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Local Magazines and Organizations:

• The Loft The 800-pound gorilla of Minneapolis's literary milieu.
• Whistling Shade A local magazine that has featured my work, from time to time.
• Urban Pioneer Another local magazine that has published my work -- defunct, but the website is still up.
• Speakeasy A magazine published in a joint effort by the Loft and Utne Reader.
• SASE Another Loft-type organization.
• Spout Active but often dormant literary magazine/collaborative of Minnesota writers.
• Mid-List Press A local publisher of small-run books
• Loose-leaf poetry Promoters of poetry, publisher of chapbooks and readings about town.
• Minneapolis Writer's Workshop: Local folk reading local work in a local setting.
• Dislocate The University of Minnesota's new literary journal.

• Carol Bly Local Grande Dame of literary writing and teaching.
• Connie Brockway Romance writer.
• Emily Carter New York transplant. Came for the rehab, stayed for the climate.
• MaryJanice Davidson I kid you not, she writes "paranormal romance." And makes money at it.
• Kate DiCamillo Award-winning kid's book author.
• Louise Erdrich Another venerable veteran of the local scene.
• Vince Flynn writes hard-boiled, Republican political thrillers.
• Neil Gaiman How he ended up "near Minneapolis" is anyone's guess.
• Dylan Garcia-Wahl, a fine local poet.
• Michael K. Gause, another fine local writer
• Judith Guest Writer of Ordinary People and some other stuff.
• Pete Hautman Writes young adult novels.
• Garrison Keillor Grampa Gary.
• Lorna Landvik Another Chick-lit favorite.
• Chuck Logan writers thrillers
• Shannon Olson Chick-lit shortlister.
• John Osander re-imagined Nick Carroway's return to St. Paul in his novel Call me Kick!
• John Sandford Local mystery master.
• Bart Schneider Author and editor of SpeakEasy
• Quinton Skinner City Pages theater critic and published novelist.
• Sarah Stonich lives and writes in St. Paul. Literary, with a lyrical style all her own.
• Faith Sullivan Lives and writes in and about southern Minnesota.
• Joel Van Valin Editor of Whistling Shade and published novelist.
• University of Minnesota Creative Writing Faculty Various and sundry tenure-track life-ponderers, including Charles Baxter, Michael Dennis Browne and the other Grande Dame of Minnesota Literature, Patricia Hampl.
• Minnesota Crime Wave

• Robert Bly Iron John; Not sure where he's living these days.
• Tim O'Brien Currently living in Texas, but a local boy.

• River Styx Good stuff, although their website is pretty scarce.
• Missouri Review. Has rejected me more times than I can count. Still, I keep going back for more.
• Small Spiral Notebook An interesting name for a web-only magazine. In any case, SSN is a New York-based mag with great design and good stories and an incredibly photogenic editorial staff. What more do you need to succeed?
• Web Del Sol Tons of stuff here.

• Cursor.org Local web log of why most everything the current adminstration does is a bad idea.
• Tom Paine The radical right's worst fear: critical thinking. Not that anyone's paying attention, what with all the pretty bombs and stories of heroism, and, oh, forget it. Support the troops!
• Anarchy Magazine a journal of desire armed, and other incomprehensible rhetoric.
• Irregular Times
Hard core left-wing.

• Boing Boing, a compendium of bizzare things you don't need to know.
• Bookslut. Not as dirty as it sounds.
• POD-dy mouth Review of Print on Demand (POD) books.