The MacGuffin

18600 Haggerty Road

Livonia, MI 48152

Phone: 734-462-4400 Ext. 5327 Fax: 734-462-4679

E-mail: macguffin@schoolcraft.edu

Web: www.macguffin.org

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-6 months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1527-2346 Founded: 1984 Issues per year: 3 Average pages: 164 Copy price: $9 Sample price (postpaid): $10.35 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $22

Publisher’s description: The MacGuffin, established in 1984, is a national literary magazine from Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. Our journal is a 6" x 9" perfect bound collection of the best poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. We also have artwork including black and white photos, prints, and drawings. The material ranges from traditional to experimental. We hope our periodical attracts a variety of people with many different interests. We publish three issues yearly.

Each year The MacGuffin offers the National Poet Hunt Contest. First place prize $500 and two honorable mentions. All winning poems including the honorable mentions are published in the winter issue of The MacGuffin. 2008 Judge is Vivian Shipley. Email or send SASE for contests guidelines.

Recent Issues:

Fall 2007
Barbara Minton's intriguing cover invites you down a mysterious path with astonishing writers such as Zilka Joseph, Maria Constantini, Christine Rhein, and Linda Nemec Foster, among others. You're transported by Bonnie Jo Campbell to the Bahamas, learn the ocean's alphabet with Josie Kearns, dance in a biker bar with Suzanne Parker, and travel with featured poet, Vivian Shipley, to Kentucky, Cambodia, and Fair Haven, Connecticut, all from the comfort of your favorite armchair.

Spring/Summer 2006
A creative cover by artist, Linda Sienkiewicz wraps the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of The MacGuffin with more of her artwork inside. The volume features an interview with Kalamazoo poet, Lynn Pattison by Senior Editor, Anne Hutchinson. The issue also includes poetry and fiction by such authors as Dawn McDuffie, Marion Boyer, Tom Lombardo, Alan Girling, William Andrews, B. Z. Niditch, Eric Grunwald, and many others.