Lowestoft Chronicle Editor reviews Mark Jacobs’ Silent Light for the Colorado Review
Author: Editor
Founded in September 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is a quarterly online literary magazine publishing travel-related fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
Our latest anthology, A Place to Pause, was included in the May 15th volume of Kirkus Reviews magazine. This Kirkus edition (Volume XCII, No. 10, p. 155) is a special Summer Reads Issue.
As a service to those who appear in the Lowestoft Chronicle, we try to honor some of these exceptional writers by nominating work for the many prestigious awards that surface around this time of year. There is usually a specific limit to the number of works an editor is allowed to nominate. There is also a money and time requirement, dictating that magazine editors up and down America must sacrifice their afternoon at the bar lining up shots to stand in line at the post office and spend the bar tab mailing nominations to a PO Box. An editor’s sobriety is usually rewarded with stony silence from those with the keys to these tiny PO Boxes crammed with thousands of envelopes that if read and acknowledged would take years to get through. Once in a blue moon, a new face joins the usual suspects. That’s the hope, anyway.
Over the years, we’ve nominated work published in our magazine for various annual awards. The process has rarely been straightforward. Armies of micro mag editors up and down the country have grown accustomed to spending their marketing budgets making clumsy dissertations out of their digital journals in order to get the work evaluated by Top Table judges.
Mercifully, the vast majority of judges have stumbled across an incredible tool that streamlines the review process. It’s a free email service provided by Google. Entries get to them instantly and it even removes the threat of paper cuts. If only all judges would share this knowledge with others.
The Best American Series
New competitions emerge now and then, but every few years, a Best Of anthology editor closes the door on their PO Box and returns the key. The Best American Series, published annually by Mariner Books (an imprint of HarperCollins), is still going strong. In fact, the Best American Short Stories has lasted since 1915. Its five other series publications continue to accept submissions.
This month, Stark House Press reissued The Accused and The Snatch, Daniels’ famed third and fourth novels, as a double-novel collection. The volume includes the scholarly essay “The Solidly Considerable Talent of Harold R. Daniels,” penned by the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle.
In recent years, Stark House Press began reprinting double-novel volumes by the late James McKimmey, a prolific writer who found success during the golden age … Read More ›
In case you missed it, earlier this year, the newest book in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, An Adventurous Spirit, received gracious attention on the review website Seattle Book Review.
A recent collection from Stark House Press, published in December 2022, features a couple of highly absorbing 1950s hardboiled mysteries by prolific novelist William Ard. The two adventures in this volume include Cry Scandal, from 1956, and The Root of His Evil, published in 1957 and reprinted as Deadly Beloved the following year. It also contains “Timothy Dane: A Hardboiled Combination of Toughness, Compassion, And Quiet Humor,” an essay by Nicholas Litchfield, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle, in which he discusses the history of the Timothy Dane series.
This November, Lowestoft Chronicle made the following nominations for the Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2024 Edition. As with hundreds of other online magazines, the annual selection process, onerous printing of documents, and waiting in line at USPS has been a labor of love since our founding. A selfless ritual to honor the brilliant writers who bless our magazine with their fine work. Alas, only six can be chosen.
The recent anthology, An Adventurous Spirit, was included in the November 15th volume of Kirkus Reviews magazine. This Kirkus edition (Vol. XC, No. 22) is the magazine’s first Best Books issue of the year, featuring the 100 best fiction and 100 best nonfiction titles plus their full Nov. 15 issue.