Publishing13th MOON Press: innovation, and tradition
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13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazineis a home for women writers and people who want to read them. Because the surrounding culture has tended to erase women writers from history, women's writing has needed rediscovery and preservation anew, each generation. Those differences which have characterized women's writing in traditional modes have often been ignored or erased as defects or failures, rather than understood as distinctive values. At the same time, those women who believe, with Audre Lorde, that we "cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools," are often excluded from or remain peripheral to male-dominated avant-gardes, needing to modify our work to fit those norms. 13th Moon ignores the constricting splits between traditional and avant-garde that mark much 20th and 21st Century literary polemic. We believe that once you place women's work at the center of either traditional or innovative modes of writing, the definitions both of tradition and of innovation must change, the norms shift, and the critical conversation around them be transformed. We welcome work that engages with any of these questions.The Little Magazine: an E-Journal,our second publication, provides a site for innovative writing in electronic formats. Since our move to cybertext we have published two volumes as multimedia cd-roms, and three as web e-journals. The cd-roms will be available to subscribers from our subscription page starting in mid-September; the online volumes are open access for now but will adopt a subscriber format for ongoing publication. The Little Magazine is not particularly interested in simple transcriptions onto the web of poems and fiction intended to be read in print. Instead, we seek multimedia, visual, or oral/aural cybertexts intended to explore the boundaries of electronic word and voice art, and innovative poetics essays discussing and / or exemplifying such work. Please watch this site for information on when we shall begin reading for the next issue, and on submission formats. View the current issue at: http://www.albany.edu/~litmag/
The QuestThe Little Magazine began as The Quest and later changed its title. Individual back issues and complete sets of all the journals will be available late in the fall, from our subscriptions page. Judith Johnson, 13th Moon Press publisher and editorVisit her website: http:www.albany.edu/~jej84/ |
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updated: June 1, 2007, DEC |
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