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The Gettysburg Review
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: (717) 337-6770
E-mail: kkoontz <at> gettysburg <dot> edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/1-5/31 Response time: 3-6 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no ISSN: 0898-4557 Issues per year: 4 Founded: 1988 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Ubiquity Distributors Average pages: 168 Sample copy (postpaid): $11 Copy Price: $10 Subscription (Individuals postpaid): $28/four issues (1 year).
Publisher’s Description: The Gettysburg Review, published by Gettysburg College, is recognized as one of the country’s premier journals. Since its debut in 1988, more than one hundred short stories, poems, and essays first published in its pages have been reprinted in the prize anthologies The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Essays, The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Short Stories, Best American Voices, Best New Poets, New Stories from the South, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, or have reappeared in such esteemed publications as Harper’s and Utne Reader.
In addition, the Gettysburg Review's editing, elegant design, and stunning graphics have earned numerous prizes, including a Best New Journal award and four Best Journal Design awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, the most recent of which was granted in 2003, and a PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. Contributors include luminaries such as E. L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, James Tate, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall as well as emerging artists such as James Haug, Ginger Strand, Kyle Minor, Holly Goddard Jones, and Charles Yu.
With its award-winning editing, writing, and design, the Gettysburg Review is, as one reader put it, “Pure delight, every time.”
Recent issues:
Spring 2010 features paintings by Eric Aho, the Spring 2010 issue also contains the entertaining and compelling essays, poems, and stories our readers have come to expect. Highlights include poetry by Maurya Simon, Nathaniel Perry, and Martha Zweig, stories by Ian Randall Wilson and John Fried, and essays by Laura-Rose Russell and Mike Freeman.
Winter 2009 features whimsical paintings by Mark Greenwold, the Winter 2009 issue also contains a bounty of engaging and entertaining essays, poems, and stories. Highlights include poetry by Sherman Alexie, Catie Rosemurgy, and Brendan Galvin, stories by Aaron Gwyn and Benjamin Hedin, and essays by Kim Adrian and John Wenke.
Our Autumn 2009 issue contains another assortment of engaging and entertaining essays, poems, and stories. Highlights include poetry by R. T. Smith, Nance Van Winckel, and Tana Jean Welch, wonderfully absurd stories by Christopher Merkner and Ron Parsons, and a compelling essay by Cheryl Dietrich about her relationship with the American flag.