Jan/Feb 2012: Gatekeepers | Talking Writing

Artwork in this Issue

Featured Artist: David Terry

"Stairway No. 1" Featured Artist: Susan Denniston

"Seawall Study No. 5" © Susan Denniston

Sometimes there's no way for the most talented young authors to realize they’re offtrack unless a critic points it out.

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.

Advice, Editors : My Stint as a Literary Doorman by David Cameron

Advice, Journalism, Editors : Editors Read Your Pitches—Really by Lynya Floyd

Media Debate, Agents : Why Reader Taste Differs from Publisher Taste by Jenny Bent

Journalism, Editors : The Editor Inside Me by Jeremiah Horrigan

Advice, Agents : The Truth About the Slush Pile by Wendy Glaas

Advice, Editors : A Magazine Gatekeeper Tells All by Elizabeth Langosy

Advice, Editors : Style Wars by Paula L. Silici

Talking Art, Blogging : The Virtual Artist by Judith A. Ross

Sex, Nothing but the Toth, Editors : Bloody but Unbowed by Emily Toth

Yawping Wild : The Road We Never Traveled by Steven Lewis

Math Poetry : Carol Dorf: Math Poetry by Carol Dorf

Spotlight Essay, Math Poetry : Why Poets Sometimes Think in Numbers by Carol Dorf

Spotlight Essay, Math Poetry : A Nonmathematician Falls in Love by Elizabeth Langosy

Math Poetry : Mary Cresswell: Math Poetry by Mary Cresswell

Math Poetry : JoAnne Growney: Math Poetry by JoAnne Growney

Math Poetry : David Morimoto: Math Poetry by David Morimoto

Math Poetry : Sue Brannan Walker: Math Poetry by Sue Brannan Walker

Math Poetry : Catherine Daly: Math Poetry by Catherine Daly

Math Poetry : Sarah Glaz: Math Poetry by Sarah Glaz

Math Poetry : Allison Hedge Coke: Math Poetry by Allison Hedge Coke

Spotlight Essay, Math Poetry : Math Girl Fights Back by Karen J. Ohlson

Book Reviews, Sports : Harbach and the Hard Sell by David Biddle

Writer's Life, About Fiction : What’s a True-Life Novel? by Fred Setterberg

Novel Excerpts, TW Reading Series : Escape from Frog Island by Fred Setterberg

Why I Write : My Metamorphosis by Khadeeja Syeda Safdar

Why I Write : Writing with My Left Hand by Arlene L. Mandell

Teaching, Featured Interview, About Fiction : Robert Olen Butler: "The Danger of Wanting to Be a Writer” by Lorraine Berry

Featured Interview, Journalism : Julia Scheeres: “It Was a Hellhole” by William Gray