A second , perhaps more weighty reason for lit mags to justifiably continue to pop up like mushrooms came to me during the long process of working with others to create this issue . We put out one classified ad on NewPages , and submissions began pouring in by the hundreds . Some came from overseas , but most from here in the North America .
The plethora of previously unpublished work in these pages , from Danielle Gray ’ s piercing memoir of childhood in an ever-shifting family , to Maia Lynn Anderson ’ s surreal fictional journey through age and consciousness and gender , to Charles Rammelkamp ’ s quiet poetic musings over political clashes between relatives , should make clear that the stream of good , unknown writing is unlikely to run dry anytime soon .
Let me put this another way : writers in the U . S . are out in such tremendous multitudes that an editor of a new magazine can buy a single ad , receive an inundation of submissions , and be assured that if she reads them consistently and with discipline , she will eventually find much worth publishing . This is a joy and a marvel . There can perhaps be no greater reason than this that new lit mags continue to propagate : there is always enough good work to sustain us .
James Dunham Dec . 24 , 2016
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