Baring the Device: Ethics in Publishing

The Gravity of the Thing’s editors have compiled a brief list of resources that relate to ethical practices in publishing. Here are a few ways writers, editors, and publishers are critically analyzing literary craft and publishing processes.

Futures Glossary | Nadia Niva

"God the forgetful / I alphabetize nervously towards you / I can’t stop rehearsing middle-aged schemes / I salted myself with crisis..."

Selected Poems | Justin Hollis

"My relatives lined up on one side of the table like in pictures of the Last Supper. Or the condemned at the gallows..."

Five Steps to Figure Out What You Already Know About Writing | Marie Cloutier

"Be an ambitious emerging writer who wants to try something new. Take a workshop about writing about writing, a new-to-you subject you’re interested in exploring..."

The Air Creates | Janet Belding

"Sometimes I float above us the sheet around me, out behind me fluttering in the pure air the landscape grass brown against purple-shadowed hills, the color so sweet it tastes like flowering grass..."

The Register Remains Blank | Kumar Sen

"When it opens, the room forgets one detail it was sure it needed. When it closes, the room continues as if that loss was never structural..."

A Vocab Test for the Overachiever | Abby Lavery

"Define cohort. a) the people you fall with. The kids whose potential you see drain out of them when burnout hits..."