Beginning in 2008, Flyway: A Literary Review is proud to announce its new image as Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. Now almost fifteen years old, Flyway has always been linked with the MFA in Creative Writing and Environment program at Iowa State University, and that relationship is now reflected in the journal's ties to environment. The MFA program states that "the literary arts acknowledge an inherent connection between the human predicament and place. With more people sharing our planet's finite space, and with our planet and its systems imperiled, an educated attention to place in the broadest sense of the term is vital. The human story finds its structure in geography, both natural and constructed, and in the complex landscape of cultural constructs."
Defining the terms of writing and environment was and is not easy. In our current issue, the editor's note elaborates on our evolving definition of environment as "the places where we make our lives, and the ways in which these spaces themselves change, impact us irreversibly. All work is written from a someplace which influences the way writers' words and ideas arrange themselves on the page." This new image of the journal is aptly reflected by the word 'flyway'--a place for blending and coming together to discover and celebrate humanity.
We are now accepting manuscripts (20-30 pages) of poetry that have a particular interest in wildness and the human experience. The winner will have his or her own chapbook section in the next issue of Flyway along with $500!
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Our new issue is now in the mail! It features several contest winners, and in our redesigned format! Check out the excerpts and information on our website for more information about this new issue.