Main Street Rag
PO Box 690100
Charlotte, NC 28227-7001
Phone: (704) 573-2516
E-mail: editor@mainstreetrag.com
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: Subscribers only Reading period: varies (see website) Response time: usually 3-6 weeks Payment: copies/honorarium (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 38857 99813 Founded: 1996 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Baker & Taylor, Parnassus Book Distributors Copy Price: $7 Subscription (Individuals) 1 year: $20 Subscription (Libraries) 1 year: $20 (available through EBSCO)
Publisher’s Description: Main Street Rag is an independent small press literary magazine that features poetry, short fiction, essays, photography, reviews and interviews. It is produced by the Main Street Rag Publishing Company which also publishes books and produces projects for other small press publishers. Because we own the production equipment, we have greater control over quality and costs.
Our magazine is eclectic, but we favor edgy material for poetry and fiction—even in the humor we publish. Essays we feature are more often sociopolitical commentary as opposed to the how to of writing. Over the years we’ve interviewed such people as Gwendolyn Brooks, Anthony Bukoski, Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Yusef Komunyakaa, & David Slavitt. Our Winter issue usually features the MSR Poetry Book Award winner.
Each year we sponsor a Chapbook Contest and a full-length poetry book contest. From these we will select as many as 25 books for publication during the following year. Most of the titles selected for publication under the Main Street Rag label are juried in this manner.
Additional information is available on our website and all Main Street Rag titles and back issues can be purchased through our Online Bookstore.
Current issue:
Volume 12 Number 2, Summer 2007.
Features include an interview with Susan Woodring whose novel, The Travelling Disease, will become the first novel published by Main Street Rag upon its release in September 2007.