Versal literary journal
Versal is an annual literary magazine that publishes new poetry, prose and art from around the world. It was founded in 2002 by Megan M. Garr (editor), Prue Duggan and Erin Hofmeijer Elliot, and is published by wordsinhere, an international collective of writers based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As of 2008 Versal was the Netherlands' only English-language literary print journal. It is available at bookstores in major cities around the world, as well as online at http://versal.wordsinhere.com.
Versal publishes both new and established writers from around the world, including Argentina, Uruguay, Morocco, Romania, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, South Africa, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, the United States, Canada, France and Australia. Many of the writers who appear in Versal 6, for example, have extensive international experience, having studied and worked in as many as six different countries.
Versal was named 'Lit Mag of the Season' (Spring, 2004) on top British literary review site, and was on the laurahird.com 'Best of the Small Press' list in Autumn 2005. It was also featured in the Sept/Oct 2005 EDition of Poets & Writers Magazine.
It is printed by Pantheon Drukkers and its ISSN is 1573-2207.
Staff
- Editor: Megan M. Garr
- Managing Editor: Sarah Ream
- Fiction Editor: Robert Glick
- Art Editor: Mirabai Lacazette
- Associate Editor: Prue Duggan
Assistant Editors:
- Jennifer Arcuni
- Anna Arov
- Kate Foley
- Terri Hron
- Kai Lashley
Contributing Editors:
- Laura L. Chalar (Uruguay)
Contributors
The journal's contributors include:
Versal 6
Wiljan van den Akker
Marosa di Giorgio
Ben Doller
Emmanuel Moses (trans by Marilyn Hacker)
Takashi Hiraide (trans by Sawako Nakayasu)
Sándor Kányádi
David Miller
Xiao Kaiyu (trans by Alistair Noon)
Dawn Lonsinger
Jenny Arnold
Selfa Chew
Alex Piperno
Jennifer Arcuni
Sandra Jensen
Versal 5
Vesna Biga
Jeffrey Beam
Tsead Bruinja
Myronn Hardy
Theodore Worozbyt
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsia
Joseph Radke
Julie Marie Wade
Andrew Michael Roberts
Josh Hockensmith
Alissa Nutting
Billy O’Callaghan
Mary Buchinger
Versal 4
Helen Degen Cohen
Robert Glick
Tatjana Lukic
Alex Piperno
Claire Potter
Mark Terrill
Aleida Rodriguez
Versal 3
Marilyn Hacker
Naomi Shihab Nye
Russell Edson
Julie Doxsee
Barbara Jane Reyes
Joanna Klink
Sandy Florian
Versal 2
L. Ward Abel
Kate Foley
Noah Eli Gordon
Claudia Grinnell
Rob McLennan
Michael Rothenberg
Larry Sawyer
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Sonia Zagwyn