Shenandoah (magazine)
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Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review is a major literary magazine
published by Washington and Lee University
.
.
Shenandoah was founded in 1949 by a group of Washington and Lee University
faculty members, including English professor Samuel Ashley Brown
, who published the fiction and poetry of undergraduates including Tom Wolfe
. From the 60's to the 80's, W&L
faculty member James Boatwright expanded the journal and published occasional theme issues, including a 35th anniversary anthology. In 1995, R. T. Smith
was selected as the first full-time editor of the journal, which is now published triannually.
Shenandoah is funded and supported by Washington and Lee University
through the Office of the Dean of the College and is located in Mattingly House on W&L's
campus. The magazine maintains a board of university advisors who offer guidance and advice, and the current editor maintains an intern program in which undergraduate students work for the journal and learn the craft of editing as an academic course in the English Department.
Recent contributors include Wendell Berry
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Jacob M. Appel
, Speer Morgan, Lee Smith, Claudia Emerson
and Rita Dove
. This list complements a long history of literary luminaries who have been published in Shenandoah such as W. H. Auden
, James Merrill
, Ezra Pound
, William Faulkner
, E. E. Cummings
, and Flannery O'Connor
.
Shenandoah's first online version was published in 2011.
All poems published in Shenandoah in a given year are eligible for consideration for the annual James Boatwright III Prize($1000) and stories are eligible for the annual $1,000 Goodheart Prize. The Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay ($1,000) is awarded for the best non-fiction worked published in a calendar year. There is no "submission" process per se for these contests.
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
published by Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of...
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History
Originally a student-run quarterly, Shenandoah has evolved into a triannual literary journal edited by author R. T. SmithR. T. Smith
R. T. Smith is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and editor. The author of twelve poetry collections and a collection of short fiction, Smith is the editor of Shenandoah, a prestigious literary journal published by Washington and Lee University...
.
Shenandoah was founded in 1949 by a group of Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of...
faculty members, including English professor Samuel Ashley Brown
Samuel Ashley Brown
Samuel Ashley Brown was a professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina who taught English and comparative literature...
, who published the fiction and poetry of undergraduates including Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...
. From the 60's to the 80's, W&L
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of...
faculty member James Boatwright expanded the journal and published occasional theme issues, including a 35th anniversary anthology. In 1995, R. T. Smith
R. T. Smith
R. T. Smith is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and editor. The author of twelve poetry collections and a collection of short fiction, Smith is the editor of Shenandoah, a prestigious literary journal published by Washington and Lee University...
was selected as the first full-time editor of the journal, which is now published triannually.
Shenandoah is funded and supported by Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of...
through the Office of the Dean of the College and is located in Mattingly House on W&L's
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of...
campus. The magazine maintains a board of university advisors who offer guidance and advice, and the current editor maintains an intern program in which undergraduate students work for the journal and learn the craft of editing as an academic course in the English Department.
Recent contributors include Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays...
, Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
, 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....
, Speer Morgan, Lee Smith, Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson is an American poet who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife.-Background:...
and Rita Dove
Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "U.S. Poet Laureate"...
. This list complements a long history of literary luminaries who have been published in Shenandoah such as W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
, James Merrill
James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...
, Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
, William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
, E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings , was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright...
, and Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...
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Shenandoah's first online version was published in 2011.
Contests and prizes
Shenandoah hosts several prestigious annual contests: the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry, the Goodheart Prize for Fiction, the Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay, The Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and the Graybeal-Gowan Prize for Virginia Writers.All poems published in Shenandoah in a given year are eligible for consideration for the annual James Boatwright III Prize($1000) and stories are eligible for the annual $1,000 Goodheart Prize. The Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay ($1,000) is awarded for the best non-fiction worked published in a calendar year. There is no "submission" process per se for these contests.
Recent honors and awards
- 2008 Governor's Award for the Arts
- "The Worst You Ever Feel" by Rebecca Makkai was included in The Best American Short Stories 2008The Best American Short Stories 2008The Best American Short Stories 2008, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Salman Rushdie.-Short Stories included:-Other notable stories:...
. - "Souvenir" by Beth Ann Fennelly was included in The Best American Poetry 2006The Best American Poetry 2006The Best American Poetry 2006, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman , and poet Billy Collins, guest editor....
- "Death Is Intended" by Linda PastanLinda PastanLinda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991–1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the...
was included in The Best American Poetry 2005The Best American Poetry 2005The Best American Poetry 2005, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Paul Muldoon....