Weave News!

There is much going on here at Weave Magazine!

Margaret, Laura, Joel, and Robyn are plugging away at the plethora of submissions for issue 04. If you haven't heard from us yet, never fear! Margaret swears all responses will be sent by April 15th, come hell or high water.

Weave will be heading to the AWP again this year - we're sharing a table with the fine folks over at Open Thread and Margaret will be on the panel The In Sound from Way Out: Submission to Publication - come by and introduce yourself! We love meeting contributors and readers! Margaret promises to only be a little bit socially awkward. She's full of promises it seems.

In fun distribution news, you can now pick up a copy of Weave at Awesome Books on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh (they don't seem to have a website yet, but it's a lovely independent used bookstore right next to Spak Brothers, for those familiar with the area). Weave is also available at the independent bookstore Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley. Margaret and Laura can't wait to go there and poke around!

Finally, we at Weave are having a special offer for the remainder of the month of March! Only a few copies of Weave's first issue remain, and the next 8 people who subscribe to Weave will receive a copy of issue 01 for FREE! How awesome is that? Totally awesome and you know it. So go subscribe!

Weave Magazine at AWP 2009 in Chicago

Weave Magazine had a fantastic time this year in Chicago at the AWP Conference. We are so glad we got to meet some of our fantastic contributors for issue 01 as well as issue 02 (contributor list for 02 will be posted soon!). It was a whirlwind three days at the book fair but we thoroughly enjoyed talking to potential contributors and other folks interested in what we do at Weave. It was great to meet people from Pittsburgh who had not yet heard of us - we do hope you'll be around at some of the events in the future. Here are some great photos to document our visit to the Windy City.

Our lovely table. We have to admit, we love our cover and think it really draws people over to the table. Thanks Heidi!

Here is Laura with Adam from Open Thread, who shared our table with us on Thursday and Friday. You should definitely check out their fantastic regional anthology. Incredible.



Margaret sits with Flats and Riots author Michelle Stoner for her book signing. We were so lucky to have her at our table.Weave Magazine contributor Jay Robinson poses with a copy of issue 01.

On the left, Issue 02 contributor Andrew Mulvania along with other rather friendly folks who visited the Weave Magazine book fair table.

Finally, your Weave co-editors, Laura and Margaret who feel so very lucky to have an AWP book fair table. Many thanks to the Sprout Fund for making it all possible.

Weave Reminders

Just a quick reminder to everyone that our submission period for issue 02 will be closing at the end of the day Saturday, January 31st. We plan on having a small hiatus while make decisions about the final contributors and we prepare for our trip to the AWP Conference in Chicago this February.

We hope that if you are going to the AWP that you'll stop by our book fair table to meet the Weave editors and to pick up a copy of issue 01 in person. We are please to announce that we will have Pittsburgh's own Michelle Stoner available at noon on Saturday, February 14 at Weave's table to sign copies of her book Flats and Riots. We also plan on having some neat swag to give away along with a raffle for some writing essentials.

We also want to say good luck to the Pittsburgh Steelers this Sunday at the Superbowl! Let's get one for the other thumb guys!