What is the HTML Review?
The HTML Review is a literary magazine that publishes work that utilizes the web as a medium. Each issue is a collection of poetry, essays, fiction, experiments, and art that all try to leverage or play with the web in different ways. Right now we publish once a year each Spring.
Why did you start it?
We had a lot of friends making cool things that didn’t have great artistic homes. We were really interested in what a magazine model could offer web-based art and text, how that might differ from other approaches. But mostly, we thought it would be a fun thing to try once, and here we are, four years later.
How are you thinking about it now?
It’s been a joy to watch it become the beginnings of a community, an ever-growing network of really cool people from extremely different backgrounds and methodologies entrusting a little bit of themselves to us. With each issue we keep learning more about what sort of work is the best fit for this model. The web is an ever-changing stage for performance and examination, we hope to keep publishing work that highlights its nuances and possibilities.