GW Review
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The GW Review is an international literary magazine run completely by students at George Washington University
. It publishes poetry, fiction, and artwork twice a year in Fall and Spring issues. Contributors have come from all over the United States, as well as Germany, England, Japan, and Sweden. Notable artists featured in its pages have included Gloria Naylor
, Amiri Baraka
, William Stafford, Jean Valentine
, E. Ethelbert Miller
, Maxine Clair and Kate Kretz
.
The GW Review holds a contest for seniors at George Washington University each spring, accepting one poetry author, one prose author, and one artist to publish in the Spring issue. The GW Review does not accept unsolicited submissions from George Washington University students, staff, or faculty at any other time.
The magazine itself was founded in 1980 by a group of undergraduate students with the help of G.W. professor David McAleavey.
Former Editors-in-Chief include Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Elizabeth Blake, Adam Waks, Kristal McCain, and Andrew Rigefsky.
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
. It publishes poetry, fiction, and artwork twice a year in Fall and Spring issues. Contributors have come from all over the United States, as well as Germany, England, Japan, and Sweden. Notable artists featured in its pages have included Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor is an African American novelist and educator.-Early life:Born in New York, she was the first child to Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. As Naylor grew up, her father was a transit worker and her mother was a telephone operator. When Naylor was young, her mother encouraged her to...
, Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka , formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism...
, William Stafford, Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....
, E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller
Eugene Ethelbert Miller, best known as E. Ethelbert Miller is an African American poet and teacher.-Life:...
, Maxine Clair and Kate Kretz
Kate Kretz
Kate Kretz is an American artist.Kretz attended the Sorbonne in Paris in 1981, and obtained a BFA in drawing and painting from Binghamton University in 1987, and an MFA from the University of Georgia in 1994....
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The GW Review holds a contest for seniors at George Washington University each spring, accepting one poetry author, one prose author, and one artist to publish in the Spring issue. The GW Review does not accept unsolicited submissions from George Washington University students, staff, or faculty at any other time.
The magazine itself was founded in 1980 by a group of undergraduate students with the help of G.W. professor David McAleavey.
Former Editors-in-Chief include Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Elizabeth Blake, Adam Waks, Kristal McCain, and Andrew Rigefsky.
Current Staff
- Kate Lu - Editor-in-Chief
- Christian Geoghegan - Fiction Editor
- Lea Sarris - Poetry Editor
- Kevin Callahan - Managing Editor
- Katie Winters - Art Editor