On Monday, we had our first meeting of the Brooklyn Review, a literary journal published at Brooklyn College. And I was lucky enough to be chosen as Managing Editor—must have been all that experience working with Quad, updating Excel spreadsheets, and juggling deadlines at Skiing way back in the day! I'm not sure exactly what my role is going to be, but I do know that the ME is always a first-year student (like me), and the ME always becomes the Editor-in-Chief as a second-year. Which means that next year, I'll get to (sorta) run a magazine! Albeit one with a single annual issue. I've always been curious about what happens on the inside of literary journals, which all seem to get thousands of submissions and reject 99.9% of them (I've been in that 99.9% a few times myself). I think the main thing that happens is that our little staff gets together on a regular basis, reads short stories and poems, eats pizza, hopefully boozes it up, reads some more, and every once in a while comes across a gem.
Michael Cunningham is speaking to our class tonight—whoo-hoo!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Congrats Ev!
Congratulations. I moved into a News Editor role just a few months back and was a bit intimated at first but I've gained so much in such a short time, I know now it was definitely the right move. I too am curious about the inner workings of literary journals, so I am really looking forward to reading more! Break a leg!
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