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Weave Magazine

Publisher’s description: Weave Magazine is an art and literary publication and arts outreach and education organization based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A receiptient of a Seed Award from The Sprout Fund, Weave seeks to create a space for a cross-section of writers and artists of all walks of life to meet on the page. We celebrate diversity in both the creator and their works and strive to showcase both novice and established writers and artists.

Weave publishes a print journal biannually in the spring and fall and includes selected work from each issue on the journal's blog and website. Weave publishes many genres including poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, short plays/monologues and black and white artwork. Reviews are also published online; we accept queries for review requests from authors with forthcoming or recently-published chap/books or contributed reviews from outside authors. In addition to print and online publishing, Weave hosts release events corresponding with each issue featuring readings from contributors.

Our aesthetic encompasses work that makes the mundane magical, finds humor even in dark situations, and gives the feminist voice a space to express itself.

Recent issues:

Weave Issue 03 features poetry by Arlene Ang, Neil Aitken, Adam Atkinson, Jessie Carty, Nicole Cartwright Denison, Marie Gauthier, Brent Goodman, Sally Rosen Kindd, Sally Wen Mao, Jay Snodgrass, Huang Xiang and more; fiction by Roxane Gay; an interview with Huang Xiang and William Rock; drama by Robert Isenberg; and artwork by Karl Goodrich, William Rock and more.

Weave Issue 02 / April 2009 shows you science versus fairytale, and where the two may meet. The characters are diverse; a man working in an asylum in the 1960's, the monsters in your closet, and a princess who'd rather be a mad scientist, among others, all equally colorful.  Issue 02 includes poetry from Greta Aart, Rachel Mallino, Andrew Mulvania, and Niina Pollari; fiction from Damian Dressick, Valerie Z. Lewis and Eric McKinley; creative nonfiction from Henry F. Tonn and Devon Ward-Thommes; and artwork from Scott Bulger and Andrea Zawinski

Weave Issue 01 / October 2008 much of the work is about the cycle of life and death; J.R. Pearson reflects on the killing of an ant, Nashay Jones depicts pregnancy, Heidi Evan's cover art is skeletal, Rachel Bunting rewrites the story of Lazarus, and Sarah J Sloat asks the question "What on earth doesn't end up in tatters?" This issue also includes poetry from Ivy Alvarez, Mary Biddinger, Phoebe North, and Frank X. Walker; fiction from Jack Cobb and Jared Ward; and artwork from Heidi Richardson Evans and Nashay Jones.