DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room Co-hosts Literary Magazine Marathon Weekend

New York, NY -- The magazines may be little, but the weekend is big, big, big! It's time once again for CLMP's annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend, a massive showcase highlighting America's literary magazines and journals. Discover hotbeds of talent and free expression. Engage with new writers and the editors who cultivate them. Hundreds of lit mags will converge on NYC to present new writing and sell their issues for only $2 a pop, with the proceeds going to Housing Works, a nonprofit organization serving homeless people living with AIDS, and to The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, a nonprofit organization serving independent literary publishers.

The Magathon kicks off the weekend with a celebratory "marathon" reading on Saturday, June 4, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at The New York Public Library's DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. Over a dozen readers -- editors representing journals of every size and style, from promising upstarts to the oldest, most established -- will present favorite selections from their latest issues.

The reading leads up to the much-anticipated Sixth Annual Literary Magazine Fair at Housing Works Used Book Café, Sunday, June 5, from 12 to 5 p.m. at 126 Crosby Street in Soho, where readers hungry for the freshest literature leave with armfuls of lit mags discounted more than 50% at $2 a copy! An astounding array of journals will be on hand, hundreds from all over the country, half with editors present to meet and greet. Web-based literary magazines will also be on display via laptop computers.

The fair was founded in 2000 by editors Jenine Gordon Bockman of Literal Latté and Rebecca Wolff of Fence; and has connected thousands of readers and writers by raising the profile of these exceptional literary publishers.

About the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) was founded in 1967 to serve independent publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose through technical assistance and advocacy.

This program is made possible with support from the NEA, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs -- and is co-sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of The New York Public Library, Fence and Literal Latté.

Contact: Thom Didato : 212-741-9110 x12