''Quarterly West'' is an American
literary magazine based at the
University of Utah
The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...
in
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...
. Stories that have appeared in ''Quarterly West'' have been shortlisted for the
Pushcart Prize,
The Best American Short Stories The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of ''The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in con ...
and the
O. Henry Prize.
[Literary Magazine Is Expanding, ''Deseret News'', Sept 29, 1985]
The journal was founded by James Thomas in 1976.
In 2011, ''Quarterly West'' became an exclusively online literary journal.
Notable contributors
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Micheal Andreasen
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Rebecca Aronson
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James Carlos Blake
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Jackson Bliss
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Fleda Brown
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s.
Early life
Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mil ...
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Susann Cokal
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Annie Dillard
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Stephen Dunn
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Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
Biography
Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s ...
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Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché (born April 28, 1950) is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate. She has received many awards for her literary work.
Biography
Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Michael Joseph and Louis ...
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
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Albert Goldbarth
Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948) is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mar ...
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Mark Jarman
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Philip Levine
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Maya Pindyck
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Sherod Santos
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George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a w ...
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Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any write ...
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Eleanor Wilneróand
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Antoine Wilson
Antoine Wilson (born 1971) is a Canadian-American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and later lived in Southern California, Central California, and Saudi Arabia. He attended UCLA and Iowa Writers' Workshop. He cur ...
Masthead
*Editor-in-Chief: J.P. Grasser
*Managing Editor: Joe Sacksteder
*Assistant Editor: Jacqueline Balderrama
*Fiction Editors: Jason Daniels (Senior), Michelle Donahue
*Poetry Editors: Cori A. Winrock (Senior), Alen Hamza
*Nonfiction Editors: Noam Dorr (Senior), Jace Brittain
*New Media Editor: Joe Sacksteder
*Reviews Editor: Jessica Rae Bergamino
See also
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List of literary magazines
Notes
External links
Quarterly West Homepage
1976 establishments in Utah
2011 disestablishments in Utah
American literature websites
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1976
Magazines disestablished in 2011
Magazines published in Utah
Mass media in Salt Lake City
Online literary magazines published in the United States
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Quarterly West
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