Crazyhorse, a literary journal published at the College of Charleston has been named one of “12 Literary Journals your Future Agent is Reading” by Writer’s Digest magazine in the November/December 2009 issue. Crazyhorse publishes the entire spectrum of today’s fiction, essays, and poetry-from the mainstream to the avant-garde, from the established to the undiscovered writer.
It’s exciting,” says Garrett Doherty, Editor, “to see that the good work of Crazyhorse’s interns, creative-writing students, and editors is getting out there, and that it’s helping agents in their search for a next exciting writer. And very heartening to see the journal as a part of the writer’s progress: trying/learning to write, burning pages, showing your writing to a professor or mentor, failure, elation, experimentation, publishing in a literary journal, repeat the last seven steps a few more times, and then the call from the agent: Could we read more?”
Writer’s Digest polled 40 literary agents to see which journals they read to discover new talent, then chose 12 of their picks for the article. Crazyhorse joins other leading publications including Boston University’s AGNI magazine, University of Chicago’s Chicago Review and the New York Journal’s McSweeney’s and Zoetrope.
“They’re [literary journals] essential to the world of writing,” says April Eberhardt, literary agent and former Zoetrope: All-Story head reader. “So many wonderful writers have begun their careers there, and for those of us who love the excitement of discovering a marvelous new voice, literary journals and magazines are the gift packages in which they arrive.”
About Crazyhorse
Crazyhorse was founded in 1960 by the poet Tom McGrath, has been in continuous publication for the last forty-three years. Printed two times a year, it has published some of the most important writers of the last half century, including John Updike, Raymond Carver, Jorie Graham, John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Ha Jin, W. P. Kinsella, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Charles Wright, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, James Tate, and Franz Wright, to name only a few. In the pages, you’ll find some of the finest writing being published today: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, Guggenheim fellows, NEA fellowship recipients, and authors with awards from the O. Henry Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Best American anthologies.
