Okla Elliott

Okla Elliott: Since one of my goals for doing this editors forum is to promote literary journals and hopefully garner subscriptions for the journals involved here and others, could you discuss what you think editors and writers could be doing to increase readership of literary journals?  For example, one tactic I’ve used is to require workshop […]

Okla Elliott: Since we’ve hit economics and corrective missions, it might be appropriate to talk about the place of politics in literature.  It strikes me that American authors are so often unwilling to engage with anything political, whereas European, Latin American, and African authors do so almost constantly.  I’ve even gotten the sense from many writers […]

Okla Elliott: What is the process by which your journal’s staff selects a piece for publication? Jodee Stanley: At Ninth Letter we have a fairly large editorial staff, with three faculty editors for fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, as well as several graduate students who work as readers and assistant editors. The selection process is pretty much the same […]