"Part comic book, part ironic guidebook for today?s troubled
yet repeatedly humorous world, the winter
edition of Backwards City Review reveals the more playful
side of the more reflective, more meditative literary journal; and
yes, this is possible."
--NewPages.com
"...the refugees who edit and contribute to Backwards City Review
guide us into what feels like literary territory without boundaries,
writing without borders, with enough wit and grace and in-your-face
panache to charm even a stale middle-aged schlub. This magazine
is a good read."
--Steve Heller, Literary Magazine Review
"At only its second
issue, Backwards City Review seems impressively close
to a realization of its editors? vision. Expect more good things
to come from this magazine."
--NewPages.com
"BCR's first
issue easily surpasses most of the more established literary
titles at the local Barnes & Noble."
--Library
Journal
"The debut of a new literary journal always causes me a small
pang in the breast. It can be such a vicious world for these little
literary nestlings...if Volume
1, Number 1 is any indication, the folks behind Backwards
City Review should be assured that, whatever perils await
them on the road of financing, distribution, sales, etc., they're
well ahead of the game in the editorial department."
--NewPages.com
"...the poetry and fiction, while fresh, are not flat out iconoclastic.
Maybe this is what we like about the South."
--Literary Magazine Review
Congratulations
To Kristi
Maxwell, whose poem from Hush Sessions was chosen as
Verse Daily's Poem of
the Day on October 29, 2006.
To Larissa
Szporluk, whose poem "Windmill" was chosen as Verse
Daily's Poem of the Day on October 24, 2006.
To Clay
Matthews, whose poem "Poem for the Twenty-First Century
Gatekeeper" was chosen as Verse
Daily's Poem of the Day on March 21, 2006.
To Gibson
Fay-LeBlanc, whose poem "Rider Unhorsed" was chosen
as Verse Daily's Poem
of the Day on March 16, 2006.
To Debbie
Urbanski, whose poem "The Circus Woman Who Is Discussing
Someone Else's Idea of Temptation" was chosen as Verse
Daily's Poem of the Day on March 14, 2006.
To Chris
Bachelder, whose story "Blue
Knights Bounced from CVD Tourney" from Backwards City
#2 will appear in New Stories from the South 2006!
To Stephen
Kuusisto, whose essay "Alfred Whitehead Is Alive and Well
in Corpus Christi, Texas" from Backwards City #1 was listed
as a notable essay in the back of Best American Essays 2005!
To James Grinwis, whose poem "Scabland" was chosen as
Verse Daily's Poem of
the Day on September 3, 2005.
To Anna
Fulford, whose poem "A Bird in the Hand is Worth $1.50/Hr."
was chosen as Verse Daily's
Poem of the Day on September 1, 2005.
To Marc
McKee, whose poem "If I'd Known It Was Going to Be That
Kind of Party" was chosen as Verse
Daily's Poem of the Day on August 31, 2005.
To Lisa
Jarnot, whose poem "Renegade Salmon" was chosen
as Verse Daily's Poem
of the Day on August 29, 2005.
To the
winners of our first-ever fiction and poetry contest!
To John
Latta, whose poem "Umbrage" was chosen as Poetry
Daily's Poem of the Day on March 16, 2005.
To Erica
Bernheim, whose poem "Summer Crookneck" was chosen
as Verse
Daily's Poem of the Day on January 29, 2005.
To Arielle
Greenberg, whose poem "On a Return to Being a Polemic
against Light Verse" was chosen as Verse
Daily's Poem of the Day on January 28, 2005.
Stores stocking BCR
- Greensboro, NC
The
Browsery - Greensboro, NC
The Regulator
Bookshop - Durham, NC
Bull's Head Bookstore
- Chapel Hill, NC
Quail's
Ridge Books - Raleigh, NC
McIntyre's
Fine Books - Pittsboro, NC
Mac's Back Paperbacks
- Cleveland, OH
Chop Suey Books -
Richmond, VA
McNally Robinson
Booksellers - New York, NY
Adams Books - Brooklyn,
NY
Are you a bookstore or library interested in carrying BCR?
Contact us at editors@backwardscity.net
for rates.
Join in all the fun
Other than taking a look at our first
and second
issues and their contents, there are plenty of little things to
do around here:
Click around and see what you dig up. Unearth
our aesthetic. Exhume
our passions.
Expose the hidden things inside our brains. Uncover
the talents that make up this larger project.
Submit
your work to the journal. Read and comment on the weblog.
Enter the latest contest.
Let us know what
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