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Porchlight: A Literary Magazine Where Narrative, Design, and Photography Intersect. There are many ways to tell stories. There is the old-fashioned way: aloud. It has colors. And pictures.

We also have songs, books, paintings, photographs, television, film, video games, and websites. Each of these has its advantages, offering different ways of interacting with narrative. When putting together Porchlight, we had a few goals in mind:

* Accessibility: We wanted to create a literary magazine that could be enjoyed anywhere in the world.

* Environmental Impact: We wanted to minimize the

environmental impact of the art we publish. If we created paperback copies of our magazine, we would be wasting paper, glue, ink, postage, and envelopes. With modern technology, it is unnecessary to print pamphlets (so to speak) to disseminate information and art. Therefore we have opted to publish Porchlight as a PDF. For readers who choose to enjoy Porchlight on their computer or iPad, a PDF mimics the feel of a document. For readers who wish to read Porchlight paper-in-hand, a PDF can be printed for the road.

* Design: Unlike many literary magazines, Porchlight is not simply a black-text-on-white-paper publication. The PDF format enables us to present our contributors’ work in full color design, blurring the line between narrative and art. Porchlight is a literary magazine for the 21st century.

* Porchlight is free.
* Porchlight is 100% online.
* Porchlight can be read, perused, ogled, and cursed from your computer, or you can print a copy for yourself.
* Porchlight is not your basic black-text-on-white-paper literary magazine. And kick-ass design.

09/11/2020
COMPLAINT 2.5

The Editor of Porchlight is now running this online lit mag. Submissions are open:

https://bureauofcomplaint.com/2020/11/09/complaint-2-5/

APOSTATE by Eliza Culler It hurt when I lost god, my unbelief as real as the faith I used to love. There is no certainty, as promised—only myself and you and what we might make of each hour, togeth…

12/02/2020
IV. REAL TALK — STORYWOOLF

"Someone once told me that there are five quadrants of wealth. They actually said four, but I've made it five because in the United States, a loss of good health can kill all the others. Wealth consists of health, knowledge, time, relationships, and capital. The person who told me this said that at any given time, you're doing pretty good if you have three. Most people in startup land start with capital and health (and hubris!) and then grow the others. I’ve had to do it differently. For most of StoryWoolf's development, I’ve had knowledge and health, time and relationships."

The Story of StoryWoolf continues in anticipation of our Beta Launch in March. Keep reading to find out how in the world the Founder of Porchlight got from there to here.

Let's talk about money…rich people hate talking about money.

06/02/2020
III. CHANCES TAKEN — STORYWOOLF

The saga of how the Editor of Porchlight became the Founder of StoryWoolf continues with part three!

"That was in January 2012. We didn’t officially incorporate for another year. Do you know how long ago that was? Long enough for a friend’s kid to go from infancy to first grade. Long enough for me to amass some publication credits. To write a bad book (unpublished) and then a better one (shopping it). Long enough to amass innumerable exes. Long enough for the first Kevin to fall in love with and get married to a whip-smart French woman. Long enough for me to come out as bi and host a nationally ranked podcast on q***r s*x and dating in New York. Long enough for my cohost to fall in love with one of my best friends. I mean, I just officiated their wedding! Life has moved on. Three of my grandparents have died. It’s been seven years since that meeting and I am so familiar with waiting.

But I get ahead of myself. What you need to know for this part of the story is..."

We felt kinda guilty about it, but we did it anyway…

28/01/2020
II. HUSTLING — STORYWOOLF

"Meanwhile I tell my friends: I am going to start a company. It’s called StoryWoolf. I need to find some cofounders.

So I go to the New York Tech Meetup. And it’s a sausagefest. The men’s restroom has a line out the door and down the hall. The women’s is quiet. A couple of us at a time. We make knowing eye contact.

In the main room the lights dim and we see a few presentations. I take notes. These two guys get up and talk about this app they’ve made to disrupt taxi driving. Call it UBER. People laugh.

At the afterparty guys think it’s cute I have an idea. They tell me about their fourth going-to-fail venture. They’re serial entrepreneurs. Dad’s money. Their twenties spent on Wall Street. They want my number. They don’t want the business cards I’ve printed up. Just put your number in my phone?

I go home, dejected."

Be sure to follow us on StoryWoolf's new page too: https://www.facebook.com/storywoolf

StoryWoolf--brought to you by the founder and editor of Porchlight!

And I’ll get to that. I’ll get to my Big Idea.

21/01/2020
I. CELEBRATIONS — STORYWOOLF

Fans of Porchlight, the Editor and Founder of Porchlight has been busy in the years since publishing this lovely literary magazine, and it is with great excitement that she now invites you to read the story of that new enterprise.

StoryWoolf is a dream project to empower authors to publish and take control of their own careers. After nearly ten years, we will be inviting our first users to login and work with our engineering teams to debug the site and turn our BETA into something worth sharing with the world (this March!!).

In anticipation of that launch, the Editor of Porchlight and the Founder of StoryWoolf, has written about what it took to get here. What's fascinating is how many parallels there have been to the writing process along the way.

Please read and share. We can't wait to show you what's next.

Let’s start with a party.

26/09/2019
StoryWoolf () | Twitter

The editor of Porchlight has been busy cooking up something else that just might change publishing, one story at a time.

Follow on Twitter to be one of the first to know about our beta.

The latest Tweets from StoryWoolf (). WRITE [PUBLISH] READ CONNECT [REVIEW] REPEAT ________________________ Still in stealth mode. Soon in Beta. Los Angeles, CA

22/05/2015

Out of curiosity, where are our new fans coming from? How did you hear about Porchlight?

24/01/2015

Hey new fans! Thanks for liking us on facebook. I suppose you saw that we kicked the bucket a few years ago...but all our issues are still available online for your happy perusal. www.porchlightzine.com

29/05/2011
Eight Great Commercials With Writers As Pitchmen

Eight Great Commercials With Writers As Pitchmen

A recent New York Times Book Review essay on author brand-building cited Ernest Hemingway's and John Steinbeck's stints as a spokespersons for Ballantine Ale. (Not mentioned was The Poseidon Adventure author Paul Gallico, who appeared in the same series of print ads for the beer.) Of course, they we

25/05/2011

Should we revive? With guest designers? Contemplating a what a zombie Porchlight might look like...

28/01/2011
Porchlight: Super Issue | Porchlight: A Literary Magazine

Here it is!

Sound View by Elissa Leichter 6 Hurricane Maps by Catie Cleary 7 Madigan Theocrat by Andrew Madigan 10 Photography by Mike Chylinski 14 Coconuts by Shayne Barr 19 Wren’s Revenge by L.J. Moore 30 Night Crawlers in the Rain by Clayton Adam Clark 32 Photogr

25/01/2011

Just read the first draft of our last issue, due out this Friday, and I gotta say, IT IS AWESOME.

12/11/2010
James Frey’s Fiction Factory

Do not sell your soul to this man. Learn from the experience of others.

The controversial author is hiring young writers to join him in a new publishing company. The goal is to produce the next Twilight.’ The contracts are brutal.

08/11/2010
index

Fantastic exhibit on Sexuality, Identity, and Art in the 20th Century.

02/11/2010
Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent

Dang.

FOR DECADES in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Po***ck, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In th

25/10/2010
Words I Love -

Sweet.

In its most general form, “matriculate” means “to be added to a list”. It’s one of the most passive, uninteresting actions ever reduced to verb form. By this definition, milk matriculates every time I go to the grocery. It’s silly.

21/10/2010
Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language

UPDATE 11/10/2010: Thanks to Stephen Fry for mentioning this video on his twitter account, rather exciting! Using the wonderful words of acclaimed writer, actor and allround know it all (I mean that in the best of ways) Stephen Fry I have created this kinetic typography animation. If you like wha...

19/10/2010

"When is the next issue?" you may ask. Soon!

01/10/2010
The Suck Fairy

I am familiar.

Welcome to Tor.com, a site for news and discussion of science fiction, fantasy, and all the things that interest SF and fantasy readers.

20/09/2010
specialcollections/Heresy and Error/Heresy.Intro.htm

Just in time for Banned Books Week.

From its inception the early Christian Church sought to suppress books believed to contain heretical or erroneous teachings. With the development of the printing press during the latter half of the fifteenth century, Christian authorities in Europe ...

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