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23-769: This article about a literary magazine published in the US is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories , poetry , and essays , along with literary criticism , book reviews , biographical profiles of authors , interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals , or little magazines , terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines . Nouvelles de la république des lettres

46-576: A Ph.D. in English but was not on the faculty at SMU. This began a long period of non-faculty editorial leadership. Day managed the publication until 1946. It was then edited by Allen Maxwell until 1963. From 1962 until 1982, it was edited by Margaret Hartley. In 1984, the Southwest Review , which had never left SMU, appointed its first faculty editor since McGinnis. English professor Willard Spiegelman, working with managing editor Betsey McDougall, would push

69-847: Is a literary journal published quarterly at Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas . Founded in 1915 as the Texas Review , it is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States. The current editor-in-chief is Greg Brownderville. The Southwest Review has featured work by many well-known contributors, including: Quentin Bell , Amy Clampitt , Margaret Drabble , Natalia Ginzburg , James Merrill , Iris Murdoch , Howard Nemerov , Edmund White , Maxim Gorky , Cleanth Brooks , and Robert Penn Warren , Ann Harleman , Thomas Beller , Ben Fountain , and Jacob M. Appel . The Southwest Review

92-566: Is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain , critics Francis Jeffrey , Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the Edinburgh Review in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included

115-621: The South Atlantic Quarterly . What he particularly desired was excellent verse and light essays; he did not want learned articles by college professors." When Young left for Amherst College , editorship of the journal passed to Young's colleague at the University of Texas, Robert Agder Law , an authority on Shakespeare . The Texas Review languished under Law and seemed doomed—a sentiment he expressed to SMU's Hubbell in 1921. After conferring with his colleagues, Hubbell offered to bring

138-1084: The Westminster Review (1824), The Spectator (1828), and Athenaeum (1828). In the United States, early journals included the Philadelphia Literary Magazine (1803–1808), the Monthly Anthology (1803–11), which became the North American Review , the Yale Review (founded in 1819), The Yankee (1828–1829) The Knickerbocker (1833–1865), Dial (1840–44) and the New Orleans–based De Bow's Review (1846–80). Several prominent literary magazines were published in Charleston, South Carolina , including The Southern Review (1828–32) and Russell's Magazine (1857–60). The most prominent Canadian literary magazine of

161-728: The National Endowment for the Arts , which created a committee to distribute support money for this burgeoning group of publishers called the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM). This organisation evolved into the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Many prestigious awards exist for works published in literary magazines including the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Awards . Literary magazines also provide many of

184-557: The 19th century was the Montreal-based Literary Garland . The North American Review , founded in 1815, is the oldest American literary magazine. However, it had its publication suspended during World War II, and the Yale Review (founded in 1819) did not; thus the Yale journal is the oldest literary magazine in continuous publication. Begun in 1889, Poet Lore is considered the oldest journal dedicated to poetry. By

207-1060: The Arts, and New Ideas , which began publication in 1951 in England, the Paris Review , which was founded in 1953, The Massachusetts Review and Poetry Northwest , which were founded in 1959, X Magazine , which ran from 1959 to 1962, and the Denver Quarterly , which began in 1965. The 1970s saw another surge in the number of literary magazines, with a number of distinguished journals getting their start during this decade, including Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , Ploughshares , The Iowa Review , Granta , Agni , The Missouri Review , and New England Review . Other highly regarded print magazines of recent years include The Threepenny Review , The Georgia Review , Ascent , Shenandoah , The Greensboro Review , ZYZZYVA , Glimmer Train , Tin House , Half Mystic Journal ,

230-507: The Canadian magazine Brick , the Australian magazine HEAT , and Zoetrope: All-Story . Some short fiction writers, such as Steve Almond , Jacob M. Appel and Stephen Dixon have built national reputations in the United States primarily through publication in literary magazines. The Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP) was founded by Richard Morris in 1968. It

253-598: The LSU side secured funding for their own magazine, the Southern Review . The Southwestern Review survived the decade, largely thanks to its younger staff, including Henry Nash Smith, John Chapman, and Lon Tinkle . A frequent contributor during this era was artist and future director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Art , Jerry Bywaters . McGinnis continued editing the Southwest Review until 1942. His successor, Donald Day, had

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276-507: The end of the century, literary magazines had become an important feature of intellectual life in many parts of the world. One of the most notable 19th century literary magazines of the Arabic-speaking world was Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa . Among the literary magazines that began in the early part of the 20th century is Poetry magazine. Founded in 1912, it published T. S. Eliot 's first poem, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Another

299-581: The evolution of independent literary journals. There are thousands of other online literary publications and it is difficult to judge the quality and overall impact of this relatively new publishing medium. Little magazines, or "small magazines", are literary magazines that often publish experimental literature and the non-conformist writings of relatively unknown writers. Typically they had small readership, were financially uncertain or non-commercial, were irregularly published and showcased artistic innovation. Southwest Review The Southwest Review

322-478: The journal from 1924 to 1927. The journal was published out of the basement of Dallas Hall , where the editors would sometimes be visited by SMU's founding president, Robert S. Hyer . The Review received acclaim but struggled financially, and at one point Hubbell even wrote to Law to ask if, in the event it became impossible to continue, the University of Texas would take it back. Law said it would. In 1927, however, SMU's administration agreed to allocate $ 1,000 for

345-467: The journal in the coming year—enough to keep it going. When Hubbell and Bond left SMU in 1927, John McGinnis, an English professor, became editor. Henry Nash Smith , then a young instructor in the English department, would recall that the Southwest Review flourished under McGinnis—who taught a full schedule and contributed regularly to the Dallas Morning News — because he turned the production of

368-448: The journal into a kind of seminar where senior students and junior colleagues collaborated closely throughout the editorial process. Less than a decade after coming to SMU, the Southwest Review had nearly 1000 paid subscribers. The Great Depression brought various difficulties. Due to financial strain, the Southwest Review was published jointly by SMU and Louisiana State University between 1931 and 1935. The collaboration ended when

391-584: The journal to SMU. Law replied that the University of Texas would not permit the journal to move. Three years later, however, they relented. The transfer involved no movement of materials or personnel—Hubbell received only a list of the journal's sixteen subscribers, one of which was the Southwestern Insane Asylum. At SMU, the Texas Review became the Southwest Review , and embraced a regional identity and focus. Hubbell, assisted by English scholar George Bond and historian Herbert Gambrell , edited

414-555: The most influential—though radically different—journals of the last half of the 20th century were The Kenyon Review ( KR ) and the Partisan Review . The Kenyon Review , edited by John Crowe Ransom , espoused the so-called New Criticism . Its platform was avowedly unpolitical. Although Ransom came from the South and published authors from that region, KR also published many New York–based and international authors. The Partisan Review

437-999: The pieces in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays annual volumes. SwiftCurrent , created in 1984, was the first online literary magazine. It functioned as more of a database of literary works than a literary publication. In 1995, the Mississippi Review was the first large literary magazine to launch a fully online issue. By 1998, Fence and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern were published and quickly gained an audience. Around 1996, literary magazines began to appear more regularly online. At first, some writers and readers dismissed online literary magazines as not equal in quality or prestige to their print counterparts, while others said that these were not properly magazines and were instead ezines . Since then, though, many writers and readers have accepted online literary magazines as another step in

460-673: Was The Bellman , which began publishing in 1906 and ended in 1919, was edited by William Crowell Edgar and was based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other important early-20th century literary magazines include The Times Literary Supplement (1902), Southwest Review (1915), Virginia Quarterly Review (1925), World Literature Today (founded in 1927 as Books Abroad before assuming its present name in 1977), Southern Review (1935), and New Letters (1935). The Sewanee Review , although founded in 1892, achieved prominence largely thanks to Allen Tate , who became editor in 1944. Two of

483-414: Was an attempt to organize the energy of the small presses. Len Fulton, editor and founder of Dustbook Publishing, assembled and published the first real list of these small magazines and their editors in the mid-1970s. This made it possible for poets to pick and choose the publications most amenable to their work and the vitality of these independent publishers was recognized by the larger community, including

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506-596: Was first associated with the American Communist Party and the John Reed Club ; however, it soon broke ranks with the party. Nevertheless, politics remained central to its character, while it also published significant literature and criticism. The middle-20th century saw a boom in the number of literary magazines, which corresponded with the rise of the small press . Among the important journals which began in this period were Nimbus: A Magazine of Literature,

529-631: Was founded as the Texas Review in 1915 by Stark Young , professor of general literature at the University of Texas at Austin . Jay B. Hubbell , the Southern Methodist University professor who would bring the Review to Dallas in 1924, later reflected on the goals of Young's new journal: "Young's ambition was to put out a literary magazine, not a critical review like the Sewanee Review or

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