Review Requests (Updated June, 2011)
Saturday, May 21st, 2011Unfortunately, we are unable to consider every review request that we receive and cannot make promises right now about reviews. If you would like to get in touch with one of the FOC editors about reviews, blurbs, comments, promo, etc. please feel free to do so but we are only going to review and discuss work that we select and want to write about, when we feel so inclined and have the time available. We write about small press fiction and poetry because we want to, and because we want to discuss aspects of interest to us. We don’t make claims about expertise, and we do not see our reviews as an assessment of merit. We do not “evaluate”- we explore, we give impressions. We write about what moves us, and why.
As many of you know, indie press involvement is a labor of love and we find that reviews are more enjoyable and useful when we can spend the time the work deserves, when we can take the time to read carefully. We will do our best to support our community as much as possible and provide what we can, when we can.