Blueline began in the summer of 1978 as an outgrowth of a creative writing class Alice Gilborn taught at North Country Community College. It was continued by Alice and a group near her home in Blue Mountain Lake. After ten years as editor, Alice arranged for the journal to move to SUNY Potsdam where it has continued until 1998 under the editorship of Anthony O. Tyler with an editorial board drawn from the English and Modern Languages departments. In 1999, Rick Henry assumed the role of editor. The original goals, publishing stories and poems about the Adirondacks or other regions similar in spirit, have been maintained. During the years Blueline has been at Potsdam there have been minor alterations. In 1991 we bowed to the reality that we only publish one issue a year. Until 1987 when the journal was first published in a perfect binding, there had been two shorter issues per year, a history which was perpetuated for several years by calling the bound issue a double issue. Our content has gradually broadened to include more work from outside the Adirondacks, although we have kept a coterie of excellent Adirondack writers.
Our content is heavily devoted to stories and poems. We have a strong, national subscription base, but are also fortunate to receive support from the college, which assures that our future will not be precarious. |
