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River Styx

About River Styx: River Styx is a multicultural literary and arts magazine that has been publishing thoughtful yet accessible literature and art since 1975.

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 89 features poetry by Gary Fincke, Chris Bullard, Jeanne Emmons, George Green, Austin MacRae, Lee Rossi, Debra Marquart, Jeffrey Bean, Claudia Cortese, Joan Murray, Brenna Lemieux, Susan de Sola, Chris Mattingly, Robert Wrigley, Judith Barrington, Mark Kraushaar, Carrie Shipers, Andrew Hudgins, Sarah Pemberton Strong, Jeff Worley, Will Wells William Trowbridge, Richard Cecil; fiction by Mark Wisniewski and Ken Harvey; a play by Carter W. Lewis; the 2013 River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest winners; art by Randy Halverson and Alice Attie; plus illustrations by Tim Foley and Meredith Nelson.

Issue 88 is based on the theme of the end of the world. Contributors include Bruce Bennett, Lee Upton, Albert Goldbarth, Juliana Gray, Gary Leising, Michael Salcman, Rachel Christilles, William Greenway, Dorianne Laux, Lawrence Raab, Alison Pelegrin, Maura Stanton, Michael Derrick Hudson, Erika Meitner, Greg Pape, Gaylord Brewer, Andrew Hudgins, Jeffrey Hammond, Robert Finch, George Singleton, and Geoff Schmidt.

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.

 

Last updated 5/28/2013