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PMS poemmemoirstory

HB 217

1530 3^rd Avenue South

Birmingham AL 35294-1260

Phone: (205) 934-5380

Fax: (205) 975-5493

E-mail: lfrost@uab.edu

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/1/2008-11/30/2008 Response time: within 12 weeks Payment: no Contests: no ISSN: 1535-1335 Founded: 2001 Issues per year: 1 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Copy price: $7 (US), $8.50 (Cdn) Average pages: 130 Sample price (postpaid): $7 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $7 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $7

PMS poemmemoirstory is a140-page, perfect-bound, women’s literary journal published annually by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While we publish the best work written by women today, we also solicit a memoir for each issue from a woman who has experienced something of historic import. Emily Lyons, the nurse who survived the 1998 Birmingham clinic bombing, wrote the first of these; women who experienced the World Trade Center on 9-11, the Civil Rights Movement, the war in Iraq, a lesbian wedding in Boston, and Hurricane Katrina have also published their stories. Representative writers include: Robin Behn, Maxine Chernoff, Nikky Finney, Amy Gerstler, Honoreé Fanonne Jeffers, Allison Joseph, Alyce Miller, Molly Peacock, Sonia Sanchez, Ruth Stone, and Natasha Trethewey. Selections from PMS have been reprinted in Best American Poetry (2003 and 2004), Best American Essays (2005 and 2007), New Stories from the South (2005), and Best Creative Nonfiction (2007).

Current Issue:
Issue 7

Includes writing from Maxine Chernoff, Vicki Covington, Lightsey Darst, Nikky Finney, Lois Marie Harrod, and Holly Welker. Each issue features a memoir by a woman who is not necessarily a writer but who has experienced something of historic import; this issue we hear from Miranda Gillespie who writes about working with the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia in “Love Is Finished.”