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Speaking about Submissions … New Themes Announced!
Gentle contributors, present and future! We’ve been in a reading frenzy these days. We are reveling in the submissions currently on Submittable and looking forward to what we might find for our next themes: *Rivals & Players *Birth, School, Work, Death *It’s a Sunshine Day (new!) *Control (new!) Read more about these themes below. *...
FLAR (Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review) digs into BROAD STREET.
Ever wonder what goes into producing a print magazine and keeping it in the public eye during the internet age? How about the ways a website and a print organ can support each other? So glad you asked! And glad, too, that A. E. Bayne of Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review sat down for a chat about...
Truth Teller Spotlight – Ramsey Hootman
Ramsey Hootman‘s first novel is “Courting Greta,” and she also penned a memoir (“Chastity Belt Included“) featured in our “Bedeviled” issue. Update for March 2017: Hootman’s second novel, Surviving Cyril, has just been released for enjoyment on Kindle! Making this an excellent moment to revisit her 2015 Spotlight interview … A San Francisco area resident, Hootman perfects the...
Truth Teller Spotlight: Patricia Smith
“I learned the hard way that all details aren’t equal, that the important details are ones that also help to convey a judgment or mood or reveal character….” We love it when good things happen for our contributors. And this month we celebrate Patricia Smith, author of “Holy War: Ramadan and race riots in a Senegalese marketplace,”...
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Onward into 2017!
It’s a new year, perhaps a fraught year, but one that is bringing good things to us at Broad Street. For one thing, we have added illustrious members to our editorial staff: Gretchen Comba (read her “Truth Teller Spotlight“), Katy Resch George, and Siddiqah Mujahid. Welcome to them! And we’re thrilled to be working on...