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Discipline	Fiction
Language	English
Edited by	P. H. Madore
Publication details
Publisher	disproductions (United States)
Publication history	2005-2007; 2009-Present
Frequency	Bi-Monthly
License	Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
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ISSN	1948-1217
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dispatch litareview (ISSN 1948-1217) is an electronic magazine publishing primarily fiction, occasionally non-fiction. Originally founded in 2005 on a bi-annual schedule, it was shut down in Fall 2007 after four issues. In early 2009, it was re-initiated as a bi-monthly single-author magazine.

Contents 1 General 1.1 Staff Past & Present, Alphabetical 2 Present Day 2.1 Issues 2.1.1 2009 3 History 3.1 First Five Issues 3.1.1 Zero-Point-Five 3.1.2 DISPATCH One 3.1.3 DISPATCH Two 3.1.4 DISPATCH Three 3.1.5 DISPATCH Four 3.2 The Name

General

Staff Past & Present, Alphabetical

• Christy Call (staff artist, 2009-present)
• Taylor Collier (poetry, 2005-7)
• Malon Edwards (fiction, 2005-6)
• Jamie Lin (co-editor, 2005)
• P. H. Madore (editor, 2005-present)
• Dan Nucci (poetry, 2005-6)
• Jennifer Patel (art, 2005-6)
• M. Blair Spiva (chief poetry editor, 2005-6)

Present Day

dispatch litareview was relaunched on April 1st, 2009 as a completely different notion than its predecessor. It now pays $10 per story published, publishes one story per issue, and releases two issues per month (the first and fifteenth). It is published by the reconstituted disproductions, which is run primarily by the editor of dispatch, P. H. Madore.

Beginning with dispatch thirteen, a song is featured with each issue. The first song was by Mike Young and was called "Midnight!"

Issues

Below is a list of the new issues of dispatch litareview, founded in 2009. To see these stories, visit the website.

2009

• Sixteen, "Unclosed Apartments" by Brian Edward Bahr (November, 2009)
• Fifteen, "Sucker Fuckers" by Benjamin Parris (November, 2009)
• Fourteen, "Caravel" by Ian Singleton (October, 2009)
• Thirteen, "La Place d'Albertas" by Duncan Whitmire (October, 2009)
• Twelve, "A Mile Down from the Mission" by Travis Mills (September, 2009)
• Eleven, "Oikos" by Adam Moorad (September, 2009)
• Ten, "Mule Factory" by Steve Goerger (August, 2009)
• Nine, "The Absolutely True Story of Peter Allan Dunn" by Kelly Jameson (August, 2009)
• Eight, "Three Little Stories" by Amelia Gray (July, 2009)
• Seven, "Tarn-Pit" by Drew Kalbach (July, 2009)
• Six, "George Stories" by Sharon Goldner (June, 2009)
• Five, "Low Tide Gurgling Against The Breeze" by Jackie Corley (June, 2009)
• Four, "Novelty" by Mike Boyle (May, 2009)
• Three, "Girl" by Elizabeth Ellen (May, 2009)
• Two, "Never Enough" by Dave Morrison (April, 2009)
• One, "Ball of Dooshie Levitation" by Mike Young (April, 2009)

History

Dispatch Literary Journal was founded in June of 2005 by P. H. Madore and Jamie Lin. Madore was seventeen, Lin was fifteen. Lin quit long before the first few submissions began to roll in and later founded Alighted Ezine. Madore set about finding other people to staff the magazine with him. At that time he reportedly did not believe it possible to operate a literary journal on one's own, especially one of the magnitude which he sought after.

DISPATCH One was scheduled to be released January 1st, 2006. As the Fall of 2005 approached Madore took on a staff of volunteer editors including Malon Edwards (fiction), Dan Nucci (assistant/poetry), and M. Blair Spiva (poetry).

First Five Issues

Zero-Point-Five

In October, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It was widely held that FEMA under the Bush Administration had dropped the ball and many of the lives lost amounted to blood on their hands. The staff of still fledgling and unproven DISPATCH decided that something had to be done. They decided to release an early issue of anti-Bush fiction, poetry, and art. It was numbered 0.5 and titled BUSH MUST GO! All proceeds were scheduled to go to the Red Cross, but there were so few sales that it didn't matter. DIS-PRESS was founded as a result of this and went on to other publishing ventures.

It is possible that starting out on a negative note was a clear enough precursor to the magazine's eventual fate.

Madore wrote about the issue in his first commissioned piece of non-fiction.

DISPATCH One

Madore was very busy during the submissions period of DISPATCH One (Winter 2006). He'd moved to Athens, Georgia where lived his poetry editor, M. Blair Spiva. He was working a lot. He put together the issue on a laptop he bought from a one-night-stand for $20. For this reason the issue was crafted with hand-coded HTML and the presentation overall suffered for it. Since the hosting was canceled by way of non-payment in 2007, and the computer where all the files was kept was destroyed in transit in 2006, very little of the issue remains. Madore is to this day unsure who he actually published in that first issue.

DISPATCH Two

DISPATCH Two (Summer 2006) was the first PDF edition. The design was innovative and untarnished by outside influence; Pete McCommons of Flagpole Magazine said in a private e-mail exchange, "I'm blown away by the beauty of it: it's so cleanly laid out."

The issue had two covers, as did the next two issues. The idea was that one cover should be static for the sake of the battered ISSN organization and the other should be free.

DISPATCH Three

DISPATCH Three (Winter 2007) was produced in Baltimore, Maryland, where Madore had moved after reportedly being banished from Athens, Georgia (where the previous two issues had been produced.) Madore built on the innovation of DISPATCH Two and released the 150-something page issue to broad approval. Since most files were destroyed in the moves Madore went through, very little is known about this issue other than the dates of its production. All e-mail files, server files, and PDFs have been lost to the mist at time of writing.

DISPATCH Four

After production of DISPATCH Three, Madore, now working entirely on his own, burned a number of bridges with his supposedly red political bent. Reports of Madore having been a socialist, communist, and anarchist have all been received with little or no profound evidence to the leanings. Nonetheless, the fourth issue was the most polemic yet.

While Madore promised a Fifth issue in his letter from the editor, it never materialized. Such things are frequent in the literary world and history shall not too harshly judge Madore nor the people who jumped ship on him up to that point.

The Name

dispatch was first called Dispatch Literary Journal. Then, for sure a short time, it was called Dispatch Literary Review. After saying the words aloud, the staff at the time (beginning of 2006) decided that Madore's coinage of dispatch litareview would work. At that time they insisted that it be spelled in all capitals, an arrogant move that didn't last a year.