Wesleyan Graduates Produce New Literary Magazine

David LowMarch 23, 20112min
(Left to right) Evan Simko-Bednarski '07, Laura McMillan '05, John Cusick '07, Adam Read-Brown '07 and Kevin Dugan (of the New School) are current managing editors at Armchair Shotgun.

Several Wesleyan graduates are involved in Armchair/Shotgun, a new literary magazine based in Brooklyn, N.Y. that publishes new fiction, poetry, visual art work and author profiles. The publication was co-founded by writers John Cusick ’07 and Evan Simko-Bednarski ’07 is run by an editorial and business staff that includes the co-founders and Laura McMillan ’05, Aaron Reuben ’07, Adam Read-Brown ’07 and W. Gavin Robb ’07.


Armchair/Shotgun

The staff celebrated the release of its second issue on March 18 at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. This issue features a profile by Kevin Dugan of novelist Jesse Ball, author of Samedi the Deafness and The Way Through Doors, an interview with Brooklyn-based artist Sono Osato, and original poems, stories and artwork.

Armchair/Shotgun considers submissions anonymously to provide a venue for new and veteran authors alike. It is a print publication and available in bookstores.

For more information, go to http://armchairshotgun.com.