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The Georgia Review

The University of Georgia

Athens, GA  30602-9009

Phone: (800) 542-3481 Fax: (706) 542-0047

E-mail: garev <at> uga <dot> edu

Web: http://www.uga.edu/garev

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no

Reading period: 8/15-5/15 Response time:  2-4 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no ISSN: 0016-8386 Issues per year: 4 Founded: 1947 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Media Solutions, Ubiquity Average pages: 200 Copy Price: $15 Sample copy (postpaid): $10 Subscription: $35/yr

Publisher’s Description: The Georgia Review, published by the University of Georgia, is an award-winning, nationally distributed literary quarterly that has been in existence for over 60 years. A seventeen-time finalist in the National Magazine Awards, The Georgia Review won the Essay competition in 2007 and the Fiction competition in 1986. Its staff reviews over 13,000 submissions annually, publishing interdisciplinary essays, reviews, art, fiction, and poetry in four book-length issues per year for over three thousand subscribers. Through its commitment to excellence, The Georgia Review has earned an international reputation. Writers range from Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners to emerging new voices; their words invite and sustain repeated readings.

“In an age of growing conglomeration, it is comforting to know that there is a group of dedicated people who not only care about good writing but do something about it. . . . Of all the reviews published, the one at the top of my list is The Georgia Review. And, I’ve discovered, this magazine is at the top of the list of a number of other readers, especially the editors of fiction, essay, and poetry annuals.”—Nat Sobel, Literary Agent

“The purpose of literary reviews, I believe, is to promote the highest possible standard for writers, to hold their talent to the fire, to demand of them only their finest efforts in transforming language into art; and no publication in America does it better than The Georgia Review.”
— Terry Kay, Author

Recent issues:

In the Winter 2009 issue, Albert Goldbarth is spotlighted with ten new poems, a new essay, and a self-interview in which questions are provided by other poets’ poems and answers by Goldbarth’s own; facsimile pages from his notebooks; an introductory essay by Stephen Corey; commentaries on Goldbarth’s work by Rick Mulkey, Susan Tekulve, and Lia Purpura; and color photographs by Skyler Lovelace depicting the poet at home with his collectibles. Also photographs by Michael J. Marshall, short stories by Jerry McGahan and Robin Black, and an essay by Martha G. Wiseman.

In the Fall 2009 issue, Paul Zimmer’s journey takes him into a snowy region, while Deirdra McAfee’s protagonist traverses space and time via her belief in Norse mythology. George Singleton takes us to a backwoods bar in South Carolina. Poetry offerings come from Coleman Barks, Marvin Bell, Fleda Brown, Bob Hicok, Melanie McCabe and Jane McKinley. Gerald Weales serves up his annual “American Theater Watch,” Judith Kitchen chronicles new poetry collections, and Greg Johnson examines the fate of the novella. Painter Dean Monogenis graces the issue with colorful acrylics.

The Summer 2009 Georgia Review includes renowned cultural critic Ihab Hassan, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, GR mainstays Marjorie Sandor and Sydney Lea, newcomers Lynn Schmeidler and LaWanda Walters, and experimental photographers Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. Topics include Mozart and the Holocaust; the politics of breast cancer and coal mining; sexy figs; Jesus as a roommate; and the collapse of truth and trust in the Internet age.