In The Margins E14: Small, the Next Big

E14 Guest: Executive Director Jeffrey Lependorf

In this episode we speak with Jeffrey Lependorf, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Executive Director. A service organization to independent literary publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose, CMLP provides guidance on the backstage work of American literature. Join us as we learn about the organization, trends in the industry, guidance on submitting your writing and more.

Podcast Notes:

CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses has been in existence since 1967: https://www.clmp.org/index.html)

CLMP has over 500 members, up from 230 when Lependorf joined.

Mentioned organizations, presses, authors and works:

• Graywolf Press: www.graywolfpress.org
• Claudia Rankine: http://claudiarankine.com
  • Citizen
• Eula Biss: http://www.eulabiss.net
  • On Immunity
• McPherson and Company: http://www.mcphersonco.com
• Riverhead Books: http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/riverhead
• Penguin Random House: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com
• FSG (Farrar Straus Giroux): http://us.macmillan.com/fsg
• Holtzbrink Publishing Group: https://www.holtzbrinck.com
• St. Martin’s Press: http://us.macmillan.com/smp
• Convolution: http://www.convolutionjournal.com
• The Song Cave: http://www.the-song-cave.com
• Alfred Starr Hamilton: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/02/out-of-isolation-alfred-starr-hamiltons-a-dark-dreambox-of-another-kind
  • A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
• Archipelago Books: https://archipelagobooks.org
• Karl Ove Knausgard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ove_Knausg%C3%A5rd
  • My Struggle
• Holy Cow! Press: http://www.holycowpress.org
• Little Star Journal: http://littlestarjournal.com/about
• Nouvella: http://nouvellabooks.com