Poetry!

How exciting is publishing two days in a row??  Evidently, a rainy and chilly New York City is great for productivity.

So, I'm very pleased to present two poems from Elana Seplow: "Maps" and "Awaker."  Her bio:

Elana Seplow is a native New Yorker and a poet.  A Columbia and Oxford graduate, she is the recipient of the 2009 Burns Society Prize and the Helene Searcy Puls Poetry Prize.  She has a firm handshake with a too-quick release.  She is, after all, a young professional.  

And in other news: the Table of Contents now links to the pieces, which makes the site much more navigable (especially as it continues to grow) and makes me very very happy.  Happy Tuesday,

Xtins

Story #2

Up today!  "Intangible Objects" by Douglas Silver.  Doug's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Berkeley Fiction Review, Our Stories, and Word Riot. He has been a finalist in competitions by Narrative Magazine and Glimmer Train. He lives in New York and fancies himself the World's Greatest Uncle. 

I have no doubt.  

Expect some poetry by Elana Seplow any day now.  Happy reading!

Xtins

Up and Running

I'm completely thrilled to announce that we just published our first piece of fiction!  Check out Eric Sasson's "My Late-Middle Period" on translitmag.com. 

So what do you think?  I'd love to read your feedback in the comments.  Or write a review.  Or throw a little literary criticism my way.  Or write a poem about it.  Do a drawing.  As I hope is clear from our submission guidelines, the sky's the limit.  This is a call for submissions and also a call for celebration.  Happy reading.

Xtina

We have our first submission!

And the first letter from the editor is up on the website.  I think it begins to express what the mission of trans lit mag is: seriously smart silliness.  We should deal with important things, but often in a very playful way.  Perhaps we want to explore how a certain theme is played out in the author's response to a critique of the review of the piece of poetry or fiction that was published the week before, and perhaps we want to present that exploration in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet.  That would be amazing.  Expect movie reviews for films that don't exist yet.  Write some yourself.  Anything goes. 

And have a happy Labor Day, wherever you are.  We have work to do.

--Xtina