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Cold Mountain Review

English Department

Appalachian State University

Boone, NC 28608

Phone: 828-262-3098

E-mail: coldmountain<at>appstate<dot>edu

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/1-4/31 Response time: 3 months Contests: no ISSN: 1547-5972 Founded: 1972 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Black Bear Books Copy price: $10 Average pages: 85 Sample price (postpaid): $8 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $15 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $30

Publisher’s description: Cold Mountain Review is a forum for well-told stories. We publish the narrative poetry and lyrical prose, and we are interested in the way contemporary literature is testing the boundaries of genre. Each issue of CMR features work intended to transport the reader to unexpected landscapes—emotional terrains that are sometimes joyful, occasionally disconcerting, always interesting.

Since its founding 35 years ago, CMR has featured writers such as Robert Morgan, R.T. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Virgil Suarez, and Fred Chappell. CMR contributors have among them an Academy Award in Literature, and a number of other accolades that attest to the quality of conversation that has long been taking place in the pages of CMR.

Writers have different approaches to storytelling, and they write for varied reasons; but when they publish their work in CMR, they are telling their story directly to you, the reader. Lean in. Listen.

Recent issues:

This issue of CMR (39.2, Spring 2011) features a full-color cover photography by Tim Hussin as well as poetry by Melissa Scholes Young, Tony Abbott, James Doyle, Matthew Landrum, Samantha Deal, and other notable contributors. The issue also includes creative nonfiction by O’Henry award winner Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, a surreal piece of fiction by Matthew Vollmer, as well as the story of a woman trying to find herself in Israel by Sarah Marcus. We are also proud to showcase a captivating photo essay by Hiroshi Wantanabe.

The current issue of CMR (39.1, Fall 2010) features a striking full-color cover photograph by Matt Powell as well as poetry by Becky Gould Gibson, Mark Jay Brewin Jr., Carol Hamilton, Jim Bainbridge, Virginia Shank Weston Cutter, and other notable contributors. The issue also includes creative non-fiction by Harmony Neal, a haunting account of love and loss by Robert Busby, as well as an unforgettable tale of faith and family by novelist Ted Wojtasik. The issue showcases the photo essay “Stolen Childhood.” This documentary work by Michael Mullady presents an unflinching look at the lives of child coal miners.