Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Subscriptions!
Greetings,
As we here at The Fourth River gear up for the release of Issue #6, we thought it would be a good idea to let you writers and readers out there how best to get your hands on this new issue. But first, a little about The Fourth River:
The Fourth River welcomes submissions of creative writing that explore the relationship between humans and their environments, both natural and built, urban, rural or wild. We are looking for writings that are richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity, or that reflect upon or make use of landscape and place in new ways. Nature and environmental writing that is edgy and provocative, that goes beyond traditional nature writing, and contributes to a new type of place-based writing has the best chance of finding a home in our journal.
Pittsburgh is situated at the confluence of three rivers: the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio. A fourth underground river, unseeable but indispensable to the city’s riverine ecosystem, is one muse for our journal. As our founding editor, Jeffrey Thomson, wrote in first issue of The Fourth River, we are inspired by the notion that “between and beneath the visible framework of the human world and the built environment, there exist deeper currents of force and meaning supporting the very structure of that world."
Our second muse is Rachel Carson, Chatham’s most distinguished alum, who wrote, in “Design for Nature Writing.”
“... if we are true to the spirit of John Burroughs, or of Jeffries or Hudson or Thoreau, we are not imitators of them but—as they themselves were—we are pioneers in new areas of thought and knowledge. If we are true to them, we are the creators of a new type of literature as representative of our own day as was their own.”
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If The Fourth River is the sort of publication that you’re interested in, please contact us!
Individual issues (year-long subscriptions) of The Fourth River cost $10, and two issues (two-year subscriptions) cost $16. Issues 4 and 5 are available at a $5 discount--simply specify your choice with your payment.
If you are interested in subscribing, please contact Kriscinda Meadows (subject line “Subscription”) at fourthriver@chatham.edu
As we here at The Fourth River gear up for the release of Issue #6, we thought it would be a good idea to let you writers and readers out there how best to get your hands on this new issue. But first, a little about The Fourth River:
The Fourth River welcomes submissions of creative writing that explore the relationship between humans and their environments, both natural and built, urban, rural or wild. We are looking for writings that are richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity, or that reflect upon or make use of landscape and place in new ways. Nature and environmental writing that is edgy and provocative, that goes beyond traditional nature writing, and contributes to a new type of place-based writing has the best chance of finding a home in our journal.
Pittsburgh is situated at the confluence of three rivers: the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio. A fourth underground river, unseeable but indispensable to the city’s riverine ecosystem, is one muse for our journal. As our founding editor, Jeffrey Thomson, wrote in first issue of The Fourth River, we are inspired by the notion that “between and beneath the visible framework of the human world and the built environment, there exist deeper currents of force and meaning supporting the very structure of that world."
Our second muse is Rachel Carson, Chatham’s most distinguished alum, who wrote, in “Design for Nature Writing.”
“... if we are true to the spirit of John Burroughs, or of Jeffries or Hudson or Thoreau, we are not imitators of them but—as they themselves were—we are pioneers in new areas of thought and knowledge. If we are true to them, we are the creators of a new type of literature as representative of our own day as was their own.”
- - - - - -
If The Fourth River is the sort of publication that you’re interested in, please contact us!
Individual issues (year-long subscriptions) of The Fourth River cost $10, and two issues (two-year subscriptions) cost $16. Issues 4 and 5 are available at a $5 discount--simply specify your choice with your payment.
If you are interested in subscribing, please contact Kriscinda Meadows (subject line “Subscription”) at fourthriver@chatham.edu
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