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Southwest Review
P.O. Box 750374
6404 Robert Hyer Lane, Room 307
Dallas, TX 75275-0374
Phone: (214) 768-1037
E-mail: swr[at]smu[dot]edu
Web: www.smu.edu/southwestreview
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes, see web site Reading period: 9/1 – 5/31 Response time: 6-8 weeks Payment: yes and copies Contests: yes ISSN: 0038-4712 Founded: 1915 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ubiquity Copy price: $6 Average pages: 144 Sample price (postpaid): $6 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $24 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $30
Publisher’s description: The third oldest continuously published literary quarterly in America. From its inception, the magazine set out to publish the best works it received neither attempting to please a mass audience nor limited by its region. PEN - “The Southwest Review has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the best literary quarterlies in the United States. Poetry and fiction, memoirs and criticism, appear side by side in its pages, in balanced proportions…”
Editors, advisory editors, and contributing editors have included Jay Hubbell, George Bond, John McGinnis, Allen Maxwell, Henry Nash Smith, Mary Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Lon Tinkle, and Margaret Hartley. Contributors have included D. H. Lawrence, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Mary Austin, Quentin Bell, Horton Foote, Larry McMurtry, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Clampitt, James Merrill, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Arthur Miller, Naguib Mahfouz, and many others.
Recent issues:
As SWR begins 97 years of publication, the first issue for 2012 (97.1) announces its annual award winners, the 2011 Morton Marr Poetry Prize contest winners, and kudos listing. Essays in this issue are by Paula Marantz Cohen, Irina Alexandra Dumitrescu, Jessica Greenbaum, and Ann Peters. Fiction is by Michael Carroll, Caroline Patterson, Alec Solomita, and Don Waters. Poetry pieces are by Julianne Buchsbaum, Daniel Corrie, Amy Glynn Graecen, Jeffrey Harrison, Elizabeth Hazen, Tina Kelley, John Koethe, Paul Otremba, and Chelsea Woodard.
Featured in this issue of SWR (96.4, 2011) is the winner of the 2011 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction Babette Fraser Hale with her story “Silences.” Judge for this year’s contest was Francine Prose. Also in this issue are essays by Chris Arthur, Rachel Hadas, Anne Goldman, Ben Miller, and Tony Whedon; fiction by Ann Harleman, Alice Hoffman, Jo Lloyd, and Valerie Miner; poetry by David Caplan, Mike Decker, Adam Giannelli, Debora Greger, Richie Hofmann, Luke Johnson, Evan Jones, Jerome Mazzaro, Katherine Mosby, and Sarah Pemberton Strong. www.smu.edu/southwestreview