Debate/Panel Discussion
Time:
From Behind the Editor’s Desk: A conversation with current and former editors
Date:
1:00 pm –
2:00 pm
Andrews Hall
Room: Bailey Library
625 N 14th St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: ANDR
Contact:
Marco Abel, mabel2@unl.edu
From Behind the Editor’s Desk: A conversation with current and former editors and editorial assistants from Breath and Shadow, Brevity, The Hollins Critic, Hunger Mountain, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, The Normal School, Vida, and 1913.
Monday, April 18th from 1-2pm in The Bailey Library
We invite you to a conversation about the practice of literary editing. Come hear insider tips on determining the right place to send your work, the difference between online and print magazines, navigating submissions guidelines, what not to put in a cover letter, response times, and how to keep track of submissions. We welcome undergraduate and graduate writers, both beginning and experienced. Bring any questions you’ve always wanted to ask. We look forward to seeing you there!
Arden Eli Hill is a poet who has been involved with editing Breath and Shadow (an online journal of disability Literature and Culture), The Hollins Critic, the journal 1913, and of course, Prairie Schooner. Arden has published in Willow Springs, Western Humanities Review, the Lambda Literary award winning anthology First Person Queer, and its sequel, Second Person Queer. He’s working on a fictionalized memoir told in poems that delves into adoption, race, gender, sexuality, and disability.
Rebecca Macijeski is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Nebraska, and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She currently serves as an Assistant Editor in Poetry for Hunger Mountain and Prairie Schooner. She has been awarded artist residencies from The Ragdale Foundation and Art Farm. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rappahannock Review, Nimrod, Gargoyle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Sycamore Review, Storyscape, and others.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery holds an MFA from California State University-Fresno and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches and works as Prairie Schooner’s Nonfiction Assistant Editor. The author of The Astronaut Checks His Watch (Finishing Line Press), her poetry and prose have appeared in various journals including Confrontation, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Nimrod, North Dakota Quarterly, The Pinch, Puerto del Sol, Southeast Review, Terrain, Zone 3 and others. She has also worked as an editorial assistant for Brevity and The Normal School, and is currently a part of the acquisitions team for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
Raul Palma is PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is also pursuing a specialization in ethnic studies. He is an assistant editor of fiction for Prairie Schooner. A recent Tennessee William’s scholar at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, his work has appeared in over thirty journals, including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Gargoyle, NANO, Rhino, and the Sonora Review.
A native of Mississippi, Nick White, holds an MFA in Fiction from The Ohio State University and is currently an Othmer Fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is earning a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing. His short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. How short story collection and novel will be published by Penguin/Random House, with the Blue Rider Press Imprint. His collection is set to debut in Fall 2016.
Monday, April 18th from 1-2pm in The Bailey Library
We invite you to a conversation about the practice of literary editing. Come hear insider tips on determining the right place to send your work, the difference between online and print magazines, navigating submissions guidelines, what not to put in a cover letter, response times, and how to keep track of submissions. We welcome undergraduate and graduate writers, both beginning and experienced. Bring any questions you’ve always wanted to ask. We look forward to seeing you there!
Arden Eli Hill is a poet who has been involved with editing Breath and Shadow (an online journal of disability Literature and Culture), The Hollins Critic, the journal 1913, and of course, Prairie Schooner. Arden has published in Willow Springs, Western Humanities Review, the Lambda Literary award winning anthology First Person Queer, and its sequel, Second Person Queer. He’s working on a fictionalized memoir told in poems that delves into adoption, race, gender, sexuality, and disability.
Rebecca Macijeski is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Nebraska, and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She currently serves as an Assistant Editor in Poetry for Hunger Mountain and Prairie Schooner. She has been awarded artist residencies from The Ragdale Foundation and Art Farm. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rappahannock Review, Nimrod, Gargoyle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Sycamore Review, Storyscape, and others.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery holds an MFA from California State University-Fresno and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches and works as Prairie Schooner’s Nonfiction Assistant Editor. The author of The Astronaut Checks His Watch (Finishing Line Press), her poetry and prose have appeared in various journals including Confrontation, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Nimrod, North Dakota Quarterly, The Pinch, Puerto del Sol, Southeast Review, Terrain, Zone 3 and others. She has also worked as an editorial assistant for Brevity and The Normal School, and is currently a part of the acquisitions team for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
Raul Palma is PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is also pursuing a specialization in ethnic studies. He is an assistant editor of fiction for Prairie Schooner. A recent Tennessee William’s scholar at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, his work has appeared in over thirty journals, including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Gargoyle, NANO, Rhino, and the Sonora Review.
A native of Mississippi, Nick White, holds an MFA in Fiction from The Ohio State University and is currently an Othmer Fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is earning a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing. His short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. How short story collection and novel will be published by Penguin/Random House, with the Blue Rider Press Imprint. His collection is set to debut in Fall 2016.