Fence (magazine)

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Fence
Fence (magazine) Winter 2011 cover.jpg
Winter 2011 cover
EditorEmily Wallis Hughes, Associate Editor Soham Patel, and magazine editors
Former editors Rebecca Wolff
Categories Literary magazine
FrequencyBiannual
Circulation 3,000 print / 50,000+ digital
Founded1998
First issueSpring 1998
CompanyFence Magazine, Incorporated
CountryUnited States
Based in Astoria, Queens, New York
Languagemulti-lingual
Website fenceportal.org
ISSN 1097-9980

Fence is an American print and online literary publication containing both original work and critical and journalistic coverage of what may be largely termed "experimental" or "avant garde" material. Conceived by Rebecca Wolff in 1997 [1] and first printed in Spring 1998 [2] [3] (receiving coverage from Poets & Writers ), [4] its editors have included Jonathan Lethem and Ben Marcus (fiction), Matthew Rohrer and Caroline Crumpacker (poetry), and Frances Richard (non-fiction). As of January 1, 2022, poets Emily Wallis Hughes and Jason Zuzga became editorial co-directors. [5]

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Fence is published biannually. [2] The translator and National Book Award-nominated poet Cole Swensen edits La Presse, an imprint of Fence magazine publishing contemporary French poetry in translation.

Fence's book publishing arm, Fence Books, has printed volumes by a number of younger non-traditional poets as well as mid-career and older poets. Fence has also joined with McSweeney's, Wave Books and Open City to distribute content at bigsmallpress; it also runs the Constant Critic, an online reviews site. The podcast Fence Sounds is composed of audio adaptations by contributors of their words as published either online or in the print magazine. Fence Magazine, Inc. is an independent not-for-profit based in Astoria, Queens, New York City, publishing Fence as well as Fence Books.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wolff Fence". Archived from the original on September 2, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2007.
  2. 1 2 "New American Literary Magazines" (PDF). NYPL. 2002. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 16, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR. Archived from the original on December 12, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ "PW Organization". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2007.
  5. ↑ Zuzga, Jason (January 1, 2022). "Jason Zuzga". jasonzuzga.com/. Archived from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.

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