Arash Kamiar: Interview with Jared Rypkema

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Jared Rypkema is intent on making Jacksonville the literary capital of the SE. The Founder and Executive Director of the Bridge Eight Publishing Company discusses the slow movement to develop and recognize Jacksonville's unseen writers.



Jared Rypkema is making Jacksonville the literary capital of the SE. The Founder and Executive Director of the Bridge Eight Publishing Company discusses the slow movement to develop and recognize Jacksonville's unseen writers.

The fourth edition of Bridge Eight Magazine will be released soon. For the first time, they are offering exclusives and behind-the-scenes looks to their email subscribers (no cost). Sign-up here.

Bridge Eight Issue 4 is a cohesive collection of poetry and fiction that intends to, “breathe life into colorless spaces” – showing moments where the mundane turns to the surreal, the ugliness of existence is seen as suddenly beautiful, the unsurvivable circumstance a moment of transcendence. It features writing that carries urgency of intention and is unapologetic in its desire to get close to an experience as a means of revealing its truth. Release date: May, 2016. Preorders now available.



The print-only third edition of Bridge Eight Literary Magazine, Diversions, is still available.

Our most ambitious publication to date, Issue 3 is filled with carefully selected pieces from writers throughout the country. Inside you’ll find stories that speak to the elemental parts of who we are as humans – grief, joy, love- and poetry that will cause you to think and feel. We hope you will find these to be diversions from your plans and as much of a joy for you as they were for us

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