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Gargoyle Magazine

3819 North 13th St.

Arlington, VA  22201

Phone/Fax: (703) 525-9296

Email: gargoyle <at> gargoylemagazine <dot> com

Web: www.gargoylemagazine.com

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes
Reading period: 6/1 - 9/4 Response time: 1-3 months Payment: see website Contests: no ISSN: 0162-1149 Issues per year: 1
Founded: 1976 Copy Price: $15.95 Subscription (Individuals): $30 2yrs Subscriptions (Libraries): $40 2yrs

Publisher’s Description: Gargoyle Magazine has always been a scallywag magazine, a maverick magazine, a bit too academic for the underground and way too underground for the academics. We are a writer’s magazine in that we are read by other writers and have never worried about reaching the masses. What masses? We publish fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, and graphics.

Recent contributors: Kwame Alexander, John Amen, Antler, Naomi Ayala, Linda Joy Burke, Joan Colby, Kathleen de Azevedo, Gloria Dyc, Bobbi Dykema, Sean Enright, Ed Falco, Gary Fincke, Hugh Fox, Robert L. Giron, Robert Gregory, Myronn Hardy, Lucy Honig, Marilyn Kallet, Karen Kovacik, Angela Labordeta, Gerry LaFemina, Elise Levine, Norman Lock, Barbara Moraff, Susan Smith Nash, Lalita Norohna, Carol Novack, Lorraine Schein, Steven Schutzman, Judith Skillman, Marilyn Stablein, Adrienne Su, Todd Swift, ruth weiss, Allison Whittenberg, Michael Wilding and many more.

“A recent survey of small press publishing by a Calyx intern revealed only twenty-five percent of those published are women. . . In contrast is the percentage of women on the list of contributors to Gargoyle, the annual literary magazine edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody in Arlington, Virginia, which is also celebrating thirty years in print. At least 45 percent of the writers who have had work published in Gargoyle since 1976 are women, including Kathy Acker, Rita Dove, Jennifer Egan, Shelley Jackson, and Naomi Shihab Nye. But Gargoyle, which has also published the likes of T.C. Boyle, Russell Edson, Allen Ginsberg, Ben Marcus, and Rick Moody, doesn’t make any declarations about gender distinctions. The cover of its anniversary issue, also released in August, features an illustration by Patricia Storms that pretty well sums up thirty years of work by a magazine that doesn’t take itself too seriously: A UFO indiscriminately beams up its cargo, including toilet paper, a telephone, a rat, a cat, a drumstick, a brassiere, a granny with a book, and Frankenstein with a typewriter. God bless literary magazines with a sense of humor.”
                     – Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers Magazine

Recent issues:
55, 2009
Features work by Sherman Alexie, Kate Braverman, Alex Cigale, Barbara Westwood Diehl, George Drew, Moira Egan, Espido Freire, Robert Gregory, Susan Gubernat, Myronn Hardy, Michael Hemmingson, Mary Crockett Hill, Nik Houser, Dallas Hudgens, Richard Jones, Michael Kimball, Steve Kowit, Reb Livingston, Margaret McCarthy, Jen Michalski, Susan Smith Nash, Susan Perabo, Deborah Pintonelli, Eric Paul Shaffer, Ronald Wallace, Ian Williams, and lots more.