Other Voices, Inc. is a non-profit literary press encompassing ''Other Voices'' literary magazine and the fiction imprint OV Books.

''Other Voices'' magazine

Established in 1984, ''Other Voices'' was a "fiction-focused magazine ... dedicated to publishing diverse, original short stories by authors ranging from literary bestsellers to cutting-edge experimentalists,"
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Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. The magazine was closed in 2007.

Contributors

Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed '' So ...

, Dan Chaon,

Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel ''The Sportswriter'' and its sequels, ''Independence Day'', ''The Lay of the Land'' and ''Let Me Be Frank With You'', and the ...

Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. Biography Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s ...

, Antonya Nelson,

Jane Smiley Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel ''A Thousand Acres'' (1991). Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a s ...

Steve Almond Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published. Life Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and receive ...

Tod Goldberg Tod Goldberg (born January 10, 1971 in Berkeley, California) is an American author and journalist best known for his novels ''Gangsters Don't Die'' (Counterpoint),''Gangster Nation'' (Counterpoint), ''Gangsterland'' (Counterpoint) and ''Living De ...

Josip Novakovich Josip Novakovich (Croatian: ''Novaković'') is a Croatian Canadian writer. Early life and education Josip Novakovich was born in Yugoslavia (in 1956) and grew up in the central Croatian town of Daruvar. Novakovich studied medicine at the Univers ...

Aimee Bender Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate de ...

Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies (born 30 August 1966), is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent. Biography Born and raised in Coventry, Davies was a pupil at King Henry VIII School. He studied physics at Manchester University and then En ...

Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lectur ...

Terry McMillan Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951) is an American novelist. Her work centers around the experiences of Black women in the United States. Early life McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan. She received a B.A. in journalism in 1977 from ...

and

Junot Díaz Junot Díaz (; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was fiction editor at '' Boston Review''. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freed ...

. Work from ''Other Voices'' was also anthologized in ''

The Best American Short Stories Of The Century 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 c ...

'' (2000), edited by John Updike.

OV Books

The fiction book imprint OV Books aims to "keep the short story form vital in today’s competitive and increasingly commercial marketplace, where short fiction has been largely marginalized by corporate conglomerate publishers." In collaboration with the

University of Illinois Press The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, plus 33 scholarly journals, and several electronic proje ...

, OV Books has published '' Simplify'' by

and '' O Street'' by

Corrina Wycoff Corrina Wycoff is an American writer known for her 2007 short story collection '' O Street'' and 2016 novel '' Damascus House''. ''O Street'' was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007. Education and career Wycof ...

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External links

''Other Voices'' website

OV Books
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States Book publishing companies of the United States Publishing companies established in 1984 Literary publishing companies Non-profit publishers Magazines established in 1984 Magazines disestablished in 2007 Magazines published in Chicago

''Other Voices'' magazine

Contributors

OV Books

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