Welcome, and thank you for viewing the first edition of The NationStates Improviser! We are NS's only literary magazine, and work to exhibit the very best artwork not only from our local Arts and Fiction community, but also from other areas of the Nationstates Forums. As this is our first issue, we'd like to congratulate all those excepted; admittedly, that's everyone who submitted.
When any kind of program is getting off the ground, they need all the help and support they can get. In the case of a literary magazine — one which received some negative sentiments prior to its execution — that means the few initial submissions will have to do. Fortunately so, this also means that those submitting really believe in the potential of this magazine (even though NFP did need some persuasion), and though the work being published might not be the finest Nationstates has concealed, it is certainly the most enthusiastic we'll ever see in a submissions collection.
So here's to our first ever for
