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Willow Springs

501 N Riverpoint Blvd, Ste 425

Spokane, WA 99202

Phone: 509-359-7435

E-mail: willowspringsewu@gmail.com

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no, but we accept online prose submissions; see website Reading period: year-round Response time: 12 weeks; expect a longer response time between July and October Payment: copies Contests: yes; see website ISSN: 0739-1277 Issues per year: 2 Founded: 1977 Distributors: Ingram, Ubiquity Average pages: 120 Copy price: $10 Sample price (postpaid): $10 Subscription: $18

Publisher’s description: Willow Springs publishes the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with some of the most notable authors in contemporary literature, including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, and Robert Bly. Founded in 1977 and published twice yearly, Willow Springs features two interviews per issue, as well as arresting essays, fiction, and poetry by a diverse variety of writers—from the unknown and up and coming, to U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. An indispensable resource for writers and readers, Willow Springs engages its audience in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and what it means to be human.

Recent Issues:

Issue 61
Features poetry by Ray Amorosi, John Hodgen, Jim Daniels, and Kathleen Flenniken, among many others, and prose by Derek White, Adrianne Harun, Blake Butler, and Diana Joseph. A conversation with Marvin Bell ranges from the politics of poems to the "ongoing arguments about the poetic line." And Stuart Dybek discusses the tyranny of chronology, the difference between fiction and memoir, and his interest in "all categories of the fantastical."

Number 60
The latest issue of Willow Springs features: poetry by Thomas Lux, Marvin Bell, Mark Halliday, Rebecca Dunham and others; fiction by Aurelie Sheehan, Kim Chinquee, Lydia Millet and more; interviews with Aimee Bender and Robert Wrigley.

Number 59
Features poetry and prose by L. Russell Edson, Alberto Rios, Robert Bly, Melissa Kwasny, Dean Young, Louis Jenkins, Mark Halliday, D. Nurkse, Sean Lovelace, and David Shields, among others. Interview subjects include Yusef Komunyakaa and Charles D'Ambrosio, who speaks on his craft, his faith, and living in the Pacific Northwest. The conversation with Komunyakaa ranges from a discussion of the poetic line and rhythms to the effects of TV on contemporary society.