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program at the university. The magazine publishes two issues per year, focussing on different aspects of place-based writing and art. Each issue endeavors to bring together ""the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural." Issues include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and comics. The magazine has received numerous grants from the

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Reception

Works published in the magazine have been chosen for inclusion in anthologies, such as the

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''. In 2014 an anthology of selections from the magazine's first ten years was published by Lookout Books.

Awards and honors

* 2023 Firecracker Award, winner in the category ''Magazines/General Excellence'' * 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award, Winner * 2020 AWP Small Press Publisher Award, Finalist

References

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