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The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) has launched the Lit Mag Adoption Program for Creative Writing Students, which allows undergraduate and graduate creative writing professors to include literary magazines in their courses.

Students receive discounted, 1-year subscriptions for selected literary magazines—such as (*cough cough*) the Iowa Review—and professors receive a free "desk-copy" subscription. Each participating class will receive at least two issues of the magazine during the semester.

In addition, classes will have direct interaction with the magazine publisher/editor through a virtual (or in-person where local) "one-on-one" chat session.

The program aims to promote a generation of new writers who are also active readers and productive members of the larger literary community.

[This interview appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of The Iowa Review.]

I first met Chris Offutt outside the fabled Foxhead bar on Iowa City’s east side. What I had heard about Chris Offutt was that he graduated from the Workshop during the fabled Conroy days—when Frank Conroy ruled the Workshop with painstaking intensity and tough love—and that he wrote about hunting. I had shot a pigeon with a BB gun at age twelve, from the second-story window of my friend’s brownstone in the Bronx, an experience that continues to plague me with guilt.