''Lake Effect'' is a
literary journal
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based at the
Erie
Erie (; ) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. Erie is the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest city in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 a ...
campus of
Penn State University
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. It was first published in 1996. In Spring 2022, the 26th volume of the journal was released.
Editors
The current editors are George Looney (editor-in-chief) and Aimee Pogson (fiction).
It is notable among University-sponsored literary journals in that its editorial staff are undergraduate students. Most other University-sponsored literary journals have MFA students who are involved in the editorial work.
Contributors
Recent noteworthy contributors include:
Steve Almond
Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published.
Life
Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and received ...
,
Jacob M. Appel, T. R. Hummer,
Michael Martone, Chris Mazza, Esther Pearlman and Virgil Suarez.
Other Awards
Stories that have previously appeared in ''Lake Effect'' have been anthologized in the
Best American Short Stories. itation and title / author needed
See also
*
List of literary magazines
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
External links
Lake Effect
1996 establishments in Pennsylvania
Annual magazines published in the United States
Literary magazines published in the United States
Student magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1996
magazines published in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University
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