Scroll: Are Online Literary Magazines the Future of Literature or A Mere Indulgence for Writers and Ignored by Readers
An interview with Indira Chandrasekhar, founder-editor of the online literary magazine outofprint, offers some answers.
By Sathya Saran, June 16, 2015
On the one hand, the number of literary magazines in print where writers can publish short stories, essays and poetry before they can become full-fledged books is dwindling. As far as English writing in India there haven’t even been any since this form of writing exploded. So, online magazines, where costs are lower and production quite simple, could well be the literary ecosystem that readers and writers both need.
On the other, however, the very ease with which such a magazine can be set up makes it possible for a boom in such digital publications, without adequate gatekeeping when it comes to quality. Moreover, all these magazines in India expect writers to write without being paid, a policy that may not attract the best writing.
Indira Chandrasekhar, who started Out of Print as a platform for writers of short fiction related to the Indian subcontinent, explains where her magazine stands in this scheme of things. Excerpts from an interview:
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