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The Gettysburg Review
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: (717) 337-6770 Fax: (717) 337-6775
E-mail: mdrew@gettysburg.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): $7 Copy Price: $7 Subscription (Individuals): $24/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 eighty 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, New Stories from the South, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, or have reappeared in such esteemed publications as Harper’s.
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, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall as well as emerging artists such as Ginger Strand, Kellie Wells, Paula Closson Buck, Paul Maliszewski, Scott Schrader, 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:
Winter 2007
The final installment in our twentieth anniversary volume contains
must-read poems by David Baker, Maggie Smith, and Richard Lyons, and
stories by Holly Goddard Jones, Corinna Vallianatos, and Jeannette
Bertles, among others. For lovers of nonfiction, highlights include
Marcia Aldrich’s “Mother Bed,” and a piece by John Summers that
assesses James Agee’s anarchist leanings.
Spring 2008
Contains essential poems by Alice Friman, Barbara Goldberg,
and Tim Nolan, and stories by Victoria Lancelotta, Naomi J.
Williams, and Kerry Neville Bakken, among others. For lovers of
nonfiction, highlights include Norma Marder's “Strong Medicine,”
Kathleen Rooney’s “Wit of the Staircase,” and an essay by our
regular poetry reviewer Floyd Collins, who assesses Philip Schultz's
latest book, Failure.
Summer 2007
Continues the celebration of our twentieth
year in print by bringing you essays by Bill Gruber, Roberta
Payne, and Paul Bogard, poems by Marvin Bell, Billy Collins, and
Melanie Carter, and stories by Martin Seay and Kyle Minor, both
relative newcomers who are sure to make a lasting impression.
Spring 2007
Heralds our twentieth anniversary. To
celebrate, we are bringing you more of the stimulating writing you
have come to expect. Highlights of this issue include witty and
irreverent poems by Bob Hicok and Dean Young alongside stunning
verse from newcomer Carol Fant; moody, evocative stories by Scott
Blackwood and Leslie Pietrzyk; and a gripping memoir by Mike Barnes
on negotiating the mysteries, and horrors, of depression with
Mellaril and electroshock therapy.