There are many things to be taken into account while printing and producing a literary magazine as the constant flux of social, political, and economical issues are always playing a role in what people want to read, and how they want to read it (pdf., magazine, book, etc.) . As Kyle Schelsinger mentions in Paper Dreams, “War isn’t everything, but it changes everything: how we write, what we read, how we think we feel about what we see or “know”” (186). While climate change, deforestation, feminism, racism, and other issues are not wars like the Vietnam War, they are social, political, and economic wars against the citizens and the planet. These wars change everything for everyone and in respect, change everything for literary journals too. What Toyon needs to consider are the feelings their community has and piece together a journal which reflects the attitudes, the conflicts, the devastations, and hopes of our time. While Editors are reviewing submissions for production, this must always be in the back of their minds; they must always be searching for pieces that reflect what’s on society’s mind, what they want to read and need to read.
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