What a great turn out!!!

Thank you to everyone who came out Friday night!  The launch party for LIT 17 was a great success!!!  So many people came that we had to keep asking the Housing Works staff for more chairs!!!!

It isn’t too late to get yourself a copy of LIT 17 featuring work by Samuel Amadon, Ralph Angel, Jim Bainbridge, Charles Bauldelaire translated by Ariana Reines, Anne Boyer, John Randolph Carter, Bruce Covey, Claire Donato, Brandon Downing, Sasha Fletcher, Phillip Gardner, Dobby Gibson, Jenn Habel, Matt Hart, Colleen Hollister, Steve Kenne, Jennifer L. Knox, Jon Leon, Jeni Olin, Cate Peebles, Adam Prince, Elizabeth Quinn, Matt Rader, Anne Ray, Zachary Schomburg, Catherine Theis, Josh Wallaert, Jillian Weise, and Dara Wier!

Just snail mail a check to the address below for $8 and we’ll mail you a copy as fast as you can say peanut butter.

LIT
66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Or come by and see us at AWP in April!  We’ll be there with plenty of copies of LIT 17 for you!

See below for some other (blurry) pictures from the launch party.  I promise for the next launch I will think more about taking pictures…

Thanks again for helping to make the night such a success!

Ben Kendrick and I introducing the evening, oh, and Clint Eastwood to your left.

Sasha Fletcher

Phillip Gardner

Lots of people!!!

A very blurry Mia Eaton, Prose Editor.

A very blurry Jennifer L. Knox

A very blurry Charlene Choi, Prose Editor.

Anne Ray

Friends!

More friends!

LIT staff reader Christian Ochoa and Prose Editor Mia Eaton.

Prose Editor Charlene Choi and company.

Pretty LIT!

A very happy Ben Kendrick and I.

Thanks again to our great readers and all of you!

Until we meet again.

We’re Having a Party!

Please join us next Friday, February 5 at Housing Works Bookstore for the
LIT 17 Launch party!

Oh what fun we’ll have!

The Return of the Readers

We’ve taken off our summer shades, tucked away our swimsuits, and returned to the office – the fall reading period has officially begun. We are on the lookout for the best prose and poetry to be published in future issues of LIT. Interested? You can review our guidelines here.

Be on the lookout for LIT 17 in stores and in your hands this December!

Entering a new domain…

Hey All! We’ve secured http://litmagazine.org – please update your bookmarks. We’ve been hopscotching across the blogosphere but this new address will be here to stay – and will soon be directing you to an all new LIT website.

Pictures from the launch party are forthcoming. Thanks to everyone who attended!

We’re having a party! This Saturday!

Come celebrate the launch of our anniversary issue this Saturday night!

So come get yourself a copy, hear some amazing readers, and enjoy some adult beverages with LIT’s finest.

What could be better??

LIT and Joe Meno at McNally Jackson Books

Just a quick note to say that LIT will be co-hosting Joe Meno’s reading at McNally Jackson Books, whose story “Airports of Light” was published in LIT 14, on Thursday, June 18 at 7pm.   His new novel The Great Perhaps is available now from W.W. Norton.  He will be reading with author Maggie Estep.  After the reading there will be a brief Q&A moderated by LIT’s own Prose Editor, Emily Taylor!  You can get more details about the event here.  Hope to see you all there!

LIT Magazine Issue 15/16 Launch Party!

LIT Magazine is officially TEN YEARS OLD!

Celebrate this ultra-momentous occasion with us at LES hot-spot Lolita Bar on Saturday, June 27th, from 6 to 9 PM!

Click here to RSVP to the launch at our Facebook event page!

What you’ll get:

- Discounted copies of LIT 15/16, our BEHEMOTH 10-Year Anniversary Double Issue, featuring a whopping 300+ pages of quality poetry and prose

- Alcohol (your $5 entry fee scores you a free drink)

- The chance to say goodbye to our retiring editors, who will end their tenure by drinking lots of said alcohol

- Readings by LIT 15/16 contributors CASEY HAYMES, CHRIS HOSEA, SHELLY ORIA and CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER, and a keynote address by LIT founding editor-in-chief JOSEPH SALVATORE on the history of the mag and issue 15/16’s fantastical Anniversary Editors’ Feature

- Memories to last you for the rest of your life, that you can share with your born and/or unborn grandchildren

For three amazing hours, the bar will be ours! Celebrate LIT 15/16, more than a year in the making, and ten years of unbridled awesomeness!

Lolita Bar is at 266 Broome Street in the LES of Manhattan. For directions, visit http://www.lolitabar.net or call 212.966.7223.

LIT 15/16 Contributors Include:

Poetry and Prose by Cynthia Arrieu-King, Kate Baldus, A K Beck, Mark Bilbrey, Sommer Browning, Jennifer Bryan, Blake Butler, Tyler Carter, Jeff Chang, Jamison T. Crabtree, Mónica de la Torre, Christopher Deweese, Denise Duhamel, Brian Foley, Andrew Grace, Kate Hall, Casey Haymes, Chris Hosea, Christine Hume, Kirsten Kaschock, Sean Kilpatrick, Amy Lemmon, dawn lonsinger, Julianne Lynch, Anthony Madrid, Scott Miles, Ander Monson, Linnea Ogden, Shelly Oria, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Marie Ponsot, Brett Price, Justin Quarry, Kathleen Rooney, Catie Rosemurgy, Brian Russell, Michael Schiavo, Roy William Scranton, Craig Morgan Teicher, Brendon Vayo and Dean Young…

10 Years: An Editors’ Retrospective, with an introduction by Nicole Steinberg and Peter Bogart-Johnson, LIT co-editors, featuring work by Mary Jo Bang, Erin Belieu, Mark Bibbins, Liz Brown, Jenna Cardinale, Clifford Chase, Shanna Compton, Elaine Equi, Paul Feldman, Andy Fitch, Jonathan Franzen, Caroline Knox, Wayne Koestenbum, Thomas David Lisk, Justin Marks, Chris McCabe, Nancy Nalven, Kathleen Ossip, Angela Patrinos, Rebecca Reilly, Joseph Salvatore, Maureen Thorson, Chris Tonelli and Matthew Ulland…

Bars Across Sky Across Feeling: A Selection of German Poetry in Translation, curated by Liesel Tarquini, with work by Susan Bernofsky, E.H. Bottenberg, Marica Bodrozic, Katy Derbyshire, Catherine Hales, Victoria Hill, Wendy Ann Kopisch, Friederike Mayröcker, Alistair Noon, Veronika Reichl, Monika Rinck, Silke Scheuermann, Lutz Seiler, Tzveta Sofronieva, Donna Stonecipher, Matthias Traxler and Chantal Wright…

AND amazing art by Alana Celii and Anna Knoell!

Secure your copies by SUBSCRIBING to LIT! Send a check or money order made out to LIT to the address below:

LIT
The New School
Writing Program, Room 514
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011

Single Issue: $8

1-year subscription (2 issues): $14
Save 13% off the cover price!

2-year subscription (4 issues): $25
Save 22% off the cover price!

LIT Magazine is officially TEN YEARS OLD! Celebrate this ultra-momentous occasion with us at LES hot-spot Lolita Bar on Saturday, June 27th, from 6 to 9 PM!

What you’ll get:

- Discounted copies of LIT 15/16, our BEHEMOTH 10-Year Anniversary Double Issue, featuring a whopping 300+ pages of quality poetry and prose

- Alcohol (your $5 entry fee scores you a free drink)

- The chance to say goodbye to our retiring editors, who will end their tenure by drinking lots of said alcohol

- Readings by LIT 15/16 contributors SOMMER BROWNING, CASEY HAYMES and CHRIS HOSEA, and a keynote address by LIT founding editor-in-chief JOSEPH SALVATORE on the history of the mag and issue 15/16’s fantastical Anniversary Editors’ Feature

- Memories to last you for the rest of your life, that you can share with your born and/or unborn grandchildren

For three amazing hours, the bar will be ours! Celebrate LIT 15/16, more than a year in the making, and ten years of unbridled awesomeness!

Lolita Bar is at 266 Broome Street in the LES of Manhattan. For directions, visit http://www.lolitabar.net or call 212.966.7223.

Visit LIT online at http://litmagazine.wordpress.com to learn more about the journal and issue 15/16!

Cover art above by the talented Alana Celii.

LIT Does AWP ‘09

At last, get the inside scoop on how the LIT staffers spent their days and nights in the Windy City. We work hard, we play hard.

Prose Editor Ben Kendrick carries a box of LITs to the Hilton.

Associate Poetry Editor Jackie Clark at the LIT table.

Luis Jaramillio gave us some company at the New School/12th Street table.

Poetry Editor Graeme Bezanson and Prose Editor Emily Taylor.

Blake Butler (center) visits the 12th Street puppet show.

LIT 15/16 contributor Dean Young reads at the "No Thousands" event.

Poet Claire Donato and our Jackie Clark.

Coldfront editor John Deming and Jackie Clark.

Graeme Bezanson, poet and New School professor Mark Bibbins, Jackie Clark and John Deming.

LIT Editor-in-Chief Nicole Steinberg and Mark Bibbins.

Agriculture Reader Jeremy Schmall and Nicole Steinberg.

Last day of AWP. Obviously.

The puppets were exhausted.

Susan Wheeler reads at the Coconut/MILK event.

Daniel Nester.

The No Tell Motel maven herself, Reb Livingston.

LIT 15/16 contributor Denise Duhamel.

Coconut editor and master of ceremonies, Bruce Covey.

CLMP Lit Mag Weekend & Updates

Kiddos! CLMP Lit Mag Weekend is upon us once again in fair NYC and LIT will be participating in both of the major events. First, find us at the Magathon Reading at New York Public Library on Saturday, May 30th from 4 to 6:30 PM! LIT co-editor Nicole Steinberg and prose editor Ben Kendrick will be on hand to take part, and Nicole will be reading some sweet selections from LIT 14. Then find us again at the Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works on Sunday, May 31st, from 12to 5 PM! All copies of LIT (along with countless other lit mags) will be on sale for $2 a pop! That’s 75% off the cover price!

Click on the image above to visit the CLMP website and get more info.

In other news, LIT is officially NOT taking submissions until September 1st. So if you have a manuscript in your hot little hands, all ready to send out, it will not be read until the Fall. We advise you to hang onto it until then, lest it sit and collect dust while we hit the beach.

However! Our ginormous 10th anniversary issue, LIT 15/16, is officially at the presses and will be available some time in June! Stay tuned for launch party news, ordering details, and more.

Hope to see you this weekend!

AWP, LIT 15, Guidelines, etc.

Hey kids, long time, no post. LIT is busy at work on issue 15, which will be coming out in the spring. We know that’s later than previously promised, but trust that it’s going to be an amazing issue. It’s our official 10th anniversary release, and it’s chock full of features and poetry, prose and art that will blow your mind, your mom’s mind, and your dog’s mind, if your dog is aesthetically inclined.

And yes, LIT will be at AWP Chicago! Please come find our table, purchase discounted copies of LIT 13 and 14, grab a LIT button (new!) and take a subscription form! We’ll also be handing out teaser fliers about LIT 15 and all the good stuff it will contain.

We may also have chocolate.

For the curious, we are currently taking submissions and will be until May. Here’s everything you need to know…

Send your submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction to:

LIT
The New School
Writing Program, Room 514
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011

And here’s our current masthead:

Peter Bogart Johnson & Nicole Steinberg, Editors
Graeme Bezanson, Poetry Editor
Emily Taylor & Yvonne Garrett, Prose Editors
Jackie Clark, Associate Poetry Editor
Benjamin Kendrick, Associate Prose Editor
Mark Bibbins, Shanna Compton, Justin Marks & Kathleen Ossip, Editors at Large
David Lehman, Robert Polito & Jackson Taylor, Faculty Advisors
Brian McMullen, Design Consultant

And, of course, our very important submission guidelines:

- Poetry submissions should be no more than 5 poems or 10 pages.
- Prose submissions should be no longer than 25 pages, double-spaced, single-sided.
- All submissions must include a SASE for reply and a cover letter. Cover letters let us know that you’re a real person who actually has some knowledge about LIT. We appreciate that sort of thing. Submissions without cover letters will NOT be considered.
- Contributors must receive a reply from LIT before submitting new work; additional submissions received before we have sent a reply to a previous submission will be returned unread!
- Our reading periods are from September to mid-December and January to May. Do not submit more than twice in either period.
- We do not consider submissions filed by professional coordinating services.