Blueprintreview
| Categories | fiction, poetry, visual art |
|---|---|
| Frequency | quarterly |
| First issue | 22 May 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Website | BluePrintReview |
BluePrintReview is an online magazine that publishes short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction and visual art.
The magazine was founded in May 2005 by the German author and web freelancer Dorothee Lang, who still edits it. Initially focused on experimental poetry and Flash fiction, it developed a broader spectrum over time. In June 2006, a first print issue was published: the mo(nu)ment issue. At the same time, the Collaborative blog Just a moment became part of the magazine.
Since the beginning, the concept of BluePrintReview is to explore unexpected connections between texts and images from unrelated places.
In June 2008, BluePrintReview was reviewed by NewPages.com, and characterized as "an online journal constructed to ease the complex and beautiful convergence of language and art and all the possibilities this entails".
Stories first published in BluePrintReview have been included in the best of the net online anthology by Sundress Publications, and in the Best of the Web[1] anthology from Dzanc Books.
Like most literary journals, BluePrintReview focuses on previously unpublished texts and images, yet includes the guideline note "reprints are fine, but please make sure to indicate this in the submission".
In 2009, a pre-published text in issue 20 induced a mail discussion about the impact of magazine layouts on its content. The key line of this discussion: "It's fascinating how taking the same words, and framing them differently can lead to a very different emotional response—a different experience entirely."
From that discussion, the idea emerged to dedicate a whole blueprintreview issue to reprints, to explore the layout effect further. The issue itself has the theme "re /visit /cycle /turn", it went live in October 2009, here the direct link: BluePrintReview #22.
The reprint issue also addresses the in-limbo-situation of orphaned texts: texts that get published in an online publication that later goes offline, leaving the texts as pre-published (and thus difficult to place again), but at the same time as not present any more. (A file with detailed process notes of the reprint issue and copies of the mail conversations is online, here the link: Some Aspects of Reprints.)
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