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The Briar Cliff Review

Publisher's description: The Briar Cliff Review, published annually at Briar Cliff University, has received numerous awards and is a member of CLMP (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses). The editors are committed to nurturing artists and fostering the best of both emerging and established writers.

Our full-size format and elegantly simple design provide an aesthetically pleasing venue for the work of contributors, who will often find their writing juxtaposed with four-color art. We promote emerging writers by reviewing recent books of poetry and fiction. In addition, The Briar Cliff Review also sponsors an annual literary contest in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

Writers featured in The Briar Cliff Review include Josip Novakovich, Diane Glancy, Carol Bly, James Doyle, Gaylord Brewer, Julie Sheehan, Diane Frank Jenna Blum, Brian Bedard, Lee Ann Roripaugh and Vivian Shipley. It showcases fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, reviews, and art that is evocative of our place—Siouxland, that area of the Big Sioux River Basin in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. Although we gratefully accept contributions from all over the United States and the world, we are happy to proclaim ourselves a regional publication. It doesn’t diminish us; it enhances us.

Recent issues:

Volume 23, 2011: Cover art: Christina Narwicz’s painting, Ebb, is featured on our cover. In this year’s issue we have our prize-winning poem,”Nets” by Sarah Sousa, our prize winning short story, “Drift River” by Leslie Barnard and our prize winning essay, “The Archeology of Secrets” by Christine Steward-Nunez. In our Siouxland section we feature Kathleen Kruckenberg’s Riverside Park: From Social Experiment to Recreational Hub. 

22, Spring 2010, features the works of our prize winners—poet Jude Nutter for “The Alchemist,” fiction writer Daryl Murphy for “Philly” and essayist Joe Wilkins for “My Mother’s Story, Retold and Annotated.” Other poets/writers in the issue are Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Gaylord Brewer, Sharon Doyle, James Doyle, Mark Sanders, Robert Tremmel, Maria Terrone, B.J. Best, Lance Wilcox, Patrick Hicks, and Marcia Poole. Artists featured are Michael James, Eric Knoche, Christopher Myer, Diane Lounsberry-Williams, Joe Ruffo, Mark Avery, Maiko Hasegawa, Bruce Ellingson and many others

21, Spring 2009, features the winners of the Annual Briar Cliff Review contests: Jeanne Wagner (poetry), Shelley Scaletta (fiction), Ira Sukrungruang (nonfiction). Also included in this issue are book reviews and a section “Siouxland” which features a glimpse of the life of artist Beatrice Bailey Goslin, an interview with poet David Allan Evans, and an eco-memoir by Roger V. Holtzman.