The North American Review is proud to announce our Bicentennial Creative Writing and Literature Conference.
When: June 11-13, 2015
Where: University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
Founded in May 1815, the North American Review is the longest-lived literary magazine in the United States. From its early days in Boston to its current incarnation in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the NAR has been recognized time and again as a national institution of great cultural significance. To celebrate our bicentennial, we’re hosting a creative writing and literature conference on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa, where the magazine has been housed since 1968. The conference will look back at the NAR’s long and storied past while also looking to the future of the literary world as we bring together a wide range of writers, critics, artists, and teachers from around the country to share their work. We hope you’ll join us for the celebration!
Register now: http://www.vpaf.uni.edu/events/nar/registration.shtml
Conference Information
Jeremy Schraffenberger Email
Phone: (319) 273-3879
Registration, Logistics, & Promotion
University Events Coordination Email
Phone: 319-273-5141
Did you know the North American Review is now taking submissions for their 16th Annual James Hearst Poetry Prize?
All winners and finalists will be published in the Spring 2016 issue.
- First Prize $1000
- Second Prize $100
- Third Prize $50
2015 Hearst Judge:
Jane Hirshfield
Entry Guidelines for the 2016 James Hearst Poetry Prize
Deadline: October 31st, 2015
Entry fee: $20.00
All entry fees include a one-year subscription. This year, all submissions to the James Hearst Poetry Prize will be handled through our online submission system. (Click here to access the submission system.)
If you have problems with the online submission system or are unable to upload your submission, please call us at 319-273-3026 for other entry options.
Rules: You may enter up to five poems in one file. No names on manuscripts, please. Your poems will be “read blind.” Simultaneous submission to other journals or competitions is not allowed.
If you wish to receive the list of winners, please state this in your cover letter and be sure to supply an email address. Winners will also be announced in writers’ trade magazines and on this website.
Tips: We have noticed that long poems rarely do well—too much can go wrong in a large space. Poems that have reached the finalist stage in our competition in the past are typically one to two pages (often much shorter). Winning poems always balance interesting subject matter and consummate poetic craft. We value both free verse and formal poems in rhyme and meter—both open and closed forms.
Questions? EMAIL nar@uni.edu • PHONE 319-273-6455 • FAX 319-273-4326
The North American Review Bicentennial
Our Creative Writing & Literary Conference is coming up June 11-13, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Register now: http://www.vpaf.uni.edu/events/nar/registration.shtml
Conference Information
Jeremy Schraffenberger
Email
(319) 273-3879
Registration, Logistics, & Promotion
University Events Coordination
Email
319-273-5141
Our Creative Writing & Literary Conference is coming up June 11-13, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Don’t miss it.
Register now: http://www.vpaf.uni.edu/events/nar/registration.shtml
The North American Review is pleased to announce that D. A. Powell has chosen the winner, runners-up, and honorable mentions for the 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize.
Congratulations to Michael Kriesel, who won first place with his poem, “Aleister Crowley Lipogram”.
Send in your submissions now to NAR’s Inaugural Torch Memorial Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Eula Biss
First prize: $500 (and publication in NAR)
Deadline: April 1, 2015
The winning essay will be revealed at the North American Review’s bicentennial celebration in June 2015.
Enter online at northamericanreview.wordpress.com
Information: nar@uni.edu or 319-273-6455
Illustration by: Jared Rogness
North American Review’s Bicentennial is coming up on June 11-13, 2015.
(Illustration by Vlad Alvarez, originally created for Main Line Today Magazine)
To celebrate our bicentennial, we’re hosting a creative writing and literature conference on
the campus of the University of Northern Iowa, where the magazine has been housed since 1968.
Conference Information: Jeremy Schraffenberger, Email, (319) 273-3879.
Submit your best work today here.
Great news! We’ve extended the deadline for the James Hearst Poetry Prize until November 16th, 2014. Submit your best work today here.
We are pleased to announce that D.A. Powell will be the judge for the 2014 James Hearst Poetry Prize. First prize is $1,000. We are accepting submissions here until October 31st, 2014.
Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, among other awards. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, and served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco.
Bibliography
Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2012)
Chronic (Graywolf Press, 2009)
Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004)
Lunch (Wesleyan University Press, 2000)
Tea (Wesleyan University Press, 1998)
Spring Issue 299.2
Spring Issue 299.2 is here. This issue features our 2014 James Hearst Poetry Prize winners. This issue also holds a special treat with a four-page color spread with poems by James Hearst and illustrations by Gary Kelley to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the James and Meryl Hearst Center for the Arts.
Winter Issue 299.1
The Winter 2014 issue, 299.1, of North American Review has been sent to press. The Winter issue celebrates Black History Month (February) and Women’s History Month (March).
As of April 18th, the issue is available to purchase on North American Review‘s online store.
Great news! We were featured as one of WordPress’s “Freshly Pressed” blogs. Every day, WordPress hand-picks eight new blog posts to highlight (out of about .5 million). Freshly Pressed posts can be about anything, but they all have a few things in common: they enlighten us, inspire us, entertain us, and get us talking. Our link is labelled “Translating the Poems of Manuel José Arce” from a guest blog post by Kimberly Woosley Poitevin. Congrats to you too, Kimberly.
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