The Standard Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 3: The Measure of Fine Fiction - Softcover

Coyne, Shawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1645011186 ISBN 13: 9781645011187

Verlag: Story Grid Publishing LLC, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The Third Issue of The Standard Magazine.

A new literary magazine for writers and aspiring writers that picks up where Writer's Digest and Poets & Writers began — a place to show our work and how we approach the pathway to truthful publication. Each issue brings together masterworks and nonfiction craft features exploring how fine fiction works and why it matters.

This issue — the Deliberate Issue — gathers its work around Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and a single question, How do you deliberately keep working when nothing seems to work? Every figure in these pages has reached the point where no one else can do the work for them — alone on a trail at seventy-five below, in a room whose wallpaper will not hold still, at a copyist's desk facing a dead brick wall, on a hillside made of the one chalk he forgot to bring, before a House committee, insisting on the solitude no one is spared — and the seven masterworks collected here are seven accounts of what a person does there. Not everyone comes through.

Two craft essays answer the question outright. Tim Grahl's "Deliberate Practice" explains why a writer can work diligently for forty years and never improve as well as why talent has nothing to do with it. Shawn Coyne's "Dead Letters" tells what happened to this magazine between its first masthead and this one, and why it had to be resurrected from the sentence up.

The Standard does not accept or commission outside submissions. Original fiction in The Standard is written by students in the Story Grid Writer Mentorship Program and edited by Story Grid editors — not as illustrations of a theory but as proofs of concept that the methodology produces real work meeting a real standard. There is none in this issue; when student work next appears, it will be because its author made the crossing to the standard themselves. For now, the issue centers on masterworks and craft essays — touchstones from the literary tradition that set the bar our writers are working to meet and the conversations that point the way there. Full color throughout. 112 pages. Original artwork accompanies every piece.

SEVEN MASTERWORKS

• A Piece of Chalk by G. K. Chesterton, edited by Alfred George Gardiner
• The Solitude of Self by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, spoken by the author and addressed to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
• To Build a Fire by Jack London, edited by Richard Watson Gilder
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Edwin Doak Mead
• Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville, edited by Charles Frederick Briggs
• How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston, edited by Devere Allen
• The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde, published by Alfred Trübner Nutt

TWO ESSAYS

• Deliberate Practice by Tim Grahl, edited by Shawn Coyne
• Dead Letters by Shawn Coyne, edited by Tim Grahl

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Story Grid Publishing LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1645011186
• ISBN 13: 9781645011187
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Juhasz Victor, Kozlover Sonnie, Miller Layne, Fang Yining, Chou YenYen, DeLuca Matthew, Nagai Kotaro, Nguyen Jeremy
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
• Herausgeber: Grahl Tim
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