Creative Flight is Celebrating the Fifth Year of Publication

 

Creative Flight is Celebrating the Fifth Year of Publication

Dr. Dipak Giri who has been holding the position of Editorial Chief of a literary journal, named “Creative Flight” (ISSN 2582-6158) has successfully led the journal to the fifth year of publication in late summer. With the current April issue (vol. v, no. 1) the journal has achieved this milestone this year. The journal started its journey in the year 2020 and since then, it has been bringing out issues regularly. Presently this journal is inviting submission all around the year. Though the submission window remains always open, the journal brings out only two regular issues- April and October. The last date of April and October issues are fixed on 31 March and 30 September respectively. Poets and authors have been enthusiastically sending their composition all around the globe ever since its inception. Dr. Giri has been well managing everything by bringing out every issue timely and elegantly. The editorial and the advisory boards of the journal are crowded with members who are eminent academics and writers.

The name of this journal in itself bears a significant meaning. In the introduction section of the journal, the following words have been inscribed:

“Creative Flight, as we all know, means the flight for creation. The name itself suggests the famous mythical flight of Prometheus, the Greek legendary figure who soared high up to heaven to steal fire (light or knowledge) in order to deliver mankind in particular and whole creation on earth in general from darkness (ignorance). In the same way, the journal aims to generate spirit of creative flight among writers who with Promethean zeal of creativity, will be driven to serve larger sections of humanity through their write ups.”

Driven by the same Promethean zeal as stated above and also the same in the introductory section of the journal, writers across the globe have been contributing articles, book reviews, poems, short stories, travelogues and interviews with an interest to publish them. However, all submission undergoes a strict and rigorous process of blind review as stated in the home page of the journal. In this process, the identity of contributor is held back from the reviewers. Only after passing the review process, the submission is treated to be eligible for publication and the contributor is mailed individually about the selection of his or her submission prior to publication. The journal is intentionally kept open access so that it may serve as a storehouse of resources to all and sundry without access barrier. The main motto of this journal is to prefer quality to quantity and hold this motto all time in future.

So far as vision and mission of the journal is concerned it is to encourage academics and writers to submit their write ups globally, to make materials published on this journal open access to all, to publish standard submission written as per the guidelines given in the section Submission Guidelines of Authors and to become one of the leading international journals sticking strictly to its policies. The journal has so far fulfilled the international standard as it is providing exposure for all writers, irrespective of any border or nationality. As it is evident from Our Contributors’ section of the journal, many eminent contemporary poets of the world have been the regular contributors in this journal. From India, they are Abhay K. (India), Anju Makhija (India), Amol Redij (India), Anuradha Bhattacharyya (India), Bina Sarkar Ellias (India), D. C. Chambial (India), Gopi Kottoor (India), Jernail Singh Anand (India), K. V. Dominic (India), K. Satchidanandan (India), Kuli Kohli (India), Manu Bhattathiri (India), Meher Pestonji (India), Nalini Priyadarshni (India) , Nandini Sahu (India), Neelam Saxena Chandra (India), P C K Prem (India), Ram Krishna Singh (India), Rochelle Potkar (India), Smita Agarwal (India), Tapan Kumar Pradhan (India), Vinita Agrawal (India) and many others. From outside India, Arthur Broomfield (Ireland), Baron Wormser (U. K.), Bob Beagrie (U. K. ), Bruce Bond (U. S. A.), Constantin Severin (Romania), Daya Dissanayake (Sri Lanka), Des Dillon (U. K. ) , Emily Critchley (Greece ) , Esther Morgan (U. K. ) , Fiona Sampson (U. K. ), Geoffrey Philp (Jamaica), Gregory Woods (U.K.), Heather Sager (U. S. A.), James Sutherland-Smith (U.K.), Jee Leong Koh (Singapore), Jeff Weddle (U. S. A.), John Eppel (South Africa), John Guzlowski (U. S. A.), Josephine Dickinson (U.K.), Kamala Wijeratne (Sri Lanka), Malachi Edwin Vethamani (Malaysia), Martin Figura (U. K. ), Michael Dickel (Israel ), Mike Jenkins (U. K. ), Miriam Sagan (U. S. A.), Peter Robinson (U. K. ), Randolph Healy (Ireland), Sarah Wardle (U. K. ), Sean Street (U. K. ), Sheenagh Pugh (U. K. ), Ted Pearson (U. S. A.), Victor Rodriguez Nunez (Cuba) and Zvonko Taneski (North Macedonia) are some names which truly deserve to be mentioned here. They are all great contemporary poets and writers and Creative Flight has become successful in bringing all these literary giants on a single platform.

The association of many a great personality in itself tells the story of success of Creative Flight within a very short span of five years. The journal is a great addition to the contemporary literary journals and has the potential to become one of the best literary journals in future. Dr. Dipak Giri, himself a writer and an editor of so many books, is a devoted literary personality, has successfully set this stage of worldwide bonding among writers through Creative Flight which, as its name implies, is truly rendering a great service to humanity.

AUTHOR:

Sahadev Roy is a PhD Research Scholar, Department of English, OPJS University, Churu, Rajasthan, India. He is working as a State Aided College Teacher at Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India and he is a regular contributor of Creative Flight. He has so far published more than ten articles in the Academic Section of the journal.