Dear Kitchen Table Writers,
Below is a list of summer reading I plan to do — and I recommend for you. I’ve dipped into each of these and am eager to find a hammock somewhere and read for hours on end. Share your reading list in the comments!
Summer Reading List
Let Me Out Here, by Emily Pease, What Luck, This Life, by Kathryn Schwille, The Shaman of Turtle Valley, by Cliff Garstang, Magnetic Girl, by Jessica Handler, Nice People, by David Jauss, A Delicious Country, by Scott Huler (nonfiction). I’m sure I’ll read more!
Do you have a book you read every summer? Mine: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis.
Literary Journals
Here’s a list from Kathryn Milam – suggested literary journals to try. I suggest you spend two hours every week reading from these journals and writing a two page story. Find a short piece you like. Use the first line as a prompt to write your own piece. In your final revision, revise the first line so that it belongs completely to you. Then send it out!
LIT JOURNALS
SAND Journal
The Antigonish Review
The New Quarterly
The Fiddlehead
The Malahat Review
Literary Orphans
PANK
Elimae
Boston Literary Magazine
Sonic Boom
North American Review
Red Fez
Mudseason Review
FIVE:2:ONE magazine
Angel City Review
Drunk Monkeys
Lunch Ticket
HOOT
Five Points
SmokeLong Quarterly
Ploughshares
The Missouri Review
Gulf Coast
Cheap Pop
Yemassee Journal
Newfound Journal
Paper Darts
Print-Oriented Bastards
Great weather for MEDIA
The Baltimore Review
Bat City Review
Broadsided
The Tishman Review
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
Friday Flash Fiction
Cabinet
Antioch Review
The Southampton Review
Puerto del Sol
Chicago Quarterly Review
Crannog
Gargoyle
The Istanbul Review
Modern Shorts
Room Magazine
r.kv.r.y quarterly
Tahoma Literary Review
Blackbird
Image
Tin House
The Threepenny Review
Epoch
Spiritus
KYSO Flash
Barrelhouse
Day One
Hobart
Faultline
Bodega
Gravel
Passages North
Wigleaf
Eleven Eleven
American Short Fiction
Steel Toe Review
Matador Review
Wildness
Booth
The Monarch Review
Inch
Avalon Literary Review
The Writing Disorder
Luna Review
Cease, Cows
Pleiades
Mojave River Review
Alice Blue Review
Wyvern Lit
Synaesthesia Magazine
Quarter After Eight
The Citron Review
Neon Literary Magazine
100 Word Story
The Stoneslide Corrective
Quick Fiction
Failbetter
Black Warrior Review
No Tokens
Corium
The Butter
Gemini Magazine
The Iowa Review
Seneca Review
Northwest Review
Subtropics
McSweeney’s
Catapult
The American Reader
Lenny Letter
StoryShack
3:AM Magazine
Nanoism
Matchbook Lit Mag
Mascara Review
The Virginia Normal
The Stinging Fly
Juked
Threadcount
Calamus Journal
The Conium Review
Great Jones Street
Hayden’s Ferry Review
Ad Hoc Fiction
Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Flash Fiction
Prime Number Magazine
- The BOLDED journals are ones that I know for sure accept flash fiction. The others probably do as well, but are devoted mainly to flash.
The Pushcart Listings
Finally, here’s a link to a great discussion of why you should use the Clifford Garstang Pushcart listings. Trish Hopkins blog