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PHOEBE

A Journal of Literature and Art

MSN 2D6

4400 University Drive

Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

Phone: (703) 993-2915

E-mail: phoebe<at>gmu<dot>edu

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/1-4/15 Response time: 4-6 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) Founded: 1971 Issues per year: 2 Average pages: 128 Sample copy (postpaid): $4 Copy Price: $6 Subscription: $12

Publisher’s Description: For 37 years, PHOEBE has prided itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. We choose our writers because we believe their work succeeds at its goals, whether its goals are to uphold or challenge literary tradition. PHOEBE welcomes both experimental and conventional prose and poetry, and we are always especially pleased to discover new voices. Unpublished writers are encouraged to submit their work.

PHOEBE sponsors an annual Winter Fiction Contest and the Greg Grummer Poetry Award. Winners receive $1000 and publication. All entrants receive a complimentary issue of PHOEBE. Past poetry judges have included Robert Creeley, Charles Wright, and Claudia Keelan. Past fiction judges have included Richard Ford, Tom Franklin, and Sandra Scofield. Entries due Dec. 1. Please visit our website for details.

Recent issues:

Volume 40 Number 2, Fall 2011, features our annual contest winners: Winter Fiction Contest winner Aja Gabel and honorable mention Dwight Holing; Greg Grummer Poetry Award winner Mark Wagenaar and honorable mention Grace Curtis; Inaugural Nonfiction Contest winner R.B. Moreno and honorable mention Jessica McCaughey. Plus, poetry by Jason Bredle, Matthew Gagnon, Matt Hart, Luke Johnson, Iris A. Law, David Dodd Lee, Jill Magi, Kurt Olsson, and Abraham Smith. Fiction from Leon Baham and Andy Mozina. Photographs by Erik Pennebaker.

This issue (40.1, Spring 2011) features special selections from seven Capital Region Poets: Maureen Thorson, Justin Sirois, Tony Mancus, Hope LeGro, Christophe Casamassima, Buck Downs, and Joe Hall. The cover and interior postcards are by Emily Trueblood, an award-winning New York based woodcut and linocut artist.

This issue (39.2, Fall 2010) features our Greg Grummer and Winter Fiction Contest award winners, as well as mixed-media art by Dolan Geiman. With additional poetry and fiction by: y madrone, Mark Wagenaar, Megan Kaminski, Karen Leona Anderson, Miles Waggener, Henry Rappaport, Janaan Dawkins, Roya Khatiblou, Emily Carr, Britta Ameel, Rachel Khong, Peter Mountford, Samantha Erin Tetangco, J. Michael Martinez, Margaret Young, Casey Smith