Winter 2005
c o n t e n t s

 
Special Features
FIVE FABULIST YEARS
A Tribute to Margin's marvelous contributors

NEW! Report from the Associated Writing Programs conference, Vancouver BC, March 30-April 2, 2005
Margin celebrates in style; discussions of Consensual Reality; meet Paulo da Costa and Pauline Holdstock, Canadian MRists; a Margin (re)union; and more!

Magical Realism News
Our new blog gives you all the MR news we can find, all the time

Two-Way Mirror
A magical realist reader's diary for May ~ The Snow of the Admiral by Álvaro Mutis ~ [previous discussions: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez]

2004 Magical Realism Poll
Come read the results!

Letters

Through the Digicam
MARGIN: The year in pictures [a work in progress! come see what's up]

Fiction

Sara Paretsky
A Magical Realist, Accidentally on Purpose

Short stories
Kathleen De Grave, Shelley Gillespie, Bruce Holland Rogers, Garrett Rowlan

Flash fictions
John Branseum, Margarita Engle, Erin Fristad, Kathryn Kulpa, Garrett Rowlan

Poetry

Leaping Poems
Featuring work from CK Williams, BH Fairchild and Lawrence Raab

Ruth Knafo Setton
MARGIN poetry prize winner for 2004

Emerging Poet Series
Kelly Madigan Erlandson

Magical realist verse
Naomi Ayala, Jason Lee Brown, Allison de Freese, Maureen Tolman Flannery, LK Leu, Susan Roney-O'Brien, Katherine Soniat, Carine Topal

Nonfiction

Fabulously Real
An essay by William Pierce, Agni

Whatever Happened to Avon Bard?
Sleuthing from Bruce Taylor, Magic Realist Writers International Network

Film
Magical Realism's Angels

Columns

Latino Forum
Juan Rulfo

Travels with Bruce
founder, Magic Realist Writers International Network (MRWIN)

MR 101
Kathleen Alcalá

Practical Magic
Magical realism's 'Incredibles'

Retrospective
Janet Frame

 

 Resources
Marginalia
literary glossary

Links
Magical realism on the web ~ updated Jan 2005

Reading List
fiction, poetry, nonfiction

Kid's Reading
age appropriate recommendations

Periphery
Less than 20 left!
Margin's collectible literary 'zine and fundraiser

MRWIN
The Magic Realist Writers International Network

Archives
The first five years

For Writers Only
Markets

Submissions Guidelines
For poets, writers, artists

Contests
Short Story Contest:
"WAR STORIES"
     due June 15
Free Verse Contest:
"EVIDENCE OF MIRACLES"
     due August 1

2006 Theme Edition Guidelines
"Passages to India"
Deadline: February 28, 2006

What is Magical Realism?
Our criteria page

Wishlist
Books we wish someone would review for us

Bookshelf Challenge
Rewarding stores and libraries

About Us

Contact
Email and surface mail addresses

Kudos
Our brag page

Staff
Who we are

Press Kit
For inquiring minds

Subscribe
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Friends of Margin
Miscellaneous links

Contributors
Our writers and artists

Copyright
Acknowledgments

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