The Alaska Quarterly Review

The Alaska Quarterly Review

"The Alaska Quarterly Review" is a literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ronald Spatz serves as editor-in-chief. Deemed by the "Washington Post" "Book World" as "one of the nation's best literary magazines," a number of works originally published in "Alaska Quarterly Review" have been subsequently selected for inclusion in "The Best American Essays", "The Best American Poetry", "The Best American Mystery Stories", "The Best American Nonrequired Reading", "The Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards", "The Beacon Best", and "The Pushcart Prize: The Best of the Small Presses". [Magazine With an Imprint: Alaska Quarterly Review Survives, "Anchorage Daily News", April 19, 1992.]

Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, Pushcart Prize winner Ira Sadoff and PEN/Hemingway Award recipient Jennifer Haigh. More recent contributors of note include Peter Selgin, Aryn Kyle, Karen Brown, Alicia Gifford, Ann Harleman, Alison Baker and Jacob M. Appel.

References

External links

* [http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/ AQR Online]


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