South Dakota Review

South Dakota Review
Title	South Dakota Review
Discipline	Literary magazine
Language	English
Country	United States
Frequency	Quarterly
Publisher	South Dakota State University
History	1963–present
Issn	0038-3362

South Dakota Review South Dakota Review is a quarterly American literary magazine published by South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. Founded in the early 1960s, the magazine has featured poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by a wide range of writers associated with Midwest, New York City, London, Los Angeles, and other literary centers. Over decades the Review has appeared alongside journals such as The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and The Sewanee Review in shaping contemporary American letters.

History

The magazine was established during a period of postwar expansion in American letters, contemporaneous with magazines like Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and smaller university journals such as The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner. Early editorial leadership included figures connected to South Dakota State University and the University of Iowa creative writing community, and the Review developed ties to regional institutions including the South Dakota Arts Council and the Nebraska Writers Project. In the 1960s and 1970s the Review published work reflective of movements tied to Beat Generation, Confessional poetry, and regionalist traditions associated with writers who had appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Field & Stream. The magazine has continued through periods of funding shifts affecting arts periodicals, including grants from foundations like the National Endowment for the Arts and partnerships with academic presses such as University of Nebraska Press and University of Iowa Press.

Editorial profile and content

The Review’s editorial mission blends creative and critical work. Issues commonly include poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, and book reviews, echoing formats found in Poetry (magazine), Granta, and The New Republic. Editorial staff have often been drawn from faculty of South Dakota State University, alumni of programs at Iowa Writers' Workshop, Columbia University School of the Arts, and graduates from University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program and University of Virginia. The magazine has published both emerging voices and established authors who have also appeared in anthologies from Norton Anthologies and awards lists such as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The editorial selection has reflected regional concerns connected to Great Plains landscapes, Native American cultural work including connections to Oglala Sioux Tribe and Rosebud Sioux Tribe, as well as themes resonant with writers from Minnesota, Nebraska, and Montana.

Notable contributors and works

Over its history the Review has featured many writers who are also associated with major prizes and institutions. Contributors have included poets and fiction writers who have appeared in places like The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and Poetry (magazine). Names published in the Review have included figures with careers linked to Robert Bly, Wendell Berry, Joy Harjo, N. Scott Momaday, Ted Kooser, Mary Oliver, Louise Erdrich, Raymond Carver, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Philip Levine, Gwendolyn Brooks, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, Howard Nemerov, Mark Strand, Ruth Stone, Jean Valentine, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Natasha Trethewey, James Wright, Richard Hugo, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, Diane Wakoski, Linda Gregg, Maxine Kumin, Stephen King, Sherman Alexie, and Louise Glück. The Review has also printed early work by writers later connected to institutions like Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, and Stanford University.

Awards and recognition

Work first printed in the Review has gone on to receive recognition including selections for The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and anthology inclusions from Norton Anthology of American Literature. Contributors have been finalists and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, MacArthur Fellowship, Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship, and state-level honors such as the South Dakota Governor's Awards for the Arts. The magazine itself has been cited in bibliographies, library collections of institutions like Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and university special collections at Yale University Beinecke Library and University of Iowa Special Collections.

Publication and distribution

Published quarterly, the journal is produced under the auspices of South Dakota State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and printed through university press agreements. Subscription and single-issue distribution reach subscribers in the United States, Canada, and select international libraries in United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany. The magazine is cataloged in academic databases used by institutions such as JSTOR, Project MUSE, and library systems at WorldCat member libraries. Exchanges and contributor copies have historically gone to periodicals including The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and university journals like The Missouri Review and The Georgia Review.

Archives and access

Back issues, editorial correspondence, and manuscript submissions have been deposited in archival holdings at South Dakota State University Library Special Collections and in regional repositories including South Dakota Historical Society and university archives at University of South Dakota. Selected materials have been cited in theses from programs at Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, and South Dakota State University. Researchers can consult print runs in major research libraries such as Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and university libraries including Harvard University Widener Library and Yale University Beinecke Library for bound volumes and microfilm holdings.

Category:American literary magazines