Online literary journal Eclectica www.eclectica.org has been posting a wide range of work for fourteen years. What impressed me the most about this magazine is its variety: the summer issue boasts a diverse menu of fiction (from novella to short story), poetry, nonfiction, travel writing, reviews, and interviews. Eclectica doesn't focus exclusively on language either; each issue features a visual artist whose work is paired with posted writing. Reveiw site Bookfox listed Eclectica as number one in its top twelve online literary journals. Althought the Eclectica editors seem very serious about writing, there are hints of whimsy: a special poetry feature encourages poets to use four prechosen words in submitted work. The site design is very clean: sketched icons like the typewriter above decorate each section page. The fonts are easy to read but I don't know if I like the header font (very modern with big spacing) right up against the Times Roman list of authors. I was also confused why the Salon section that was named as "commentary" seemed to be the pairing of a poem with a short story. The site is easy to navigate, and very specific Writers' Guidelines are posted. I feel sure that I will submit, although they do not pay and warn that they will edit work. They also are not "interested in previously published work" and acquire First North American Serial Rights, "non-exclusive use of Electronic Rights, will all rights reverting to the author upon publication."
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