''Ascent'' is an American
literary magazine
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that publishes stories, poems, and essays, many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies. The journal is based at
Concordia College in
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead () is a city in and county seat of Clay County, Minnesota, United States, on the banks of the Red River of the North. Located in the Red River Valley, an extremely fertile and active agricultural region, Moorhead is also home to several ...
.
The journal was founded in 1975 at the
University of Illinois
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by Daniel Curley.
[''Grand Forks Herald'', Nov. 8, 1996] In 1996, essayist and English scholar
W. Scott Olsen became the editor-in-chief. The journal moved to an online format in 2010, where it would reach a wider audience for its award-winning authors.
Recent notable contributors include Victoria Anderson,
Jacob M. Appel,
Karen Brown, Peter Chilson,
Leo Damrosch
Leopold Damrosch Jr. (born 1941) is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was ...
,
Philip Heldrich,
Michael Martone, Sarah Baker Michalak and Marjorie Stelmach.
See also
*
List of literary magazines
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People
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* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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Notes
External links
''Ascent'' Web site
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
American literature websites
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)
Magazines established in 1975
Magazines disestablished in 2010
Magazines published in Illinois
Magazines published in Minnesota
Online literary magazines published in the United States
Online magazines with defunct print editions
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