History
Founded in 1988, [4] the magazine was published by Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It came out in quarterly issues in January, April, July, and October. [5] The magazine published its final issue in December 2023. [6] [7]
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. [8] [9]
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. [10]
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. [10] 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. [11]
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." [12]
The quarterly received about 6,000 submissions per year and did not solicit work except for occasional reviews. "[W]e 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." [13]
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. [13]
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