Versal literary journal


Versal is an English-language literary journal that publishes poetry, prose and art. It was founded in 2002 by American poet Megan M. Garr and is published by wordsinhere, a literary organization in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2009, Poets & Writers magazine listed Versal as One of '22 lit mags that do more for your work.'
Versal publishes both new and established writers from around the world, including Argentina, Uruguay, Morocco, Romania, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, South Africa, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, the United States, Canada, France and Australia. Its editor Megan M. Garr has, in the Versal 7 and 8 editorials, on the Versal blog and in an interview, discussed the connections between Versal and translocality. Garr was also a panelist at the 2011 Prague Microfestival of Literature at which translocality was a central theme. The text of Garr's presentation during the panel can be found on .
Versal is archived at the National Library of the Netherlands, ISSN is .

Staff

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The journal's contributors include:
"Versal" 10
Shifa Ali

Matthew Baker

Christophe Brunski

Caetano Carvalho

Serena Chopra

Cody-Rose Clevidence

Hannah Cooke

Erin Costello



Kathryn Cowles



Tamar de Kemp



Eleanor DesPrez

Laura Eve Engel

Gerald Fleming



Luke Andrew Geddes

James Grinwis

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick



Geoff J. Kim



Daniel Takeshi Krause

Laurence Levy



J. Annie MacLeod

Julia Madsen

Eric Magrane

Dora Malech



Rusty Morrison

Bill Neumire

Lisa Annelouise Rentz

Andrew Michael Roberts

Kayla Romberger

Brandon Shimoda



Lee Sittler

Kristine Snodgrass



Freddy Tuppen

Siobhan Wall





Amy Wright

Jessica Young


Versal 9
Louis Armand

Stace Budzko

Yago Cura

Heather Hartley



Stacy Kidd

Jane Lewty

Nate Liederbach

Tony Mancus

Antoinette Nausikaä

Alice Notley

Maya Sarishvili

Amy Touchette

Ken White
Versal 8
Carlos Barbarito

Chung Ho-seung

Neil de la Flor

Michael Genovese

Kim Holleman

Paul Lisson

Norman Lock

Kuzhali Manickavel

Laura Mullen

Kerri Rosenstein

Selah Saterstrom

Maureen Seaton

Brandon Shimoda

Kristine Snodgrass
Versal 7
Agustina Bazterrica

Emily Carr

Joel Fishbane

Albane Gellé

Elizabeth Gross

Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

Mary Miller

Trey Moody

Sawako Nakayasu

Rufo Quintavalle

Peter Shippy

Nicole Walker

Jessica Young
Versal 6
Wiljan van den Akker

Marosa di Giorgio

Ben Doller

Emmanuel Moses

Takashi Hiraide

Sándor Kányádi

David Miller

Xiao Kaiyu

Dawn Lonsinger

Jenny Arnold

Selfa Chew

Alex Piperno

Jennifer Arcuni

Sandra Jensen
Versal 5
Vesna Biga

Jeffrey Beam

Tsead Bruinja

Myronn Hardy

Theodore Worozbyt

Kelly Zen-Yie Tsia

Joseph Radke

Julie Marie Wade

Andrew Michael Roberts

Josh Hockensmith

Alissa Nutting

Billy O’Callaghan

Mary Buchinger
Versal 4
Helen Degen Cohen

Robert Glick

Tatjana Lukic

Alex Piperno

Claire Potter

Mark Terrill

Aleida Rodriguez
Versal 3
Marilyn Hacker

Naomi Shihab Nye

Russell Edson

Julie Doxsee

Barbara Jane Reyes

Joanna Klink

Sandy Florian
Versal 2
L. Ward Abel

Kate Foley

Noah Eli Gordon

Claudia Grinnell

Rob McLennan

Michael Rothenberg

Larry Sawyer

Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Sonia Zagwyn

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