LibGuides: ENGL 253: Intro to Creative Writing: Literary Magazines at the Library

Print Magazines Available on the Library's Main Level

BWR/Black Warrior Review: Oldest continuously-run literary journal produced by grad students, publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and art.
Creative Nonfiction: Contains short stories, essays, prose, interviews with writers and editors, pieces on creative nonfiction, etc.
DRAFT: the Journal of Process: Stories, first drafts, interviews with authors. Interested in techniques, approaches, and "everything that goes into crafting a great piece of creative writing."
Granta: Showcases "the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now."
Ninth Letter: From U. Illinois Urbana-Champagin. Work published in Ninth Letter frequently selected for awards (Pushcart Prize, Best American Nonrequired Reading, etc.).
Poetry: Poetry, commentary news notes, and lists of recently published books published by the Modern Poetry Association.
Rattle: Poetry and interviews with contemporary poets.
Yellow Medicine Review: Stories, essays, poems, scholarly articles, reviews, short plays, novel excepts, letters, and more related to Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought.

Bomb
Delivers the artist's voice through in-depth interviews between artists working across genre and media -- collaborations that reveal their ideas, concerns, and creative processes through carefully developed dialogue -- now and for posterity. 1981- present (online access has a 3 year delay, print edition in the library)
Beloit Poetry Journal
Includes work from new writers, publishes reviews, & includes occasional chapbooks. 2003-present online, current issues also in print in the library.
Fourth Genre
Publishes personal essays, memoirs, literary journalism, and personal criticism. 2004-2011 online, more current issues in print in the library.