Parlor Mission Statement

I couldn't see fictionalizing the Parlor mission statement if I didn't have to. So, I got in touch with Mikael Johnson. She's a student, is on the Parlor editorial staff, and works in the Graduate Department office. Here's what she had to say:

"Our purpose is twofold: We want to publish anything and everything that reflects the newer movements in writing (even stories that aren't an attempt at modernism are valid as writing) AND we want to give a chance for our MFA students to engage in the process of becoming working writers (it's mostly about the first one, though). The parameters were literally only in word length (max of 5,000). The genre is everything (for now). [After further inquiry, I learned this means poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.] We didn't want to limit the creative process or do a "theme" lit mag, as we are also trying to validate the lit mag's existence, to hopefully go national in another year or so ( i.e. solicit submissions from outside of the the Rosemont community). Really we just want to give a chance for writers who aren't simply spewing out something remotely resembling modernism (since the New Yorker can't seem to break out of its '70s mentality) to be taken as serious writers."

Hope that helps!