Joyland: A hub for short fiction

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Joyland: A hub for short fiction is a digital platform and print literary journal now known as Joyland Magazine. It was created in 2008 [1] by novelist Emily Schultz [2] and filmmaker Brian Joseph Davis. [3] Though based in New York, Joyland Magazine's structure is distributed across North American cities and regions with an editorial network. Notable contributors have included Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Millet, and Chris Kraus. It was an early publisher to authors Roxane Gay, Sean Gill, Amelia Gray, Rachel Khong, and Ottessa Moshfegh. [4]

In 2016 Joyland Magazine was merged with Schultz and Davis's Heroic Collective Media, and new publishers, Kyle Lucia Wu and Lisa Locascio, were hired to oversee editorial and development. [5] Since then Joyland Magazine has founded the "Bad Women" panel series [6] for female writers and filmmakers, and its stories and authors have been profiled by Huffington Post [7] and Lenny Letter . [8] Joyland Magazine has also launched an annual fiction prize called the Open Border Fiction Prize. Amelia Gray judged the prize in 2017, Rachel Khong in 2018. [9]

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References

  1. About Us, Joyland Magazine
  2. Paul Vermeersch (7 March 2010). "Four Oonline Canadian Literary Journals You Should Know About". Open Book Toronto. Retrieved 1 November 2015. (the website given there, joyland.ca, is unrelated to this magazine)
  3. Mark Medley (18 May 2010). "Joyland launches e-book imprint". National Post . Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  4. CBC Archived April 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Morning Bites: Terry Riley Revisited, Viet Thanh Nguyen Nonfiction, Joyland's New Publishers, and More". Vol. 1 Brooklyn. 2016-09-06. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  6. "Strand Books". www.strandbooks.com. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  7. Crum, Maddie (2017-05-08). "15 Stellar Short Stories You Can Read Online This Month". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  8. "Lit Thursday: Unshakable Truths". Lenny Letter. 2016-08-25. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  9. "Fiction Prize | Joyland Magazine". joylandmagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-05-14.