NthWORD

nthWORD Magazine

nthWORD Magazine Winter 2009
Editor-in-Chief	Ryan O'Connor
Categories	Online magazine
Frequency	Quarterly
Circulation	30,000 (email)
Publisher	Robert Frigault
First issue	March 2009
Company	nthWORD L.L.C.
Country	USA
Based in	Burlington, Vermont
Language	English
Website	http://www.nthword.com/

nthWORD is a quarterly online magazine for creative people, by creative people.^[1] The magazine publishes works of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and art by both established and emerging writers and artists, as well as mock ads.^[2] Its goal is to bring together writers and visual artists ^[3] and to engage people who are passionate about ideas, words, and images.

In addition, nthWORD conducts interviews with both commercial and independent artists and professionals working in a variety of creative disciplines and maintains nthWORD Shorts, a blog with a focus on creativity. nthWORD Shorts includes daily and weekly posts on art, culture and entertainment—including, but not limited to: filmmaking, literature, design, publishing, photography, and social media—as well as artist interviews and reviews on theatre, books, film and technology.

Notable contributors include award-winning poet Lyn Lifshin, director Antoine Fuqua, humorist Harmon Leon, best-selling author David Henry Sterry, multidisciplinary artist Michael Holman, advertising executive Mat Zucker of Ogilvy & Mather and award-winning filmmaker Liz Canner.

Staff

• Publisher/Co-founder: Robert Frigault
• Editor-in-Chief/Co-founder: Ryan O'Connor
• Associate Editor: Jennifer König
• Associate Editor: Eliza Kane
• Assistant Editor: Nick Johnson

Select Interviews, 2009 – present

Film

• Producer Kim Waltrip (Expecting Mary) (Issue 3, Fall 2009)
• Director Antoine Fuqua (Brooklyn's Finest) (Issue 6, April 2010)
• Filmmaker Liz Canner (Orgasm Inc.), (Issue 5, February 2010)
• Harold Blank, Theatre Owner and Partner of Vermont International Film Festival (Issue 5, February 2010)
• Screenwriter/Director Michael Holman Basquiat (film) (Issue 8, December 2010)

Theatre

• Actors Matthew Glassman and Carlos Uriona of Double Edge Theatre (Issue 5, February 2010)
• Virlana Tkacz, Founding Director of Yara Arts Group by Olena Jennings (Issue 6, April 2010)

Writing/Publishing

• Shane Jones (author) of Light Boxes (Issue 8, December 2010)
• Dennis Loy Johnson of Melville House Publishing (Issue 8, December 2010)
• Poet Laureate Charles Simic (nthWORD Shorts, Olena Jennings, April 18, 2011)
• James Scudamore (author) of Booker Prize nominated Heliopolis (2009 novel) (nthWORD Shorts, Ryan O'Connor, July 11, 2011)

Music

• Matthew Clark of White Rabbits (band) (Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2009)
• Thomas Gobena and Ori Kaplan of Gogol Bordello (Issue 7, August 2010)

Select Reviews, 2010 - present

Advertising

• The World’s Greatest Salesperson Contest by Ogilvy & Mather (nthWORD Shorts, March 29, 2010)

Books

• Zero by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao (nthWORD Shorts, November 2010)
• The Good-Bye Angel by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao (nthWORD Shorts, November 2010)
• Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin (nthWORD Shorts, July 2010)
• Seven Days in Rio by Francis Levy (Jessica Maybury for nthWORD Shorts, January 2012)
• The Dewey Decimal System by Nathan Larson (Kola Boof for nthWORD Shorts, February 2012)

Film

• The Squid and the Whale: A Comedic Victory, Not for the Sentimental (nthWORD Shorts, October 27, 2010)

Photography

• Miss Aniela (Natalie Dybisz) on Flickr & Freedom of Expression (nthWORD Shorts, February 3, 2010)
• Viola Muscinelli on Censorship (nthWORD Shorts, February 8, 2010)
• Jessica Stoker: Beyond Inhibitions (nthWORD Shorts, February 13, 2010)
• Nate Howard On Seeing Haiti, Nate Howard Photographs Haiti (nthWORD Shorts, February 14, 2010)

Theatre

• The Salvation of Anarchy: Review of The Disappearance by Double Edge Theatre (nthWORD Shorts, April 1, 2010)

Festivals

• The Flat Lake Festival by Jessica Maybury (nthWORD Shorts, June 9, 2010)

Music

• The Decemberists (band) Review of The King Is Dead (album) by Seth Katz (nthWORD Shorts, January 27, 2010)
• St. Vincent (musician) Review of Strange Mercy by Seth Katz (nthWORD Shorts, September 15, 2011)
• of Montreal Review of Paralytic Stalks by Seth Katz (nthWORD Shorts, February 8, 2012)

References

External links

• Official nthWORD Website
• nthWORD Shorts
• Duotrope Digest
• mademan magazine