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Review

Weaving a Cultural Tapestry
Review of Inkwell, Spring 2010 by Dell Smith

     The Spring 2010 issue of Inkwell brims with the culture and humanism illustrated by its cover painting by Lee Kui Bae, which shows a girl and a boy under an apple tree, the boy playing a small wind instrument, the girl listening and smelling a flower, a sleeping dog at their feet. Lee Kui Bae is South Korean, as is the winner of Inkwell’s 12th annual short fiction grand prize Anam Kim. As editor-in-chief Richard R. Binkele says in this issue’s introduction, “This year Inkwell received a record number of submissions from every...

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Open Your Mouth and Say Something
Laurel Review, Spring 2010 by Vince Corvaia
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Interview

Inside Fringe Magazine
Interview with Lizzie Stark, Editor of Fringe

Tell us a bit about the origins of Fringe. How did it differ from other Internet litmags at the beginning, and does it still differ in the same ways? How much of your original manifesto still holds true, especially as regards the "state of modern literature"?

Well, there weren't too many online magazines around when Fringe was founded -- there are definitely more around now -- but in general, I think that what differentiated and...

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Publishing Tip

Go On and Strut Your Short Shorts

It’s summer here in Boston, and I can think of no better time to talk about short shorts. That’s right. Micro-minis. Stories so short they’ll make your mother drag you back into the house until you promise to write something decent, like a novel!

Indeed, short shorts are scandalous fun—think of Junot Diaz’s "Alma...

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