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Caketrain is edited by Amanda Raczkowski and Joseph Reed, who cofounded the project in 2003 with Donna Karen Weaver. In short, we found ourselves realizing that this “crazy” passion-for-the-arts thing, which had long been fostered in all of us, was not going to be muffled by the workaday world, or the dire state of cultural trends, or logic, or common sense. Yes, the drive was here to stay, and we had to do something about it; fortunately, we shared these feelings with one another, and together, turned them into a journal and press. Many have taken this route before, and we are proud to be accepted into their number. All of us—readers, writers, editors, and publishers alike—are engaged together in the struggle to stand our ground in a larger landscape in which literary daring is marginalized, ghettoized on small, out-of-the-way shelves where it sits unnoticed, unread, and ultimately forgotten. We believe that literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry are, as ever, the cornerstones of new and inventive human observation and the ever-expanding frontiers of linguistic expression. We endeavor to remind: All of this still exists. Still, this matters. Surely someone out there will be interested to know that all of our journals and chapbooks are printed on a sixty-pound acid-free white stock, perfect bound by a ten-point high-gloss cover stock, and uniformly trimmed at 5 3/8 × 8 5/16 inches to line tidily up in a manner suitable for even the most anal-retentive collectors’ shelves. The text is set in a freeware Garamond variant designed and distributed by Jon Wheal, and the books are printed in Kearney, Nebraska, by Morris Publishing, an outfit that typically toils in the cookbook trade, yet rises dutifully to meet our increasingly-bizarre demands year upon year and emerges largely unscathed. Please address correspondence to Caketrain Journal and Press, Box 82588, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, or e-mail: caketrainjournal@hotmail.com. Press Clips “Small Press Points” “Review: Tom Whalen’s Dolls” “Review: Caketrain Issue 04” “Literary journal Caketrain earns four candles.” |
Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with a precision and power that feels as if it was written for your eyes alone. To wit and to whet, here is a snippet, a slight nip of our delicious lit mix: New and Upcoming afterpastures, by Claire Hero Caketrain Issue 05 Loving 5_Trope, AGNI, Barrow Street, Believer, Black Warrior, Born, Bound Off, Caffeine Destiny, Canarium, Conjunctions, Controlled Burn, Diagram, Double Room, Drunken Boat, Elimae, FC2, Finishing Line, Fishouse, Flood, Found, Fringe, Frostproof, Future Tense, Ghoti, Harpur Palate, Hobart, Jubilat, Mad Hatters’, Many Mountains Moving, Mid-American, NewPages, New Yinzer, New York Tyrant, Nidus, Nightboat, Noon, Obscure, Parsifal, Pebble Lake, PENNsound, Pudding House, Quick Fiction, Rattapallax, Redactions, Salt, SleepingFish, Spinning Jenny, Starcherone, Steel City Review, Titular, Ubu, Unicorn Mountain, Unsaid, Web del Sol Mourning 3rd Bed, Alterran, Deek, Melic, Press 62
Copyright 2003-2008 Caketrain Journal and Press. Rights to individual works revert to their respective creators. ISSN 1547-6839. How’s Our Driving? Into Befriending Trains? Hosting by Doteasy |
