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The Iowa Review

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:

Our Spring 2012 issue includes cartwheels in the garden, an epistolary nun, holy and other mothers, spectator chess in Russia, rabbit binkies in America, and many more fictional, poetic, and essayistic depictions, reflections, confrontations, and contemplations. Featuring new work by G.C. Waldrep, Nathan Hill, Maxine Chernoff, Mehdi Tavana Okasi, and 17 more.

The Iowa Review’s Winter 2011/12 issue features well-endowed sea captains and housewives, Zen weed-whacking, Venice but not Venice, once upon a time in a darkened room, and eyewitness haiku. Poems, stories, essays, and photos by Martha Collins, George Eklund, Chris Offutt, Rebecca Lindenberg, Christopher Beckman, and the winners of the 2011 Iowa Review Awards.

 

last updated 4/4/12