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I referred in my previous post to online literary journals. Now, I’m not entirely savvy yet with all of them and how they are perceived and ranked. Therefore, the following is just a brief list of some. Please feel free to add others in the comments section. Blackbird AGNI online Pindeldyboz The New River Narrative…

In my deluded state-of-mind, the career plan I would like to follow is this: fill a bookshelf of my own work (literary journals, magazines, etc.) before submitting to online publications. Now, both print and online places have their own strengths and weaknesses: Print — durable and prestigious medium, yet low circulation figures (often around 1,000…

I thought it would be vaguely interesting to sift through the books I’ve read over the last months. Apart from the following, I’ve also read countless short stories and essays for class, in journals, journal submissions, and comp papers. Lolita. Vladamir Nabokov. Time Will Darken It. William Maxwell. So Long, See You Tomorrow. William Maxwell.…

Last week I read Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. The remarkable thing about this book was the prose style: stream-of-consciousness and third person omniscient. Often passages of text were beautifully written and lucid; yet as the point of view switched from character to character I often found myself wondering whose mind I was in, and I…