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Southwest Review

P.O. Box 750374

6404 Hilltop Lane, Room 307

Dallas, TX 75275-0374

Phone: (214) 768-1037

E-mail: swr <at> smu.edu

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes, see web site Reading period: 9/1 – 5/31 Response time: 6-8 weeks Payment: yes and copies Contests: yes ISSN: 0038-4712 Founded: 1915 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ubiquity Copy price: $6 Average pages: 144 Sample price (postpaid): $6 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $24 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $30

Publisher’s description: The third oldest continuously published literary quarterly in America. From its inception, the magazine set out to publish the best works it received neither attempting to please a mass audience nor limited by its region. PEN - “The Southwest Review has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the best literary quarterlies in the United States. Poetry and fiction, memoirs and criticism, appear side by side in its pages, in balanced proportions . . .”

Editors, advisory editors, and contributing editors have included Jay Hubbell, George Bond, John McGinnis, Allen Maxwell, Henry Nash Smith, Mary Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Lon Tinkle, and Margaret Hartley. Contributors have included D. H. Lawrence, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Mary Austin, Quentin Bell, Horton Foote, Larry McMurtry, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Clampitt, James Merrill, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Arthur Miller, Naguib Mahfouz, and many others.