''Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art'' is a literary journal based at

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and first published in 1971. It publishes one print issue and one online issue each year in addition to running annual contests in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The journal has served as a space for up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of readers. According to the Phoebe constitution, "We insist on openness, which means we welcome both experimental and conventional prose and poetry, and we insist on being entertained, which means the work must capture and hold our attention, whether it be the potent language of a poem or the narrative mechanics of a short story."

Notable contributors

Matt Bell (author) Matt Bell (born August 23, 1980) is an American writer. He is the author of ''Appleseed'' (2021), ''How They Were Found'' (2010) and ''Cataclysm Baby'' (2012). He received his BA from Oakland University and his MFA from Bowling Green State Unive ...

Dorothea Lasky Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts. Background and education She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High Sc ...

Karen An-hwei Lee Karen An-hwei Lee (born 1973) is an American poet. Life Born in 1973, and raised in Massachusetts, Lee is a Chinese American poet, translator, and critic. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University and a Ph.D. in literature ...

Richard Bausch Richard Bausch (born April 18, 1945) is an American novelist, short story writer, and Professor in the Writing Program at Chapman University in Orange, California. He has published thirteen novels, nine short story collections, and one volume of ...

Robert Bausch Robert Bausch (April 18, 1945 – October 9, 2018) was an American fiction writer, the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories. He was a Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and he had taught at the Unive ...

(the Bausch brothers were among the founding staff),

Joshua Ferris Joshua Ferris (born November 8, 1974) is an American author best known for his debut novel '' Then We Came to the End'' (2007). The novel is a comedy about the American workplace, is narrated in the first-person plural, and is set in a fictitiou ...

Russell Edson Russell Edson (né Edelstein; 12 December 1928 – April 29, 2014) was an American poet, novelist, writer, and illustrator. He was the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson and Gladys Cedar Edson. Born in Manhattan, New York City, Edson ...

Jenny Boully Jenny Boully (born 1976) is an author and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowships award in 2020 for general nonfiction. She is the author of ''The Book of Beginnings and Endings'' (Sarabande Books, 2007), ''The Body: An Essay'' ( Slope Editions, 200 ...

Cornelius Eady Cornelius Eady (born 1954) is an American writer focusing largely on matters of race and society. His poetry often centers on jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class. His poetry is o ...

Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly atte ...

, Katie Ford, Thomas Lux,

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 ...

Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for '' ...

, C.K. Williams,

Ray DiPalma Ray DiPalma (1943-2016) (born in New Kensington, PA in 1943) was an American poet and visual artist who published more than 40 collections of poetry, graphic work, and translations with various presses in the US and Europe. He was educated at Duq ...

Keith Waldrop Bernard Keith Waldrop (December 11, 1932 – July 27, 2023) was an American poet, translator, publisher, and academic. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. Early life and educ ...

Michael Palmer (poet) Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943) is an United States poetry, American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University, where he earned a BA in French and an MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance sin ...

Cathy Park Hong Cathy Park Hong is an American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative. She was named on the Time 100, 2021 ''Time'' 100 list for her writings and ad ...

, G.C. Waldrep, and

Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop (born Rosmarie Sebald; August 24, 1935) is an American poet, novelist, translator, essayist and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958 and has settled in Providence, Rhode Island since the late ...

Notable judges

1997 Winter Contest: Fiction:

Susan Shreve Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children's book author. She has published fifteen novels, most recently ''More News Tomorrow'' (2019), and a memoir ''Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood ...

, Poetry:

Rod Smith (poet) Rod Smith (born 1962) is an American poet, editing, editor and publisher. Life He was born in Gallipolis, Ohio. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including ...

1998 Winter Contest: Fiction:

Cathi Hanauer Cathi Hanauer (born in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey) is an American novelist, journalist, essayist, and non-fiction writer. Her novels include ''Gone'' (2012), ''Sweet Ruin'' (2006), and ''My Sister's Bones'' (1996). She conceived and edited the 2 ...

, Poetry:

2006 Winter Contest: Fiction:

Carrie Brown (author) Carrie Brown (born May 29, 1959) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories. She is a writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College in Amherst County, Virginia. Her most recent novel, ''The Stargazer ...

, Poetry:

Anne Carson Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across ...

2011 Winter Contest: Nonfiction:

Shauna Cross Shauna Cross is an American author, screenwriter, and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem" and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel '' Derby Girl'', a fictionalized version of he ...

, Fiction:

Caitlin Horrocks Caitlin () is a feminine given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , wh ...

, Poetry: Dan Beachy-Quick 2014 Winter Contest: Nonfiction:

Cheryl Strayed Cheryl Strayed (; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American writer and podcast host. She has written four books: the novel ''Torch'' (2006) and the nonfiction books '' Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail'' (2012), '' Ti ...

, Fiction:

Benjamin Percy Benjamin Percy is an American author of novels and short stories, essayist, comic book writer, and screenwriter. Career Benjamin Percy has published four novels, ''The Dark Net'', ''The Dead Lands'', ''Red Moon'', and ''The Wilding'', as well as ...

, Poetry:

Eduardo C. Corral Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. His first collection, ''Slow Lightning'', published by Yale University Press, was the winner of the 2011 Yale Younger Series Poets awa ...

2015 Winter Contest: Nonfiction:

Roxane Gay Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of ''The New York Times'' best-selling essay collection ''Bad Feminist'' (2014), as well as the short story collection ''Ayiti ...

, Fiction:

Ramona Ausubel ''Ramona'' is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and annexation of the territory by the United States, ''Ramona'' explores the life of a mixed-race Scottish– Native ...

, Poetry: Brian Teare

About ''Phoebe''

''Phoebe'' supports up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of readers. According to the ''Phoebe'' website, writers are chosen because the editors believe their work succeeds at its goals, whether its goals are to uphold or challenge literary tradition. The journal's website also says that, as a whole, the editors insist on openness, which means that both experimental and conventional prose and poetry are welcome. The editors also say that they insist on being entertained, which means the work must capture and hold the reader's attention, whether it be the potent language of a poem or the narrative mechanics of a short story or the subtle, but perfectly phrased capture of a moment of a nonfiction piece.

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About ''Phoebe''

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