SNReview (SNR, www.snreview.org) has entered its tenth year of publishing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. In celebration of those who have enable the magazine’s success during the past decade, SNR has published its largest issue – with more than 40 prose and poetry writers offering more than 260 pages of insights and entertainment. Those writers, who developed their perspectives around the world and in a variety of cultures, include the following:
Fiction: CL Bledsoe, Michell Cacho-Negrete, Mary Carroll-Hackett, Cindy Fazzi, Grand Flint, Nels Hanson, Catherine Kelley, Rosemary Landano, Scott Leslie, Jala Pfaff, Mohanalashmi Rajakumar, Sarah Scholes, and Emmanuel Sigauke.
Poetry: William Aarnes, Jeff Crouch, Kelly Davio, Tom Deiker, William Doreski, Orville Lloyd Douglas, Michael Estabrook, Patrick Frank, Timothy Houghton, K.A. Markee, Jerry D. Mathes II, Joey Minutillo, Jason Mott, Jaime Peak, Sandra Pollock, Charles Rafferty, Megan Ronan, Sankar Roy, Ashley Shivar, Kristen Sund, Christopher Watkins, Kelley White, and Changming Yuan.
Creative Non-Fiction: Andrew Coburn, Jennifer Coke, Sayantani Dasgupta, John Fox, Betsy Hall, Shelley Leveson, Deborah McCarroll, Brendan O’Meara, and Eron Witzel.
You can see their work in one of three formats: Web page, Adobe file (PDF), or print. You start at SNR’s Web site: www.snreview.org. If you wish to read their works in print, use the “Order” link provided on the opening page of the site. The cost is nominal, $15 for more than four hours of unique entertainment. The meager profit from your $15 also goes to support the Web site. Another way to show your support: Click the link to SNR’s Shop and purchase an SNR t-shirt, sweatshirt, mug, notebook, or set of notecards, and all the proceeds go to support SNR.
During the past year, viewership has continued to increase: climbing more than 60 percent over a comparable period in 2007 and more than 180 percent over a comparable period in 2006. Growing pains have come with SNR’s success, though. During the past six months, the number of submissions have more than doubled, putting a strain on our abilities to respond as quickly as we would like.
We have always worked on the premise that we will publish as many good writers as we can. Cost of publishing is not a factor. Adding pages to a Web site adds almost no cost, and since we use a print-on-demand publisher, the size of the print edition is not a financial factor. But we have run into one commodity that few have enough of: time. And so we apologize to the writers who have submitted work and still have not heard from us. We have not forgotten you.
The next issue of SNR should appear in August. It will be our Summer 2008 issue, and with it, we will finally be publishing in a more up-to-date fashion.
We will like to thank all the individuals, writers, and readers who have made SNR a success during the past decade and, in particular, Linda, Paul, and Brian.
Enjoy the issue,
Joseph Conlin
