Mission Statement
Fifth Wednesday Journal is a literary print journal published twice a year by Fifth Wednesday Books in Lisle, Illinois. We seek to bring together readers and the best poets and storytellers we can find, both established writers and fresh new voices. We are committed to quality writing which is entertaining, intellectually stimulating, and emotionally meaningful for the reader. In short, we seek to publish work that we enjoy and can enthusiastically recommend to our readers.
We welcome prose and poetry in any style—traditional, realistic, modern, and experimental—you name it, as long as it meets our standards for high quality in content and form. We intend to offer a broad range of poems and stories with appeal for a wide range of quality readers. If you think we might like your work, but are in doubt, submit it and find out.
We welcome black-and-white photography which enhances our journal and meets our esthetic expectations. While we do not look for thematic association between visual art and the prose and poetry we publish, we hope that the one art form will complement the other to provide the reader with a more enjoyable experience.
If you think we meet our goals, please remember to tell your friends and your favorite booksellers about us. Fifth Wednesday Journal is distributed by Baker & Taylor.
Editor/Publisher
Vern Miller. Vern has authored many stories and articles. He holds advanced degrees in German Language and Literature, as well as an MBA degree. He has taught at two major universities. Now he is combining his enthusiasm for literature with his interest in business to publish the Fifth Wednesday Journal. His work has appeared recently in Snowy Egret.
Advisory Editor
James Ballowe. Jim is a poet and an essayist. He is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Bradley University. While at the University of Illinois-Urbana, he learned the craft of editing on the staff of ACCENT: A QUARTERLY OF NEW LITERATURE. He currently teaches courses in nature writing at The Morton Arboretum.