SWING

Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Representative Authors: 
Lauren Slaughter, Lee Conell, William Henry Lewis, Chase Twichell, Erica Dawson, Cecily Parks, Alan Shapiro, Bruce Bond, Maria Hummel, Courtney Miller Santo, William Logan, Terri Witek, Dan Albergotti, Morri Creech, James Whorton, Jr., Rebecca Morgan Frank
Formats: 
Print
Reading Period: 
Jun 6 to Oct 1
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
1-2
Payment: 
Cash
Issues per Year: 
2
Issue Price: 
$15
Subscription Price: 
$25
Circulation: 
Less than 1,000

Editorial Focus

SWING is devoted to excellent poetry, fiction, essays, and comic art in print, and the editors are committed to a design that speaks to the contents within. The look and feel of their issues will always reflect the natural world and human hands that made them. The editors approach their work of selection as one of mapping the cultural zeitgeist, which begins in the American South, a place of contradiction and complication, difference and dialogue. They might begin in Nashville, but who knows where their writers will take them.

Tips From the Editor

We want to hear your voice, your complex, messy human voice, in our ears as we lean back. Then we want to be pushed. We read for that moment of flight, where we have no idea where we are going, but trust the hand on our backs pushing higher. Because every piece gets three or four readers, there’s little chance that it has not gotten read all the way through by at least one SWING staff member. We strive to give the most constructive rejections possible; we do this with the help of very astute and sensitive readers who give great feedback, which we pass on to writers.

Contact Information

Leigh Anne Couch, Editor
SWING at The Porch
2811 Dogwood Place
Nashville
TN
37204
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Last updated: Jul 10, 2024

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