MAKE :: NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines
MAKE
A Chicago Literary Magazine
2229 W. Iowa #3
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: (773) 552-7440
E-mail: info <at> makemag <dot> com
Web: Makemag.com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round, but a call including a theme for each issue is posted twice a year Response time: Approximately two months after the submission deadline Payment: copies Contests: no ISSN: 15589315 Founded: 2004 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Ubiquity Distribution Copy price: $10 Average pages: 96 Sample price (postpaid): $10 Subscription 1 year: $18
Publisher’s description: MAKE is a biannual publication creating a lasting document of the current writing landscape. It is a literary, artistic object in pursuit of a thematic vision, not just a collection of literary fragments and pieces. Each issue carries a theme relevant to the events that have most recently shaped how we live, work, play, and think.
One-of-a-kind interviews and collaborations, as well as visual art portfolios compliment the award-winning essay, fiction and poetry. Contributors are both established and emerging writers and have included Lauren Berlant, Dorothea Lasky, Marvin Bell, Tom Bissell, Arda Collins, Aleksandar Hemon, Alex Kotlowitz, Amy Leach, Marvin Tate and Lewis Warsh, to name a few.
“With each themed issue loaded with original fiction, essential nonfiction, great interviews, poetry and artwork, MAKE consistently strikes the balance between cutting-edge and traditional.” Robert Duffer, examiner.com
“MAKE helps introduce my students to the most current modes of contemporary literature while familiarizing them with some key Chicago writers.” Eula Biss , author of Note’s from No Man’s Land: American Essays (Graywolf, 2009)
Recent issues:
Issue 8 - This Everyday - In its eighth issue, MAKE celebrates four years of extraordinary lit in print with a complete redesign and twice the page count. Themed “This Everyday,” it is a celebration of the normal and an exaltation of the banal, featuring work by Ish Klein, Greg Purcell, Tomaz Salamun, Blake Butler, and Jill Christman, as well as collaborations and interviews from Lauren Berlant and Dorothea Lasky; Dave Daley and Stephen Elliott with Caroline Picard; and Marvin Bell and Marvin Tate.
In Issue 7, "Property Lines," work is presented which struggles against property lines in their myriad forms: personal, physical, and intellectual. Contributors including, Eula Biss, Tom Bissell, Christopher DeWeese, Forrest Gander, Kate Greenstreet, Jen Hofer, Paul Killebrew, Pura Lopez-Colome, Steve Langan, Kembrew McLeod, Faisal Mohyuddin, Alissa Nutting, Jill Summers, Nick Twemlow, and Lewis Warsh, offer work on the literal boundaries that divide nations to the divisions that become restricted or expanded by fear, racism, religion, and even creativity.
Issue 6, "The Experiment," features experimental writing and writing about experiments. It presents a diverse collection of writing styles with work by Tennessee Williams, Lindsay Hunter, Arda Collins and John Beer, Danielle Aquiline,Gabriel Gudding, Steffi Drewes, Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney, Amy Leach, Joyelle McSweeney, Mark Jay Mirsky, Travis Nichols, Michael Robins, and Daniel Wuebben.