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- Issue Number Issue 19
- Published Date 2018
- Publication Cycle Monthly
- Review by Katy Haas
Each issue of True Story shines a spotlight on one nonfiction piece by one writer. As one of my favorite print magazines, I always look forward to finding out which each new issue's story will be. This year's issues have, among other stories, featured a neighborhood coming together to search for a missing woman with dementia ("Search Party" by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair), and a camp counselor reflecting on his treatment of a particular camper in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving the camp where he was once a camper himself (“Unmolested” by Michael Lowenthal). Readers never really know what to expect with each issue, part of the beauty of the little, pocket-sized magazine.
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- Issue Number Volume 3 Issue 4
- Published Date October 2017
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Aran Singh
The Tishman Review is a literary magazine chock-full of the literary goods. I mean, the thing is stacked with a stunning array of quality writing.
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- Published Date December 2017
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Publication Cycle
Rolling
- Review by Katy Haas
Terrain.org exists at the meeting place of natural and manmade, an online magazine on human nature and our place within the natural the world. Work is added to the website on a rolling basis, so there is always a chance for readers to encounter something new upon each visit. So far, this month provides new poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for exploration, as well as a guest editorial: “Letter to America” by Barbara Hurd.
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- Issue Number Issue 152
- Published Date Summer/Fall 2017
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Triannual
- Review by Aran Singh
TriQuarterly’s Summer/Fall 2017 issue is rife with writing of a high literary caliber. The pieces in this issue are all exciting in their own way, and I found myself quite taken by a number of them. Many of the fiction pieces in this issue are stellar. Though the stories range in style from straight-up literary realism to magical realism with a touch of the surreal, the one thing they share in common is a strong emotional core.
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- Issue Number Volume 19 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2017
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Craig Ledoux
Volume 19 Number 1 is the “True Crime” issue of Tin House, designed, according to Editor Rob Spillman, “as a way to engage our country’s voyeuristic obsession with rogues and outlaws.” While vintage scraps of American morbidity do feature in this issue—the Starkweather murders, the Kansas village made famous by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood—social justice and the criminal state share equal billing. In the latter poems and stories, black and brown lives are pulled apart by oppressive forces emboldened by a complicit public. The gateway to the issue, Sean Lewis’s portrait of record producer Phil Spector, is dark and almost whimsical, a perfect point of entry. Lewis replaces Spector’s head with tangled tape, evoking a wig worn at his trial, as well as the “confused mind” that would lead him to murder actress Lana Clarkson in 2003.
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- Issue Number Issue 7
- Published Date May 2017
- Publication Cycle Monthly
- Review by Katy Haas
Every month, it's a struggle not to pick up True Story and immediately begin reading as soon as the new issue arrives at the office. As a fan of both the little, single-author nonfiction magazine and true crime, Issue 7 reeled me in and refused to let go. I had to read the first few pages at my desk. While not for the faint of heart, Andrew Maynard deftly balances fact and feeling in this issue’s timely story "Take Your Son to Work Day.”
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- Issue Number Issue 18
- Published Date December 2016
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Jenny Mark
Unlike so many other literary magazines, Thrice Fiction is, in itself, a work of art. It captures the spirit of each piece of fiction within its pages through original artwork and bends the concept of “short fiction” to encompass truly creative works that defy traditional short story formats. Self-identified as an alternative zine, each page tells a unique story from a unique voice, illustrated with unique art.
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- Issue Number Volume 56 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2016
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Anne Graue
The Fall 2016 issue of Tar River Poetry is filled with the work of experienced poets; each piece reveals an attention to form and function in a linguistic mélange of technique containing a bounty of literary treasures. The issue is one to keep by the bedside for easy access to multiple reads.
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- Issue Number Volume 28 Number 3
- Published Date Autumn 2016
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by David R. Matteri
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- Issue Number Issue 1
- Published Date October 2016
- Publication Cycle Monthly
- Review by Katy Haas
If I’m being honest, what drew me in to the first issue of True Story, brought to you by the editors of Creative Nonfiction and In Fact Books, is that the inaugural story, “Fruitland” by Steven Kurutz, sounded intriguing, mysterious, and—well—like a fiction story I’d like to read. Two brothers, Donnie and Joe Emerson, recorded an album together in the late 70s. While a flop at the time, it was rediscovered by chance in 2008, catapulting them into belated fame and inevitably stirring up ghosts. As a true story, “Fruitland” ends up offering more to readers than a fictionalized “inspired by” story ever could.
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- Issue Number Volume 1
- Published Date June 2016
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Cheryl Wollner
The first issue of TQ Review defines itself as “a journal of trans and queer voices.” These are authors speaking from their experiences and divulging their fears. The authors don’t share victim stories or stories of triumph, but everything in between. These are the stories of people within the trans and queer communities laying bare their fears and vulnerabilities.
- Issue Number Number 126
- Published Date 2007
- Publication Cycle Triquarterly
- Review by Jim Scott
The fiction in TriQuarterly ranks among the best today, but whereas many journals contain excellent fiction of one variety, TriQuarterly’s strength lies in its diversity. Jonathan David’s hilarious “The Sub” tells the story of a horrendous substitute teacher through (mostly) anonymous letters from the students themselves. “The Sub” is (intentionally?) reminiscent of Donald Barthelme’s classic “The School.” The latter’s strength lies in how the stakes are raised, the former’s is in the variety of voices, the smart and the not-so, the misbehaving and the apple polishing, the liars and the too-honest.
- Issue Number Volume 8 Number 2
- Published Date Winter 2007
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Jim Scott
Tin House continues their run of excellence with this superb issue – one of their finest. The hot-button piece is Steve Almond’s collection of responses to the hate mail he received as a result of quitting his position at Boston College in protest of Condoleezza Rice being named commencement speaker. The e-mails are shocking, and Almond’s responses vary from whip-smart to insightful to hilarious to scathing all the way to heartbreaking. Almond’s concern for Tom and Katie’s baby in the face of being compared – no, equated – to bin Laden and Zarqawi is touching.
- Issue Number Double Issue 31/32
- Published Date 2007
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Jim Scott
Tampa Review does not look like a literary magazine. The size and shape of a children’s storybook, this hardcover journal elicits the same expectation of entertainment – some pictures, stories, perhaps a lesson or two. There are plenty of pictures, in all types of media. Charlee Brodsky photographs calves and feet, and Jim Daniels describes them in poetry in a series of four connected works. Daniels opens “Glow” with the memorable lines, “The scarred knees of the world / imagine their prayers might be / forgiven.”
- Issue Number Number 30
- Published Date 2006
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
This is my favorite issue of this handsome annual yet. It’s smartly edited, with a collection of pieces that seem very much to belong together and to belong in exactly the order in which they appear. The issue opens with a silver print by Jerry N. Uelsmann of a sky inside a hand holding up both a house and a naked shadowy figure looking to one side, but approaching the house. On the facing page, Kathleen Spivack’s poem, “Seeming to Happen,” concludes “I, who thought myself ‘indecisive,’ find indeed I was only waiting: / waiting for you, for me, for a path, for a way to walk into this / painting.”
- Issue Number Issue 122
- Published Date 2005
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Guest editor Kimiko Hahn has compiled a collection of poems and stories based on research, paintings, photographs, and other source materials, several essays about writers' relationships to influences and original sources, and lengthy contributors' notes describing the writers’ processes and approaches. Hahn provides an introduction to the issue in a poetry/theory style, "Notes Re: Trawl/Troll," and includes two poems of her own in the issue. As a reader who is partial to research-based writing, I was especially interested in this issue, but I am confident that readers with no particular connection to this type of work will find a great deal to appreciate here.
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- Issue Number Issue 4
- Published Date 2015
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Quarterly
- Review by Denise Hill
Typoetic.us is a play on words, on the url and its own name (Typoeticus: ending like so many Greek names with the -ticus), and just a downright playful poetry journal. But don’t take playful to mean light and frivolous; rather, playful in the way that us literarians appreciate. The featured writers skillfully play with language, sound, emotion, and experience, and as readers, we are invited along as playmates. With the variety of styles the editorial sense includes, no one is left out.
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- Issue Number Volume 50
- Published Date 2015
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Allyson Hoffman
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- Issue Number Issue 14
- Published Date August 2015
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Katy Haas
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- Issue Number Volume 16 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2014
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Brian McKenna
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- Issue Number Volume 53 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2014
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Marcene Gandolfo
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- Issue Number Issue 2
- Published Date Winter 2013
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Publication Cycle
Annual
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
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- Published Date Winter 2013
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Publication Cycle
Biannual
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Issue Number Volume 1 Number 1
- Published Date Winter/Spring 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Vanessa Willoughby
- Issue Number Issue 22
- Published Date Spring 2006
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Jim Scott
- Published Date 2002/2003
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Volume 8 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2006
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Miles Clark
- Issue Number Issue 120
- Published Date Winter 2010
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Volume 21 Number 3
- Published Date Autumn 2009
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Kate Sirls
- Issue Number Number 25
- Review by Gina Kokes
- Issue Number Number 97
- Published Date Spring 2004
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Published Date 2004
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Issue 20
- Published Date Spring 2005
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Published Date 2004/2005
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Published Date Spring 2009
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Mary Baken
- Subtitle A Journal of Personal Narrative
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- Issue Number Volume 17 Number 1
- Published Date 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Julie J. Nichols
- Issue Number Volume 13 Number 3
- Published Date Spring 2012
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Julie J. Nichols
- Issue Number Volume 18
- Published Date Spring 2012
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by David R. Matteri
- Issue Number Volume 3 Issue 1
- Published Date Spring 2010
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Lesley Dame
- Issue Number Issue 1
- Published Date Summer/Fall 2010
- Review by Tanya Angell Allen
- Issue Number Issue 1
- Published Date Fall 2010
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Subtitle Parties
- Published Date 2003
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Issue 4
- Published Date 2003
- Review by Gina Kokes
- Issue Number Issue 17
- Published Date Fall 2003
- Review by Terri Denton
- Issue Number Issue 32
- Published Date July/August 2009
- Publication Cycle Monthly
- Review by Henry F. Tonn
- Issue Number Volume 17 Number 2
- Published Date Summer 2005
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Jennifer Gomoll
- Issue Number Volume 12 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2010
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Issue 9
- Published Date Fall 2003
- Review by Kathe Lison
- Subtitle LIES!
- Issue Number Volume 19
- Published Date Spring 2004
- Review by Gina Kokes
- Subtitle Off on a Tangent
- Issue Number Volume 16 Number 1
- Published Date Spring 2004
- Review by Laura Carter
- Issue Number Volume 1 Issue 3
- Published Date 2003
- Review by Therese Samson Wenham
- Issue Number Volume 20 Number 3
- Published Date Autumn 2008
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
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- Issue Number Volume 1 Number 1
- Published Date Summer 2013
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Denise Hill
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- Issue Number Volume 25 Number 3
- Published Date Autumn 2013
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Julie Nichols
- Issue Number Volume 34 Numbers 1 & 2
- Published Date Spring/Summer 2013
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sarah Gorman
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- Issue Number Issue 45/46
- Published Date 2013
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sarah Gorman
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- Issue Number Volume 3
- Published Date 2013
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Anne Graue
- Issue Number Volume 2 Numbers 1 & 2
- Published Date Spring & Fall 2008
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Anne Wolfe
- Issue Number Issue 13
- Published Date 2010
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
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- Issue Number Volume 15 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2013
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Melanie Tague
- Issue Number Volume 33-34
- Published Date Winter 2003
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Issue 131
- Published Date 2008
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Volume 10 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2008
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Volume 13 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2011
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Mark Danowsky
- Issue Number Number 39
- Published Date 2010
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Numbers 73/74
- Published Date Fall 2009/Spring 2010
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
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- Published Date January 2013
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Bimonthly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Issue Number Volume 24 Number 2
- Published Date Summer 2012
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Aimee Nicole
A great literary magazine is one that makes you think and ponder and take several moments out of your busy life to just appreciate art and life. Thema offers some absolutely remarkable writing that grabbed me and forced me to sit and reread several times. I found myself thinking about the economy, relationships, writing, reading, art, and even the galaxy at large.
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- Issue Number Volume 9
- Published Date 2013
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Sherra Wong
- Issue Number Volume 1 Issue 2
- Published Date Fall 2007
- Review by Anne Wolfe
- Issue Number Issue 2
- Published Date Summer 2007
- Review by Robert Duffer
- Issue Number Issue 129
- Published Date Winter 2008
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Stefani Nellen
- Issue Number Issue 125
- Published Date 2006
- Publication Cycle annual
- Review by Miles Clark
- Issue Number Issue 108
- Published Date Winter 2007
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Robert Duffer
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- Issue Number Issue 31
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Quarterly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Issue Number Number 17
- Published Date Spring 2010
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Volume 9 Number 4
- Published Date Summer 2008
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Camilla S. Medders
- Issue Number Volume 9 Number 3
- Published Date Spring 2008
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Rachel King
- Issue Number Issue 134
- Published Date 2009
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Issue 18
- Published Date Spring 2004
- Review by Weston Cutter
- Issue Number Volume 43 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2004
- Review by Deborah Mead
- Issue Number Issue 5
- Published Date July 2012
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Kenneth Nichols
- Issue Number Volume 23 Number 2
- Published Date Summer 2011
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Julie J. Nichols
- Issue Number Issue 129
- Published Date Spring 2012
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by John Palen
- Published Date Fall 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Kristin Ladd
- Issue Number Volume 51 Number 1
- Published Date Fall 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Lesley Dame
- Issue Number Number 42
- Published Date 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Mary Florio
- Issue Number Number 96
- Published Date Winter 2004
- Review by /faq/reviewer-bios
- Issue Number Issue 2
- Published Date Summer 2012
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Publication Cycle
Quarterly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Issue Number Number 2
- Published Date 2012
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Aimee Nicole
- Published Date Spring 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Charles Davenport
- Issue Number Volume 12 Number 4
- Published Date Summer 2011
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Jeff Vande Zande
- Issue Number Volume 13 Number 4
- Published Date Summer 2012
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Shannon Smith
- Issue Number Issue 3
- Published Date August 2012
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Publication Cycle
Bimonthly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Issue Number Volume 1 Issue 2
- Published Date December 2005
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- Issue Number Volume 6
- Published Date 2010
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Ashley Fernandez
- Issue Number Number 94
- Published Date Summer 2003
- Review by Devon Ellington
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- Issue Number Volume 13 Issue 3
- Published Date September 2013
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Publication Cycle
Quarterly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Published Date 2004
- Review by /faq/reviewer-bios
- Issue Number Issue 2
- Published Date Fall 2004
- Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey