Meant to post this last month. Going to be at AWP 2010 in Denver, and I’ll be sitting on two very different panels. One panel is a discussion that my Apostrophe Cast partner Amanda Choi and I pulled together called “Shared Locality: Fostering Community and Creating Posterity through Online Reading Series.” We’ll be talking about our experience with non-geographically-centered reading series with folks from DubLit, From the Fishouse, and PennSound. We all do very different things, and we’ll talk about how we determined the various purposes of our projects.

The other panel is a much more specific one that is very important to me. The discussion of 2-year college literary magazines. As the faculty advisor for Luna at Nassau Community College, I’m quite aware of the very specific challenges that students face in trying put a out a stunning magazine each year in the two year environment (where student turnover is greater, campuses are less centered, and non-academic life is busier). Luna is run as a very campus-specific, student-centered publication, which I think is what our campus needs, but many other 2-year college journals are national magazines. I’m looking forward to learning from the people I’ll be sitting with on the panel that day. (Also, on this topic: I did an interview about 2-year college lit mags for an article that should show up on New Pages soon.)

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