Jacket (magazine)

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Jacket was an online literary periodical founded by the Australian poet John Tranter, published from 1997-2010. The first issue was in October 1997.[1]

Jacket
Type of site
Online magazine
Available inEnglish
FoundedOctober 1997 (1997-10)
Dissolved2010
Successor(s)Jacket2
Country of originAustralia
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)John Tranter
EditorJohn Tranter, Pam Brown
URLjacketmagazine.com
CommercialNo
Registrationnone
Current statusArchives still available.

Until 2010, each new number of the magazine was posted at the Web site piece by piece until the new issue was full, when the next issue started. Past issues remain posted as well. Most of the material was original to the magazine, "but some is excerpted from or co-produced with hard-to-get books and magazines, partly to help them find new readers", according to the Jacket website.

Peter Forbes called Jacket the "prince of online poetry magazines".[2] After the 40th volume, Tranter gave the magazine to the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, where it was published with an augmented staff and resources at the Kelly Writers House as Jacket2.[3][4]

Awards

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  • Best of the Net award from the (Poetry) Mining Company in New York in December 1997.
  • Site of the Month at the Electronic Poetry Center site in Buffalo, New York, in November 1997 and December 1999
  • Recommended Site in the Web Del Sol Literary Ring site for Poetry in December 1997
  • Featured Site on the Booksmith Bookstore's "Literary Links" site in San Francisco, April 1998,
  • "Page One Award" site on the Fiction Webring in 1999
  • Encyclopædia Britannica Internet Guide Award site, January 2000

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Top 50 Literary Magazines and Metazines". Web Del Sol. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  2. ^ Peter Forbes (6 June 2002) Working the web: Poetry, in The Guardian. Retrieved 13 December 2006.
  3. ^ "About us". Jacket2. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Jacket Homepage". Jacketmagazine.com. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
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