Alt Wire is a digest of spoon-fed inspiration curated by our favorite editors, journalists, artists, and visionaries. Today's guest is RUMINATE editor-in-chief Brianna Van Dyke.

Sand in the Gears: Tony Woodlief's blog is one of the few I blogs I regularly check—aside from my sister's (she lives in Tacoma and I miss her). I am always antsy for the next post from Tony, which could be a sermon or a rant on the misuse of the word "literally" or even fatherly advice intended to rescue his son "from a lifetime of involuntary virginity." Very useful stuff.

Anything and everything: Arts and faith is one of my favorite forums on anything and everything related to the arts (music, film, visual art, literature) and faith.

Behind the curtain: I could spend hours poring over all the publishing market statistics compiled by the editor's of Duotrope's Digest (and they update daily!). With their stats on acceptance and rejection rates, response times, and pay scales, it feels like peeking behind the curtain of the literary magazine world. I also get a kick out of checking the stats on "The Slothful," a list of the publishers with the slowest average response times. The current publisher at the top of the list averages 340 days to respond to a writer...Yikes! 

Finding Traction: I consider myself a connoisseur of editor's notes—they're such fun and quirky little things—and the editor of Agni, Sven Birketts, writes some of my favorites. I especially enjoyed his refreshingly honest note on editing and aesthetics entitled "Finding Traction."

Writer's Block: I recently attended a gallery opening for photographer Cole Thompson's The Ghosts of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Cole is a great artist and completely devoted to the art of black and white photography. I visit his site for inspiration—and it seems to be especially helpful for writer's block. Another helpful muse is Ausie rocker Xavier Rudd.

Bio: is the founder and editor-in-chief of RUMINATE, a literary and arts magazine that engages the Christian faith. Along with the rest of the RUMINATE crew, she contributes to the  editor's blog and also enjoys writing the occasional editor's note.