The ''Southwest Review'' is a

literary journal A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters ...

published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States. The current editor-in-chief is Greg Brownderville. The journal was formerly known as the ''Texas Review'', and was started in 1915 at the University of Texas. In 1924 the magazine was transferred to SMU by Jay B. Hubbell and George Bond, who served as joint editors until 1927.The Good Word About Dallas Area Literary Journals, ''Dallas Morning News'', February 9, 1999. Famous contributors include:

Quentin Bell Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (19 August 1910 – 16 December 1996) was an English art historian and author. Early life Bell was born in London, the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), and the nephew of Virginia Woolf (née Ste ...

Amy Clampitt Amy Clampitt (June 15, 1920 – September 10, 1994) was an American poet and author. Life Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Gr ...

Margaret Drabble Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer. Drabble's books include '' The Millstone'' (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and ''Jer ...

Natalia Ginzburg Natalia Ginzburg (, ; ; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, fo ...

, James Merrill, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Edmund White, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren. More recent contributors of note include:

Ann Harleman Ann Harleman (born October 28, 1945, in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American novelist, scholar, and professor. Life and career Harleman was born in Ohio. When she was four years old, her family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where her father wo ...

, Thomas Beller,

Ben Fountain Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for ''Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories'' (2007) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fict ...

Gerald Duff Gerald is a male Germanic given name meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ''ger-'' ("spear") and suffix ''-wald'' ("rule"). Variants include the English given name Jerrold, the feminine nickname Jeri and the Welsh language Gerallt and Iri ...

, and

Jacob M. Appel Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ confirmed ...

. Willard Spiegelman, the editor of ''Southwest Review'' since 1984, received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 2005.

Honors and awards

*Ann Harleman's story, ''Meanwhile'', received an O. Henry Award in 2003. *Ben Fountain's story, ''Fantasy for Eleven Fingers'', won an O. Henry Award in 2005. *Barbara Moss Klein's story, ''Little Edens'', was short-listed for the O. Henry Award in 2005. *Merritt Tierce's story, ''Suck It'', was included in Best New Stories from the South 2008. *Jacob Appel's story, ''Rods and Cones'', was short-listed for Best American Nonrequired Reading in 2008.

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Official WebsiteSouthwest Review archive at HathiTrust
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