On New and Emerging Writers

On Angela Fountas's  wonderful web site for writers, Write Habit, she offers a great list of literary magazines especially for new and emerging writers.

What got my attention was her definition of new/emerging writers — "emerging meaning writers who have not yet published a book, and new meaning writers who have not yet published in journals" — which I was glad to see, since I've never really been clear on the whole thing.

When asked by students, in my cluelessness I've quoted Tobias Wolff's defi