Blog Post #12

Rhetorical Analysis of Publication Venue: Fugue

1. Editors' description of essays accepted by the journal/magazine

They accept Poetry, Fiction, nonfiction, and experiment pieces from September 1st through May 1st. If a person wishes to submit to more than one genre each piece has to be submitted separately. They will consider submissions sent to another journal but they will not consider multiple submissions. Once a writer has submitted a piece they must wait for a response before submitting another. They do not specify the length of Creative Non Fiction works but do specify a 10,000 word limit for fiction works.
Writers who's work is chosen to be included in the journal are given two complimentary copies of the journal as well as payment. There is no mention of a submission fee and
Fugue only accepts online submissions at this link https://fugue.submittable.com/submit

2. Audience and purpose

Fugue is a literature journal edited by the graduate students in the English and Creative Writing Programs at the University of Idaho. Fugue publishes a diverse selection of new and established writers.

3. Description of representative essays published in the targeted venue

The essays published in Fugue are reflections and narratives and their Spring issue included short non-fiction pieces. The longest non-fiction piece included was 17 pages, it was titled Twenty-Five Facts For People Who Might Enjoy Taking A Bath While Dying by Joshua Unikel. The piece was a reflection on death that was separated into numbered sections with funny catchy titles and included references to Rasputin, Virginia Woolf, and a man who drowned in Ketchup.  From looking at a number of their publications I noticed they only choose about 3 non-fiction pieces to publish, at most there where no more than five but they do publish a lot of poetry. 
They made their back issues available online for free and you can click on any issue and are able to view the full publication.