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The Florida Review

Univ. of Central Florida

Department of English

P.O. Box 161346

Orlando, FL 32816-1346

Phone: (407) 823-2038

E-mail: flreview <at> mail.ucf <dot> edu

Simultaneous submissions: yes, with notification Email submissions: no Reading period: August - May Response time: 4-6 months Payment: copies Contests: yes, annual multi-genre award (see website) ISSN: 0742-2466 Founded: 1972 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Amazon, EBSCO, SWETS Cover Price: $8 Subscription (Individuals): $15 Subscription (Libraries): $20

Publisher’s Description: For over thirty-five years, The Florida Review has published quality fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, poetry, interviews, and reviews from established and emerging writers. Recent issues include work from Billy Collins, David Huddle, Denise Duhamel, Tony Hoagland, Alex Lemon, Steven Harvey, Maureen Stanton, and Terese Svoboda. Our pages have also featured fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays by such internationally renowned writers as Margaret Atwood, Bob Shacochis, Stephen Dixon, Grace Paley, Lorrie Moore, Mark Doty, Tobias Wolff, David Foster Wallace, Tony Early and Virgil Suárez.

The Florida Review has been listed in Writer's Digest's “Fiction Fifty,” and creative pieces first printed in our magazine have been awarded “special mention” in the prestigious The Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses and several of the Best American collections.

The Florida Review is published twice annually, Winter and Summer. Our annual Editorss Prize contest is held each Winter and awarded in Spring. Awards of $1000 are given in each of three genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. We are also pleased to announce the Young Voices Prize open to high school students, with a 1st prize award of $250 and publication.

Recent issue:

34.2, Winter 2009, features the 2009 Editors’ Awards winners and finalists: Deborah Thompson, Christine Gelineau, Emily Van Kley, Susan Rich, Fred Setterberg, and Steve Gehrke as well as fiction from Jennifer duBois and Michael Reid Busk, nonfiction from Josh McCall, Brad Modlin, and Alyce Miller; and poets Chard deNiord, E.C. Belli, Kerry James Evans, Kathleen Rooney, Jeff Newberry, Baron Wormser, George Looney, Colin Morton, and John Murillo. Interview with Honor Moore.

34.1, Summer 2009, features fiction by Erin Flanagan, Kodi Scheer, Jonathan Bohr Heinen, and Meghan Kenny; nonfiction by Tyler Enfield, Lili Wright, Marcia Aldrich, and Patricia Foster; poetry by Eamon Grennan, Sabra Loomis, Kelly Cherry, Dennis Nurske, Michael Pettit, Teresa Leo, Jane Hilberry, Terry Godbey, and Cathy Nickola. Also in this issue is a graphic narrative by Kurt Parsons, Young Voices Awards winner Alex Norcia, an interview with Eamon Grennan, and book reviews.

33.2, Winter 2008 - The issue opens with a meditation on the nature of truth and fact, and features: poets Alex Lemon, Denise Duhamel, and Tony Hoagland; poet Baron Wormser’s retrospective on the work of William Matthews; two essays nominated for Pushcart Awards (Steven Harvey’s meditation on death, and Maureen Stanton’s behind-the-scenes investigation of “Antiques Road Show”); and great new fiction by Kevin Allardice, Robin Kish, and Mark Wisniewski. The graphic narrative, by Kelly Clancy, explores historical truth in Eastern Europe. The annual Editors’ Award winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry are included, as is an interview with Terese Svoboda, and several book reviews.