''Quarterly West'' is an American
literary magazine based at the
University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...
in
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...
. Stories that have appeared in ''Quarterly West'' have been shortlisted for 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 ...
,
The Best American Short Stories
''The Best American Short Stories'' is a yearly anthology that's part of ''The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the ''BASS'' has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the ...
and the
O. Henry Prize.
[Literary Magazine Is Expanding, ''Deseret News'', Sept 29, 1985]
The journal was founded by James Thomas in 1976.
In 2011, ''Quarterly West'' became an exclusively online literary journal.
Notable contributors
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Micheal Andreasen
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Rebecca Aronson
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James Carlos Blake
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Jackson Bliss
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Fleda Brown
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, '' Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?'', in 1976. His breakout collection, '' What We Talk About ...
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Susann Cokal
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Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (née Doak; born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and nonfiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memo ...
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Stephen Dunn
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Stuart Dybek
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Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché (born April 28, 1950) is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate. She has received many awards for her literary work.
Biography
Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Michael Joseph and Louise ...
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of th ...
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Albert Goldbarth
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Mark Jarman
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Philip Levine
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Maya Pindyck
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Sherod Santos
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George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a we ...
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Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, ...
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Eleanor Wilneróand
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Antoine Wilson
Masthead
*Editor-in-Chief: J.P. Grasser
*Managing Editor: Joe Sacksteder
*Assistant Editor: Jacqueline Balderrama
*Fiction Editors: Jason Daniels (Senior), Michelle Donahue
*Poetry Editors: Cori A. Winrock (Senior), Alen Hamza
*Nonfiction Editors: Noam Dorr (Senior), Jace Brittain
*New Media Editor: Joe Sacksteder
*Reviews Editor: Jessica Rae Bergamino
See also
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List of literary magazines
Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors.
*Because the majority are from the United States, the country of origin ...
Notes
External links
Quarterly West Homepage
1976 establishments in Utah
2011 disestablishments in Utah
American literature websites
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1976
Magazines disestablished in 2011
Magazines published in Utah
Mass media in Salt Lake City
Online literary magazines published in the United States
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Quarterly magazines published in the United States
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