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    Harvard Review

    Harvard Review is a semi-annual literary journal published by Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library with support from the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University. We publish essays, poetry, short fiction, drama, and reviews. Recent contributors include Yusef Komunyakaa, Thomas McGuane, Alice Hoffman, Jorie Graham, Sonia Sanchez, Phillip Lopate, Sherman Alexie, Jim Crace, and Joyce Carol Oates.

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    New South

    New South publishes previously unpublished literary and visual art promoting the work of emerging and established artists. New South holds no subject biases. The staff will select the best work regardless of style or genre.

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    Raleigh Review

    is a national magazine of poetry, art and flash. Our main criterion is the excellence of the poems,
    stories and artwork; not the rubric they might fall under. If you send us surreal poems and stories,
    please ground them in the real. We want writing that is honest.

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    Shadowbox Magazine

    Inspired by the assemblage of Joseph Cornell, Shadowbox seeks the magic of transformation – taking the known, the familiar, the fact, and making it more. We publish contemporary nonfiction in all its forms and ambitions. Prose poetry. Lyric essay. Narrative memoir. Immersion journalism. Literary collage. We like edges. B-sides. Soul. Shadowbox as mirror. Shadowbox as portal. Published twice a year, each issue includes featured writings as well as interviews, book reviews, archival treasures and visual art. If you’re driven to explore the possibilities of nonfiction, please send us your work. We’d love to read it. As Thoreau once said, “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

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    South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art

    South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art is published annually by the Creative Nonfiction Program within Columbia College Chicago's English Department. The premiere issue was published in 1997 and contained some of the best student-generated work from the creative nonfiction and literature programs in the college. Beginning in 2003, South Loop Review began to solicit work nationally and engage in the public discourse on creative nonfiction by publishing creative nonfiction exclusively for a nationwide audience.

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    The Carolina Quarterly

    The Carolina Quarterly has been publishing the work of established and emergent writers for more than sixty years. Recent issues have featured the works of James Gordon Bennett, William Virgil Davis, Aaron Gwyn, K.A. Hays, Matt Hart, Cary Holladay, Caitlin Horrocks, Mark Jarman, William Logan, Peter Munro, Valerie Sayers, Joan I. Seigel, George Singleton, Matthew Volmer, Theordore Worozbyt, Robert Wrigley, and more. Works published in The Carolina Quarterly have appeared in New Stories from the South, Best of the South, Poetry Daily, O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prizes, and Best American Short Stories. Today The Carolina Quarterly, edited by students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is one of the finest and longest-running literary publications in America.

     

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    The Common

    The Common is a new print literary magazine based at Amherst College. We publish stories, poems, essays, and dispatches with a strong sense of place. We accept translations for which translators hold the appropriate rights. Contributors to Issues 00, 01, and 02 include Jim Shepard, Ted Conover, Phillip Lopate, J. Malcolm Garcias, Martha Cooley, Lauren Groff, Fiona Maazel, John Matthias, Rafael Campo, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller, Honor Moore, Sabina Murray, Mary Jo Salter, Tom Sleigh, Susan Kinsolving, Major Jackson, Ilan Stavans, and Don Share. Issue 03 is available as of April 2013.

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    The Worcester Review

    THE WORCESTER REVIEW is the literary journal of the Worcester County Poetry Association. The Association was founded in 1971, and the Review was founded in 1973. Each year, we publish an issue featuring exceptional poetry, fiction, and artwork. Most issues also include a section of scholarly essays related to a theme that has a Worcester Connection. For instance, the 2011 issue celebrates the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Bishop, a Worcester Native, and the 2010 issue featured Charles Olson. If you are interested in submitting to a feature section, please contact us via Email. We have an uncommon approach to evaluating submissions that provides for both selectivity and objectivity: Each submission is read independently by two editors, a writer and a scholar, and both editors must agree in order for a piece to be accepted.