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13th Moon : A Feminist Literary Magazine

13th Moon: a Feminist Literary Magazine was founded in the early 1970's, and is, we believe, the oldest continuously published literary journal founded in the second wave of feminism. The first editor was Ellen-Marie Bissert, succeeded in the late 1970s by Marilyn Hacker. In the mid 1980s, Hacker generously passed it on to the current editor, Judith Johnson.

Our mission is to provide a forum for the publication of literary work by contemporary women, translations of women writers, and critical studies of the works of women writers. We consider women's writings, other than "pulp" fiction, and particularly by those who question or challenge the dominant modes of contemporary publication, to be automatically innovative. These innovations can be formal, thematic, or conceptual. Because of the surrounding literary establishment's gendered power networks and perspectives, such innovations often fail to receive appropriate and timely hearings. This is particularly although not exclusively, true when writing engages with the ingrained structures of race and class, and with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender perspectives or poetics; these issues frame, although not necessarily in obvious ways, everything we publish. 13th Moon provides a forum both to preserve feminist tradition and to foster innovation, first by publishing women's work, and second through reviews and critical studies.

Because there are multiple feminisms, because we are a literary rather than a directly political forum, and because our position has been that any work by women that challenges perceived positions is apt to be in harmony with one or more of the available feminisms, we have no specific political positions we espouse, nor have we chosen to focus on work whose political advocacy was central to its nature, although we have not eschewed such works. We are a broadly multicultural journal, placing ourselves at the multiple intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and innovation in the arts.

Other than best-sellers, little by American women writers is translated into other languages; only a small portion of writings by women writers writing in langauges other than English is translated here. 13th Moon welcomes, and sometimes commissions, translations of women's writing.

Our mission also includes preserving or re/discovering the work of contemporary women artists. Generally the artist who provides the color illustration for our cover also provides a set of black and white graphics for a folio in the center of the magazine, along with a list of exhibits or a critical appraisal.

Among the writers we have published are:

Colette Inez, Rochelle Owens, Maggie Anderson, Adrienne Rich, Linda Gregg, Olga Broumas, Susan Sherman, Marilyn Hacker, Robin Morgan, Lyn Lifshin, Toi Derricotte, June Jordan, Amelia Ettlinger, Gloria Orenstein, Alexis De Veaux, Julie Fay, Sandra Gilbert, Cherrie Moraga, Marie Ponsot, Honor Moore, Josephine Jacobsen, Carol Emshwiller, Joanna Russ, Kate Haake, Alicia Ostriker, Carolyn Wright, Julia Alvarez, Michelle Cliff, Marliyn Krysl, Nel Altizer, Angela Jackson, Jan Clausen, Sapphire, Linda Hogan, Judy Grahn, Robin Becker, Fleur Adock, E.M. Broner, Kathleen Fraser, Ursula Le Guin, Carolyn Kizer, Diana Wakoski, Janice Eidus, Chris Mazza, Ursule Molinaro, Ellen Zwieg, Carolee Schneeman, Fanny Howe, Shay Youngblood, Ruht Fainlight, Anne Waldman, Claire Malroux, Julie Checkoway, Valerie Miner, Nicole Cooley, Mary Crow, and Maura Stanton.

updated: June 1, 2007, DEC