The Gettysburg Review
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The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards.
Founded in 1988, the magazine is published by Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Its quarterly issues come out in January, April, July, and October.[1]
The magazine won't run previously published material, but it is open to running both short and long poems, excerpts from novels and sometimes fiction even longer than short stories. "Essays can be on virtually any subject, so long as it is treated in a literary fashion — gracefully and in depth," according to the magazine's Web site.[2]
The Gettysburg Review is one of the most frequent sources of poems for The Best American Poetry series and The Best American Short Stories series. Other anthologies that have run work in the magazine: The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, The Best American Essays, The Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Other work has been reprinted in publications such as Harpers.[3]
Writers who have appeared in the magazine's pages include E. L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall.[3]
The periodical has won awards including the Best New Journal award, four Best Journal Design awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and a PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing.[4]
In a 1994 review of the magazine, Ron Tanner wrote that the stories in the 1993 issues were widely varied in style, but "are clearly in the mainstream of contemporary American fiction — you will not find 'experimental' work in The Gettysburg Review."
He also found the stories have a common "concern for character, and an examination of the emotional and psychological distance one might travel when faced with a problem. [...] each compels the character to make a decision, to make an effort, to make a move. Consequently, things happen in these stories. Which is to say that we end in a place very different from the story's beginning. In no resolution of a Gettysburg story, however, do we find ourselves living Happily Ever After. Life is more complicated than that, these writers assert."[5]
Contents |
[edit] Masthead
The magazine's masthead, as of February 2007:[1]
- Editor: Peter Stitt
- Assistant Editor: Mark Drew
- Managing Editor: Kim Dana Kupperman
Advisory and contributing editors:
- Lee K. Abbott
- Rita Dove
- Donald Hall
- Rebecca McClanahan
- Richard Wilbur
- Paul Zimmer
Advisory Board:
- Fritz Gaenslen
- Fred Leebron
- Kathryn Rhett
- Jack Ryan
[edit] Trivia
- ISSN 0898-4557
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b [1]Web page titled "Masthead" at The Gettysburgh Review Web site, accessed February 8, 2007
- ^ [2]"Submissions" Web page at The Gettysburg Review Web site, accessed February 8, 2007
- ^ a b [3]"NewPages.com" Web site, information originally from the magazine, according to the Web site, accessed February 8, 2007
- ^ [4]Web page about The Gettysburg Review at the Gettysburg College Web site, accessed February 8, 2007
- ^ [5]Tanner, Ron, "The Gettysburg Review. - periodical reviews" a review in Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1994, accessed February 8, 2007
[edit] External links
- [6] The Gettysburg Review Web site
