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The Louisville Review
Spalding University
851 S Fourth St
Louisville, KY 40203
Phone: (502) 585-9911 x 2777 Fax: (502) 585-7158
E-mail: louisvillereview@spalding.edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-6 months Payment: copies Contests: no Founded: 1976 Issues per year: 2 Average pages: 200 Sample copy (postpaid): $4 Cover Price: $8 Subscription (Individuals): $14 Subscription (Inst): $12
Publisher’s Description: The Louisville Review, sponsored by the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University, was founded in 1976 at the University of Louisville by faculty editor Sena Jeter Naslund and two students. Known for excellence nationwide and abroad, The Louisville Review has recently published such well-known writers as David Ray, David Brendan Hopes, Frank X Walker, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greg Pape, Debra Kang Dean, Jeanie Thompson, Robin Lippincott, Garrett Hongo, Peter Cooley, Tony Hoagland, and Michael Burkhard. From its founding, TLR has fostered the development of new writers; a poem TLR published twenty years ago by Alberto Riós now appears in standard literature textbooks. TLR published the work of Louise Erdrich while she was still a student at Johns Hopkins. TLR gave national exposure to local writers Aleda Shirley and Maureen Morehead, both of whom have gone on to publish more than one book of poetry.
The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted to TLR is judged entirely on its own merit whether the author is already nationally known or previously unpublished.
Current Issue:
Spring 2008
Guest editors include Robin Lippincott, fiction; Maureen
Morehead, poetry; Charlie Schulman, drama; and Neela Vaswani, creative
nonfiction, all members of the Spalding University brief-residency MFA
in Writing.
Back Issues
Fall 2007
Guest editors include Robert Finch, creative nonfiction; Silas
House, fiction; Maureen Morehead, poetry; and Charles Schulman, drama,
all members of the Spalding University brief-residency MFA in Writing.
Contributors include Piotr Florczyk, Lawrence Millman, Scott Russell
Sanders, Bill Roorbach, and Aleda Shirley. Betsy Woods, an alumni of the
Spalding program was editor for The Children’s Corner, which
includes a large section by children from New Orleans who were affected
by Katrina.
Spring 2007
The Louisville Review, having just celebrated thirty
years of continuous publication under the leadership of editor Sena
Jeter Naslund, welcomes guest editors Julie Brickman, fiction and
creative nonfiction, and Kathleen Driskell, poetry. Brickman and
Driskell are members of the Spalding University MFA in Writing. The
spring issue includes poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson,
Richard Newman, and Joan Cusack Handler; fiction by Marc Fitten and
Rhoda Rabinowitz-Green; and an interview with W. S. Merwin.