For the past two years, Sam Martone has served as our editor, overseeing all aspects of production and wielding his power like a tyrant. Kacie Wheeler, marching up winding mountain paths and tip-toeing across rickety rope bridges, caught up with him in his Editor Fortress to find out what he does in his free time (if he has any), what kinds of stories he hopes to see in the submission queue, and what he’s loved most about working on Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Read MoreWhen I was a baby poet, I would spend hours reading the two volume set of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. I still have the volumes. Between the red covers of those books, in college, I wrote notes and scribbled little pictures (look at the swans, and goblins and flowers!) beside every poem, every play. At the time, it seemed like the pinnacle of poetic achievement would to one day be included in this anthology, and that to enter into it as a poet would simultaneously mean that one had been legitimized and that one had also entered into history itself, even if you only had one lousy, thin page devoted to your poem.
Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from J. A. Tyler, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. The complete set includes handwritten artifacts from Geffrey Davis, Staci R. Schoenfeld, Lucas Southworth, Chelsea Biondolillo, Sandy Longhorn and J. A. Tyler.
Today is the last day to get a contributor airplane (or all of them!), so don't miss out!
Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Sandy Longhorn, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Longhorn, check out her contributor spotlight, where she discusses her two HFR53 poems!
Tomorrow our contributor airplane offer will be J. A. Tyler!
Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Lucas Southworth, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Southworth, check out his contributor spotlight, wherein he discusses the last sentence of his HFR53 story, "There Isn't Any Ghost."
We will be back next week with contributor airplanes from Chelsea Biondolillo, Sandy Longhorn and J. A. Tyler!
Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Geffrey Davis, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Davis, check out his contributor spotlight from last month.
Tomorrow our contributor airplane offer will be Staci R. Schoenfeld.
Read MoreStarting tomorrow, subscriptions (or resubscriptions) to Hayden’s Ferry Review will come with a paper airplane featuring handwritten work by a contributor in our Departure issue. Each day will feature a different writer. What’s that? You say you want to collect them all? Well, if you buy a two-year subscription, you’ll get six paper airplanes, one from each contributor. There are limited amounts, so once they’re gone, they’re gone. We’ll post each day to remind you whose work you’ll receive.
We hope you’ll enjoy these carefully crafted artifacts and celebrate another year of HFR with us!
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