The Iowa Review

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The Iowa Review is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays and reviews. Several of these pieces are selected each year for awards and anthologies: recent selections include Eula Biss's essay "Time and Distance Overcome" (38.1) and Carolyne Wright's poem "This dream the world is having about itself..." (38.2) for The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 edition; Patricia Hampl's essay "The Dark Art of Description" (38.1), selected by Mary Oliver for The Best American Essays 2009; and Stephen Dunn's "Where He Found Himself" (36.2), in Best American Poetry 2007.^[1]

Founded in 1970, the magazine is issued three times a year (in April, August, and December)^[2], though past issues show that the magazine was originally released on a quarterly basis, until the review's fourteenth year. It is published at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. According to editor David Hamilton, The Iowa Review has a circulation of about 3,000, 1,000-1,500 of which is distributed to major bookstore chains.^[3] The reading period for unsolicited submissions is September-November; contest submissions for the Iowa Review Awards are read in January.^[4] In addition to space dedicated in the December issue to the Iowa Review Awards winners, the magazine has recently featured work from the University of Iowa's biannual NonfictioNow conference and from writers in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Past issues have also been dedicated to topics such as fiction from Israel and Palestine (11.1), contemporary women writers (12.2/3), and an homage to Ezra Pound (15.1).

According to the magazine's Web site, "Several hundred unsolicited manuscripts arrive each week through most of the year, from throughout the country and abroad, from which we select most of our contents."^[5]

Contents 1 Masthead 2 Distinguished Past Contributors 3 Iowa Awards 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Masthead

As of June 2009:^[6]

• Editor: David Hamilton
• Fiction Editor: Hugh Ferrer
• Managing Editor: Lynne Nugent
• Designer: Amber Withycombe
• Assistant Editors: Tara Atkinson, Jenna Hammerich, Alan Felsenthal, Jeanne Shoemaker
• Advisory Board: Ethan Canin, Loren Glass, Adalaide Morris, Cole Swensen, Horace Porter, and Christopher Merrill.
• Contributing Editors: Bob Hicok, Yiyun Li, Phillip Lopate, Heather McHugh, James Alan McPherson, Lia Purpura, Abigail Thomas

[edit] Distinguished Past Contributors

• John Ashbery: 6.1, 12.1
• John Barth: 24.2
• Jo Ann Beard: 25.2
• Samuel Beckett: 4.3
• Marvin Bell: 2.3, 6.3/4, 7.4, 11.2/3, 12.1, 14.3, 19.3, 23.3, 26.2, 28.2, 30.2, 34.3, 36.3
• Robert Bly: 7.4, 11.2/3
• Jorge Louis Borges: 8.3, 22.3
• Marianne Boruch: 10.4, 13.3/4, 17.2, 17.3, 20.1, 22.1, 23.2, 25.1, 25.3, 26.2, 29.3, 33.2, 37.3
• T. Coraghessan Boyle: 11.4, 14.1
• Joseph Brodsky: 9.4
• William Burroughs: 3.2
• Frederick Busch: 9.1, 16.2, 18.2
• Italo Calvino: 2.4
• Anne Carson: 25.2, 26.2, 27.2
• Raymond Carver: 3.2, 3.4, 9.1, 10.3
• Jane Cooper: 20.2
• Robert Coover: 1.1, 1.4, 6.3/4, 10.3, 24.2, 35.2
• Robert Dana: 26.1, 26.2, 28.2, 32.2, 34.3, 37.1, 38.1
• Guy Davenport: 6.1
• Mark Doty: 14.3
• Norman Dubie: 4.4
• James Galvin: 9.1, 10.2, 15.1, 24.1
• William Gass: 7.1, 24.2, 38.1
• Reginald Gibbons: 8.4, 15.1
• Louise Glück: 2.4, 4.4, 7.4
• Albert Goldbarth: 22.3, 24.1, 25.2, 27.2, 29.1, 30.3, 34.2, 39.1
• Jorie Graham: 10.2, 11.2/3, 12.2/3, 26.2
• Donald Hall: 3.3, 7.4, 13.3/4, 16.2, 18.1, 20.1, 22.3, 26.1, 30.2, 34.2
• Robert Hass: 8.3, 21.3
• Bob Hicok: 26.3, 38.2, 32.1, 33.3, 35.3, 37.3
• Edward Hirsch: 9.3
• Denis Johnson: 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 5.4, 6.3/4, 8.3, 13.2
• Donald Justice: 1.1, 2.1, 13.3/4, 15.2
• Stanley Kunitz: 5.2
• Li-Young Lee: 15.1
• Philip Levine: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 4.3, 6.1, 7.1, 9.2, 15.1
• Yiyun Li: 34.2
• Ben Marcus: 24.2
• Ian McEwan: 8.4
• James Alan McPherson: 6.2, 23.3, 27.2
• Jane Mead: 21.3, 29.1, 33.3
• W.S. Merwin: 1.2, 1.4, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1, 14.3, 15.2, 17.1
• Nami Mun: 34.2
• Joyce Carol Oates: 2.2, 6.1, 9.3, 13.2, 14.3, 17.1
• Chris Offutt: 33.1
• Eric Pankey: 17.3, 19.2, 21.3, 25.3, 27.2, 29.2, 32.3, 34.1, 36.2, 38.1
• Ann Patchett: 18.2
• Raymond R. Patterson: 6.2
• Stanley Plumly: 8.1, 11.2/3, 20.3
• Ishmael Reed: 6.2
• Marilynne Robinson: 22.1
• Pattiann Rogers: 14.3, 17.2, 23.1, 25.1, 26.2, 29.1, 39.1
• Matthew Rohrer: 25.1, 26.2, 27.2, 28.3, 32.1, 34.2, 37.3
• Mary Ruefle: 18.3, 38.1
• Tomaž Šalamun: 34.1, 38.2
• David Shapiro: 10.1
• Charles Simic: 1.4, 5.4, 9.2, 15.1, 32.2
• Gary Soto: 25.1, 25.2
• Gerald Stern: 9.2, 11.2/3, 11.4, 15.1, 19.2, 26.2, 35.2
• Cole Swensen: 32.1
• James Tate: 1.4, 4.4, 13.3/4, 20.2, 24.3, 26.2, 30.3
• Kurt Vonnegut: 35.3
• Alice Walker: 6.2
• David Foster Wallace: 24.2, 24.3
• William Carlos Williams: 9.3
• Charles Wright: 1.3, 3.2, 7.1, 8.1, 11.2/3, 26.2, 34.3
• Al Young: 6.2
• Dean Young: 17.2, 29.2

[edit] Iowa Awards

Each year, beginning with 2003(33.3), the magazine presents the Iowa Review Award to contest winners in fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction. Outside judges name the winners, who each receive $1,000 and are published, along with some finalists, in the magazine's December issue.^[7] Recent winners include Andrew Mortazavi (Fiction, 2008), Dave Snyder (Poetry, 2008), Nancy Geyer (Nonfiction, 2008), John Colasacco (Poetry, 2007), Diane Sullivan Mertens (Nonfiction, 2007) and Randi Faust (Fiction, 2007).^[8]

• Past judges:
• 2003- T. Coraghessan Boyle, fiction; Albert Goldbarth, nonfiction; Marilyn Chin, poetry
• 2004- Mary Helen Stefaniak, fiction; Lewis Hyde, nonfiction; Marianne Boruch, poetry
• 2005- Chris Offutt, fiction; Patricia Foster, nonfiction; Robert Hass, poetry
• 2006- James Alan McPherson, fiction; Lia Purpura, nonfiction; Cole Swensen, poetry
• 2007- Yiyun Li, fiction; Phillip Lopate, nonfiction; Bob Hicok, poetry

[edit] Notes

1. ^ http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/whatsnew.html
2. ^ http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/guidelines.html
3. ^ Clair, Christopher. "A Legacy of Literature." The University of Iowa Spectator. Spring 2009.
4. ^ http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/guidelines.html
5. ^ [1]"About the Iowa Review" Web page at The Iowa Review Web site, accessed February 5, 2007
6. ^ [2]"Masthead" Web page at The Iowa Review Web site
7. ^ http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/guidelines.html
8. ^ Past Winners

[edit] External links

• Iowa Review website