Journal Review: Bathhouse Journal

Name: BathHouse Journal. www.bhjournal.com

Who They Are: It's a journal published by Creative Writing graduate students at Eastern Michigan University, but apparently not really connected to the uni in a formal way.

What They Do: BH makes 2-3 issues a year; each one is centred around a different topic. The latest one was about "hypermedia"; the one before focused on the Russian poetry scene. One of their main overarching goals, though, is to explore intermedia and "blur the line of traditional forms." Every issue I looked at had some submissions that were part poetry, part media of some kind (Flash movie/ in-life experiment/ etc.). I was thinking of Crystal in particular when I looked at this one, but it looks like they accept a pretty wide range of stuff.

Submission technicalities: They plainly state that they are open to all forms of "linguistic art," but ask that all submissions be limited to fewer than 3,000 words. They prefer email submissions to EIC@BHJournal.com when possible; when that is not possible, you have to include a SASE so they can return the work:

BathHouse
Eastern Michigan University
Department of English
612 Pray-Harold
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

You have to include an artist statement and a short autobiography. They read year-round but only publish a few times a year, so response times will be variable. If you get impatient, resubmit your work because apparently they are better about responding to resubmits than work that has been sitting there gathering dust for some time.

Note: They don't publish previously published work except in extreme circumstances.