SNReview

"SNReview" (ISSN: 1527-344X) is a seasonal online literary magazine founded in 1999. It has published the poetry and prose of Stephen Gyllenhaal, Adrian Louis, and Steve Poleskie, among others. In the past three years, page views have risen almost sixfold with the average issue receiving more than 20,000 page views.Fact|date=October 2007

It publishes prose works of less than 7000 words with traditional emphasis of good writing: strong characters, good plot and theme, imagery, style of writing, and point of view. On its guidelines page, the magazine quotes C. Michael Curtis, fiction editor of "The Atlantic Monthly": “What most editors look for, in addition to a respect for conventional strengths of orderly composition, is a sentence or two sufficiently complex in structure and idea to signify a serious mind at work. Editors look for engaging sensibility, a writer with wit, imagination, and an appreciation for the benefits of a well-constructed sentence.” [ [http://www.snreview.org/guidelines.html guidelines page] ] These same qualities are what the editor is looking for from poets and writers of creative nonfiction.

History

The magazine came to life with the advent of free and low-cost of web hosting as well as the maturation of WYSIWYG html software. The original name of the publication was "Starry Night Review", named for the painting by Vincent Van Gogh. During its early years, the publication used the free web sites available from AOL, Yahoo's Geocities, and Angelfire. From the beginning, the publication has been created using Sun Microsystem's Star Office software, an upgraded version of Open Office. The graphics have been created with Micrografx's Picture Publisher 8software for the entire nine years.

In May 2004, "SNReview" achieved its own domain site and began an ongoing process of simplifying its graphics to make the publication easier to load and to read. The publication has no income and therefore has not earned a profit in its nine years. With the introduction of a pdf converter to Star Office 8, the magazine began posting works in both html and pdf formats. It is a member of Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, the American Academy of Poets, and the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association.

Working in conjunction with Lulu.com, "SNReview" offers readers the opportunity to order print editions of newly released issues.

Since its inception the publication has accepted only email submissions. Writers copy and paste their short stories, poems, and creative non-fiction into an email that they send to [e-mail]. The publication usually responds to their works within two months. The publication usually asks for the first time rights to the work.

About three years ago, the magazine began publishing an index of writers whose works have appeared in the publication and created a book store that features the covers to the books written by authors with links to Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, or the publisher of the work.

References

External links

* [http://www.snreview.org/ "SNReview"]
* [http://www.ericbonholtzer.com/ Eric Bonholtzer]
* [http://www.edwardjcarvalho.com/ Edward Carvalho]
* [http://www2.bridgeport.edu/pages/5057.asp Eric D. Lehman]
* [http://www.nativewiki.org/Adrian_C._Louis Adrian Louis]
* [http://members.core.com/~ppekin/bio.htm Paul Pekin]