''Berkeley Fiction Review'' is an American

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 lett ...

founded in 1981 and based at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

. Stories that have appeared in the ''Berkeley Fiction Review'' have been reprinted in ''

The Best American Short Stories The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of ''The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in con ...

'' and the

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

anthology. The ''Berkeley Fiction Review'' sponsors an annual Sudden Fiction Contest.

Notable contributors

Ellen Akins Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana. Early life and education After graduating from LaSalle Intermediate Academy in 1977, Akins earned a Bachelor of Arts in film production at the University of Southern California. As ...

* Jacob Appel *

Peter Bichsel Peter Bichsel (born 24 March 1935) is a popular Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Bichsel was born 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of manual labourers. Shortly after h ...

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...

Will Eno Will Eno (born 1965) is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His play, '' Thom Pain (based on nothing)'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2005. His play ''The Realistic Joneses'' appeared on Broadway in 2014, wher ...

Seamus Deane Seamus Francis Deane (9 February 194012 May 2021) was an Irish poet, novelist, critic, and intellectual historian. He was noted for his debut novel, ''Reading in the Dark'', which won several literary awards and was nominated for the Booker Pri ...

Mark Dery Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959)''Contemporary Authors Online'', s.v. "Mark Dery" (accessed February 12, 2008). is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. An early observer and critic of online culture, he helped to popularize the ter ...

* Jürgen Fauth *

DeWitt Henry DeWitt Henry is an American author and editor. Born in 1941 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Henry earned his A.B. from Amherst College in 1963 and his MA and PhD from Harvard University. He is a founding editor of ''Ploughshares'', a literary journal, an ...

Neil Jordan Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, '' Night in Tunisia'', won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academ ...

Perri Klass Perri Klass (born 1958) is an American pediatrician and writer who has published extensively about her medical training and pediatric practice. Among her subjects have been the issues of women in medicine, relationships between doctors and patient ...

* Jeanne M. Leiby * Karin Lin-Greenberg * B. K. Loren * Valerie Miner * John Montague *

Jess Mowry Jess Mowry (born March 27, 1960 near Starkville, Mississippi) is an American author of books and stories for children and young adults. He has written eighteen books and many short stories for and about black children and teens in a variety of g ...

Álvaro Mutis Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence '' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll'', which revolves around the character ...

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...

Dmitri Prigov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович При́гов, 5 November 1940 in Moscow – 16 July 2007 in MoscowDaniel Scott * Olga Sedakova *

Hal Sirowitz Hal Sirowitz (born 1949) is an American poet. Sirowitz first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team, and ...

Elena Shvarts Elena Andreyevna Shvarts (russian: Елена Андреевна Шварц) (17 May 1948 – 11 March 2010) was a Russian poet. Born in Leningrad, where she lived her entire life, Shvarts attended the University of Tartu, where her first poems ...

* Julia Vinograd * Gerald Vizenor *

Nellie Wong Nellie Wong (born 12 September 1934) is an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong is also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. Biography Wong was born in Oakland, California to Chines ...

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*Managing Editors **Isabel Hinchliff **Liam Magee **Kasandra Tapia **Julianne Han *Editors **Julia Cheunkarndee **Danica Chen **Gillian Gee **Danielle Tran **Conrad Loyer **Fiona Green **Sofia Hernandez **Joyce Ro **Sara Robertson **Maya Jimenez **Rachael Sandoval **Quinton Zakasky **Mia Garza-Jenkins

Founders

*Julia Littleton *Jenne Mowry *Joe Sciallo *Paul Wedderien

Past Managing Editors

*Lauren Cooper *Hannah Harrington *Ben Rowen *Lisa Jenkins *Miranda King *Kelsey Nolan *Paige Vehlewald *Tessa Gregory *Eva Nierenberg *Christian White *Brighton Earley *Jennifer Brown *Caitlin McGuire *Rachel Brumit *Bryce Kobrin *Rhoda Piland *John Rauschenberg *Elaine Wong *Grace Fujimoto *Nikki Thompson *Daphne Young *Hugh O'Byrne Pedy *Gregory Charles Magnuson *Mark Landsman *Sean Andrew Locke *James Penner *Shelley Crist *Julia E. Lave *Julie Christianson *Christina Ferrari *Christopher Greger *Dionisio Valesco *Terrence Gee *Summar Farah *Bailey Dunn *Arya Sureshbabu *Molly Nolan *Regina Lim *Alex Jiménez *Madelyn Peterson *Aaron Saliman

Special Features

*Issue 6 (1985–86): Contemporary Poetry from the Soviet Union *Issue 8 (Fall 1988): Works by, and Interviews with, Contemporary Irish Authors *Issue 9 (Fall 1989): Stereoscopic Photographs *Issue 16 (Spring 1997): First Annual Sudden Fiction Contest *Issue 17 (Fall 1997): An early work by international award-winning Colombian writer Álvaro Mutis

References

External links

Berkeley Fiction Review Homepage
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