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Gulf Coast
A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
About Gulf Coast: Committed to publishing high quality fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and critical art writing from both established and emerging writers. Includes full-color art, interviews, and book reviews.
Contact Information:
University of Houston
Department of English
Houston, TX 77204-3013
Phone: (713) 743-3223
Email: editors[at]gulfcoastmag[dot]org
Web: www.gulfcoastmag.org
Submission/Subscription Information:
ISSN: 0896-2251 Founded: 1985 Issues per year: 2 Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 8/15-3/15 Response time: 3-5 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Average pages: 280 Sample copy (postpaid): $8 Cover Price: $10 Back Issues: $8 Subscription (Ind): $16/1year; $28/2 years Subscription (Inst): $16
Publisher’s Description: Founded in 1985 by Donald Barthelme, Philip Lopate, and UH Creative Writing Program Graduate Students, Gulf Coast has been hailed by Sven Birkerts as an “established player” in the “progressive mainstream” (Boston Globe, 2004).
Each issue also includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers, as well as two full-color art features and extensive book reviews. Authors included in the current issue or in the issue forthcoming in Fall 2013 include Anne Carson, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Quan Barry, Kevin Brockmeier, Patricia Hampl, Simeon Berry, Alan Heathcock, Traci Brimhall, Juan Felipe Herrera, Melanie Rae Thon, Lucie Brock-Broido, Emma Straub, Eamon Grennan, and many emerging writers. Also featured in the forthcoming issue will be an expanded critical art writing section and an illustrated roundtable on the art and craft of the graphic novel.
Works originally published in Gulf Coast have been selected for PEN/O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American anthologies, including selections for 2013 Best American Poetry and 2014 Best American Travel Writing. Previously published authors include Sherman Alexie, Anne Carson, Junot Diaz, Billy Collins, Lauren Slater, Padgett Powell, Steve Almond, Maggie Shipstead, Seamus Heaney, Alix Ohlin, Carl Phillips, Mary Gaitskill, Terrance Hayes, Norman Dubie, Paul Muldoon, Laura Kasischke, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Mahmoud Darwish, and Philip Levine.
Recent issues:
The Summer/Fall 2013 issue includes the winners of the 2012 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, judged by Ander Monson: Winner Josie Sigler and Honorable Mentions John Longo and Emma Copley Eisenberg. The issue also features a roundtable on Latin@ writers, with Gustavo Arellano, Angie Cruz, Carolina Ebeid, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Juan Felipe Herrera, David Tomas Martinez, and Carmen Gimenez Smith. Also included is fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by authors such as Kevin Brockmeier, Simeon Berry, Patti White, Emma Straub, Eamon Grennan, Danniel Schoonebeek, Laura Kasischke, Martha Collins, Quan Barry, and Wendy Xu. Visual art by Skylar Fein, William Witte, and Mel Chin.
The Winter/Spring 2013 issue includes a roundtable discussion of genre-bending work with Eula Biss, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, plus the winners of the 2012 Gulf Coast Prizes and two full-color art features, by Houston-based artist Kent Dorn and Mexico City-based artist Dr. Lakra. Also, work by Maggie Shipstead, Clancy Martin, Dean Young, Elizabeth Willis, Robin Romm, Susan B.A. Somers-Willet, and Norman Dubie.
The Summer/Fall 2012 issue features the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, Sarah Manguso. Plus, fiction by Liam Callanan, Thomas Cooper, Etgar Keret, Josip Novakovich, and Kevin Wilson; nonfiction/lyric essays by Alan Barstow, Carand Burnet, Tom Lake, Matthew Mahaney, Marilyn Martin, Ben Merriman, and Amy Lee Scott; poetry by Jeff Alessandrelli, Rick Barot, Ciaran Berry, Lissa Cattrone, Victoria Chang, Jehanne Dubrow, Simone Muench, Adrian Matejka, G.C. Waldrep, Mathias Svalina, and more; interviews, reviews, and art.
last updated 6/04/2013