Two Butler MFA students, Luke Wortley and Zach Roth, have launched a gorgeous new online literary journal. Axolotl, which derives its name from a small sea salamander indigenous to parts of Mexico, aims to “celebrates magical realism, slipstream, fabulism, and other things that’ll take your head off.” Luke and Zach both have experience working with Booth: A Journal, Butler’s own literary magazine.
Their first issue is online now, filled with poems, stories, and art that editor Luke Wortley hopes will “take you somewhere and leave you with that ‘vast and untamable wanting’ for more from us in the future.” Zach’s sumptuous site design houses top-shelf content from GennaRose Nethercott, William Doreski, Trish Harris, and many others. Head on over to Axolotl to read a first issue so good it’ll make a tomcat smack a bulldog (to borrow Luke’s idiom).
Luke Wortley
Butler MFA’s Launch Literary Magazine
Two Butler MFA students, Luke Wortley and Zach Roth, have launched a gorgeous new online literary journal. Axolotl, which derives its name from a small sea salamander indigenous to parts of Mexico, aims to “celebrates magical realism, slipstream, fabulism, and other things that’ll take your head off.” Luke and Zach both have experience working with Booth: A Journal, Butler’s own literary magazine. Their first issue is online now, filled with poems, stories, and art that editor Luke Wortley hopes will “take you somewhere and leave you with that ‘vast and untamable wanting’ for more from us in the future.” Zach’s sumptuous site design houses top-shelf content from GennaRose Nethercott, William Doreski, Trish Harris, and many others. Head on over to Axolotl to read a first issue so good it’ll make a tomcat smack a bulldog (to borrow Luke’s idiom).
Get spooked at A Dialogue Halloween
As you may have read earlier this semester, your friendly neighborhood Dialogue workshop hosts low-pressure readings over the course of the year. Sunday evening, 5PM at the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing happens to be our next one. A Dialogue Halloween will feature five readers (shown above), a spooky, seasonally-appropriate theme, and free food.
What’s a little different than usual is that our readers have been invited to read stories from other authors, so there will be a nice mix of established authors and student work. Come out, show support to your fellow MFA brethren and sistren, and maybe consider signing up for our November reading! (No Thanksgiving theme, don’t worry.) Email me at zroth (at) butler.edu with interest.