May - 2022

Westwind, Lillian Mottern (Interview)

Interviewed by Hannah Mackey 2021 Westwind is a literary journal from the University of California, Los Angeles, that concentrates on the cultivation and sustaining of “networks between artists, writers, poets, and readers surpassing the bounds of UCLA’s campus.” They have been publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, and music for over fifty years, and in their most recent Fall 2020 issue they feature creatives and their expressions of survival throughout the pa

The Santa Fe Writers Project, Monica Prince (Interview)

Interviewed by Emily Criswell 2021 The Santa Fe Writers Project (SFWP) is an independent press that was founded in 1998 by Andrew Gifford, originally located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The press maintains a centralized emphasis on “embracing new trends and ideas beyond those of the current publishing industry and [seeks] to champion diverse voices.” SFWP maintains an online literary journal that circulates on a quarterly basis, as well as an annual Awards Program that is recogn

The Dark Sire, Bre Stephens (Interview)

Interviewed by Zachary Shiffman 2021 The Dark Sire Literary Journal is an online and print literary journal that publishes “monthly serialized fiction, and twice yearly paperback issues (Fall and Spring).” It seeks gothic, horror, fantasy, and psychological realism submissions in the vein of Edgar Allen Poe, Fyordor Dostoevsky, Mary Shelley, and J.R.R. Tolkien. The magazine provides a steady stream of dark and eerie short fiction, poetry, art, and serializations for its reade

Auroras & Blossoms, Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis (Interview)

Interviewed by Melissa Logan 2022 Auroras & Blossoms, founded by Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, publishes “positive, uplifting, and inspirational written and visual art” from artists of all ages. Beginning in early 2019 as a poetry journal, Auroras & Blossoms now publishes a variety of genres and produces anthologies, books, and guides for writers. They also started PoArtMo, originally shorthand for Positive Art Month/Positive Art Moves, which brings attention to positive