Colorado Review is a major American literary journal published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Colorado State University

Colorado State University is a public research university located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The university is the state's land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System.The enrollment is approximately 29,932 students, including resident and...

 in Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...

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The journal presents the annual Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. Winners include Emily Bloch (2004), Dylan Landis (2005), Lauren Guza (2006), Thomas Grattan (2007) and Ashley Pankratz (2008).

Other notable writers whose work has appeared in this journal are Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.-Life:Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul, and taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan, for a year. In 1974 he received his Ph.D...

, G.C. Waldrep

G.C. Waldrep

George Calvin Waldrep is an American poet and historian. -Biography:Waldrep earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in History at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.He was visiting professor at Kenyon...

, Tomaž Šalamun

Tomaz Salamun

Tomaž Šalamun is a Slovenian poet. He was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He has published 39 collections of poetry in his native Slovenian language. Šalamun spent two years at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in...

, Peter Selgin

Peter Selgin

Peter Selgin is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is currently the at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.-Biography:...

, Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is an American poet and filmmaker. He was born and raised in Haller Lake neighborhood, Seattle, Washington. His given name is Joshua Wilson; his grandmother's name was Marie Wilkinson, after whom he writes and publishes. He earned degrees in Poetry , Film , and English...

, Valery Varble, Alix Ohlin, Steven Church, Brandon Schrand, Rosmarie Waldrop

Rosmarie Waldrop

Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...

, Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....

, Robert H. Abel

Robert H. Abel

Robert Halsall Abel is an American short story writer, and novelist.-Life:Robert Halsall Abel was born on May 27, 1941 in Painesville, Ohio. His father was Robert H...

, and Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist who has often written about the search for meaning through personal loss and the struggle for coherence in a fragmented world...

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