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The Common
Frost Library, Amherst College
Amherst, MA 02001-5000
Phone: (413) 542-5453
E-mail: editor[at]thecommononline[dot]org
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no e-mail Online submissions: yes Reading period: 12/1-1/1 Response time: 1 month after submissions close Payment: yes Contests: no Founded: June 2010 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Frost Library, Amherst College Average pages: 100 Subscription 1 year: $20
Publisher’s description: Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to recapture an old idea. The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, and images that embody particular times and places both real and imagined; from deserts to teeming ports; from Winnipeg to Beijing; from Earth to the Moon: literature and art powerful enough to reach from there to here. In short, we seek a modern sense of place.
Recent issues:
The Common publishes short stories, poetry, and essays that evoke a strong sense of place, both real and imagined: from deserts to teeming ports; from Winnipeg to Beijing; from Earth to the Moon: work powerful enough to reach from there to here. Highlights from Issue 02 include work by Martha Cooley, Ilan Stavans, Phillip Lopate, Tom Sleigh, and Susan Kinsolving.
last updated 4/4/12