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The Portland Review
PO Box 347
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207-0347
Phone: (503) 725-4533
Email: theportlandreview <at> gmail <dot> com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: Sept - Feb Response time: 4 – 6 months Payment: copies (see website) Contests: no Distributors: Ubiquity Average pages: 120 Sample copy (postpaid): $9 ISSN: 1549-7135 Founded: 1956 Issues per year: 3 Average Pages: 145 Cover Price: $9 Sample price (postpaid): $9 Subscription: $28
Publisher’s Description The Portland Review Literary Journal has been publishing superb short prose, poetry and art since 1956. Contributors range from the celebrated to the unknown. Editors at The Review comb through thousands of submissions annually to produce a journal of exceptional quality. Our mission to promote new authors while maintaining strict editorial standards allows us to bring our readers fresh and innovative works from Oregon and around the world with every issue. The Review is published by the Portland State University Student Publications Board.
Previous contributors include: Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Bukowski, Joel Dailey, Sean C. Mintus, Beth Kaufka , Anis Shivani, Phong Nguyen, Andrew Michael Roberts, Eleni Sikelianos, Robert Solomon, Edmund de Chasca, Gaylord Brewer, Ursula K. LeGuinn, Charles Jensen, A.B. Paulson, John Blair, Donna Stonecipher, Larissa Szporluk, Randy Nelson, Heather McHugh, Sean Thomas Dougherty and others.
Samples, guidelines and further information can be viewed online at www.portlandreview.org.
Recent issues:
Spring/Summer 2009 features prose by W. Todd Kaneko, Katherine Conner, and Robert Moulthrop, stunning new work by poets, Brian Turner, Valzhyna Mort, Kate Bucko, and Sarah Saybold, as well reviews by Brian Beck and Andrew Madigan.
Winter/Spring 2009 features prose by, Ronald Lands, Aurora Brackett, and Suzanne Cardinal, stunning new work by poets, ames Grabill, Sean Patrick Hill, and Lori Anderson Moseman, and art by Carolyn Main and Lisa Chun.
Fall/Winter 2008 features prose by up-and-coming writers Kevin Sampsell, Judith Sara Gelt, and Brian Hart, as well as work by poets dan raphael, Nicholas Karavatos, and Rachel Bennett. The cover art is by Charlie Alan Kraft.