Mise En Place Publishing on Monday announced the launch of Revisionist, a new literary magazine featuring female writers, artists, and culinarians, to uplift and promote female voices.
Created by editor Kate Boyette and graphic designer Scott Long, the magazine is named after the famous Margaret Atwood quote, “We were all revisionists; what we were revising is ourselves,” and celebrates female creative visionaries in an industry historically dominated by men.
“As a writer myself, I’ve found the publishing industry not only daunting but unrepresentative of women and female voices,” says Boyette. “Revisionist was created out of a desire to disrupt these trends and promote a more equitable platform for women moving forward.”
Unlike other literary publications, Revisionist models itself off a collective by paying its writers and offering each artist the opportunity to sell and profit off the magazine. Revisionist is an annual magazine organized thematically, with the first publication’s theme of home, as Boyette felt this as a prescient thread in the world and her personal life.
“Not only did I find myself searching for a new home for me, my son, and my dog after a divorce, but it feels like on a global level, with the climate crisis, the world wars, and the incomprehensible rise of fascism, misogyny, racism, and homophobia, that we’re all searching, reconstructing, and revisioning what constitutes a home, both within our personal spaces and our communities.”
In the first issue, readers will discover the following writers:
- Artist Heather Jones’s use of fabric as a feminist nod to explore domestic space
- Artist Allison Gildersleeve’s landscapes of home through nature and household objects
- Friendship as a coveted home in “Burn,” by writer Beneth Goldschmidt-Sauer
- Memories of childhood residences and the figures therein in Jessica Cuello’s poetry
- Artist Magnolia Laurie’s reflection of her childhood landscape in Puerto Rico
- A return to one’s ancestral lands, South Africa, with holistic, vegan, and raw food chef WiBi Ashley
- A psychiatric home after a young woman experiences a psychotic break in writer Meg LeDuc’s “A Different Kind of Home”
- A nostalgic home through a shared love of sweets with her grandmother, by chef and co-owner of Harken Café and Harbinger, Greer Gilchrist
- A journey through adult homes to find who she was becoming in writer Sarah Gutowski’s “Home//Body”
- Artist Vicki Sher’s creation of spaces that reference our environmental and universal homes
The magazine can be purchased online for $25 by visiting miseenplacepr.com/store/revisionist, or copies can be purchased at the following small businesses in Charleston: Buxton Books, Harken Café, The Harbinger Café, and The George Gallery.
About Mise en Place Publishing
Founded in 2025 by Kate Connor Boyette in partnership with F. Scott Long and Philip Rhodes, Mise en Place Publishing is a boutique cookbook publishing company based in Charleston, SC. In addition to producing cookbooks and REVISIONIST magazine through Mise en Place Publishing, Boyette is currently working on her first novel and trying to find a variation on buttered noodles that her young son will eat for supper.
