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Join Us for AWP 2017 Eckleburg Contributor Signings at Booth #389

2/9/17 9:00:00 AM Jacob Appel
2/9/17 10:00:00 AM Bradley Babendir
2/9/17 10:00:00 AM David Atkinson
2/9/17 11:00:00 AM Laurie Foos
2/9/17 11:00:00 AM Philip Dean Walker
2/9/17 1:00:00 PM Sandi Sonnenfeld
2/9/17 2:00:00 PM Sheila McMullin
2/9/17 3:00:00 PM Melissa Grunow
2/9/17 3:00:00 PM Shanee Stepakoff
2/9/17 4:00:00 PM Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
2/10/17 10:00:00 AM Meg Eden
2/10/17 10:00:00 AM Michal Lemberger
2/10/17 11:00:00 AM Ben Tanzer
2/10/17 12:00:00 PM Laura Ellen Scott
2/10/17 12:00:00 PM Townsend Walker
2/10/17 1:00:00 PM Donald Berger
2/10/17 1:00:00 PM Gary Dop
2/10/17 2:00:00 PM Charlotte Covey
2/10/17 2:00:00 PM Meg Eden
2/10/17 3:00:00 PM Jen Fitzgerald
2/10/17 3:00:00 PM Kelly Fordon
2/10/17 3:00:00 PM Leah Umansky
2/10/17 4:00:00 PM Susan Lewis
2/11/17 10:00:00 AM Nat Schmookler
2/11/17 11:00:00 AM Cheyenne Autry
2/11/17 11:00:00 AM Christine Stoddard
2/11/17 11:00:00 AM Sinta Jimenez
2/11/17 12:00:00 PM Katie Cortese
2/11/17 12:00:00 PM Lale Davidson
2/11/17 1:00:00 PM Cynthia Atkins
2/11/17 1:00:00 PM Michael Coene
2/11/17 2:00:00 PM Vimi Bajaj
2/11/17 4:00:00 PM Lauren Hilger
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The most exciting and adventurous and gutsiest new magazine I’ve seen in years.” Stephen Dixon
 
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Eye-grabbing… fun… bold… inviting… exemplary.” Sabotage
 
Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers….” The Washington Post
 
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The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.

Currently, Eckleburg runs online, daily content of original fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, and more with featured artwork–visual and intermedia–from our Gallery. We run annual print issues, the Eckleburg Reading Series (DC, Baltimore and New York), as well as, the annual Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction, first prize $1000 and print publication, guest-judged by award-winning authors such as Rick Moody and Cris Mazza.

We have collaborated with a number of talented and high profile literary, art and intermedia organizations in DC, Baltimore and New York including The Poetry Society of New York, KGB Bar, Brazenhead Books, New World Writing (formerly Mississippi Review Online), The Hopkins Review, Boulevard, Gargoyle Magazine, Entasis Press, Barrelhouse, Hobart, 826DC, DC Lit and Iowa’s Mission Creek Festival at AWP 2013, Boston, for a night of raw comedic lit and music. We like to promote smaller indie presses, galleries, musicians and filmmakers alongside globally recognized organizations, as well as, our local, national and international contributors.

Rarely will readers/viewers find a themed issue at Eckleburg, but rather a mix of eclectic works. It is Eckleburg’s intention to represent writers, artists, musicians, and comedians as a contemporary and noninvasive collective, each work evidence of its own artistry, not as a reflection of an editor’s vision of what an issue “should” be. Outside of kismet and special issues, Eckleburg will read and accept unsolicited submissions based upon individual merit, not theme cohesiveness. It is our intention to create an experience in which readers and viewers can think artistically, intellectually, socially, and independently. We welcome brave, honest voices. To submit, please read our guidelines.

Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away. – The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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SELFIE INTERVIEW | Christine Stoddard

Christine Stoddard is a writer and artist originally from Arlington, Virginia. She also is the founding editor of Quail Bell Magazine, an online and occasional print publication for real and unreal stories from around the world. Christine’s work has appeared everywhere from Cosmopolitan to the New York Transit Museum to the Tulane Review and beyond.

In 2015, Bustle picked her story, “One Year After Rolling Stone’s Disastrous ‘A Rape On Campus,’ Here’s How University Of Virginia Classrooms Have Changed,” as one of the site’s best of the year. That same year, Christine won a scholarship to attend BinderCon NYC and was selected for Yale University’s THREAD storytelling seminar. Christine’s work also has been recognized by the Newseum Institute, the Puffin Foundation, the Smithsonian Latino Center, The Southeast Review, the Poetry Society of Virginia, the Catholic Press Association, and other organizations. In 2011, Style Weekly chose her as one of the Top 40 Under 40 in Richmond, Virginia, her college town and her home of five years. Three years later, Folio Magazine named Christine as one of the nation’s top 20 media visionaries in their 20s.

Christine also is the founding editor of Comicality Magazine, the co-director of the documentary, “The Persistence of Poe,” the co-author of the book, Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries, and the co-editor of the books, Airborne: An Anthology of The Real by Quail Bell Magazine and The Nest: An Anthology of The Unreal by Quail Bell Magazine. Her book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, will be out later this year.

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work?

Christine Stoddard: Fairy punk magic, a passion for social justice, and the drive that comes with being the child of an immigrant.

Eckleburg: If you had to arm wrestle a famous writer, poet or artist, either living or dead, who would it be? Why? What would you say to distract your opponent and go for the win?

Christine Stoddard: I’d arm wrestle collagist Romare Bearden because he’s been such an influence on my approach to making art—and even the way I write. I’d distract him with, “Look! The library and the fabric store just dumped their entire inventories over there and everything’s free for the taking!”

 

Eckleburg: What would you like the world to remember about you and your work?

Christine Stoddard: I don’t want to be remembered. I want my work to be remembered. I want it to change people, or at least nudge them toward change. As for me? I’d rather maintain my privacy even in death.

Eckleburg thanks Christine Stoddard. Do you have new work published here at Eckleburg or elsewhere? Add your Selfie Interview and share the news with our 10,000+ reading and writing community. If you have a new book out or upcoming, join our Eckleburg Book Club and let our readers know about it.