Why create a literary magazine that focuses in adventure writing? What is adventure writing?
Like many writing terms (I once took an entire course in college that strove to define Nature Writing and by the end of it we still weren't 100 percent sure) it can be easier to describe by the authors that compose it. During my undergraduate years I created my own interdisciplinary major and called it Adventure Writing. This combined courses in English and Adventure Education. It was writers like Mark Jenkins (author of The Hard Way, Off the Map, and Timbuktu), Arlene Blum (author of Breaking Trail, a Climbing Life, and Annapurna: A Woman's Place), and Maria Coffey (author of Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow, and Explorers of the Infinite) that inspired me. Jennifer Jordan, Jon Krakaur, Kira Salak, Sherry Simpson, Gregory Crouch, and Wade Brackenbury among many others have written essays and books I consider adventure writing. The elements of nature, travel, and place, which are the focus of some other literary journals, are not easily separated from this type of writing, but are necessary threads which help to create it.
There are plenty of literary magazines and journals that focus on the environment, nature or place (these are wonderful), and there are plenty of outdoor magazines (Outside, Backpacker, Women's Adventure, Wend) and these are wonderful too. But until now, there has not been a literary magazine to showcase the type of writing I love most. I created Adventum Magazine because I love reading quality creative nonfiction about outdoor adventure just as much (if not more than) heading out the door and muddying my boots. It is my hope that this online & print literary magazine melds the best of both worlds.
~ Naomi Mahala Farr
Editor-in-Chief / Founder
Like many writing terms (I once took an entire course in college that strove to define Nature Writing and by the end of it we still weren't 100 percent sure) it can be easier to describe by the authors that compose it. During my undergraduate years I created my own interdisciplinary major and called it Adventure Writing. This combined courses in English and Adventure Education. It was writers like Mark Jenkins (author of The Hard Way, Off the Map, and Timbuktu), Arlene Blum (author of Breaking Trail, a Climbing Life, and Annapurna: A Woman's Place), and Maria Coffey (author of Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow, and Explorers of the Infinite) that inspired me. Jennifer Jordan, Jon Krakaur, Kira Salak, Sherry Simpson, Gregory Crouch, and Wade Brackenbury among many others have written essays and books I consider adventure writing. The elements of nature, travel, and place, which are the focus of some other literary journals, are not easily separated from this type of writing, but are necessary threads which help to create it.
There are plenty of literary magazines and journals that focus on the environment, nature or place (these are wonderful), and there are plenty of outdoor magazines (Outside, Backpacker, Women's Adventure, Wend) and these are wonderful too. But until now, there has not been a literary magazine to showcase the type of writing I love most. I created Adventum Magazine because I love reading quality creative nonfiction about outdoor adventure just as much (if not more than) heading out the door and muddying my boots. It is my hope that this online & print literary magazine melds the best of both worlds.
~ Naomi Mahala Farr
Editor-in-Chief / Founder
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