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| Georgia Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Georgia Review |
| Category | Literary magazine |
| Firstdate | 1947 |
| Country | United States |
| Based | Athens, Georgia |
| Language | English |
Georgia Review The Georgia Review is a quarterly American literary magazine founded in 1947 and based in Athens, Georgia. It publishes fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and visual art, drawing contributors from a wide range of writers associated with Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, and contemporary figures linked to institutions such as University of Georgia, Harvard University, and Columbia University. The journal has been described in relation to journals like The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares, and has maintained ties with regional and national literary ecosystems including Southern literature, Northeastern literature, and the broader American literary canon represented by awards like the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Founded in the aftermath of World War II, the Review emerged amid developments involving figures associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald's revival, critical attention comparable to Edmund Wilson, and institutional growth at University of Georgia. Early editorial networks connected the magazine to contributors from New York University, Yale University, and Princeton University, and to cultural movements tracing back to Harlem Renaissance and mid-century modernists influenced by Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. During the 1950s and 1960s the Review published work alongside contemporaneous outlets such as The Sewanee Review and Southern Review, becoming part of the same editorial conversation as writers affiliated with Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and other Southern Agrarians. Later decades saw editors and contributors associated with Oxford University Press, Random House, and Knopf facilitating broader distribution and recognition.
The magazine's editorial profile emphasizes a blend of established and emerging voices. Its masthead and guest editors have included faculty and alumni from University of Georgia, faculty with affiliations to Brown University, University of Iowa, and visiting editors linked to Kenyon College and Sarah Lawrence College. Contributors have included poets and novelists whose careers intersect with awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and with presses like Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Faber & Faber, and Vintage Books. Over time the Review has published work by writers in conversation with personas and bodies of work tied to Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as critics affiliated with journals like The New Republic and The Nation. The editorial focus balances narrative fiction, lyric and formal poetry, critical essays, and visual arts, reflecting dialogues with institutions such as Library of Congress and mapping to trends visible in proceedings at conferences like the Modern Language Association.
The Review's pages have featured short stories, serial novel excerpts, essays on poetics, and visual portfolios by artists whose careers connect to museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Notable pieces have circulated alongside works that sit in the same lineage as texts by William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, John Updike, and John Ashbery. The magazine has also published essays engaging with historical moments such as the Civil Rights Movement, debates referenced in the context of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and cultural criticism addressing phenomena linked to Vietnam War era literature. Several contributions have been reprinted in anthologies like the Best American Poetry and Best American Short Stories series and excerpted in academic readers used at institutions including Stanford University and University of Chicago.
Work published in the Review has received accolades and nominations connected to prizes such as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Poetry, inclusion in the O. Henry Prize Stories, selections for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and recognition from the Aiken Taylor Award and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. Individual contributors have gone on to receive fellowships like the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and to secure prizes such as the Pushcart Prize. The magazine itself has been noted in directories and bibliographies compiled by institutions such as Knopf and university presses, and its editorial achievements have been acknowledged at conferences hosted by organizations including the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
Published quarterly, the journal operates from an editorial office connected to University of Georgia campus networks and distributes through subscriptions, library vendors, and book trade channels associated with distributors like those used by Oxford University Press and University of California Press. It appears in periodical indexes maintained by institutions such as the Library of Congress and is cataloged in academic libraries at Princeton University Library, Harvard Library, and state university systems across the American South. The Review's print edition coexists with digital offerings curated in line with archival standards advocated by organizations like the Modern Language Association and professional publishing bodies including the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Back issues and archival material are held in special collections and university archives associated with University of Georgia, and copies are available in research libraries such as Houghton Library, Special Collections Research Center (University of Chicago), and regional repositories across Georgia (U.S. state). Selected pieces have been digitized and included in databases maintained by entities like Project Muse and indexing services related to JSTOR and EBSCOhost, increasing discoverability for scholars at institutions including Yale University and Columbia University. Preservation and access policies reflect collaborations with funders and organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and library consortia that support long-term stewardship.
Category:Literary magazines published in the United States