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9202986 No.9202986 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit, I'm thinking of starting up my own poetry magazine. Online only and pretty smal-scale. How much of a shit idea is that?

It would be an online only magazine with one or two issues out per year. It would be free and contributors would have to put out nonprofit. Publishing, web-page and marketing I can handle but what I don't know is if I can find editors or generaly interested people to work with me, so that the magazine represents some sort of quality atleast.

I work full-time as a librarian in a smaller european country. Mostly worried that if I go through with it my cute editor dreams would be crushed horribly. Anyone here with experience?

>> No.9204441

don't do it. there's no point

the only reason they used to make magazines before the Internet was because that was the best way to distribute stories. now stories don't need to be clumped together arbitrarily, as anyone can find them on their own.

>> No.9204538

>>9202986
It's a bit of a shit idea, mostly because you'll just kill your ambition when it dies down after a few months (assuming you get a readership in the first place).

But if you're going to do it, try and imitate sites such as humag.co (even though their success is really just because of the physical magazine's success), and keep a Twitter & Facebook, liking and speaking to as many fellow poetry magazines as you can. Hopefully you'll get a few people to shill your website.

But, realistically, if you want to do well - try and go physical. I've seen Kickstarters go well for poetry magazines, but you'll probably have to do a bit of legwork outside, getting poetry reading groups to recommend your Kickstarter, or even convince them to run a fundraiser for you. Again, seen it done, and in a physical format your magazine is sure to reach, at least, literary circles around your area, and then you can translate that into an online magazine; managing both physical copies and online copies.

Like everything it can fail, but that's one way, I guess, of looking at it? Try and make friends with literary types, even pseuds, and get them on board with the idea, both online and in real life. If you want this to work be prepared to work like fuck.

>> No.9204580

>>9204441
they still work for introducing new stories

>> No.9204698

>>9202986
poetry is gay

>> No.9204908

the only reason a person starts an online poetry magazine is so they can distribute their own poetry in it. also "magazine" is a redundant term; what you mean is "post my poetry on my wordpress site / livejournal". hell, why not just post it on faecebook?

you aren't going to charge people money to access it, because that would guarantee nobody would get it. calling it a "magazine" doesn't give it any air of respectability, you know.

what you really want to do is take it down to Officeworks, print out a hundred copies on old parchment paper and then leave them around town until the cops get you for littering.

>> No.9204914

>>9204698
poetry is like masturbation.

nothing wrong with it unless you think you're so fabulous that everyone needs to see you doing it.

teenagers do it all the time, but are ashamed of it.

you shouldn't do it in public, and the only person I know who does it well enough to want to see them do it live is Elsie Ann Shannon.