An Agent’s Perspective on Literary Magazines
Literary magazines, both online and in print, are such an important means of supporting creative work—for writers, readers, and the staff of those publications—and they’ve proved to be a great…
5 Over 50: 2025
For a decade we’ve devoted space in each November/December issue to celebrate debut authors over the age of fifty with first books published during the current calendar year. The writers…
History Extra podcast: Sex and sensationalism: a history of the tabloids
Tabloid journalists often get a bad press. From publishing libellous headlines to hacking celebrities’ phones, recent years have not exactly done much to enhance Fleet Street’s reputation. But where did…
Small Press Points: Green Linden Press
Christopher Nelson, the publisher and editor of Green Linden Press, believes “poetry is the most fluid literary art.” He adds, “In its shape, it can be formal or free; in…
Writers Mix Movies and Memoir
It can sometimes feel like films narrate our lives. “Everyone has a movie that has mattered to them in their life,” says writer and editor Ryan W. Bradley, who selfishly “wanted…
The Sad Tale of the Soft Sale: How Book Returns Work and Why You Should Care
Publishers that use print on demand (POD), meanwhile, see lower financial impacts from book returns. Ingram’s POD services, IngramSpark and Lightning Source, for instance, allow publishers to opt for returned…
Agents & Editors: Nicole Aragi
From the May/June 2025 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine
Dismantling the Mother Shelf: Expanding Our Thinking About Women’s Stories of Parenthood
When it comes to the Mother Shelf, it’s tempting to shrug our collective shoulders and say, Well, that’s just how book marketing works. But the uncomfortable truth is that publishers,…
AI Threatens Literary Translation
The etymology of the word translation—“to carry across”—conjures an image of physical labor. It is deeply relational, requiring at least two bodies, those of an author and of the person…
What’s Left Out: The Poems That Haunt a Collection From the Outside
At a dinner table packed with writers and book people at the 2024 Western Carolina University Spring Literary Festival, held in April in Cullowhee, North Carolina, the cofounder of Gold…