Other Voices, Inc. is a non-profit literary press encompassing ''Other Voices'' literary magazine and the fiction imprint OV Books.

''Other Voices'' magazine

Established in 1984, ''Other Voices'' was a "fiction-focused magazine ... dedicated to publishing diverse, original short stories by authors ranging from literary bestsellers to cutting-edge experimentalists,"
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. The magazine was closed in 2007.

Contributors

Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically accl ...

Dan Chaon Dan Chaon (born June 11, 1964) is an American writer. Formerly a creative writing professor, he is the author of three short story collections and four novels. Early life and education Chaon was born June 11, 1964, in either Sidney, Nebraska or ...

Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. Ford's first collection of short stories, ''Rock Springs (short stories), Rock Springs ...

Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. Biography Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s ...

Antonya Nelson Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories. Life and education Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961, in Wichita, Kansas. She received a BA degree from the U ...

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 ...

Steve Almond Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist, and author of fifteen books, four of which are self-published. Life Steve Almond was born on October 27, 1966, in California. Almond was raised in Palo Alto, Ca ...

Tod Goldberg Tod Goldberg (born January 10, 1971, in Berkeley, California) is an American author and journalist best known for his novels ''Gangsters Don't Die'' (Counterpoint), ''Gangster Nation'' (Counterpoint), ''Gangsterland'' (Counterpoint) and ''Living ...

, Josip Novakovich,

Aimee Bender Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a American Jews, Jewish family, Bender received her un ...

Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies (born 30 August 1966), is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent. Biography Born and raised in Coventry, England, Davies was a pupil at King Henry VIII School. He studied physics at Manchester University and ...

Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is Professor in th ...

Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso (born 1961) is an American author of short stories, essays and novels. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, working-class immigrants, families and fatherhood, philosophy in literature, and crossing cultural, psy ...

Terry McMillan Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951) is an American novelist known for her vivid portrayals of African American women's lives, relationships, and journeys of self-discovery. Her best-selling works, including ''Waiting to Exhale'' and ''How S ...

and

Junot Díaz Junot Díaz ( ; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at '' Boston Review''. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience ...

. Work from ''Other Voices'' was also anthologized in '' The Best American Short Stories Of The Century'' (2000), edited by

John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tar ...

OV Books

The fiction book imprint OV Books aims to "keep the short story form vital in today’s competitive and increasingly commercial marketplace, where short fiction has been largely marginalized by corporate conglomerate publishers." In collaboration with the

University of Illinois Press The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois System. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, thirty-three scholarly journals, and several electroni ...

, OV Books has published '' Simplify'' by

and '' O Street'' by

Corrina Wycoff Corrina Wycoff is an American writer known for her 2007 short story collection '' O Street'' and 2016 novel '' Damascus House''. ''O Street'' was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007. Education and career Wycof ...

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OV Books
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''Other Voices'' magazine

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