''New World Writing'' (formerly ''Blip Magazine'') is the reinvention of Mississippi Review Online, a personal website put online in 1995 by the editor of ''
Mississippi Review
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'',
Frederick Barthelme
Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer, well-known as one of the seminal writers of minimalist fiction. Alongside his personal publishing history, his position as Director of The Center For Write ...
. It is the online heir of ''Mississippi Review'' (established by Barthelme in 1977). During Barthelme's time as editor,
Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s.
Early life
Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mi ...
said ''Mississippi Review'' "is one of the most remarkable and indispensable literary journals of our time.". The editors working on ''Mississippi Review'' prior to 2010 moved to ''Blip'' with Barthelme after he left
the University of Southern Mississippi
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.
Notable contributors (since 2010) include
George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a w ...
, Marcy Demansky,
Jurgen Fauth,
Woody Evans
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,
Meg Pokrass, Mary Grimm, Floyd Skloot, and others. In its previous incarnation, Blip had over 1000 stories and poems in its archive, including work by such writers as
Thom Jones
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, Ben Marcus, Francine Prose,
Padgett Powell
Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, ''Edisto'' (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in ''The New Yorker''.
Po ...
,
Barry Hannah
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, Tom Drury,
Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, ''You Think it, I’ll Say It'' (2018), as well as six novels: ''Prep'' (2005), the story of students at a Massachusetts prep sch ...
,
Tao Lin
Tao Lin (; born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published four novels, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, as well as an extensive assortment of ...
,
John Barth
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,
Christine Schutt
Christine Schutt, an American novelist and short story writer, has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She received her BA and MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her MFA from Co ...
,
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Esquire'', ''The Best American Short Stories'' (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and ...
,
Rick Bass
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, and Ben Neihart.
In late 2012 a post at blipmagazine.net announced a name change: ''BlipMagazine'' was now ''
New World Writing
''New World Writing'' was a paperback magazine, a literary anthology series published by New American Library's Mentor imprint from 1951 until 1960, then J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s Keystone from volume/issue 16 (1960) to the last volume, 22, in 19 ...
'':
BlipMagazine has changed its name to New World Writing after the great literary magazine of the 1950s. They were, of course, thinking of world writing, whereas we are thinking more of the (perpetually) new world. We hesitated in any case, as it is a grand old name and we are perhaps insufficiently grand. Still, with some squinting, we are in the ballpark, or near the ballpark, or in a position from which we can sort of see the ballpark. Or so we hope and imagine.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://newworldwriting.net
*
Archived Blip magazines on the
Internet Archive
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1995 establishments in Mississippi
Magazines established in 1995
Magazines published in Mississippi
Online literary magazines published in the United States