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July 02, 2005
Asian Pacific American Journal ceases publication
Last month I received my two contributors’ copies of the Winter 2005 issue of The Asian Pacific American Journal. I liked the cover art of the magazine: front to back it is a single sketch of a snapshot of life in a Chinese restaurant. Inside you will find mostly prose and some poetry from writers coming from a wide swath of Asian American backgrounds. I have only begun to read from the collection. The copies, however, came with a letter announcing that “this issue is the very last for us – we are finding it difficult without full-time dedicated staff and a distribution strategy.” That is unfortunate. The APAJ, late as it has often been in reaching its planned publication dates (this was supposed to be the Spring 2003 issue), has been one of the few markets devoted to Asian American creative writers.
However, the note in the letter about lacking a “distribution strategy” makes me curious. Does it mean the journal is not marketed anywhere? And how is it that the Asian American Writers Workshop website, the home of the journal, does not even carry a mention that the Winter 2005 issue is finally out? Perhaps the website is not maintained regularly due to staffing. But the AAWW does send out regular e-mailings and none of them have mentioned the publication of the journal. So if you want a copy, you’ll have to send $10 and write the journal at the Asian American Writers Workshop
Posted by Mahmud Rahman at July 2, 2005 01:49 PM
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