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The Florida Review

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:

35.2 (winter 2010), which contains our contest winners, Michael White, Gregg Cusick, and Barrie Jean Borich, as well as an interview--in comic format--of the graphic narrative writer Robert Venditti.

35.1 (summer 2010), A special issue on Native writing and writers, this issue of The Florida Review features new work by Gerald Vizenor, Sherwin Bitsui, Santee Frazier, Orlando White, Stephen Graham Jones, Geary Hobson, Allison HedgeCoke, Travis HedgeCoke and many others. A reading and live webcast in celebration of the issue is scheduled on Feb 5, 2011 at 1:00 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.