Category Archives: Editor Notes

It was winter, and then before we knew it, it was spring. It’s taken us a bit longer than usual to get this new issue out (I have a feeling this isn’t the first time I’ve said that…or the last). Something … Continue reading →

This might just be the best issue yet. It’s certainly a big one, mainly because we got a little behind schedule on posting it, and meanwhile, great submissions kept coming in. We have some real heavy hitters in this issue. There’s … Continue reading →

Greetings lovers of fine literature. School is back in sesh, football is in the air, and here in the Blue Dot in September it is just as hot and muggy as it was mid-July. I think I might get the … Continue reading →

New Orleans has always been a special city for me. During the summers when I was in college, dating a girl from Pascagoula, it seems I would end up in the Big Easy every other weekend, not doing anything in particular … Continue reading →

It has been almost a year since our last issue came out, and we have missed you all very much. In that year, a lot has happened to us, and a lot has happened in Birmingham, where we live. I’m … Continue reading →

Our nineteenth online issue includes short stories from Matthew McEver, Cathy Rose, Christopher X. Shade, Kim Siegleson, and Sarah Jennings; non-fiction from Terry Barr and Rori Leigh Hoatlin; and poetry from Sarah Henning, Maari Carter, Philip Theibert, Dan Jacoby, and Devin … Continue reading →

A busy summer of writing, writing, and more writing culminated in two weeks at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, where we made a lot of new friends (the thoroughly stocked bar we set up in our dorm room helped). We hope … Continue reading →