 1

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In this episode of Transposition, we recap our wonderful Association of Writers and Publisher's panel discussion on the challenges and strategies for maintaining longevity in independent literary journals. Mellinda Hensley, moderator, reminisces on the event with panelist CD Eskilson. They also discuss the importance of community in building and sustaining a literary journal.
Tune in to hear the insights and advice from this panel of experienced and passionate independent literary journal editors. At the end, we hear from other lit journal editors on maintaining longevity as a lit journal.
Click through for more information about:

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), and the annual AWP Conference.
Viva Padilla’s literary ventures sin/cesar Literary Journal and re/arte centro literario 
Door=Jar Magazine (Maxwell Bauman, EIC)
Defunct Magazine and Porterhouse Review (Diamond Braxton, EIC & Copy Editor) 
Calyx Press (Brenda Crotty, Senior Editor)
Exposition Review and our latest issue LINES


About Mellinda Hensley:
Mellinda Hensley is the co-editor of Exposition Review and has worked with the journal since its inception in 2015. She is an Emmy-nominated and Writers Guild Award-winning writer who helped craft more than 130 episodes of The Young And The Restless (and got to tell people at her high school reunion that she switched babies for a living). Additionally a director and producer, her two comedy shorts Across The Room and Apeulogy have screened at more than 60 festivals worldwide. In case of emergency, she can be used as a flotation device.
About CD Eskilson:
CD Eskilson is a trans poet, editor, and translator living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Their work appears in the Offing, Ninth Letter, Florida Review, Washington Square Review, and they have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. CD is assistant poetry editor at Split Lip Magazine and outreach coordinator for the Open Mouth Literary Center. They are an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas where they received the Walton Family Fellowship in Poetry and Lily Peter Fellowship in Translation.
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Associate Producer: Mitchell Evenson
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