LACUNA

Literary magazines

• Memescapes Online : A gallery of student literature and visual arts at Quinsigamond Community College.
• The Absinthe Literary Review : Interesting.
• Agni
• Alaska Quarterly Review : Another fantastic magazine with a good tradition of great writing.
• American Literary Review
• Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
• Can We Have Our Ball Back? : Online poetry journal with established and up and coming writers.
• The Crab Orchard Review : Good writing published by the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
• Fence : Another very good magazine out of New York City.
• Fiction : A literary magazine started by Donald Barthelme out of City College, NY.
• Glimmer Train : One of the few really widely distributed literary magazines.
• Gulf Coast : A liteary magazine from Houston, TX.
• Hayden’s Ferry Review
• Iron Horse Literary Review
• The Massachusetts Review : A wonderful local liteary magazine.
• Manoa : From Hawaii, a great literary magazine with a more worldly focus.
• The Minnesota Review
• The New England Review : Good quality writing from just north of here.
• The Paris Review: The world famous magazine that was edited by the late George Plimpton.
• Post Road : A nice new magazine out of Boston.
• Prairie Schooner
• Rivendell : A new literary journal with an emphasis on place.
• River City : A theme based magazine from the University of Memphis.
• The Southeast Review
• Slope : An online poetry magazine.
• Spinning Jenny : Great writing that feels on the edge.
• Tatlin’s Tower : Online fiction. Updated each month.
• 3rd Bed : Art, poetry, prose, online.
• 3 AM Magazine : Non-fiction, fiction, poetry, interviews, articles, and more from a bi-continental perspective.
• Three Candles : An on-line magazine with lots of poetry and just recently prose as well.
• The Threepenny Review
• Tin House : A great magazine out of Portland, Oregon.

Conferences

• The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference : A fantastic conference in Vermont. Some workstudy scholarships are available.
• The Napa Valley Writers’ Conference : Another great conference out in sunny Northern California. Some financial aid is available.
• Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshops : Another set of conferences with a good reputation.
• Vermont Studio Center
• Virginia Woolf Conference at Smith

Other resources

• The Associated Writing Programs
• O’Henry award winning magazines
• Literary Markets: A listing of some magazines with helpful information on style, competitiveness, and payment.
• The M.F.A. program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst