Announcing Weave's September Subscription Drive!

As an independent literary journal, Weave Magazine relies on the support of our readers. Weave exists because you believe in our mission of writing, art, diversity and community. Weave exists because of our amazing contributors. Weave exists because of the support of our local arts and literary community. Weave exists because of subscribers.

Our past subscription drives have been successful, and we want to continue that success this month while celebrating our latest issue. Our goal for this drive is 50 subscriptions in 30 days, because we believe in our community, our mission, our contributors, and in YOUR support!

SUBSCRIBE through Google Checkout during the month of September to receive:

• Two copies of Weave Magazine at a sweet discount!
• A public thank you on our website, including a link to yours!
• A warm fuzzy feeling for supporting independent publishing!

Start with our latest issue buy purchasing a current issue subscription (issues 09 & 10), or get issues 08 & 09 at once by purchasing a bundle issue subscription. All subscriptions are discounted during the entire month of September!

We just reopened to submissions, so it is the perfect time to get your hands Weave. If you are sending us work, consider supporting the publications in which you envision your work. Support indie publishing by subscribing to a fantastic journal of the best in contemporary art and writing.

Weave Magazine Issue 08 Now Available

We here at Weave Magazine are so proud to share our latest issue with you. It's been a long road to the finish line with Issue 08 and we couldn't be more pleased with out it has turned out. We're so grateful to our fabulous contributors for their work as well as their patience. We delayed this issue to make changes within the organization and we're all the stronger for it.

As always, dearest reader, this issue is packed with stunning prose, surprising verse, and compelling visual art. You'll meet Atlas, grandmothers, software engineers, and strange children. Visit a pool hall, California, a hotel bar, and Newfoundland. Read ekphrastic poems, stark realism in flash fiction, prose poetry, fantastical narratives, and everything in between. Indulge yourself on myth, madness, and myriad voices with Weave Magazine Issue 08.

Buy Issue 08 on Amazon (where you can also read a sneak preview)!

Weave Goes Bicoastal Celebration Sale

Weave's sixth issue marked a new era for this literary community. In addition to trying something new with our print design, Weave's Founding Editor and lifelong Pittsburgher, Laura E. Davis (that's me!), moved across the country to San Francisco at the end of June. While we have always published writers and artists from all over the country, Weave has been a lasting literary presence in Pittsburgh. I struggled with what moving Weave to California might mean for the community we built back home.

But changes occur and we adapt. A few months ago, we stopped announcing weekly literary events on our blog. The primary reason behind this change was when another great organization began providing the same information in a more collaborative fashion. While Weave will always be Pittsburgh born and bred, we are now a bicoastal journal. In fact, thanks to the great folks at Submishmash, who make online submission management so simple, Weave has staff members across the country. While the bulk of our staff remains in Pittsburgh, we also have folks in New York City, Philadelphia and Southern California. Our customer base is growing too. Weave can always be purchased online, but we are also carried in a number of bookstores. In Pittsburgh, you can find us at Awesome Books; in San Francisco, look for Weave at Books & Bookshelves. Expect to see Weave on the shelf at many other independent booksellers in the near future. 

Some things won't change. We will still participate in events like the Ligonier Valley Writers Conference and Pittsburgh's Small Press Festival. We hope to get involved with events like Litquake. We will be at AWP in Chicago again. I plan to host readings with former and current Weave contributors in the Bay Area, while continuing to hold readings for each issue in Pittsburgh. We hope to hold more community writing workshops across the county. 

To celebrate this growth and expansion, we are going to have a SALE on ALL ISSUES of Weave, including our latest issue, which features work from writers such as Nin Andrews, J.P. Dancing Bear, Jane McCafferty and Truth Thomas, among others. Just use the code "BICOASTAL" at checkout and you'll get 50% OFF any purchase! (And domestic shipping on all orders is only $2.) This offer is good for at least one week, maybe longer, so after you buy your copies be sure to go tell your friends about Weave's big sale. We hope you'll join our celebration by supporting independent publishing with your purchase today! 

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 June Subscription Drive!

Weave Magazine, as you may know, is an independent literary journal. While we were lucky enough to receive a bit of start up money from the lovely Sprout Fund, that money far from covers the cost of sustaining a long-lasting print journal.

Weave Magazine relies on your support.

If you've submitted to us, or are considering submitting, or have had work accepted by us and you haven't already picked up a copy of Weave, please support the journal that you would like to see your work published in. We understand that times are tough right now, but your support is the only thing that will, in the long run, keep us going.


That is why, throughout the month of June, Weave will be holding a subscription drive. Our goal is to get 30 subscriptions in 30 days. We know it won't be an easy goal to reach, but we know you're out there reading and we hope you value the work we do as editors as much as we value your work as writers and artists.

During the next 30 days, if you subscribe to Weave you will receive:

• Two copies of Weave Magazine!
• Fantastic Weave Swag!
• A public thank you on our website - including a link to your blog or website!
• A warm fuzzy feeling for supporting independent publishing!

You can subscribe to either issues 01 & 02 (and get two at once!) or issues 02 & 03. So head on over to our sales page and buy a subscription today!

PS: We also lowered the price of a single issue of Weave 01 to $7 - combine that with an 02 & 03 subscription and get three copies of Weave for less than $20 -wow!