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Crazyhorse
Department of English, College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424
Phone: (843) 953-7740 Fax: (843) 953-7740
E-mail: crazyhorse <at> cofc <dot> edu
Web: crazyhorse.cofc.edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no
Reading period: year-round Response time: 3-5 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0011-0841
Founded: 1960. Issues per year: 2. Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Average pages: 160 Sample copy (postpaid): $5 Cover Price: $9; $10.50 Canada. Subscription: $16
Publisher’s Description: Recent poems from Crazyhorse were selected for reprint in The Best American Poetry 2008 and 2007 and The Pushcart Prize anthology, recent fiction in The Best American Short Stories 2008. Richard Jackson’s poem “Cain’s Legacy,” won a 2004 Pushcart Prize. Dinty W. Moore’s essay “Son of Mr. Green Jeans,” was reprinted in the January 2004 Harper’s Magazine. Read excerpts online: http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu.
Since 1960, Crazyhorse has published John Updike, Raymond Carver, Jorie Graham, John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Ha Jin, James Wright, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Lynda Hull, Charles Wright, Jean Valentine, and Billy Collins. Past authors have been reprinted in the annual Pushcart Prize and Best American anthologies, have won Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the O. Henry Prize, have been Guggenheim fellows and NEA Fellowship recipients.
Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize. The prize awards are currently $2000 for each genre, and the winning poem(s) and prose are published in Crazyhorse. Please visit our website, crazyhorse.cofc.edu, for details.
Recent issues:
Number 76, Fall 2009, issue features fiction by Elizabeth Oness, Dan Pinkerton, Mary Cross, John Kinsella, Gary Fincke, Pankaj Challa, Kelly Luce, an Ron Savage; poetry by Allan Peterson, Kevin Prufer, S. E. Smith, Kary Wayson, Bob Hicok, Lauren Barrier, Wayne Miller, Sarah Gorham, Deborah Bogen, Read Blinn, George Eklund, Michael Chitwood, and more.
Number 75, Spring 2009, edition of Crazyhorse features fiction by Michael P. Kardos, April Ayers Lawson, Jennine Cap Crucet, Leslee Becker, and Stacy M. Tintocalis; an essay by Joelle Fraser; and poetry by Ray Amorosi, Teresa Pfeifer, Norman Dubie, Catie Rosemurgy, John Gallaher, Hailey Leithauser, Theodore Worozbyt, Maxine Scates, Dean Young, Suzanne Buffam, and Ernest Farres translated by Lawrence Venuti.
Number 74 features cover art by David Ellis, Randy DeVita Guarding Mary Tri-State Security seeks self-help: “04:00: Mobile patrols suspended.” Marjorie Celona This Is When I Love You the Most Bobbie sneaks into Mr. Radcliffe’s office, essay by Kat Meads What Lies in Closets “The night the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped the heiress...”—the Patty Hearst tell-all files revisited. All this and more.