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Willow Springs

501 N Riverpoint Blvd, Ste 425

Spokane, WA 99202

Phone: 509-359-7435

E-mail: willowspringsewu <at> gmail <dot> 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 65
Features poetry and prose by Matt Bell, Diana Joseph, Laura Kasischke, David Wojahn, Gary Copeland Lilley, and Robert Wrigley, among others. A conversation with Charles Baxter ranges from plotting the points between Barthelme, postmodernism, and Kafka to exploring the theory-death of the avant-garde. Fady Joudah takes a stance against the term "political poetry" and discusses fidelity in translation."

Issue 64
Willow Springs 64 (Fall 2009) features poetry by Susan J. Allspaw, Ray Amorosi, Josiah Bancroft, Todd Boss, Denver Butson, Weston Cutter, Clay Matthews, Jeremy Voigt, Stephanie Lenox, and Dean Young; fiction by Heather Brittain, Kim Chinquee, Marko Constans, Stacia Saint Owens; interviews with Mark Childress and Dorianne Laux with cover art by Mel McCuddin.

Issue 63
Features poetry and prose by Ray Amorosi, Dorianne Laux, Paisley Rekdal, Matthew Cashion, Robert Lopez, and Joseph Salvatore among others. A conversation with Lynn Emanuel ranges from comic strips and "breaking up" with Italo Calvino to using humor "as a way of getting back at the dominant culture." Thomas Lynch discusses the "disappearance of corpses in the funeral ceremony," Dr. Kevorkian, abortion, as well as "love and grief and sex and all that stuff." The reason that poets aren't read, Lynch says, "is because we don't hang any of them anymore."