Sarah Marcus: You are the founding editor of The Critical Flame, an online journal of literature and culture, that publishes book reviews, literary essays, interviews, and more. What is different or unique about your journal? Why was it important to begin a "non" academic journal that publishes, for example, reviews that explore flaws and virtue in creative work? Where do you see this project going? Daniel Evans Pritchard: When I founded The Critical Flame in 2009, the outloo

Nicole Rollender: You founded your own press, ELJ Publications, so you could focus on publishing collections and chapbooks of poetry and fiction from new and emerging writers. Can you tell us about the history of the press? What kind of poetry and fiction do you publish, and as an editor, what do you look for in a manuscript or collection? Ariana D. Den Bleyker: We aim to be a press for every writer. We offer two journals, one specializing in the work of emerging writers and

Part 2 of 2: Inclusive Feminist Publishing Feminist writers and publishers have to do double duty in a lot of ways: first off, they promote the feminist message to the world at large—to readers who pick up a book of poetry and get to hear messages of equality, discussions of gender, etc. But the second duty is the one that’s a bit fuzzier. The second responsibility of the feminist publisher is to enact feminism within the literary world—to promote feminist writing, advocate