Gettysburg Review

''The Gettysburg Review'' was a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work that appeared in the magazine has been reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and received awards.

The magazine was "recognized as one of the country's premier journals," according to a description at the Web site of the New York Public Library. The 2007 ''U.S. News'' guide to the best colleges described the review as "recognized as one of the country's best literary journals." According to a Web page of the English Department of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, the ''Gettysburg Review'' is considered a "major literary journal in the U.S."

History

Founded in 1988, the magazine was published by Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It came out in quarterly issues in January, April, July, and October."Masthead"
''The Gettysburgh Review'', Retrieved February 8, 2007 The magazine published its final issue in December 2023.

The magazine did not print material which had been published elsewhere. Along with fresh and new short stories, it was open to publishing original poetry, whether short or long, and excerpts from novels. The magazine occasionally serialized longer fictional works over more than one issue. "Essays can be on virtually any subject, so long as it is treated in a literary fashion — gracefully and in depth," according to the magazine's website.Guidelines - Fiction
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''The Gettysburg Review'' was one of the most frequent sources of material for ''The Best American Essays'', ''The Best American Poetry'', and ''The Best American Short Stories'' series. Other anthologies that have reprinted work originally published in the magazine: ''The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses'', ''The Best Creative Nonfiction'', ''The Best American Mystery Stories'', ''Best New American Voices'', ''Best New Poets'', ''New Stories from the South'', and ''Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards''. Other work has been reprinted in publications such as ''Harpers'' and the ''UTNE Reader.''Gettysburg Review
New Pages, Retrieved February 8, 2007

Prominent writers who have appeared in the magazine's pages include E. L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffrey Eugenides, Linda Pastan, James Tate, and Donald Hall. Writers published in the final issue of the journal include Angie Estes, Christopher Howell, Samyak Shertok, Leslie Pietrzyk, Lenya Krow, Albert Goldbarth, Alpay Ulku, Alice Friman, Margaret Gibson, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and others. The issue also features paintings by Michael Alvarez.

The periodical won awards including the Best New Journal award, four Best Journal Design awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and a PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing.

In a 1994 review of the magazine, Ron Tanner wrote that the stories in the 1993 issues were widely varied in style, but "are clearly in the mainstream of contemporary American fiction — you will not find 'experimental' work in ''The Gettysburg Review''."

He also found the stories have a common "concern for character, and an examination of the emotional and psychological distance one might travel when faced with a problem. ..each compels the character to make a decision, to make an effort, to make a move. Consequently, things happen in these stories. Which is to say that we end in a place very different from the story's beginning. In no resolution of a ''Gettysburg'' story, however, do we find ourselves living Happily Ever After. Life is more complicated than that, these writers assert."

The quarterly received about 6,000 submissions per year and did not solicit work except for occasional reviews. " work hard not to have a regular stable of writers or favored persons of any kind," said founding editor Peter Stitt. "We are most proud of publishing writers who have never before appeared in a nationally-circulated journal. But we do not actively search through the slush pile for anything but good writing.""Interview with LitJournals / Conducted by Dan Wickett on January 19, 2005"
Emerging Writers Forum, Retrieved June 10, 2007

When founding editor Peter Stitt retired in 2015, Mark Drew, the magazine's assistant editor since 1998, took over as editor in chief, a position he held until the magazine's closing. Other staff members who served at the ''Gettysburg Review'' were assistant editors Frank Graziano and Jeff Mock, and managing editors Emily Ruark Clark, Cara Diaconoff, Mindy Wilson, Kim Dana Kupperman, Ellen Hathaway, Jess Bryant, and Lauren Hohle.

The magazine was supported financially by Gettysburg College, for the most part, although it also received grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the NEA, along with revenue from subscriptions.

Final issue

On October 3, 2023, Gettysburg College president Bob Iuliano announced that ''The Gettysburg Review'' would publish its final issue in December and then cease publication permanently. The editors of ''The Gettysburg Review'' stated that they were never involved in any discussions regarding the termination of the journal.

Appearances in ''

The Best American Essays''

* ''The Best American Essays'' 2024, James Whorton, "An Upset Place"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 2020, Mark Sullivan, "Ode al Vento Occidentale"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 2018, Marilyn Abildskov, "The Trick: Notes toward a Theory of Plot"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 2014, John Culver, "The Final Day in Rome"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 2013, Richard Schmitt, "Sometimes a Romantic Notion"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 2010, Ron Rindo, "Gyromancy"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 2009, Ryan Van Meter, "First"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 2001, Burt O. States, "On Being Breathless"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 1998, Sven Birkerts, "States of Reading"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 1993, Scott Russell Sanders, "Wayland"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 1993, Floyd Skloot, "Trivia Tea: Baseball as Balm"
* ''The Best American Essays'' 1989, Mary Hood, "Why Stop?"

Appearances in ''

The Best American Mystery Stories''

* ''The Best American Mystery Stories'' 2010, Lynda Leidiger, "Tell Me"
* ''The Best American Mystery Stories'' 2008, Joyce Carol Oates, "Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi"
* ''The Best American Mystery Stories'' 2008, Kyle Minor, "A Day Meant to Do Less"
* ''The Best American Mystery Stories'' 2006, Emily Raboteau, "Smile"
* ''The Best American Mystery Stories'' 2004, Christopher Coake, "All Through the House"

Appearances in ''

The Best American Poetry''

* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2024, Michael Waters, "Ashkenazi Birthmark"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2020, Steve Kleinman, "Bear"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2020, Shara Lessley, "On Faith"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2016, Michelle Boisseau, "Ugglig"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2012, Bruce Snider, "The Drag Queen Dies in New Castle"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2012, Dean Young, "Restoration Ode"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2009, Barbara Goldberg, "The Fullness Thereof"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2006, Bob Hicok, "My career as a director"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2006, Mark Kraushaar, "Tonight"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2006, Robert Wrigley, "Religion"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 2000, Jean Nordhaus, "Aunt Lily and Frederick the Great"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1999, Marcia Southwick, "A Star Is Born in the Eagle Nebula"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1998, Rebecca McClanahan, "Making Love"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1998, Eric Ormsby, "Flamingos"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1997, Herman J. Fong, "Asylum"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1997, Harry Humes, "The Butterfly Effect"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1997, Dean Young, "Frottage"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1995, Elton Glaser, "Undead White European Male"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1994, Dick Allen "A Short History of the Vietnam War Years"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1993, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, "The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1993, Staley Kunitz, "Chariot"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1990, Donald Hall, "Praise for Death"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1990, Edward Kleinschmidt, "Gangue"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1990, David St. John, "Last Night with Rafaella"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1989, Beth Bentley, "Northern Idylls"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1989, Rita Dove, "The Late Notebooks of Albrecht Durer"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1989, Debora Greger, "In Violet"
* ''The Best American Poetry'' 1989, Philip Levine, "Dog Poem"

Appearances in ''

The Best American Short Stories''

*''The Best American Short Stories'' 2023, Benjamin Ehrlich, "The Master Mourner"
*''The Best American Short Stories'' 2009, Victoria Lancelotta, "The Anniversary Trip"
*''The Best American Short Stories'' 1999, James Spencer, "The Robbers of Karnataka"

Masthead

The magazine's masthead, as of December 2023:

* Editor: Mark Drew
* Managing Editor: Lauren Hohle
* Editorial Assistants: Christopher Kempf, Corey Van Landingham, and Robert Yune

*Founding Editor: Peter Stitt

Advisory and Contributing Editors:

* Lee K. Abbott
* Rita Dove
* Donald Hall
* Shara McCallum
* Rebecca McClanahan
* Leslie Pietrzyk
* Philip Schultz
* Richard Wilbur
* Paul Zimmer

See also

*List of literary magazines

Notes

External links

''The Gettysburg Review''
Web site

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