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| New England Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | New England Review |
| Discipline | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Middlebury College |
| Country | United States |
| Frequency | Triannual |
| History | 1978–present |
New England Review New England Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1978 that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation. Based at Middlebury College in Vermont, the magazine has featured work by a wide range of writers and translators associated with institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Princeton University, and Brown University. The journal engages readers through contributions from authors linked to awards like the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, Bollingen Prize, and Nobel Prize in Literature.
The magazine was launched in 1978 by editors who had ties to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Bennington College, Wesleyan University, University of Iowa, and Boston University. Early volumes included work from contributors affiliated with The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, and Granta. Over its history the journal has published pieces by writers connected to movements and events such as the Beat Generation, the Harlem Renaissance, the Confessional poetry movement, and the late-20th-century rise of postmodern fiction exemplified by authors linked to University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University. Editorial leadership and advisory board members have included figures associated with Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, PEN America, Academy of American Poets, and Modern Language Association.
The journal's stated mission emphasizes literary excellence, cross-cultural exchange, and rigorous translation practice, drawing on contributors tied to Center for the Art of Translation, PEN/Heim Translation Fund, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Content spans contemporary poetry, short fiction, literary nonfiction, book reviews, and translations from languages represented by scholars at University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University School of the Arts, Indiana University Bloomington, and University of Cambridge. The editorial approach often solicits submissions from writers associated with residencies at Yale School of Drama, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Brown University MFA Program, and summer programs at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Princeton University.
Over decades the magazine has published work by contributors who later received honors such as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Poetry, Man Booker Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, Costa Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Contributors have included writers and translators connected to literary figures and institutions like Seamus Heaney, Alice Munro, Philip Levine, Louise Glück, John Ashbery, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kazuo Ishiguro, Annie Proulx, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin, Derek Walcott, Ruth Ozeki, Edwidge Danticat, Salman Rushdie, Natalie Diaz, Richard Wilbur, Joyce Carol Oates, E. L. Doctorow, Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Elizabeth Bishop, Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Junot Díaz, Marilynne Robinson, George Saunders, Anne Carson, Sei Shōnagon, Herta Müller, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, Octavio Paz, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Haruki Murakami, Isabel Allende, Milan Kundera, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood, Czesław Miłosz, Joseph Brodsky, Henrik Nordbrandt, Nadine Gordimer, Vladimir Nabokov, Clarice Lispector—often in translation or in critical essays tied to university presses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Harvard University Press.
Individual pieces from the magazine have been shortlisted for or received prizes such as the Pushcart Prize, O. Henry Prize, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, Whiting Awards, Stegner Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The journal itself has been recognized in surveys conducted by associations like Modern Language Association and cited in syllabi at institutions including Stanford University, University of Michigan, Duke University, Northwestern University, and University of Pennsylvania.
Published triannually by Middlebury College, issues are distributed through academic channels associated with JSTOR, Project MUSE, WorldCat, Library of Congress, and consortia including OCLC members. Subscriptions and institutional access circulate among libraries at New York Public Library, Boston Public Library, Library of Congress, Harvard College Library, Yale University Library, and through book vendors serving bookstores such as Barnes & Noble Bookstores and independent sellers coordinated with American Booksellers Association. Print and digital formats align with archiving practices used by Digital Public Library of America and university repositories at Middlebury College Library.
The magazine partners with programs and conferences like Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Bennington Writing Seminars, PEN World Voices, and campus events at Middlebury College and regional festivals such as Portland Poetry Festival and literary series at 92nd Street Y. Educational outreach includes workshops and readings featuring faculty from University of Vermont, visiting writers affiliated with Poetry Society of America, and translators connected to American Literary Translators Association. The journal's community initiatives intersect with grants and residencies offered by MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Category:Literary magazines published in the United States