It was incredibly helpful to me before I was even a part of Entropy, just as a writer wanting to submit, and it has still been really helpful since. That ethos, that it’s truly about community. Having that kind of accessibility has always been really important to me. I don’t want to say it’s unparalleled, but it is really extensive and also free. JG: The Where to Submit list is a resource that. SCW: I reached out to you because I saw your Twitter thread last November, in which you quoted from Entropy ’s About page: “We like to think of ourselves as more than just a magazine or a website, but also as a community space.” I’d love to learn about what it was like to be a part of a digital publication that really emphasizes community and how Where to Submit relates to that vision. And here we are! I’ve worked on the list for about three and a half years. I worked with Dennis, and then he passed the list on to me. I thought it was a good way to find that stability again, and also that personal connection to the community I was looking to maintain. It’s something that I struggle extensively with, anything regarding planning, list making, executive function-I can’t keep a to-do list for myself, so I wondered how I was going to keep this list! But I figured: I got through NDR I can throw myself into this. It was an interesting decision on my part because, as I wrote in the final Where to Submit, this sort of work is absolutely not my skill set. I saw that Dennis James Sweeney, in the most recent edition of Where to Submit at the time, put out a call saying, “If someone else is interested in joining, reach out to me.” So I decided to go for it. I love having that direct connection with authors and other people in the community, so I asked myself: How do I maintain that? Of course, you don’t need an institutional affiliation to do those things, but I wanted something that felt more, for lack of a better word, solid. I was in the process of passing that position along to someone else, and I was like, I’m really going to miss this position. Justin Greene: I was entering the third year of my MFA at Louisiana State, and I was editor in chief of New Delta Review. I’d love to hear a little bit about how you ended up being the editor for the page. Stella Cabot Wilson: I want to start out by saying thank you for talking to me, and also how much I appreciate that you are willing to widely discuss your experience editing Entropy ’s Where to Submit. This conversation has been edited for concision and clarity. He is pursuing a PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His writing has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. Justin is also the co-founder and editor in chief of Ki, an editor for Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, and a poetry editorial advisor for Anthropology and Humanism. In December 2021, Don’t Write Alone editor Stella Cabot Wilson had a virtual conversation with Justin Greene, who has edited the Where to Submit page for the past three and a half years. While every facet of the magazine deserves to be celebrated, many readers have bemoaned losing one resource in particular: the renowned Where to Submit page. Known for being a magazine that upholds its promises to play a role in the greater literary community, Entropy will be greatly missed. Entropy self-describes as “a space where writers can engage with other writers, can participate in a literary community, where thinkers can collaborate and share both literary and non-literary ideas, and where writers can feel safe and included.” The magazine shared its final new content in December 2021, though the website will be live through 2022. In the fall of 2021, the literary community was saddened to learn that Entropy, an online literary magazine founded by Janice Lee in 2014, would be saying farewell.
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