''Berkeley Fiction Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1981 and based at the
University of California, Berkeley
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. Stories that have appeared in the ''Berkeley Fiction Review'' have been reprinted in ''
The Best American Short Stories
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'' and the
Pushcart Prize
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anthology. The ''Berkeley Fiction Review'' sponsors an annual Sudden Fiction Contest.
Charles Bukowski
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Seamus Deane
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Mark Dery
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Will Eno
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Neil Jordan
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Perri Klass
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Jess Mowry
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Álvaro Mutis
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Gerald Vizenor
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*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
*Isabel Hinchliff
*Kasandra Tapia
*Liam Magee
*Gillian Gee
*Julianne Han
*Sofia Hernandez
*Joyce Ro
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
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 ...