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Funding for the Virtual Arts NonProfit

February 11, 2014 by Erica Mena

Running an online literary journal is a lot of work. I’ve been doing it for a few years now, and just started as the Managing Editor for Drunken Boat, an awesome and well-established journal for literature and arts entering its 15th year of continuous online publication (wow!). One of the things I’m doing a lot of is infrastructure building, which includes researching and applying for grants and other kinds of funding. And one of the things that keeps being a […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: arts management, drunken boat, literary journals, literary publishing online

Submitting Myself

October 14, 2011 by Erica Mena

Starting last year I began seriously working on my own poetry again, making it a priority. I had an idea, and wanted to see it through the same way I have with my translations. And I’ve been really satisfied with that. So now that it’s been through my editorial-brain wringer a few times, and I’m sure I’m not going to embarrass myself, I’m starting to think about places to send it. And that’s a hard question. I’m thinking about starting […]

Categories: Poetry, Publishing • Tags: journals, literary journals, poetry, publishing, submit, submitting

Online Journals Thrive, Too

April 9, 2011 by Erica Mena

A heartening article in the NYTimes, which I hardly ever read seriously due to their disgraceful dismissal of literary translation, caught my attention yesterday. Literary journals are doing well despite economic difficulties, publishing industry difficulties, and rashes of bookstore closures. Literary journals, because they are focused on small communities of like-minded readers, are not only surviving they are thriving. The article then goes on to talk about a bunch of wonderful west-coast print journals. Emphasis on print. They talk about […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, independent publishing, literary journals, online journals, publishing

To publish: print or online?

April 7, 2011 by Erica Mena

This came up in my post about the 21st century publishing conference I attended a few weeks ago, and about Rebecca Frank Morgan’s comments about the ecosystem of literary publishing. But I think it’s worth further thought. Is there a real benefit to publishing in print rather than online? It used to be, back in the early days of the galactic interwebs, that online literary publishing was stigmatized. I know, how could that be? Aren’t artists, especially writers, supposed to […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, elit, eliterature, experimental poetry, independent publishing, literary journals, new media, online publishing, publishing

Erica Mena

Poet | Book Artist | Translator

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Funding for the Virtual Arts NonProfit

Submitting Myself

Online Journals Thrive, Too

To publish: print or online?