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Alaska Quarterly Review
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive (208 ESH)
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 786-6916
E-mail: aqr[at]uaa.alaska[dot]edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes (if noted in the cover letter) Email submissions: no Reading period: Unsolicited manuscripts are read between August 15 and May 15 Response time: 6 to 16 weeks. Payment: copies unless grant-funded Contests: no Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Ubiquity, Source Interlink Average pages: 245 Sample copy: $6 (Please add $2 for mailing to Canada. For the cost of mailing to all other countries, please query us.) ISSN: 0737-268X Founded: 1980 Issues per year: 2 Copy Price: $6.95 (Canada $8.50) Subscription (Individuals): $18, $22 CDN Subscription (Libraries): $18, $22 CDN
Publisher’s Description: Alaska Quarterly Review is one of America’s premier literary magazines and a source of powerful, new voices. AQR publishes short stories, short novellas, novel excerpts, short plays, poetry, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. The magazine also features photographic essays and interviews.
Praised by The Washington Post Book World as “one of the nation’s best literary magazines,” and "fresh treasure" in the Sunday New York Times Book Review, works from AQR have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, Pushcart Prize, Beacon Best, Best American Mystery Stories, Best Creative Nonfiction, Best American Fantasy, Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Best American Poetry. John McNally in Literary Magazine Review observed that "When all is said and done, Ronald Spatz and his crack team of editors put together one hell of a magazine." Laura Furman, the series editor of the Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, wrote that “Alaska Quarterly Review is playing an impressive part in our national literature.” Library Journal concluded AQR "is highly recommended and deserves applause."
AQR contributing editors include Stuart Dybek, Maxine Kumin, Amy Hempel, Patrica Hampl, Stuart Dischell Nancy Eimers, Pattiann Rogers, Dorianne Laux, Peggy Schumaker, Michael Ryan, Jane Hirshfield, and Billy Collins. We note with great sadness the passing of long-time Contributing Editor, Grace Paley, on August 22, 2007. AQR is published twice a year by the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Recent issues:
The Fall & Winter 2011 issue features nonfiction by John Gamel, Adriana Paramo, Jackie Bang, Wes Hempel, Marybeth Holleman, Peggy Shinner, David Singkye, and Charles Wyatt; fiction by Andrew Peery, Mary Kuryla, Kara Levy, Quintan Ana Wikswo, Becky Hagenston, J. Malcolm Garcia, Susan Kim Campbell, Nathan Oates, Jody Azzouni, and Richard Lange; poetry by Greg Vargo, Kelli Russell Agodon, Sherman Alexie, Doug Rampspeck, Hugh Martin, Susan Rich, and many more.
Volume 28 Numbers 1 & 2, Spring & Summer 2011: Eclectic and compelling new writing: 12 short stories, 8 creative nonfiction essays, and a poetry section featuring the work of 25 poets. Also included is a Memoir as Drama special feature by Alaska Native writer and US Artist, Susie Silook—Ungipamsuuka: My Story.