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The Louisville Review

Spalding University

851 S Fourth St

Louisville, KY  40203

Phone: (502) 585-9911 x 2777 Fax: (502) 585-7158

E-mail: louisvillereview@spalding.edu

Web: www.louisvillereview.org

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-6 months Payment: copies Contests: no Founded: 1976 Issues per year: 2 Average pages: 200 Sample copy (postpaid): $4 Cover Price: $8 Subscription (Individuals): $14 Subscription (Inst): $12

Publisher’s Description: The Louisville Review, sponsored by the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University, was founded in 1976 at the University of Louisville by faculty editor Sena Jeter Naslund and two students. Known for excellence nationwide and abroad, The Louisville Review has recently published such well-known writers as David Ray, David Brendan Hopes, Frank X Walker, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greg Pape, Debra Kang Dean, Jeanie Thompson, Robin Lippincott, Garrett Hongo, Peter Cooley, Tony Hoagland, and Michael Burkhard. From its founding, TLR has fostered the development of new writers; a poem TLR published twenty years ago by Alberto Riós now appears in standard literature textbooks. TLR published the work of Louise Erdrich while she was still a student at Johns Hopkins. TLR gave national exposure to local writers Aleda Shirley and Maureen Morehead, both of whom have gone on to publish more than one book of poetry.

The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted to TLR is judged entirely on its own merit whether the author is already nationally known or previously unpublished.

Current Issue:
Fall 2008
Guest editors include Rachel M. Harper, fiction; Debra Kang Dean, poetry; Charlie Schulman, drama; and Neela Vaswani, creative nonfiction. The cover art was created by Susanna Crum. Contributors include Sandra Kohler, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Elaine Neill Orr, Patrick Hicks, and Silas House.

Back Issues:
Spring 2008
Guest editors include Robin Lippincott, fiction; Maureen Morehead, poetry; Charlie Schulman, drama; and Neela Vaswani, creative nonfiction, all members of the Spalding University brief-residency MFA in Writing.

Fall 2007
Guest editors include Robert Finch, creative nonfiction; Silas House, fiction; Maureen Morehead, poetry; and Charles Schulman, drama, all members of the Spalding University brief-residency MFA in Writing. Contributors include Piotr Florczyk, Lawrence Millman, Scott Russell Sanders, Bill Roorbach, and Aleda Shirley. Betsy Woods, an alumni of the Spalding program was editor for The Children’s Corner, which includes a large section by children from New Orleans who were affected by Katrina.