fwriction

If you read fwriction, you know of my love for the online literary journal. Hence, I enjoyed Anis Shivani’s HuffPo Books piece a great deal; check out what some of the top online literary editors have to say about this “coming of age” story.

Thom Didato, founding editor of failbetter.com:

And let’s face it, what is “new” changes rather quickly. In many ways, online publishers are quickly becoming “ye-olde’ publishers” in an age where folks are freeing themselves from the desk computer screen and jumping on the Kindle/iPad/e-reader bandwagon. For traditional literary print magazine editors to claim some sort of moral/artistic superiority via the medium of paper over all else is insane. To use the music metaphor again: sure, I still own LPs, but I do not refuse to own/use an iPod! It is as my failbetter colleague, Andrew Day, likes to construe this outdated debate between print and online: “person sees future, person sticks head in sand, future comes anyway.” 

(Two of the lovely journals on this list, Front Porch & Monkeybicycle, have had the good sense to publish a friend of mine, Karen Eileen Sikola, the woman behind TrainWrite. And…go!)