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Southwest Review

The Southwest Review is a literary journal published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1915 as the Texas Review, it is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States.[1] The current editor-in-chief is Greg Brownderville.

Discipline

Literary journal

English

Greg Brownderville

Texas Review

1915-present

Quarterly

Southwest Rev.

0038-4712

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The Southwest Review has featured work by many well-known contributors, including: Quentin Bell, Amy Clampitt, Margaret Drabble, Natalia Ginzburg, James Merrill, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Edmund White, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren, Ann Harleman, Thomas Beller, Ben Fountain, and Jacob M. Appel.

History[edit]

Texas Review[edit]

The Southwest Review was founded as the Texas Review in 1915 by Stark Young, professor of general literature at the University of Texas at Austin.[2] Jay B. Hubbell, the Southern Methodist University professor who would bring the Review to Dallas in 1924, later reflected on the goals of Young's new journal:

Ann Harleman's story, Meanwhile, received an in 2003.

O. Henry Award

Ben Fountain's story, Fantasy for Eleven Fingers, won an in 2005.

O. Henry Award

Barbara Moss Klein's story, Little Edens, was short-listed for the in 2005.

O. Henry Award

Merritt Tierce's story, Suck It, was included in Best New Stories from the South 2008.

Jacob Appel's story, Rods and Cones, was short-listed for Best American Nonrequired Reading in 2008.

List of literary magazines

Southern Methodist University Press

Official Website

Southwest Review archive at HathiTrust