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Mark Wisniewski
Pushcart Prize winner and Best American Short Stories author Mark Wisniewski third novel, ''Watch Me Go'' (Penguin Putnam, January 22, 2015), received early praise from Salman Rushdie, Ben Fountain, and Daniel Woodrell. Mark's first novel, ''Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman'', was praised by the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', the ''Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel'', and C. Michael Curtis of ''The Atlantic Monthly''. Wisniewski's second novel, ''Show Up, Look Good'', was praised by Ben Fountain, ''Kirkus Reviews'', ''Publishers Weekly'', ''Psychology Today''s Creativity Blog, Jonathan Lethem, Christine Sneed, Molly Giles, Richard Burgin, Kelly Cherry, Diana Spechler, DeWitt Henry, and T.R. Hummer. More than 100 of Wisniewski's short stories have been published in print venues such as ''Best American Short Stories'', ''The Pushcart Prize Anthology'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Antioch Review'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''New England Review'', ''American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to submit up to six works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976. It is supported and staffed by volunteers. Editors The founding editors were Anaïs Nin, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish, Harry Smith, Hugh Fox, Ishmael Reed, Joyce Carol Oates, Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler, Nona Balakian, Paul Bowles, Paul Engle, Ralph Ellison, Reynolds Price, Rhoda Schwartz, Richard Morris, Ted Wilentz, Tom Montag, Bill Henderson and William Phillips. Many guest editors have served this collection over the years. They are listed in each edition that they edited. Over 200 contributing editors make nominations for each edition. They are li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antioch Review
''The Antioch Review'' is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. The magazine was published on a quarterly basis. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States prior to it being put on hiatus by the college in 2020, it published fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging and established authors. About ''The Antioch Review'' was founded in 1940 by small group of Antioch College faculty who sought to establish a forum for the voice of liberalism in a world facing the forces of fascism and communism. The first publication was released in 1941. In its early years, it was edited by collective, among whom were Paul Bixler and George Geiger, and later Paul Rohmann. The magazine continued to publish despite the 2008-2011 closing of Antioch College (which reopened in 2011). While its pages have been populated by innumerous academics, ''The Antioch Review'' does not publish footnotes, thus their contributions ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic abroad centers. The system is the state's land-grant university. Major publications generally rank most UC campuses as being among the best universities in the world. Six of the campuses, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego are considered Public Ivies, making California the state with the most universities in the nation to hold the title. UC campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline, with UC faculty and researchers having won 71 Nobel Prizes as of 2021. The University of California currently has 10 campuses, a combined student body of 285,862 students, 24,400 faculty members, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun (United Kingdom)
''The Sun'' is a British Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper, published by the News UK#News Group Newspapers Ltd, News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the ''Daily Herald (UK newspaper), Daily Herald'', and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. ''The Sun'' had the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation, largest daily newspaper circulation in the United Kingdom, but was overtaken by Free newspaper, freesheet rival ''Metro (British newspaper), Metro'' in March 2018. The paper became a seven-day operation when ''The Sun on Sunday'' was launched in February 2012 to replace the closed ''News of the World'', employing some of its former journalists. The average circulation for ''The Sun on Sunday'' in September 2019 was 1,052,465. In February 2020, it had an average daily circulation of 1.2 million. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale Review
''The Yale Review'' is the oldest literary journal in the United States. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It was founded in 1819 as ''The Christian Spectator'' to support Evangelicalism. Over time it began to publish more on history and economics and was renamed ''The New Englander'' in 1843. In 1885 it was renamed ''The New Englander and Yale Review'' until 1892, when it took its current name ''The Yale Review''. At the same time, editor Henry Wolcott Farnam gave the periodical a focus on American and international politics, economics, and history. The modern history of the journal starts in 1911 under the editorship of Wilbur Cross. Cross remained the editor for thirty years, throughout the magazine's heyday. Contributors during this period, according to the ''Review's'' website, included Thomas Mann, Henry Adams, Virginia Woolf, George Santayana, Robert Frost, José Ortega y Gasset, Eugene O'Neill, Leon Trotsky, H. G. Wells, Thomas Wolfe, John Maynard K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glimmer Train
''Glimmer Train'' was an American short story literary journal. It was published quarterly, accepting works primarily from emerging writers. Stories published in ''Glimmer Train'' were listed in ''The Best American Short Stories'', as well as appearing in the ''Pushcart Prize'', '' The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'', and anthologies for '' New Stories from the Midwest'', ''New Stories from the South'', and ''Best American Short Stories''. The journal held 12 short story fiction contests a year, paying out over $50,000 on an annual basis. Background ''Glimmer Train'' was founded in 1990 by Linda Swanson-Davies and her sister, Susan Burmeister-Brown, in Portland, Oregon. While the journal received over 40,000 submissions per year, only about 40 stories are published (a rate of 0.001, or 1/10 of 1%). Burmeister-Brown advises writers to: "Unplug yourself from the hurly-burly of life on a regular basis so your subconscious has time to make some good compost." See also *List of lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Georgia Review
''The Georgia Review'' is a literary journal based in Athens, Georgia. Founded at University of Georgia in 1947, the journal features poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, and visual art. The journal has won National Magazine Awards for Fiction in 1986, for Essays in 2007, and for Profile Writing in 2020. Works that appear in ''The'' ''Georgia Review'' are frequently reprinted in the ''Best American Short Stories'' and ''Best American Poetry'' and have won the Pushcart and O. Henry Prizes."A Literary Standard" ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' March 30, 1997. M3 See also *List of literary magazines A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External linksOfficial website 1947 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia (U.S. state) culture Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana Review
''Indiana Review'' (''IR'') is a small, student-run literary magazine at Indiana University Bloomington. Founded in 1976, it has a circulation of about 2,000. A biannual review, ''IR'' publishes essays, fiction, graphic arts, interviews, poetry, and reviews. ''IR'' is funded mainly by subscriptions, contests, grants, and partially by university support. Works by contributors to ''IR'' have been awarded the Pushcart Prize and reprinted in The Pushcart Prize Anthology: Best of the Small Presses, as well as in the O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, and Best New American Voices. In addition, ''Indiana Review'' is recognized as one of the top 50 fiction markets by ''Writer's Digest'' and in 1996 was selected as the first-place winner of the American Literary Magazine Award. Past contributors include: Denise Duhamel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stuart Dybek, Sherman Alexie, Gary Soto, Philip Levine, Peter Selgin, Lucia Perillo, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TriQuarterly
''TriQuarterly'' is a name shared by an American literary magazine and a series of books, both operating under the aegis of Northwestern University Press. The journal is published twice a year and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art. Founding ''TriQuarterly'' journal was established in 1958 as an undergraduate magazine remembered now for publishing the work of young Saul Bellow. It was reshaped in 1964 by Charles Newman as an innovative national publication aimed at a sophisticated and diverse literary readership. Northwestern University Press, the university's scholarly publishing arm, operated the journal. The journal was so named because its original form as a student magazine was published in each of the three quarters of Northwestern's academic year, and not in the fourth quarter, summer. Book Series In 1990, Northwestern University Press established a series of new works of fiction and poetry under the imprint name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gettysburg Review
''The Gettysburg Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards. The little magazine "is recognized as one of the country’s premier journals," according to a description at the Web site of the New York Public Library. The 2007 ''U.S. News'' guide to the best colleges described the review as "recognized as one of the country's best literary journals." According to a Web page of the English Department of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, the Gettysburg Review is considered a "major literary journal in the U.S." Founded in 1988, the magazine is published by Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Its quarterly issues come out in January, April, July, and October."Masthead" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Missouri Review
''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts each year and is known for printing previously unpublished and emerging authors. Each year ''The Missouri Review'' hosts the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize contest with $15,000 in prize money for entries in fiction, essays, and poetry. The winners receive prize money, publication, and an invitation to a public awards reception. ''The Missouri Review'' is available in print, digital, and audio formats. Honors and awards * Mako Yoshikawa's essay "My Father's Women" appeared in The Best American Essays 2013 (ed. Cheryl Strayed). * Rachel Riederer's essay "Patient" appeared in The Best American Essays 2011 (ed. Edwidge Danticat). * Laura Yeager's short story, "Having Ann", was short-listed for an O. Henry Award in 2000. * Molly Giles's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi Review
The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's degree, bachelor's, master's degree, master's, Specialist degree, specialist, and doctorate, doctoral academic degree, degrees. The university is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Founded on March 30, 1910, the university is a dual campus institution, with its main campus located in Hattiesburg and its other large campus – Gulf Park – located in Long Beach, Mississippi, Long Beach. It has five additional teaching and research sites, including the John C. Stennis Space Center and the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL). Originally called the Mississippi Southerners, the Southern Miss athletic teams became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
