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upstreet

Publishers Description: upstreet, based in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, is an award-winning literary annual containing the best new fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction available. The first four issues feature interviews with Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Wally Lamb, Michael Martone and Robin Hemley. upstreet is an independently owned and published, nationally distributed magazine. It was founded in 2005 by Vivian Dorsel, formerly Managing Editor of The Berkshire Review for eight years, who selected the members of the editorial staff for their love of the written word, their high standards of literary judgment, and their desire to offer a voice to prose writers and poets who might not find publication opportunities in more mainstream journals. upstreet number four won the Bronze Medal in the Anthologies category of the 2008 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY).

“…rampant with talent.”—Berkshire Bright Focus

“…a handsome, high quality volume of fiction, poetry and non-fiction.”—The Women’s Times

“…a classy little journal from Richmond, MA.”—Martin Woodside, Poetry International’s weblog

“…this issue of upstreet [#4] is jam-packed with quality fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and an interview with Michael Martone.”—Dan Moreau, NewPages

Recent issues:

upstreet number seven (2011) features Vivian Dorsel’s interview with Dani Shapiro, author of Family History and Devotion; poetry by Richard Jackson, Sydney Lea, Carol Muske-Dukes, Hannah Fries, D. Nurkse, Connie Wanek, and Bill Zavatsky; translations of three Emilio Prados poems by Jennifer Barber; creative nonfiction by Michael Martone and Robert Vivian; fiction by Sean Elder, Ellen Lesser, and Canadian author Tamas Dobozy, and much more.

number six (2010) features Vivian Dorsel’s interview with Sue William Silverman, author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You and Love Sick; fiction by David Jauss, Jeanie Chung, and Erik Wennermark; creative nonfiction by Douglas Glover, Andrew D. Cohen, and Amy Monticello; and poetry by Mark Halliday, Jeffrey Harrison, Paul Hostovsky, Frances Richey, Michelle Valladares, and more.

Number 5 - upstreet number five features a 20-page interview with Robin Hemley, director of the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa. At 224 pages, this issue received the largest number of submissions in upstreet’s five-year history. It contains fiction by Lydia Davis, Xu Xi and Maya Sonenberg, creative nonfiction by Phyllis Barber, and poetry by Jean Valentine, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Halliday, Jeffrey Harrison, Alan Feldman, Rachel Hadas and Paul Hostovsky.