For Adjuncts Only: A New Literary Magazine Denies Tenure

by E Wayne Ross on June 4, 2009

The Chronicle: For Adjuncts Only: A New Literary Magazine Denies Tenure

For once, it pays to be an adjunct. Well, wordriver, a new literary magazine, doesn’t actually pay its contributors, but tenured or tenure-track professors need not apply.

Beth McDonald an adjunct professor of English at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, has spent years trying to think of a way to spotlight the literary work of adjunct instructors. She and Susan Summers, a member of the English department’s support staff, found a way this April, when the first issue of a magazine they expect to publish annually came out.