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River Styx

3547 Olive Street, Suite 107

St. Louis, MO 63103

Phone: (314) 533-4541

E-mail: BigRiver[at]riverstyx[dot]org

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 5/1-11/30 Response time: 3-5 Months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0149-8851 Founded: 1975 Issues per year: 3 Distributors: Ubiquity, Armadillo & Co. Copy price: $9 Average pages: 100 Sample price (postpaid): $7 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $20 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $25.20

Publisher’s description: River Styx embodies the best of non-profit independent literature. As an independent magazine, we earn just enough to keep publishing not trendy or politically connected work but what we love most—thoughtful yet accessible, unpredictable yet moving literature and art. We will always adhere to the lean and mean production ethic and keep the youthful energy that's made us, as Small Press Review says, “a beacon of light on which deserving voices dance.”

River Styx is committed to publishing work from new writers as well as established and award-winning writers, including three Nobel Laureates, five Pulitzer Prize winners, and eight US Poets Laureate (and counting). Work originally published in River Styx has been selected for numerous prestigious anthologies, including Best American Poetry, New Stories from the South, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best New Poets.

Recent issues:

Issue 86 features fiction by Lucinda Roy, George Singleton, and Margaret Hermes; art by Gregg Louis and Frank Hamrick; and poems by George Bilgere, Elton Glaser, Ron Koertge, Dorianne Laux, Hailey Leithauser, Amit Majmudar, Joan Murray, Charles Harper Webb, Mark Wisniewski, the winners of the 2011 River Styx International Poetry Contest, and many others.

River Styx #85 is a themed issue, Circles of Hell, and promises sinful reading pleasure, including poems by Walter Bargen, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Gaylord Brewer, Albert Goldbarth, William Greenway, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, A. E. Stallings, and others; stories by Richard Burgin and Maura Stanton; an essay by Jacob Newberry; art by Billy Renkl and Greg Sand; and winners of the 2011 River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew, Micro-Fiction Contest.

Issue 84 of River Styx features the winners of the 2010 International Poetry Contest (Stephen Gibson, Diana Arterian, William Greenway, and Susan Cohen); poetry by Ned Balbo, Rhina P. Espaillat, Elton Glaser, Naton Leslie, Suzanne Rhodenbaugh, Marjorie Stelmach, David Wagoner, Charles Harper Webb, and many others; an essay by Edward Hower; stories by Adam Dowd and Gillian King; and art by Cindy Tower and Christopher Register.