''Washington Square Review'' (usually shortened to ''ON SQU'') is a nationally distributed
literary magazine
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that publishes
stories,
poems
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,
essays
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and
reviews
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, many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies. It is the graduate equivalent of ''
NYU Local
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Founded in ...
'' and ''
Washington Square News
''Washington Square News (WSN)'' is the weekly student newspaper of New York University (NYU). It has a circulation of 10,000 and an estimated 55,000 online readers. It is published in print on Monday, in addition to online publication Tuesday thr ...
''.
Founded in 1996, the journal is based at
New York University
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and edited by students of the university's Graduate Creative Writing Program. The ''Washington Square Review'' sponsors an annual literary contest and hosts biannual benefit readings in New York City.
Notable contributors
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John Ashbery
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Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...
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Meghan O'Rourke
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Background and education
O'Rourke was born January 26, 1976, in Brooklyn, New York. The eldest of three children born to Paul and Barbara O ...
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Edward Hirsch
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Charles Simic
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Lauren Groff
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Early life and ed ...
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Rachel Zucker
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Rebecca Wolff
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Wolff has won the 2001 National Poetry Series Award and 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her ...
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Joe Meno
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After attending Columbia College Chicago, Meno spent time working as a flower delivery truck driver and art ther ...
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Dorothea Lasky
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She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals.
She is currently ...
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Rivka Galchen
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Jesse Ball
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Dan Chiasson
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Steve Almond
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Life
Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and received ...
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Jacob M. Appel
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Ben Lerner
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Rick Moody
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Sarah Manguso
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Philip Levine
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Amy Hempel
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Life
Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to California at age 16, which is wher ...
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Anne Carson
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Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...
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Stephen Dunn
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Eamon Grennan
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Etgar Keret
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Personal life
Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. He is a third child ...
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Lydia Davis
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Kimiko Hahn
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Biography ...
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Elisa Albert
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Mark Doty
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Early life
Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee to Lawrence an ...
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Catherine Lacey
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Stage
Lacey made her stage debut, performing with Mrs Patrick Campbell, in ''The Thirteenth Chair'' at the West Pier Brighton on 13 April 1925. Her ...
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Yusef Komunyakaa
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Jess Row
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Paul Muldoon
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Wells Tower
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Darin Strauss
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Alice Notley
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Sharon Olds
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John Hodgman
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Shane Jones
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Awards
Amy Hempel's short story, "The Chicane," from Issue 37 (Spring 2016), was anthologized in
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 ...
2017.
Editors
The Masthead:
Editor-In-Chief: Joanna Yas
Managing Editor: Katie Bockino
Assistant Managing Editor: Alisson Wood
Fiction Editor: Alyssa diPierro
Assistant Fiction Editors: Spencer Gaffney and Sonia Feigelson
Poetry Editors: Maggie Millner and Maddie Mori
Assistant Poetry Editor: Hannah Hirsh
Web Editors: Hannah Gilham and T.J. Smith
Assistant Web Editors: Nadra Mabrouk, Caitlin Barasch and Katie Rejsek
Interview Editors: Rachel Mannheimer and Eleanor Wright
Assistant Interview Editor: Elizabeth Dubois
International Editors: Mallory Imler Powell and Momina Mela
Assistant International Editors: Silvina Lopex Medin and Brittany Shutts
Copy Editors: Matthew Chow and Megan Swenson
Art Editor: Wallace Ludel
See also
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List of literary magazines
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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Notes
External links
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Magazines established in 1996
Magazines published in New York City
New York University
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Student magazines published in the United States
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