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The Iowa Review

About The Iowa Review: Dedicated to publishing the finest contemporary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Publisher’s Description: Edited by faculty, students, and staff from the renowned writing and literature programs at the University of Iowa, the Iowa Review—now in its 42nd year of publication—takes advantage of this rich environment for literary collaboration to create a worldwide conversation among those who read and write contemporary literature.

“The Iowa Review is a seductive package,” writes essayist Lia Purpura, “intellectually challenging, lyrically thrilling, and always, always surprising.”

We publish a wide range of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, photography, and work in emerging forms (e.g., graphic memoir) by both established and emerging writers. Work from our pages has been consistently selected to appear in the anthologies Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. We publish three issues per year, in April, August, and December.

Recent issues:

In the Spring 2013 issue: the winner and finalists of the 2012 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, plus trading a Playboy for a hat, lines for telephone calls, lines for Rembrandt, lines along the circumferences of yams in the kitchen, killing time with muted baseball games and cheap metal detectors, a dusty dog and remembering to remember her name, supervillains with paralyzing beams, museums of drones, streets a latticework of fire, and what’s morality to you?

In Winter 2012/13 issue: landscapes on a train, accidentally stalking Rod Stewart, Flight 800 and Catastrophe Theory, multiple "multiple choices," sock puppets at Smiling Goat, a moody Woodsman with a rust-colored beard, Still Life with Power Tools, and where are you really from?

In our Fall 2012 issue: anonymous macaroni, if God lived on my block, waiting in line at the food bank, a terrible concentration of hares, a bullock-cart to Chandapur, Blackfisk in Norway, Memaw on piano, the white shadow of afternoon, and falling in love over chicken-butt soup

 

last updated 05/20/2013