Inspired by print and online journals such as Cabinet, Chicago Review, Trickhouse, and Octopus, Dear Navigator desires to create a forum for innovative writing that works as art object, critical opus, interdisciplinary essay, poetic form, and more plaintively, communication to the world. No longer teaching the navigators how to do celestial navigation— From the mind of one to another, we continue to work with these directions: shared through the medium of a quarterly electronic journal, a blog which is updated a little more regularly, and aims that include engaging the open space of its electronic form as the maker sees fit, traditionally or less traditionally, as well as publishing a handful of established and up-and-coming writers per issue. The nature of waterways described by any given nautical publication changes regularly—
(Source: Dear Navigator, Manifest page)