Berkeley Fiction Review

Berkeley Fiction Review
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyAnnual
PublisherUniversity of California, Berkeley
First issue1981; 43 years ago (1981)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Websiteberkeleyfictionreview.org
ISSN1087-7053
OCLC34383126

Berkeley Fiction Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1981 and based at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] Stories that have appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthology.[2] The Berkeley Fiction Review sponsors an annual Sudden Fiction Contest.[3]

Notable contributors

Masthead

  • Managing Editors
    • Bianca Sandoval
    • Kate Hayashi
    • Misha Bazarov
    • Ella Kirshbaum
  • Editors
    • Catherine Han
    • Georgia Kerr
    • Sigrid Madzunkova
    • Anisa Qadir
    • Marisa Duarte
    • Andrea Altamirano
    • Madison Kim
    • Emily Hamill
    • Emery Arias
    • Luna Garza-Hillman
    • Nat Tiscareño
    • Alexander Flores
    • Joshua Dean
    • Sofia Wallace
    • Isabel Vasquez
    • Vivian Xie

Founders

  • Julia Littleton
  • Jenne Mowry
  • Joe Sciallo
  • Paul Wedderien

Past Managing Editors

Special Features

  • Issue 6 (1985–86): Contemporary Poetry from the Soviet Union
  • Issue 8 (Fall 1988): Works by, and Interviews with, Contemporary Irish Authors
  • Issue 9 (Fall 1989): Stereoscopic Photographs
  • Issue 16 (Spring 1997): First Annual Sudden Fiction Contest
  • Issue 17 (Fall 1997): An early work by international award-winning Colombian writer Álvaro Mutis

See also

References

  1. ^ "East Bay a Hotbed of Literary Journals," Contra Costa Times Feb 25, 2005
  2. ^ "Awards for Local Literati," San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 21, 1986
  3. ^ "Sudden Fiction Contest". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-12-04.