Indiana Voice Journal, July 2018 cover
Online publishing is a natural start for literary journals with minimal budgets. Indiana Voice Journal is one such publication, intent on bringing new and under-represented writers to its readers on the web, every month. Publisher and Fiction Editor Janine Pickett started the journal as a way to speak out from Anderson, Indiana, and connect with other writers.
Janine Pickett
In our chat, she reveals the diligent work she puts into social media marketing, which has brought hundreds of thousands of page views from a worldwide readership — and an unexpected deluge of submissions from international authors.
Pickett doesn’t shy away from stories that tell the hard human truths of our world’s problems. This episode’s selected story, “New Teeth,” dives into the world of a mother facing down a beloved child whose addiction is out of control.
The author is Jacqueline Masumian, a graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, who now lives in Westport, Connecticut. She has enjoyed careers in acting, singing, dancing, theater management and landscape design as well as writing. Besides her short fiction and book reviews, she has published a memoir, Nobody Home.
Jacqueline Masumian
We have included a second story by Masumian, also published in Indiana Voice Journal, titled, “Barn Dance.” In it, a contra dance event allows a wife to reflect on her long marriage, and foresee a way to change her steps.
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