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The Antioch Review

PO Box 148

Yellow Springs, OH 45387

Phone: (937) 769-1365

E-mail: mkeyes <at> antiochreview <dot> org

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: Fiction & Nonfiction: 9/1 to 5/31. Poetry: 9/1 to 4/30 Response time: See website Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no ISSN: 0003-5769. Founded: 1941 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram, Msolutions, Ubiquity, and Central Books, U.K. Average pages: 200 Sample copy (postpaid): $7 Copy Price: $8 / $10.50 Canada Subscription (Individuals): $40 Subscription (Libraries): $80

Publisher’s Description: The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the most distinguished and well-established literary journals in America. The magazine publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging and well-known authors. Review writers are consistently included in Best American anthologies and awarded Pushcart Prizes; its editor, Robert S. Fogarty, received the PEN/American Center lifetime achievement award for editing in 2003.

Most issues combine genres. This mix of materials allows readers to move back and forth within an issue or select an area best suited to their interest. There are also occasional single genre issues. Recent issues have featured essays by Daniel Harris, Bruce Fleming, Jeffrey Meyers, Sallie Tisdale; stories by Nathan Oates, Rosellen Brown, and Peter LaSalle, along with award-winning poetry by Eric Pankey, Richard Kenney, and Dana Roeser.

The Antioch Review is published quarterly in association with Antioch University. The Review receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and numerous friends around the country.

Recent issues:

Vol 68 No 1, Winter 2010 - The winter 2010 Antioch Review features an essay by Daniel Harris “Celebrity Houses, Celebrity Politics,” which leads the reader into celebrities’ bedrooms and bathrooms and explores the politician as celebrity. A set of pieces about France, pages of poetry, and our Archives article by Robert K. Merton “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” round out the issue.

Vol 67 No 4, Fall 2009 - The fall 2009 Antioch Review features a paper written by Clifford Geertz, the renowned anthropologist, during his senior year at Antioch College in 1949. The issue ends with the “From Our Archives” section, and the selection is an essay Geertz wrote for the Review in 1975. Between these two bookends are personal essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews.

Vol 67 No 3, Summer 2009 - The summer 2009 Antioch Review is our annual all fiction issue. Most of the stories came in over the transcom and nearly all are by first-time contributors to the Review. The feature in “From Our Archives” section is a story by James Purdy who died earlier this year.