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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 <at> spalding <dot> edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email
submissions: no Online submissions: yes 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.
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story submitted to TLR is judged entirely on its own merit whether the author is already nationally known or previously unpublished.
Recent issues:
Guest editors for the Fall 2009 issue include Kathleen Driskell,
poetry; Kirby Gann, fiction; Charlie Schulman, drama;
Luke Wallin, creative nonfiction; and Betsy Woods, The
Children's Corner. Contributors include Richard Newman,
Jeff Worley, Frederick Smock, Gaylord Brewer, Adam Day,
Frederick Zydek, and Cathleen Calbert.
Spring 2009:
Guest editors include Richard Goodman, creative nonfiction;
Greg Pape, poetry; Charlie Schulman, drama; Crystal Wilkinson,
fiction; and Betsy Woods, The Children's Corner. Contributors
include Jack Ridl, Frank X Walker, Tony Ardizzone, Lynn Pruett,
Philip Gerard, and Kaylene Johnson.
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.