TCR Literary Journals Series

The Committee Room's Literary Journals Series offers interviews with editors of some of today's top literary journals.  The editors discuss the challenges they face in putting together a literary publication in a period of economic crisis and rapidly changing technology. They also comment on what they like to see in the submissions pile.    

To read our interview with Nathan Grant of the African-American Review click here

To read our interview with Brenda Miller of the Bellingham Review click here

To read our interview with Chris Fink of the Beloit Fiction Journal click here

To read our interview with Diana May-Waldman and Mitchell Waldman of the Blue Lake Review click here

To read our interview with William O'Rourke of the Notre Dame Review click here










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TCR Literary Journal Series: Beloit Fiction Journal

The Committee Room is happy to continue its Literary Journal Series with a look at the Beloit Fiction Journal.  Founded in 1985 by novelist and journalist Clint McCown, who was then a young professor of English at Beloit College in Wisconsin, and a group of enthusiastic Beloit College students, the BFJ has since its inception provided a showcase for both established and unknown writers. Fred Burwell, writer and blogger, was a member of the original student staff.  He sums up one of the BFJ's guiding principles when he recalls those early days -- "We discovered that manuscript cover letters with laundry lists of past publications meant nothing – it would be too easy to stock a magazine with names familiar to the literary magazine establishment. Only the quality of the story mattered."

Chris Fink took over as editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal when McCown stepped down in 2005.  A widely published writer of fiction and non-fiction, Fink's stories and essays have appeared in many publications including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Malahat Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Other Voices, and Phoebe. His book of fiction, Farmer's Almanac, is forthcoming from Emergency Press in 2012.  He formerly edited the Cream City Review.

Fink graciously sat down for an interview with TCR.