Southwest Review
| Discipline | literary journal |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Greg Brownderville |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Texas Review |
| History | 1915-present |
| Publisher | Southern Methodist University (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Southwest Rev. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0038-4712 |
| JSTOR | southwestreview |
| Links | |
The Southwest Review is a literary journal published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States.[1] The current editor-in-chief is Greg Brownderville.
The journal was formerly known as the Texas Review, and was started in 1915[2] 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.[3]
Famous contributors include: Quentin Bell, Amy Clampitt, Margaret Drabble, Natalia Ginzburg, James Merrill, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Edmund White, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren.
More recent contributors of note include: Ann Harleman, Thomas Beller, Ben Fountain, Gerald Duff, and Jacob M. Appel.
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.
See also
References
- ^ Wedding 'Web' and Review, Dallas Morning News, October 23, 2000
- ^ "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
- ^ The Good Word About Dallas Area Literary Journals, Dallas Morning News, February 9, 1999.
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