![]() When you’re the one scoring stories you develop a much clearer understanding of just how subjective everything is, and for me that reduced some of the sting of being rejected. Getting to see how a journal works behind the curtain offers such a different perspective. In grad school I was co-editor-in-chief of COLUMBIA: A Journal of Literature & Art, and ever since I’ve dreamed of one day founding my own publication so I could be a part of editing and publishing short stories again.Įmily: I love that! I had the same burning desire. I started out as an intern at Fiction, a work-study student at The Antioch Review, and a reader for Zoetrope: All-Story, which involved curling up on a beanbag chair in their former NY office and scoring stories 1–5. I worked on a number of literary journals when I was first studying writing. (I used to call them my “anthologies.”) And that community inspires this energy beyond writing-there’s the desire to be involved in the editing and publishing of short stories. I still have a whole collection of print issues sitting on my shelves, and a series of binders containing my favorite short stories from books and magazines. I’d do the same at AWP, and fill up my suitcase. I used to go every year to the Housing Works Lit Mag Fair to thumb through the beautiful issues on display, and shyly greet the editors of journals I so admired, and lug home a towering stack of new stories and poems to read. As an unpublished writer I read them to discover new writers, and I submitted to them in hopes of being discovered. And I still try to inspire myself every morning by reading one short story before I begin writing.Įmily: What a wonderful way to light the flame! I’ve always felt that there was something so specifically magical about short stories being gathered together like pieces of treasure into an issue of a literary journal. Writing short fiction was my first love, and I’ve never let it go. Short stories were my own first publications, many moons ago. There were-and still are-so few venues that publish YA short stories, especially for new writers. Nova: Yes, that lunch date started everything. You said, “I’ve always wanted to do that too!” And with your experience running Bodega Magazine, plus our similar taste in books, I immediately knew that we had to collaborate.Įmily: Then we had that five-hour lunch date at Veselka, which was where we decided that instead of a magazine it should be a new format-a serial anthology, published digitally, free for anyone to access from anywhere in the world. Nova: Of course! We were on the train from New York to DC for the 2017 AWP conference, and I confessed to you my secret dream to start a YA-specific online literary journal. Do you remember when we first talked about it? It’s so thrilling to have arrived at this iteration of the project-I think our past selves would be flabbergasted to see where that spark of an idea would take us. As soon as our editors told us that Sarah would be creating the cover for the Foreshadow print anthology, I knew without a doubt that it would be wonderful.Įmily: I especially love that it calls back to the way we styled the word “FORESHADOW” on our digital platform. I’ve since spent many hours admiring her prolific cover portfolio. Coleman’s work when she created the cover for my latest novel, A Room Away from the Wolves, and absolutely floored me with its magic and beauty. Coleman shares her inspiration for the cover of Foreshadow. Pan.īelow, Nova and Emily discuss Foreshadow, the cover design process, and their literature backgrounds that led to the creation of the Foreshadow platform. ![]() What makes these memorable stories tick? What sparked them? How do authors build a world or refine a voice or weave in that deliciously creepy atmosphere to bring their writing to the next level? Addressing these questions and many more are essays and discussions on craft and process by Nova Ren Suma and Emily X. Each piece is selected and introduced by a YA luminary, among them Gayle Forman, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jason Reynolds, and Sabaa Tahir. Ranging from contemporary romance to mind-bending fantasy, the Foreshadow stories showcase underrepresented voices and highlight the beauty and power of YA fiction. A trove of unforgettable fiction makes up the beating heart of this book, and the accompanying essays offer an ode to young adult literature, as well as practical advice to writers.įeatured in print for the first time, the thirteen stories anthologized here were originally released via the buzzed-about online platform Foreshadow. ![]() Pan’s forthcoming anthology, Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA, forthcoming from Algonquin Young Readers on October 20, 2020.įoreshadow is so much more than a short story collection. We are thrilled to bring you this exclusive first look at the cover of Nova Ren Suma and Emily X.R. ![]()
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