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Gargoyle Magazine

Publisher’s Description: Gargoyle Magazine has always been a scallywag magazine, a maverick magazine, a bit too academic for the underground and way too underground for the academics. We are a writer’s magazine in that we are read by other writers and have never worried about reaching the masses. What masses? We publish fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, and graphics.

Recent contributors: Kwame Alexander, John Amen, Antler, Naomi Ayala, Linda Joy Burke, Joan Colby, Kathleen de Azevedo, Gloria Dyc, Bobbi Dykema, Sean Enright, Ed Falco, Gary Fincke, Hugh Fox, Robert L. Giron, Robert Gregory, Myronn Hardy, Lucy Honig, Marilyn Kallet, Karen Kovacik, Angela Labordeta, Gerry LaFemina, Elise Levine, Norman Lock, Barbara Moraff, Susan Smith Nash, Lalita Norohna, Carol Novack, Lorraine Schein, Steven Schutzman, Judith Skillman, Marilyn Stablein, Adrienne Su, Todd Swift, ruth weiss, Allison Whittenberg, Michael Wilding and many more.

“A recent survey of small press publishing by a Calyx intern revealed only twenty-five percent of those published are women. . . In contrast is the percentage of women on the list of contributors to Gargoyle, the annual literary magazine edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody in Arlington, Virginia, which is also celebrating thirty years in print. At least 45 percent of the writers who have had work published in Gargoyle since 1976 are women, including Kathy Acker, Rita Dove, Jennifer Egan, Shelley Jackson, and Naomi Shihab Nye. But Gargoyle, which has also published the likes of T.C. Boyle, Russell Edson, Allen Ginsberg, Ben Marcus, and Rick Moody, doesn’t make any declarations about gender distinctions. The cover of its anniversary issue, also released in August, features an illustration by Patricia Storms that pretty well sums up thirty years of work by a magazine that doesn’t take itself too seriously: A UFO indiscriminately beams up its cargo, including toilet paper, a telephone, a rat, a cat, a drumstick, a brassiere, a granny with a book, and Frankenstein with a typewriter. God bless literary magazines with a sense of humor.” - Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers Magazine

Recent issues:

Gargoyle #57 is a 600-page doorstop of an issue! Featuring nonfiction by Claire Blechman, Carolyn Cooke, Carmen Delzell, Brandel France de Bravo, and Simki Ghebremichael; poetry by Albert Abonado, Nin Andrews, Dan Brady, Molly Gaudry, Chris Haven, Steve McClain, Barry Silesky, and more; plus fiction by Forrest Aguirre, Rae Bryant, Kim Chinquee, James Grady, Julie Innis, Wena Poon, Paula Whyman, and much, much more.