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Fence (magazine)

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Fence
Winter 2011 cover
EditorRebecca Wolff
Categoriesliterary magazine
FrequencyBiannual
Founded1998
First issueSpring 1998
CompanyFence Magazine, Incorporated
CountryUnited States
Based inAlbany, New York
Websitewww.fenceportal.org

Fence is a print and online literary publication containing both original work and critical and journalistic coverage of what may be largely termed "experimental" or "avant garde" material. Conceived by Rebecca Wolff in 1997[1] and first printed in Spring 1998[2][3] (receiving coverage from Poets & Writers),[4] its editors have included Jonathan Lethem and Ben Marcus (fiction), Matthew Rohrer and Caroline Crumpacker (poetry), and Frances Richard (non-fiction).

Fence is published biannually.[2] The translator and National Book Award-nominated poet Cole Swensen edits La Presse, an imprint of Fence magazine publishing contemporary French poetry in translation.

Fence is currently affiliated with the New York State Writers Institute[5] at SUNY Albany. Its book publishing arm, Fence Books, has printed volumes by a number of younger non-traditional poets. Fence has also joined with McSweeney's, Wave Books and Open City to distribute content at bigsmallpress; it also runs The Constant Critic, an online reviews site.

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References

  1. ^ Wolff Fence
  2. ^ a b "New American Literary Magazines" (PDF). NYPL. 2002. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  3. ^ "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  4. ^ "PW Organization". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
  5. ^ New York State Writers Institute