Hello readers! I hope your year is off to a good start. I’m writing to you today with a couple updates.
First, to cut to the chase, I’d like to announce that we will temporarily be closing submissions during the month of May. We continue to receive a steady stream of ever-increasing submissions and we love it! But it’s been a busy few months for us—both with this magazine as well as outside of it. As I’ve mentioned before, I strive to make sure my team doesn’t burn out, so we’re going to take this coming month to play a bit of catchup to get responses out to our submitters a bit more quickly.
As you know, we now have slush readers who have been helping us read our way through our submission queue, so with their help, we’ll be able to keep our pause to only one month—we know you are all eager to send us your work!
I’d also like to take this moment to introduce two new readers who have joined the team since my last update: Amita and Katie! Amita, joining us from India, was published in our magazine last year and we nominated her story for a Pushcart Prize. Katie joins us from Oregon and has been wonderful at analyzing stories. Both of them have been doing a stellar job so please give them a warm welcome and read more about them below or on our Staff Page.
Welcome to our new slush readers!
Amita Basu
Slush Reader
Amita Basu’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in over sixty magazines and anthologies including The Penn Review, Bamboo Ridge, Another Chicago Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, and Funicular. She is a submissions reader and review board member at Bewildering Stories, contributing editor at Fairfield Scribes Microfiction, interviews editor and sustainable living columnist at Mean Pepper Vine, and slush reader at The Metaworker. She lives in Bangalore, has a PhD in cognitive science, works in sustainable behaviour, and blogs at http://amitabasu.com/
Katie Kruse
Slush Reader
Katie Kruse is a reader and a public library paraprofessional. She was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, and remains there today. She enjoys reading literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and dystopian fiction when her mind can handle it. She holds a BA in Communication Studies from Portland State University.
As always, thanks for reading and sending us your work! We’re excited to keep building our magazine and look forward to receiving your submissions again in June 🙂
Elena L. Perez
Editor in Chief, The Metaworker
