Burner Magazine

Sitting at Sidecar with Sarah Miniaci and Leah Stephenson, masterminds behind new online art and lit mag Burner, I can't help but feel like I've stumbled across two ass-kicking, whiskey-sipping fairy godmothers. The women, whose frustration with the literary establishment led them to create a magazine for "the chick who reads Cosmo and Kierkegaard in the same sitting," are intellectual art junkies, and a cocktail hour spent with them will take you on a mind-bending conversational journey through robot philosophy, sexual politics, being crazy in love, evil cheeseburgers, and, of course, the artists and writers for whom they are trying to create a home. The first issue of their artscape contains work from contributors who range from a 15 year old Californian poet, to former Rolling Stone writer Rob Spiegel, to the founder of Canada’s only literary erotica magazine. Read on, and discover the manifesto of the Burner Babe. read more...