American Literary Review

This article is about American Literary Review. For the scholarly journal devoted to literature of Latin America and Brazil, see Latin American Literary Review.
American Literary Review
A National Journal of Poems and Stories
Editor-in-chief Ann McCutchan
Former editors Jim Lee (founder)
Scott Cairns
Barbara Rodman
William J. Cobb
Corey Marks
John Tait
Miro Penkov
Categories Creative writing
Poetry
Non-fiction
Fiction
Frequency biannual
Circulation 1,200 (print)[1]
Publisher University of North Texas
Department of English
Year founded Spring 1990 (age 26)
First issue 1 April 1990
Final issue Fall 2013
Country United States
Based in Denton
Language English
Website americanliteraryreview.com
ISSN 1051-5062
OCLC number 21984784

The American Literary Review is a national biannual literary magazine of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Since its Fall 2013 issue, ALR has been an online digital publication. Print publications are cataloged under ISSN 1051-5062.

History

ALR was founded twenty-six years ago, in 1990, by the creative writing faculty of the Department of English of the University of North Texas and the now bygone Center for Texas Studies at the University of North Texas. The Center for Texas Studies, at that time, was led by James Ward Lee, PhD (born 1931),[2][lower-alpha 1] longtime professor of English at UNT, Department Chair, and a prolific writer, and A.C. Greene, an author and former newspaper editor, notably of the Dallas Times Herald. ALR published the first issue in the spring of 1990. Lee edited the first two issues in the spring and fall of 1990. In the first issue, he wrote an editorial expressing hope that the name and tagline, "American Literary Review: A National Journal of Poems and Stories, will prove to be neither pretentious nor presumptuous."

The founding objective was to showcase a range of genres and styles from emerging and veteran writers. To encourage freedom of expression, risk-taking, and experimentation, Lee said that ALR would not publish scholarly articles.[3] That sentiment is not too dissimilar from that of the late Theodore Weiss, founding editor of the former and influential Quarterly Review of Literature, who also felt that scholarly articles and criticism might stifle writers. ALR's third issue (spring 1991, vol. 2, issue 1) was edited by poet and faculty member Scott Cairns. The first issue received more that 160 submissions.[3]

The printed issues, prior to 2013, were typically 120 pages, digest size, perfect-bound with color card cover featuring a photo submission.[4]

In 2004, NewPages characterized ALR as having roughly a 2:1 poetry to fiction ratio, with a casual touch of both traditional and experimental forms.[5]

Prize winners

The ALR awards three annual prizes, for a poem, a short story, and an essay.[6]

Uncategorized

Nonfiction

  • Maureen Stanton
  • 2008: Karin Forfota Poklen
  • 2009: Julie Marie Wade
  • 2010: Sabine Heinlein
  • 2011: Barbara Cameron
  • 2011: Starre Vartan (runner-up)
  • 2012: Robert Long Foreman
  • 2012: Vernita Hall (runner-up)

Fiction

  • Mary L. Tabor (spring 1999)
  • Melissa Jeanne Miller (1956–1991)
  • 2008: Michael Isaac Shokrian
  • 2009: Marylee MacDonald
  • 2010: Karen Heuler
  • 2010: Nora Khan (runner-up)
  • 2010: Emily McLaughlin (runner-up)
  • 2011: Marc Dickinson
  • 2011: Sean Madigan Hoen (runner-up)
  • 2012: Lydia Kann (runner-up)
  • 2012: Dustin Parsons

Poetry

Literary contributors

Uncategorized

  • Robin Behn (Fall 2001)
  • Arthur Brown
  • Andrew C. Gottlieb
  • Debora L. Innocenti
  • David Leverenz (1991)
  • Marylee MacDonald
  • Karin Forfota Poklen
  • Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
  • Michael Isaac Shokrian
  • C.W. Smith
  • Virgil Suárez
  • Lex Williford


Short non-fiction

  • Danielle Deulen (2010)
  • Curtis Smith
  • Maureen P. Stanton


Short fiction

  • Chantel Acevedo
  • Susan Breen
  • Andi Diehn (Spring 2004)
  • Stefanie Freele
  • John Henry Irsfeld: (Spring 1992)
  • Dana Johnson
  • Jim Meirose (Spring 2004)
  • Scott Nadelson (Spring 2011)
  • Midge Raymond (Fall 2008)
  • Mary L. Tabor (Spring 1999)
  • Austin Gilmour (Spring 2012)


Poetry

Editors

ALR is largely student-run with UNT creative writing faculty editorial oversight.

Editor-in-chief

2012–present: Ann McCutchan †

Fiction co-editors

2009–present: Miro Penkov
2009–present: Barbara Rodman, PhD

Creative nonfiction editor

2008-present: Bonnie Friedman

Poetry co-editors

1995–present: Bruce Bond, PhD †
2000–present: Corey Marks, PhD

Former editors-in-chief

James Ward Lee, PhD † (founding editor)
Scott Cairns, PhD
Barbara Rodman, PhD
William J. Cobb, PhD
Corey Marks, PhD
John Tait, PhD
Miro Penkov

Former Poetry editor

Nancy Eimers

Former advisory board members

1990–1997: John Henry Irsfeld †

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† Member, Texas Institute of Letters

Submissions

ALR seeks literary mainstream, creative nonfiction, and poetry. As of 2011, it was receiving 150 to 200 unsolicited manuscripts a month and accepts 12 to 16 per issue. Submissions are reviewed from October 1 to May 1 and published within two years of acceptance.[1] In round one of the referee process, judges, which include graduate students, read all submissions and make preliminary selections. Faculty editors for each category review make final selections for official recognition and publishing. Separate judges for prizes in each category then make their selection. At all stages of the process, the identity of writers is not known by referees.

External links

See also

Bygone publications of the same name

References

Notes
  1. ↑ The "Center for Texas Studies" at Texas Christian University is not affiliated with the one that was at UNT
Inline citations
  1. 1 2 2012 Novel And Short Story Writer's Market, Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books (2011); OCLC 707211755
  2. ↑ Listing of "American Literary Review," Duotrope duotrope.com/listing/603 February 6, 2006
  3. 1 2 "American Literary Review: Department Launches Literary Journal," The North Texan, Vol. 40, No. 4, December 1990, pg. 3
  4. ↑ 2013 Poet's Market, Robert Lee Brewer (ed.), Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books (2012); OCLC 775410692
  5. ↑ "The NewPages Literary Magazine Reviews," by Weston Cutter, Bay City, Michigan: NewPages, September 2004
  6. ↑ American Literary Review, Literary Awards, Poets and Writers
  7. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2 (1931); OCLC 81704791
  8. ↑ "New England News: Maine," Boston Daily Advertiser, Vol. 115, No. 126, May 28, 1870, pg. 2
  9. ↑ History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania, J.H. Battle (ed.), Chicago: A. Warner & Co. (1887); OCLC 14870985
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