Lit Mag Marathon Weekend

June 14th and 15th

All events are free and open to the public

The magazines may be little, but the weekend is big, big, big! It's time once again for CLMP's Lit Mag Marathon Weekend, a massive showcase highlighting America's literary magazines and journals. Discover hotbeds of talent and free expression. Engage with new writers and the editors who cultivate them. Hundreds of lit mags will converge on NYC to present new writing and sell their issues for $2 a pop with all the proceeds going to Housing Works, a nonprofit organization serving homeless people living with AIDS.

The Magathon kicks off the weekend with a celebratory "marathon" reading on Saturday the 14th from 4-6:30 PM at the New York Public Library Periodicals Reading Room, on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. Over a dozen readers—editors representing journals of every size and style, from promising upstarts to the oldest most established—will present favorite selections from their latest issues.

The reading leads up to the much-anticipated Fourth Annual Literary Magazine Fair at Housing Works Used Book Café, Sunday, June 15 from 12-5PM at 126 Crosby Street in Soho, where readers hungry for the freshest literature leave with armfuls of lit mags discounted more than 50% at $2 a copy! An astounding array of journals will be on hand, hundreds from all over the country, half with editors present to meet and greet. Web-based literary magazines will also be on display via laptop computers.

The fair was founded in 2000 by editors Jenine Gordon Bockman of Literal Latté and Rebecca Wolff of Fence; to date the event has raised over $25,000 for Housing Works and connected thousands of readers and writers by raising the profile of these exceptional literary publishers.

This program is made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and is co-sponsored by Fence, Literal Latté and the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of the New York Public Library.

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