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New England Review
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
Phone: (802) 443-5075
E-mail: NEReview <at> middlebury <dot> edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes, for prose only Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/1-5/31 Response time: 4-12 weeks Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no ISSN: 1053-1297 Founded: 1978 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram, Ubiquity Average pages: 210 Sample copy (postpaid): $10 Copy Price: $10 Subscription (Individuals): $30 Subscription (Institutions): $45
Publisher’s Description: Now in its 30th year of publication, New England Review distinguishes itself with a fine blend of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is both challenging and inviting to the general reader. The selection of writings in each issue presents a broad spectrum of viewpoints and genres, including traditional and experimental fiction, translations in poetry and prose, criticism, letters from abroad, reviews in arts and literature, and rediscoveries. Founded in 1978 and edited by Stephen Donadio, NER keeps its readers in touch with the imaginative adventures of a wide range of writers, with a strong commitment to presenting new voices .
Recent and forthcoming issues feature new work by Jennifer Grotz, William Logan, James Longenbach, Keith Lee Morris, Elizabeth Searle, David Shields, and Steve Almond, plus a range of nonfiction and translations.
NER is published four times a year by Middlebury College. Managing Editor is Carolyn Kuebler; Poetry Editor is C. Dale Young.
Recent issues:
Vol. 30, #4 features fiction by Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata and new stories by Glen Pourciau, Chaiti Sen, Christine Sneed, J. M. Tyree, and others. New poetry by Larry Bradley, Eduardo Corral, George Looney, Martha Rhodes, Natasha Trethewey, and others; and a broad range of nonfiction by Alexis de Tocqueville, Joshua Harmon, William Gilson, and more.
Vol. 30, #3 presents an in-depth feature honoring the work of editor and critic Ted Solotaroff, with an excerpt from his unpublished memoir and testimonials from 19 authors. With fiction by Lori Ostlund, Aja Gabel, Peter LaSalle, Gregory Blake Smith, and Louise Jarvis Flynn and new poems by Carl Phillips, Joanne Dominque Dwyer, Richard Chess, Corey Marks, Kimberly Johnson, Camasin Middour, Mike Puican, Peter Hyland, and Steven Schroeder. Also featuring Michael Katz's translation of Ivan Shcheglov's "The Dacha Husband."
Vol. 30, #2 features new fiction from Geoffrey Becker, Lucy Berrington, Edward Hardy, Gary Lee Kraut, Norman Lock, and ArLynn Leiber Presser. Also appearing in this issue are personal essays from Michael Coffey and Michael Milburn, along with new poetry from Dilruba Ahmed, Dick Allen, Debora Greger, Laura Kasischke, Chase Twichell, Christian Wiman, David Yezzi, and more. In nonfiction, Theodore Leinwand follows Ted Hughes through the labyrinth of meaning in Shakespeare; David C. Dougherty offers a look at Stanley Elkin's foray into the movie business; Nancy O'Connor translates an essay on the modern predicament of Charles Baudelaire; Erasmus Darwin explores the mysteries of the Portland Vase; and Kate Cambor chronicles Sigmund Freud's arrival in Paris, the capital of Victorian hysteria.