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Gulf Coast
A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
University of Houston
Department of English
Houston, TX 77204-3013
Phone: (713) 743-3223
Email: editors[at]gulfcoastmag[dot]org
Web: www.gulfcoastmag.org
ISSN: 0896-2251 Founded: 1985 Issues per year: 2 Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 8/15-3/15 Response time: 3-5 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Average pages: 280 Sample copy (postpaid): $8 Cover Price: $10 Back Issues: $8 Subscription (Ind): $16/1year; $28/2 years Subscription (Inst): $16
Publisher’s Description: Founded in 1985 by Donald Barthelme, Philip Lopate and UH Creative Writing Program Graduate Students, Gulf Coast has grown to be hailed by Sven Birkerts as an “established player” in the “progressive mainstream” (Boston Globe, 2004).
Summer/Fall issue includes interviews with celebrated writers David Leavitt and David Wojahn, plus the winner of the first Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose. Winter/Spring issue interviews include Chuck Klosterman and Rubén Martínez. Each issue includes extensive book reviews focusing especially on authors' first books. Every issue also includes two 8-page, full-color art signature presenting exciting, often overlooked contemporary artists.
Works originally published in Gulf Coast have been included in the Best American anthologies; Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards; and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Previously published authors include Anne Carson, Mark Z. Danielewski, Alice Notley, Junot Diaz, Billy Collins, Lauren Slater, Padgett Powell, Christopher McIlroy, Seamus Heaney, Alix Ohlin, Carl Phillips, Mary Gaitskill, Terrance Hayes, Norman Dubie, Paul Muldoon, Laura Kasischke, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Mahmoud Darwish, and Daniel Mendelsohn.
Recent issues:
The Summer/Fall 2012 issue features the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, Sarah Manguso. Plus, fiction by Liam Callanan, Thomas Cooper, Etgar Keret, Josip Novakovich, and Kevin Wilson; nonfiction/lyric essays by Alan Barstow, Carand Burnet, Tom Lake, Matthew Mahaney, Marilyn Martin, Ben Merriman, and Amy Lee Scott; poetry by Jeff Alessandrelli, Rick Barot, Ciaran Berry, Lissa Cattrone, Victoria Chang, Jehanne Dubrow, Simone Muench, Adrian Matejka, G.C. Waldrep, Mathias Svalina, and more; interviews, reviews, and art.
The Winter/Spring 2012 issue Features fiction by Michael Czyniejewski, Rav Grewal-Kök, Teresa Milbrodt, Danny Thanh Nguyen, Mario Rosado, Ann Tashi Slater, and Brian Van Reet; nonfiction/lyric essays by Joe Bonomo, Lorraine Doran, Katherine Dykstra, Chidelia Edochie, Stephanie Harrison, Kristen Radtke, and Arianne Zwartjes; Poetry by Sherman Alexie, Amaranth Borsuk, Graham Foust, Sharon Olds, Solmaz Sharif, Sally Wen Mao, Pal Hlava, Nate Pritts, and many more. Interviews and reviews round out the issue.
Gulf Coast's 25th Anniversary issue (23.2, Summer/Fall 2011) features poetry and prose from Bret Anthony Johnston, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorthea Lasky, Philip Lopate, Anthony Madrid, Valzhyna Mort, Michael Parker, D.A. Powell, Quintan Ana Wikswo, and others; interviews with Matt Bell and Ben Mirov; visual art from Michael Bise, Rackstraw Downes, Robyn O'Neil, Dario Robleto, and others; plus reviews of books by Robin Ekiss, Amelia Gray, Benjamin Percy, Hannah Pittard, and others.