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The Carolina Quarterly

510 Greenlaw Hall, CB# 3520

UNC-Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Phone: (919) 408-7786

E-mail: carolina.quarterly[at]gmail[dot]com

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Online submissions: yes (see website) Reading period: 9/1-4/30 Response time: 4 Months Payment: 2 copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0008-6797 Founded: 1948 Issues per year: 3 Copy price: $9 Average pages: 112 Sample price (postpaid): $6 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $24 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $30

Publisher’s description: The history of the journal that was to become The Carolina Quarterly stretches back to 1844. Published under its current title since 1948, CQ has long been a home for the works of up-and-coming authors who soon establish themselves as significant voices in the American literary landscape, including A. R. Ammons, T. C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Louise Erdrich, Ha Jin, Denis Johnson, Denise Levertov, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lee Smith. 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.

The Carolina Quarterly publishes poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews three times a year. Our staff of graduate and undergraduate students gives careful attention to every submission. Beyond the over 1000 copies sent to subscribers around the world, free online access to our issues is available to every UNC-Chapel Hill student (30,000 potential readers).

Recent issues have featured James Gordon Bennett, Megan Mayhew Bergman, William Virgil Davis, Aaron Gwyn, K.A. Hays, Cary Holladay, Caitlin Horrocks, Valerie Sayers, Joan I. Seigel, George Singleton, Matthew Volmer, G.C. Waldrep, Theordore Worozbyt, Robert Wrigley, and more.

Recent issues:

While researching undocumented Florida fieldworkers, Adriana Paramo unearths the true story of a baby born without limbs, whose condition may have been caused by the pesticides his mother was exposed to during her pregnancy. Woody Skinner’s satirical “The Knife Salesman” tells of a Cutcorp employee who performs bloody feats for steel-crazed audiences across America and yearns to “carve away the hulking mystery of the Earth.” And a CQ first: full-color artwork with Bill McAllister’s Khmer Infrared Series. Also featuring: Megan Mayhew Bergman, Sean Bishop, Hope Coulter, Nicole Terez Dutton, Alyssa Knickerbocker, David Kutz-Marks, G.C. Waldrep, Jerald Walker, and more in the Winter 2011 issue.

last updated 4/4/12