Comments on: Online literary magazines copy too much from print http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/10/14/online-literary-magazines-copy-too-much-from-print/ A weblog from the editors of Linebreak Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:24:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: d. f. tweney http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/10/14/online-literary-magazines-copy-too-much-from-print/comment-page-1/#comment-701 d. f. tweney Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:01:54 +0000 http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=1356#comment-701 Well said. The way most literary journals are published, it can be difficult to find what's new, to browse them, and to view them in a variety of screen sizes (esp smartphones). That limits their readership unnecessarily. Another journal that publishes in webby, "bloggy" form is tinywords, which published one haiku per day from 2000-2008, and is now returning as a journal of micropoetry. (I'm the editor and publisher.) I think one of the reasons tinywords has been so well-received -- as of 2008, it was the largest-circulation haiku publication in English -- is that it does eschew a lot of the trappings of a print journal, and reaches out to people as a blog -- and also via email, SMS, and now Twitter. Well said. The way most literary journals are published, it can be difficult to find what’s new, to browse them, and to view them in a variety of screen sizes (esp smartphones). That limits their readership unnecessarily.

Another journal that publishes in webby, “bloggy” form is tinywords, which published one haiku per day from 2000-2008, and is now returning as a journal of micropoetry. (I’m the editor and publisher.)

I think one of the reasons tinywords has been so well-received — as of 2008, it was the largest-circulation haiku publication in English — is that it does eschew a lot of the trappings of a print journal, and reaches out to people as a blog — and also via email, SMS, and now Twitter.

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