Silk Road :: NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines
Silk Road
Pacific University
2043 College Way
Forest Grove, OR 97116
E-mail: silkroad.pacific[at]gmail[dot]com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 8/1-5/1 Response time: 3 to 4 months Payment: yes, copies (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1931-6933 Founded: 2006 Issues per year: 2 Copy price: $7.00 Average pages: 140 Sample price (postpaid): $7 Subscription 1 year: $7
Publisher’s description: Silk Road has been recognized by Literary Review Magazine for its “sensory richness” and “beautiful sights and exotic sounds.”
Taking its as its thematic metaphor the ancient Silk Road, that conduit between East and West and highway of intense cultural exchange, the magazine publishes fine fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, and images that capture the intensity, fluidity and tension of locations—inside us and in the world.
Writers such as Xu Xi, Pete Fromm, Claire Davis, Marvin Bell and Dinty Moore have traversed its print and online publications. Silk Road is an international conversation circling where we have been and where we are going.
In 2010, Silk Road began publishing its print version twice yearly and continued expanding its online presence.
Recent issues:
The Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Silk Road brings under the big tent 32 writers from around the world. Poetry in this issue includes poems like Ani Gjika's farewell to India, Dawn Manning's tribute to white rabbit candies in China, and Katherine Maurer's reflection on a moment of arrival in Iraq. Nonfiction: John Ashford makes keen observations on young students in Botswana and Bridget Booher maps the marks on her own body. Fiction: Read Steve Edward's prize winning flash fiction "A Writer's Story." In an interview, award-winning novelist and humanitarian Masha Hamilton discusses the way in which difficult questions drive her artistically and physically into places others fear to tread.