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Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Lucy Terry Prince Prize
During times such as these, poetry is often one of the vehicles that reminds us of the importance of bearing witness. Mount Island’s Lucy Terry Prince Prize has come to a close and we are excited to announce our grand prize winner, Brittny Ray Crowell’s “Blood...
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Highlights from Touché! A Tournament of Words
On October 19th at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, we celebrated our new issue by playing an original game show: Touché! A Tournament of Words. If you didn't make it to the party, you may have read our recent post, "Thank you for an incredible launch party!" and...
Mount Island No. 4 Available Now
It is our very pretty pleasure to announce that our new issue, Mount Island No. 4, is now available. Read free samples from the issue on our website, and purchase your copy for $3.99 in our online store or wherever ebooks are sold. Issue Contents Raptures of the Deep...
‘The Rural World In All Its Fullness’: Literary Magazine Highlights People Of Color, LGBTQ Voices | Vermont Edition
This radio segment originally aired on October 24, 2019 on Vermont Public Radio's Vermont Edition. Living in rural areas can sometimes feel isolating, something that's especially true for less represented demographic groups, such as people who identify as LGBTQ or...
Thank you for an incredible launch party!
Friends, we are still on cloud 9 after our launch party at the Brattleboro Literary Festival last night. Thank you to everyone who came out and shared in all that laughter and love. And congratulations to the winner of our tournament of words, Angela Wilson!
Excerpt: “Selections from Inferior Normal” by Tyler Orion
An excerpt of Tyler Orion’s “Selections from Inferior Normal,” which will appear in our fall 2019 issue and in limited edition letterpress broadsides from May Day Studio in Montpelier, Vermont.
Alerts! Submissions Are Closed (Temporarily), Plus an Early-bird Subscription Sale
Mount Island magazine is temporarily closed to submissions while we prepare to release our inaugural issue this October. Use our early-bird coupon code until to purchase an annual subscription for 30% off (valid only until December 31).
Mount Island Launch Party at The Brattleboro Literary Festival
Mount Island is throwing a launch party as part of The Brattleboro Literary Festival on Saturday, October 19th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM! The Brattleboro Literary Festival is a heavily-attended, annual festival in Brattleboro, Vermont that attracts readers, publishing...
Magazine focuses on unheard voices | Brattleboro Reformer
By Elodie Reed, Landscapes correspondent "BRATTLEBORO — Using the current U.S. Census Bureau standards for what constitutes a "rural" area — 2,500 people or fewer — the town of Brattleboro, officially falls into the urban category. To Desmond Peeples, a Brattleboro...
Staff Q&A: Brianna Stallings
M. Brianna Stallings | Managing Editor, Nonfiction Editor mbriannastallings.contently.com M. Brianna Stallings is a writer and editor, though she prefers the title “Professional Word Wrangler.” She has almost 20 years of experience in the newspaper industry. Her...
Staff Q&A: Jasminum McMullen
Jasminum McMullen | Editor, Fiction & Poetry Jasminum McMullen is a Sharpie pen enthusiast, a Jackson family nerd, and daughter of Oak Park, Illinois. Her poems and fiction have appeared in CRAM, Journal of Modern Poetry (JOMP), Journal of Ordinary Thought (JOT),...
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