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Crazyhorse
Department of English, College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424
Phone: (843) 953-7740
E-mail: crazyhorse[at]cofc[dot]edu
Web: crazyhorse.cofc.edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 3-5 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0011-0841 Founded: 1960 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Average pages: 160 Sample copy (postpaid): $5 Cover Price: $9; $10.50 Canada Subscription (1 year): $16 (print); $8 (e-book)
Publisher’s Description: Recent poems from Crazyhorse were selected for reprint in The Best American Poetry 2008 and 2007 and The Pushcart Prize anthology, recent fiction in The Best American Short Stories 2008. Richard Jackson’s poem “Cain’s Legacy,” won a 2004 Pushcart Prize. Dinty W. Moore’s essay “Son of Mr. Green Jeans,” was reprinted in the January 2004 Harper’s Magazine. Read excerpts online: http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu.
Since 1960, Crazyhorse has published John Updike, Raymond Carver, Jorie Graham, John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Ha Jin, James Wright, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Lynda Hull, Charles Wright, Jean Valentine, and Billy Collins. Past authors have been reprinted in the annual Pushcart Prize and Best American anthologies, have won Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the O. Henry Prize, have been Guggenheim fellows and NEA Fellowship recipients.
Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize. The prize awards are currently $2000 for each genre, and the winning poem(s) and prose are published in Crazyhorse. Please visit our website, crazyhorse.cofc.edu, for details.
Recent issues:
Number 80 features Fiction by Matthew Vollono, Ann Gelder, and others. Essays by Katharine Haake and others. Poetry: "Train crosses the field, a page that erases heavy footsteps" Lan Lan translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Molly Bashaw, Steven Cramer, Hugh Martin, Lee Sharkey, Danniel Schoonebeek, Amy Fleury, Geffrey Davis, Christopher Salerno, Donika Ross "I am the sun and the sky / And the hot bruise I squint against" Cover art: Bathed in Yellow by Shanna Bruschi.
Number 79 features fiction by Wayne Harrison and Laura Van Etten; an essay by Nancy McCabe; Poetry by Mary Ruefle, Michael Teig, Jehanne Dubrow, Tahir Harmut translated by Joshua Freeman, Cynthia Hogue, Richard Jackson, Katherine Soniat, Christopher Howell, Alexandra Teague, Albert Goldbarth, and more. Plus cover art by Eran Shakine courtesy of the Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery.