Fire!!
Title:
Fire!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists
Publication Date:
November 1926
Frequency of Publication:
One issue
Cost:
One dollar per issue
Publisher:
Fire!! Board of Editors
Place of Publication:
New York, New York
Format:
Fire!! has a bright red cover with primitivist, cubist-inspired art by Aaron Douglas. Inside each cover is an ad for other little magazines: New Masses in the front, and Opportunity in the back. Within Fire's 48 pages are sections entirely devoted to visual and literary arts, with subdivisions for poetry, drawing, short fiction, plays, and a brief editorial comment.
Editor:
Wallace Thurman
Associate Editors:
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Gwendolyn Bennett
Aaron Douglas
Richard Bruce
John Davis
Patrons:
Maurine Boie
Nellie R. Bright
Arthur Huff Fauset
Dorothy Hunt Harris
Arthur P. Moor
Dorothy R. Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson
E. B. Taylor
Carl Van Vechten
Circulation:
Estimated at about 500
Compiled by Nakia Long (Class of '08, Davidson College)