Dear Writers,
I want to welcome you to this new issue of The Writer’s Chronicle as well as a new era for AWP’s magazine. For more than fifty years, The Writer’s Chronicle has explored vital questions about writing for an audience of writers. We will continue to honor that tradition, but you will notice some changes to the work we publish.
In addition to monthly features on writing, publishing, and teaching, you can look forward to essays about the writing life from diverse perspectives and voices. In Sneak Peeks, you will find excerpts from new and forthcoming books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The Big Conversation gathers a group of experts, usually writers, each issue for an in-depth discussion of a specific topic. In our Prompted section, writers in different genres share and elaborate on prompts and exercises that have inspired them.
As a blind writer and screen reader user, I’m especially excited about the friendlier, more accessible format of The Writer’s Chronicle. I hope you’ll let us know if we can improve your reading experience, in format or content. If there’s a topic you think we should cover, please drop us a line at [email protected]. And yes, once you have a good sense of the magazine’s new flavor, we will reopen for submissions in early 2025.
Writers are also readers. We read to learn. We read for inspiration. We read to make the world feel less lonely. I hope you will look forward to reading each issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. Perhaps more importantly, I hope the work we publish makes you want to write.
Yours,
James Tate Hill