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The Portland Review
PO Box 347
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207-0347
Phone: (503) 725-4533 Fax: (503) 725-4534
Email: ncj@pdx.edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: Sept - May Response time: 4 – 6 months Payment: copies (see website) Contests: no Distributors: Ubiquity Average pages: 120 Sample copy (postpaid): $9
ISSN: 1549-7135 Founded: 1956 Issues per year: 3 Average Pages: 145 Cover Price: $9 Sample price (postpaid): $9 Subscription: $28
Publisher’s Description Since its inception in 1956, the Portland Review has been publishing short fiction, poetry art and photography from around the world. We seek innovation in each genre with an eye for fresh voices, style and ultimately substance. Our submissions come from the highest echelons of the academic and publishing realms as well as from the previously unknown. Published works combine unique voice, compelling narrative and excellent technique. Despite the adage to the contrary, we feel that books can and will be judged by their covers. As a result, we go to great lengths to create visually arresting covers designed specifically for each edition by professional artists.
Recent contributors include: Neil Aitken, Matia Burnett, Joel Dailey, Sean C. Mintus, Beth Kaufka , Anis Shivani, Phong Nguyen, Andrew Michael Roberts, Eleni Sikelianos, Robert Solomon, Edmund de Chasca, Gaylord Brewer, Ursula K. LeGuinn, Charles Jensen, A.B. Paulson, John Blair, Donna Stonecipher, Larissa Szporluk, Randy Nelson, Heather McHugh, Sean Thomas Dougherty and others.
Samples, guidelines and further information can be viewed online at www.portlandreview.org.
Current issue:
Spring 2007
The Spring issue of the Portland Review features fiction by up-and-coming writers, Swati Avasthi, Adrian Z. Dorris, and Robert Anthony Siegel, stunning new work by poets, Joel Dailey, Eleni Sikelianos, and Ouyang Yu, as well as an interview with Stacey Richter.
Previous issue:
Spring 2008
The Spring issue of the Portland Review features fiction by
up-and-coming writers, Swati Avasthi, Adrian Z. Dorris, and Robert
Anthony Siegel, stunning new work by poets, Joel Dailey, Eleni
Sikelianos, and Ouyang Yu, as well as an interview with Stacey
Richter.
Previous issue:
Spring 2006
The 50th anniversary issue of the Portland Review features
fiction by up-and-coming writers Matt Williamson, Matthew M. Quick,
and Beth Kafka, as well as stunning new work by poets Sean Thomas
Dougherty, Shann Ray, and Yvonne Murphy. Founding editor Dick Sanders
shares a poem about his beard tells what he and the two other founders
of the Portland Review have been up to for the past fifty
years.