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Tampa Review

Publisher’s Description: Tampa Review is published twice a year in a unique and elegant hardcover format by the University of Tampa Press. Each issue includes new stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art. The editors strive to produce a physically beautiful magazine that presents words in meaningful aesthetic relationship with world-class visual art.

We believe that contemporary works resonate most powerfully within a great tradition. Thus, the design of the magazine affirms a tradition of excellence in book arts hearkening back to illuminated manuscripts. And as a gallery space in print, Tampa Review promotes awareness of multi-dimensional relationships between outstanding contemporary literature and the contemporary visual arts. We advocate each act of reading as an experience of insight, outreach, and delight.

Our issues feature contemporary writing and art from Florida and our Tampa Bay area — but we emphasize and cultivate this work in dialog with an international literary and cultural community.

Our annual Tampa Review Prize for Poetry awards a $2,000 prize and book publication in hardcover and quality paperback editions to poets new and old. And each year we are one of eight journals publishing the best new writing from the nation’s graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs—winners of the AWP Intro Awards chosen by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Recent issues:

From its opening “Indian Prayer” by Danahy Fiction Prize winner Heather Sappenfield, to powerful closing poetry by Frank X. Gaspar, including “Late Rapturous,” title poem from his latest book, the new writing and art in Tampa Review 42 offers rich reflections about changing course. With art by Todd Hido, Jane Calvin, Audrey Flack, and others; nine new stories by Debra Brenegan, Kathy Flann, Sharon Hashimoto, Ann Scott Knight, Mark Krieger and more; nonfiction from James McKean and Caroline Sutton; and work from twenty poets, including Frank Giampietro, Red Hawk, and Diane Wakoski, the issue is a splendid way to end one year and begin the new.

Tampa Review 41 is framed by a sampling of art from the Vorticist movement, a lively alliance of literary and visual artists before World War I that included Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and a famous literary magazine called Blast. The issue includes fiction by Eric Freeze, Cary Groner, Brian Hyer, and William Jablosky; nonfiction from Carolyn Flynn, Priscilla Long, Dana Norris, and Nicole Sheets; and poetry from David Axelrod, Christopher Buckley, Dennis Hinrichsen, Dannye Romine Powell, Peter Meinke, and seven other contemporary poets.