''Flyway'' is an American literary magazine founded by Stephen Pett in 1995. It is based at

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. Genre editors included Sheryl St. Germain, Debra Marquart, Andie Dominick, Sam Pritchard, and Gary Whitehead. ''Flyway'' became ''Flyway: Journal of Writing and Envirornment'' 2009, in concert with the creation of Iowa State University's prestigious MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment. Students from the program serve as genre editors and readers. ''Flyway'' publishes fiction, essays and poetry with environmental themes. From its beginnings, Sheryl Kamps has provided technical support. Pieces that have appeared in ''Flyway'' have been selected for inclusion in the ''Best American'' anthologies and 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 ...

.Pushcart Rankings 2008
/ref> In 2012, in part because of the economic pressures of print, and in part because the staff was excited by the dynamic possibilities of a digital form, ''Flyway'' suspended its print issues and moved entirely online.

Notable contributors

*Christine D. Allen-Yazzie *

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 ...

Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957, Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist. While established as a writer by several early novels, he is especially known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolutio ...

* Stephen Dixon * Mylène Dressler *

Philip Heldrich Philip Heldrich was an American author of poetry, essays, short stories, and literary criticism, including ''Good Friday'', winner of the Poetry Prize, X.J. Kennedy and ''Out Here in the Out There: Essays in a Region of Superlatives'', winner of ...

*Ray A. Young Bear *Dan O'Brien *Sandra Kohler *George Looney *Laurel Nakadate *

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 ...

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 subu ...

*Todd Davis *Joseph Geha *

Rick Bass Rick Bass (born March 7, 1958) is an American writer and an environmental activist. He has a Bachelor of Science in Geology with a focus in Wildlife from Utah State University. Right after he graduated, he interned for one year as a Wildlife Bio ...

* Amy Fleury *Christina Eisenberg *Virgil Suarez *Ted Kooser

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Notable contributors

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