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The Louisville Review

About The Louisville Review: Since 1976, The Louisville Review has published the best of contemporary writing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, and writing by children (K-12).

Publisher's Description: The Louisville Review, sponsored by the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University, was founded in 1976 at the University of Louisville by faculty editor Sena Jeter Naslund and two students. Known for excellence nationwide and abroad, The Louisville Review has recently published such well-known writers as David Ray, David Brendan Hopes, Frank X Walker, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greg Pape, Debra Kang Dean, Jeanie Thompson, Robin Lippincott, Garrett Hongo, Peter Cooley, Tony Hoagland, and Michael Burkhard. From its founding, TLR has fostered the development of new writers; a poem TLR published twenty years ago by Alberto Riós now appears in standard literature textbooks. TLR published the work of Louise Erdrich while she was still a student at Johns Hopkins.

The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted to TLR is judged entirely on its own merit whether the author is already nationally known or previously unpublished.

Recent issues:

Volume 72 features poetry from Britton Shurley, Molly Curtis, John A. Nieves, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Darren C. Demaree, Murray Silverstein, Kathleen Hellen, Kirsten M. Holt, Nicole Robinson, Missy Brownson, Kristina Bicher, Terry Hermsen, Jonathan H. Scott, Martha Greenwald, Frank Montesonti, Marci Rae Johnson, L.S. McKee, Tania Runyan, Colleen Abel, Caroline A. LeBlanc, Andrew Najberg, and Rob McAlister. Fiction from Philip F. Deaver, Melissa Pheterson, and Alex Taylor. Creative Nonfiction from Ellen Hagan, Sophia Efthimiatou, Judy Sobeloff, and Julie Polter.Drama from Gay H. Hammond, Henry Murray, Constance Congdon, and Arwen Mitchell.

Volume 71 features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama from Megan Grumbling, Adrian Matejka, K. E. Duffin, Lisa Williams, Trisina Dickerson, Kyle McCord, Lise Matthews, Brad Henderson, Christopher Ankney, Gabriel Welsch, Paula Maragina Bernett, Thomas Patterso, Doug Ramspeck, Paul Nelson, Emily Pulfer-Terino, Jamies Neisen, Steve Kistulentz, Mark Smith-Soto, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, Dan Albergotti, A. H. Jerriod Avant, Charlotte Pence, Elizabeth Langemak, Richard Newman, Abigail Greenbaum, Samuel Patterson Stoddard, Daniel Toronto, John Alford, Virginia A.K. Moran, Charles Dodd White, John Eder, Eva Sage Gordon, Aaron Gilbreath, Justin Dobring.

This issue (70, Fall 2011) features poetry by Lisa Vinsant, Melva Sue Priddy, Chris Mattingly, Lynnell Edwards, Marcia Menter, Peter Cooley, Tori Sharpe, Allison Seay, R. T. Smith, Carrie Shipers, Brent Fisk, Billy Reynolds, Judith Harris, Leslee Rene Wright, Peter Makuck, Amy Eisner, Sarah Kennedy, Jeff Hardin, Ronald Wallace, David Eye, Gregory Crosby, Catherine MacDonald, Claire McQuerry; fiction by Kim Bradley, Liz Iversen, Angela Jackson-Brown, Tamar Jacobs; Nonfiction by Robert L. Kaiser, Lyz Lenz, Bridgett Jensen, Robert Finch; and drama by Joe Oestreich.

 

last updated 01/21/2013