Indie Magazines Converge!

January 27, 2006

You come away with all sorts of stats and tidbits of information, like how many letters it takes to get someone to renew, or how many new magazines fail in their first year (3 out of 4). The experience has been both inspiring and daunting. Sometimes, I'll think, "That's a good idea, we should try that." The wheels start turning in my head and I imagine how I can apply all that I'm learning to make Hyphen a better publication -- and a better-run business. But sometimes it's overwhelming to hear about things that we should be doing that we're not. There's so much to do that we've not even gotten to! And we don't have the manpower as a volunteer-run organization to currently pursue them. I can go from feeling full of promise to feeling dejected all in the matter of minutes. I guess this is no different from how I usually feel about Hyphen; it's just more compressed.

Such a crazy business.

Anyway, on to another topic. The Northwest Asian American Film Festival kicked off last night. Lots of good stuff, so check out their schedule if you're in the Seattle area.

And another film related announcement: I am now accepting entries for the shorts film festival that I curate in Houston each May. This will be the 6th year for Slant: Bold Asian American images. Click here for the Call For Entries.

Contributor: 

Melissa Hung

Founding Editor

Melissa Hung is the founding editor of Hyphen. She was the editor in chief for the magazine's first five years and went on to serve in many other leadership roles on the staff and board for more than a decade. She is a writer and freelance journalist. Her essays and reported stories have appeared in NPR, Vogue, Pacific Standard, Longreads, and Catapult, among others. She grew up in Texas, the eldest child of immigrants. Find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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One suggestion.... update your website. In this day and age, people expect interactivity, simple and easy navigation and some videos and sound.
Thank you for these suggestions. We're working on it. Our staff has been talking about how to improve our web site when we relaunch it later this year.
The website is fine. And to counter the vote above, please no videos and sound. Especially no Flash. I don't come here to read multimedia. The RSS feed is nice; the site just needs to look as it's supposed to in Firefox.
Or more photos or something to click on and read besides the blog....