''Ascent'' is an American
literary magazine that publishes stories, poems, and essays, many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies. The journal is based at
Concordia College in
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, Minnesota, Clay County, Minnesota, United States, on the banks of the Red River of the North. Located in the Red River Valley, an extremely fertile and active agricultural region, Moo ...
.
The journal was founded in 1975 at the
University of Illinois
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...
by Daniel Curley.
[''Grand Forks Herald'', Nov. 8, 1996] In 1996, essayist and English scholar
W. Scott Olsen became the editor-in-chief. The journal moved to an online format in 2010, where it would reach a wider audience for its award-winning authors.
Recent notable contributors include Victoria Anderson,
Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer, and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ con ...
,
Karen Brown, Peter Chilson,
Leo Damrosch
Leopold Damrosch Jr. (born 1941) is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He received a B.A. from Yale University, a M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was ...
,
Philip Heldrich,
Michael Martone
Michael Martone (born August 22, 1955 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American author. Since 1977, he has written nearly 30 books and chapbooks. He was a professor at the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, where he taught fro ...
, Sarah Baker Michalak and Marjorie Stelmach.
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
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Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
American literature websites
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)
Magazines established in 1975
Magazines disestablished in 2010
Magazines published in Illinois
Magazines published in Minnesota
Online literary magazines published in the United States
Online magazines with defunct print editions
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