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Cimarron Review

Publisher’s Description: Since 1967, Cimarron Review has published authors such as Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, Rick Moody, Robert Olen Butler, Jonathan Ames, Mark Doty, Diane Wakoski, Tess Gallagher, Richard Shelton, Mark Halliday, Rick Bass, Pam Houston, Paul Muldoon, Willam Stafford and many others.

Writers Digest has included us in its top fifty places to publish fiction in America, and Esquire has called Cimarron "one of America's literary roots." Weston Cutter of NewPages.com states of Cimarron Review that “in the best possible way, this magazine is like the Volvo of lit mags.” At present, National Book Award Winner Ai is on the masthead.

The Cimarron Review is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and regularly nominates work for notable contests such as The Pushcart Prize and The O. Henry Prize series. The magazine is published four times a year out of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK.

Recent issues:

In addition to featuring the urban landscapes of California painter Ryan Reynolds, Cimarron Review’s Winter 2012 issue includes fresh and provocative work by some of the finest new and established writers publishing today, including poetry by Halina Duraj, Joan Murray, and Liz Robbins, fiction by Robert Rosenberg and Mark Brazitis, and nonfiction by Iver Arnegard and Matthew Batt.

This issue (177, Fall 2011), in addition to featuring Marty Landers’ arresting photographs of abandoned places, also includes poetry by Valerie Bandura, David Wagoner, Christina Cook, and Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Canto XXIX from Dante’s Inferno. Our second issue featuring Barbara Neely Bourgoyne’s new design also includes fiction by Devin Murphy and Cimarron’s Pushcart-nominee Graeme Mullen, along with the latest in travel writing by Matthew Gavin Frank and Steven Belletto.

This double issue (175/176, Spring/Summer 2011), in addition to featuring our new design and a special nonfiction section on work, includes all the Cimarron's usual provocative poetry, fiction and nonfiction by new and established writers, including Angela Narciso Torres, Daniel Tobin, Dan Pinkerton, and Jonathan Bohr Heinen. This issue also marks our first under the direction of our new editor in chief, Toni Graham.