Denver Quarterly

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Denver Quarterly
Editor-in-chief W. Scott Howard
Categories Literary magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
First issue1966
Company University of Denver
Country United States
Website liberalarts.du.edu/english/journals-initiatives/denver-quarterly
ISSN 0011-8869
OCLC 1566260

The Denver Quarterly (known as The University of Denver Quarterly until 1970) is an avant-garde literary magazine based at the University of Denver. It was founded in 1966 by novelist John Edward Williams.

Contents

Publisher

The magazine is published by the Department of English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver. It has published poems by many poets. [1]

The Best American Short Stories

Stories from the magazine have twice been included in The Best American Short Stories : Margaret Shipley's The Tea Bowl of Ninsel Nomura, in 1969, and in 1977 Baine Kerr's Rider. Victor Kolpacoff's The Journey to Rutherford received an Honorable Mention in the 1970 anthology, Walter Benesch received a similar notation for The Double in 1971, and John P. Fox got one for Torchy and My Old Man (also in 1971).

The Best American Essays

Three essays have had honorable mentions in The Best American Essays : Gabriel Hudson's The Sky Hermit in 1986, Stanley Elkin's What's in a Name? Etc in 1988, and Albert Goldbarth's Wind-up Sushi: With Catalogues and Instructions for Assembly in 1990.[ citation needed ]

The Best American Poetry

Other awards

Stephen Berg won a Pushcart Prize for his poem First Song/Bankei/1653/, which also was included in Best American Poetry 1990.

In 1990, Joanne Greenberg won an O. Henry Award for her short story Elizabeth Baird, originally published in the Fall 1989 issue.

Editors

The first editor-in-chief was John Edward Williams (1965-1970). Others have included Jim Clark, Leland Chambers (1977-1983), Donald Revell (1988-1994), Bin Ramke (1994-2011, 2016—2019), Laird Hunt (2012–2016), and W. Scott Howard (2019—present).

Notes and references

  1. "Denver Quarterly | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences".

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