The spring issue of JMWW was successfully uploaded on Monday, and the response was been quite healthy (I can't say fevered or overwhelming, but it has definitely exceeded my expectations in terms of our increased hits and submission inquiries). Hopefully I will have the time to learn a little more about html and javascript before designing the next issue--I see other journals that are going up the same time, and they're so slicker, more navigatable, more confident. There just doesn't seem to be enough time in the week to get things done anymore.

I was reading an excerpt in a print literary journal about the quality/death of modern short fiction, but I think that the journals themselves help perpetuate this sort of homogenous voice that writers tend to mistakingly submit (myself included). Open any Best American Short Stories and you will see a PC representation of carefully crafted stories, all in the same understated voice, voices that don't speak to me. It's like the mainstream literary community the equivalent of big records labels.