Hello writers & readers!

Welcome to the online home for Epic Literary Magazine’s Spring 2011 issue. We, the editors of Epic, want to use this site to communicate important news about our upcoming edition, to bring you some exciting announcements (we still have a few up our sleeves), and as a resource for anyone looking for information on the magazine.

We also want to encourage you to comment early and often. As much as we English types like to be huddled up in a lonely corner with something leather-bound, we also love shiny, fruit-emblazoned little machines that allow us to have an actual conversation with other readers and writers. We hope this blog will help us better connect with you – so if you have a question,  something you’d like to see in the next Epic, or just something you’ve been holding back for a while, speak up. I promise we’re listening.

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Thanks, and see you around.

Andrew Orozco

New Media Editor

“if I could sell my soul I would sell it sweetly,

and not for money, but for love-

half-mangled minds seared with empyrean joy”

-Pastiche by Anna Crumpecker

“ELISE: I’m sorry but this is my life. I can’t just let it go for a month and pretend that every couple I see doesn’t remind me of- [Sighs.] Besides, you owe me this and you know it.

JON [quietly]: Look at this life I lead. I could never…

ELISE: We’ve been over this. I wouldn’t expect you to be involved. I can take care of everything.”

-Camera Obscura by Meg Wilki

“In the dark, beneath deep soft blankets, we thought we were in love. It was a night like all of ours; we were the only two people in all the world who were awake, and the world crouched down and hushed for us, for our power and our youth.”

-Superhero by Lindsey Howald

“since you are in our target demographic,

you may have seen this poem

advertised on TV.

honestly, we know

this poem looks better with actors.

but since this poem lowers inhibitions

after a while

it’ll make you look good too.”

-Bud Light Poem by Matt Pearce

“…there are moments when your truth peeks through and I know that there is something that lies beneath, and I want to help you unearth it, to shake the soil off each thing and take it for what it is.”

-Shell and Yolk by Brittany Barr,

2008 winner of the Francis W. Kerr Writing Prize