Berkeley Fiction Review

Berkeley Fiction Review  

Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	BFR
Discipline	Literary journal
Language	English
Publication details
Publisher	University of California, Berkeley (United States)
Publication history	1981-present
Frequency	Annual
Indexing
ISSN	1087-7053 (print) 1087-7053 (web)
LCCN	96000146 sn 96000146
OCLC no.	34383126
Links
Journal homepage

Berkeley Fiction Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1981 and based at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] Stories that have appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthology.^[2] The Berkeley Fiction Review sponsors an annual Sudden Fiction Contest. ^[3]

Notable contributors

Ellen Akins Jacob Appel Tamsen Armstrong Peter Bichsel Charles Bukowski Amina Cain Virginia Cerenio John Michael Cummings Kenneth J. Emberly

Will Eno Seamus Deane Mark Dery Jürgen Fauth Sergey Gandlevsky Alisa J. Golden DeWitt Henry Dale Herd Michael A. Hollister

Sherril Jaffe G. Davies Jandrey Neil Jordan Paul Kafka Perri Klass Jeanne M. Leiby Karin Lin-Greenberg B. K. Loren Scott Malcomson

Valerie Miner John Montague Jess Mowry Álvaro Mutis Scott Nagele Claudia Nogueira Joyce Carol Oates Dmitri Prigov Lev Rubinshteyn

Olga Sedakova Hal Sirowitz W. A. Smith Elena Shvarts Julia Vinograd Gerald Vizenor Glen Weldon Nellie Wong

Masthead

• Managing Editors
  • Alagia Cirolia
  • Georgia Peppe
  • Clare Suffern

• Editors
  • Evan Bauer
  • Sarah Beydoun
  • Margaret Chen
  • Sean Dennison
  • Summer Farah
  • Michelle Lee
  • Legeng Liu
  • Rosina Miranda
  • Moira Peckham
  • Caroline Torres

Founders

• Julia Littleton
• Jenne Mowry
• Joe Sciallo
• Paul Wedderien

Past Managing Editors

Lauren Cooper Hannah Harrington Ben Rowen Lisa Jenkins Miranda King Kelsey Nolan Paige Vehlewald

Tessa Gregory Eva Nierenberg Christian White Brighton Earley Jennifer Brown Caitlin McGuire Rachel Brumit

Bryce Kobrin Rhoda Piland John Rauschenberg Elaine Wong Grace Fujimoto Nikki Thompson Daphne Young

Hugh O'Byrne Pedy Gregory Charles Magnuson Mark Landsman Sean Andrew Locke James Penner Shelley Crist Julia E. Lave

Julie Christianson Christina Ferrari Christopher Greger Dionisio Valesco Terrence Gee

Special Features

• Issue 6 (1985–86): Contemporary Poetry from the Soviet Union
• Issue 8 (Fall 1988): Works by, and Interviews with, Contemporary Irish Authors
• Issue 9 (Fall 1989): Stereoscopic Photographs
• Issue 16 (Spring 1997): First Annual Sudden Fiction Contest
• Issue 17 (Fall 1997): An early work by international award-winning Colombian writer Álvaro Mutis

See also

• List of literary magazines

References

1. "East Bay a Hotbed of Literary Journals," Contra Costa Times Feb 25, 2005
2. "Awards for Local Literati," San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 21, 1986
3. Sudden Fiction Contest

External links

• Berkeley Fiction Review Homepage