We are funded! Everyone is doing a happy dance! Thank you so much for your support and faith. We are ecstatic. Look for your names in TNG Vol 2 in the acknowledgements!

Coming soon your first-run, first edition copy or copies of The New Guard literary review will be in the mail. If you don't yet have a copy, I am very excited for you to see our wonderful first book. I should mention that the book is available on our website, at Longfellow's and at the USM Bookstore.

We all worked so hard on this first issue! Thank you again to everyone who believed in us.

Below is TNG's 2010 team. Each year we will rotate our reading editors. Here is our amazing inaugural issue team!

Thank you again so much!!

Shanna

THE NEW GUARD 2010 TEAM

Shanna McNair, Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Jesse Miller, Consulting Editor

Judges:
Donald Hall, Poetry
Debra Spark, Fiction

Editors:
Erin Enberg, Fiction
Jenny Doughty, Poetry
Melissa Falcon Field, Fiction
Shanna McNair, Fiction
Jesse Miller, Fiction
Brandi Neal, Fiction

Copyeditors:
David Scribner
Sherry Whittemore
Shanna McNair
Jesse Miller

Arts:
Diana Choksey, Animation
E. Kendra Denny, Cover Art
Jeremiah Hackett, Cover Design
Jennifer Harrington, Layout
David Lydon, Web Design
Shanna McNair, Ad Design
James Provenzano, Web Art
Patrick Rioux, Videographer
Sergei Chaparin, Merchandise Art

The New Guard made its first appearance at the AWP conference in D.C. this month. I was thrilled that Jotham Burrello interviewed me for the Columbia College website. Jotham interviews editors and publishers and writers for his students, so that they might better understand this business of writing. Below is the six minute interview:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1494875207...

We also got some press on obitmag.com yesterday, a focus on our special segment, "Writers to Writers: Fan Letters to the Dead," an idea by TNG contributor Scott Wolven. The article was written by Suzanne Strempek Shea and is below:

http://www.obit-mag.com/articles/dear-mr-dickens-youre-great-love-me

Because of our faithful and generous backers it's looking good for our Kickstarter project, too! Thank you for all your help everyone! We are almost there!

We are thrilled and proud to have backers on board with our mission here at TNG! Thank you so much for your generous support. We have just two weeks left to reach our goal, and as you know if we don't reach our goal here on Kickstarter we will not be able to use any of the donations. Time is growing shorter but we have hope! TNG made an appearance at AWP in D.C. last week and we made lots of new friends and got the word out. I was interviewed by Jotham Burello for Columbia College's website, and a few online entities picked us up for articles. We feel it was an important part of our first year on the literary scene.

The money we're asking for will go to fund such costs as the actual printing of the publication, distribution, and getting the word out about our contests. This money will secure just a portion of what we will need to fund our second review, with all new judges and all new contributors and segments. What we have brewing for TNG #2 will knock you out! Please chip in today and be a part of our team, and help make this special new annual review possible.

The New Guard is the first independent multi-genre literary review in the state of Maine. I founded this review to support fellow writers, first and foremost. I also wanted to juxtapose narrative with experiment and create a new dialogue. The submissions were absolutely incredible.The journal is an exemplary collection of inventive and brave new work.

This review came out of thin air. I had no money to put up, but I had a team of great people working toward a common goal. As with most things starting out it was far more expensive than anyone predicted to put the review into the world. Going forward we are looking to keep our financial structure sound, so that we can put out another wonderful book and keep up our good work. This is my biggest support of the arts. I hope you will join me in this important support of writers, who really do have it rough.

It is our mission to publish the unknown writer alongside the established writer. This issue contains two new, unpublished essays by Bill Roorbach and Jaed Coffin, and a segment called "Writers to Writers: Fan Letters to the Dead," where several writers created fan letters especially for TNG. The contributors to that segment are: Sven Birkirts, Adam Braver, Boman Desai, Annie Finch, John Goldbach, Tom Grimes, Richard Hoffman, Maxine Kumin, Thomas Lynch, Josip Novakovich, Lewis Robinson, Afaa Michael Weaver and Scott Wolven. Please see www.obit-mag.com for an article by Suzanne Strempek Shea on the fan letter segment. Soon the also will be a video interview will be posted on Columbia College's website. We'll keep you updated!

For more information please visit our website at www.newguardreview.com or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thenewguard