Willow Springs :: NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines
Willow Springs
501 N Riverpoint Blvd, Ste 425
Spokane, WA 99202
Phone: (509) 359-7435
E-mail: willowspringsewu[at]gmail[dot]com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Online submissions: yes (see website) Reading period: 9/1-5/31 Response time: 12 weeks; expect a longer response time between July and October Payment: copies Contests: yes; see website ISSN: 0739-1277 Issues per year: 2 Founded: 1977 Distributors: Ingram, Ubiquity Average pages: 120 Copy price: $10 Sample price (postpaid): $10 Subscription: $18
Publisher’s description: Willow Springs publishes the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with some of the most notable authors in contemporary literature, including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, and Robert Bly. Founded in 1977 and published twice yearly, Willow Springs features two interviews per issue, as well as arresting essays, fiction, and poetry by a diverse variety of writers—from the unknown and up and coming, to U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. An indispensable resource for writers and readers, Willow Springs engages its audience in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and what it means to be human.
Recent Issues:
Willow Springs issue 69 features poetry and prose by Austin LaGrone, Diane Lefer, Joseph Millar, Carl Phillips, Paisley Rekdal, and Matthew Vollmer. Our interview with Robert Lopez examines writing in a state of not knowing and the importance of damage to fiction. Matthew Dickman talks about community, empathy, and delving into a darker part of himself as a writer.
Issue 68 of Willow Springs features poetry and prose by Matthew Dickman, Jill Christman, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, and Nance Van Winckel. In an interview, Richard Russo talks about working on a set with Paul Newman and the relationship between humor and suffering in fiction: “Most of the time, if you think about them in adjacent rooms, the door adjoining suffering and humor is very often wide open, but as we get closer and closer to suffering, the doorway gets smaller and smaller, because you just can’t stand it otherwise.”
Willow Springs issue 67 features poetry and prose by Dawn Raffel, Laurie Lamon, Molly Tenebaum, Adrian C. Louis, Matthew Nienow, and Jess Walter. In an interview, Lydia Millet reveals why she loves to play with "the wicked and the dismissive, and the narcissistic in particular" in fiction. Prageeta Sharma discusses how we all work for Citibank, and what it means to take out loans for studying poetry instead of renovating your house.