期刊名称:MICHIGAN Quarterly REVIEW
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is the University of Michigan's flagship journal, publishing each season a collection of essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews. Since 1979, when an issue called "The Moon Landing and Its Aftermath" appeared, one issue each year has been entirely devoted to a special theme. Some of MQR's most recent special issues are "Vietnam: Beyond the Frame," "The Documentary Imagination," and "China." In the last two decades MQR has published work by Margaret Atwood, Robert Coles, Carol Gilligan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barry Lopez, Czeslaw Milosz, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Rorty, Eric J. Sundquist, John Updike, William Julius Wilson, and other authorities in their fields, as well as some of the finest contemporary fiction and poetry.
MQR is, as we like to say, more than a literary magazine. Unlike most of the academy-based journals in this country, which publish literary materials exclusively, MQR reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the University of Michigan and publishes writings in a wide variety of research areas. It must be emphasized that authors in MQR use clear prose, free of jargon, to present their arguments. All writings in the journal are accessible to intellectual readers, however complex the topics they undertake.
In the inaugural issue of MQR back in 1962 the first editor, Sheridan Baker, subtitled the journal "A Magazine of University Perspectives and General Intelligence" and commented, "If we can make the university universal, the intellect amiable, and the magazine readable, we shall rest content." It remains the goal of MQR to forge a strong relationship between the best writers and the most demanding audience in our society. Because the journal has been able to attract such excellent writers, and because its contents are so often reprinted in prize anthologies, textbooks, and magazines such as Harper's and The Utne Reader, as well as coursepacks, we believe that MQR fulfills in each issue the hopes of its founder and the expectations of its loyal readers.
Instructions to Authors
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
MQR reads submissions year round. Simultaneous submissions are not permitted. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, right margins not justified. Writers are advised to inspect a back copy of the Michigan Quarterly Review (available for $4.00) or our archives (available from our home page) before submitting work. Average turnaround time is six weeks.
Fiction and essay: 1,500 words minimum, 5,000 average, 7,000 maximum.
Poetry: Submission of more than one poem at a time is allowed. The total submission packet should not exceed 8-12 pages.
If a manuscript is accepted for publication, we will ask for an electronic version. Submissions by e-mail or fax cannot be accepted and will not be read.
A self-addressed, stamped envelope must be enclosed for the return of the manuscript or for any reply.
Please mail submissions to:
Michigan Quarterly Review University of Michigan 3574 Rackham Bldg. 915 E Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Editorial Board
Editor
Laurence Goldstein Editor 734-764-9265 mqr@umich.edu
Laurence Goldstein has taught at the University of Michigan since 1970 and has been the editor of Michigan Quarterly Review since 1977.
He has published three books of literary criticism and four books of poetry, most recently A Room in California (2005). In addition, he has also edited or co-edited a number of books, the latest of which is Writing Ann Arbor (2005).
Larry teaches modern and contemporary poetry, verse-writing, and a variety of senior seminars at the University of Michigan. Click here for a fuller biography and a complete bibliography. |
Managing Editor
Vicki Lawrence Managing Editor 734-764-9265 mqr@umich.edu
With a publication as small as MQR, the managing editor does a bit of everything: organizing, editing, working with authors, interns, the editor, the typesetters, and the printers, handling submissions, finances, subscriptions, distribution, paperwork.
Vicki came to the job after years of helping out at the journal as an intern and then as an assistant editor. She has many years of experience in journal management and in writing and editing for publications in science, health, medicine, and the arts and humanities. She earned an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College and also writes fiction. |
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