CONFRONTATION magazine began operation in
1968 with the mission of bringing new talent to light in the shadows
cast by well-known authors. Open to all submissions, each issue
contains original work by famous and by lesser-known writers. Among
the authors we've published are Nobel prize winners W.H. Auden,
John Steinbeck, Derek Walcott, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph Brodsky,
Nadine Gordimer, S.Y. Agnon; Pulitzer and other-prize-winners--Arthur
Miller, Ned Rorem, Ed Bullins, Joyce Carol Oates, T.C. Boyle, Lanford
Wilson. The magazine has also published the work of a 14-year-old
talented writer, college students and writers beginning their career.
Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux, Walter Abish, and Susan Vreeland all
published work in the magazine before they achieved wider fame.
CONFRONTATION is eclectic; indeed that is
its main specialization. It is open to all forms and genres except
proslytizing monographs and propagandistic discourse. It publishes
stories (no more than 20 pages usually), poems, plays (a special
drama issue appears periodically), and memoirs; a special section
contains book reviews and cultural commentary. Each issue also contains
a thematic supplement that "confronts" a topic; the ensuing
"confrontation" is an attempt to see the many sides of
an issue rather than a formed conclusion.
Among the prizes it offers are the Sarah Tucker Award
for fiction, the H.R. Hays Poetry Award, the Sarah
Russo Award for the an essay on the subject of exile, and the
John V. Gurry Drama Award.
CONFRONTATION appears twice a year, usually
in November and late May.
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Issue No. 84/85 Fall 2003/Winter 2004
Stories, Memoirs, Poems and Essays Issue
Stories
Sande Boritz Berger, Buck Beliles, Mark Brazaitis, Adrian Brijbassi,
Kim Chinquee, Aprille Clarke, Terry Debow, Melissa Fraterrigo, Sarah
Hess, Michelle Hoover, Guy Jackson, Karen Malpede, William Manus,
Sarah A. Odishoo, Maureen Pilkington, William Schaefer, Tom Stacey,
J. Erin Sweeney
Memoir
Katrina Holden Bronson
Poems
Todd Balazic, Robert Barasch, Kenneth Bernard, Edward Butscher,
Dave Engeldrum, Hugh Fox, Richard Frost, George Held, Lyn Lifshin,
Iris Litt, Joanne Lowery, David Ray, Steve Runge, Robert Donald
Spector
Commentary and Reviews
Tom Fink, Herman Saraley, Cheryl Walsh, Paul West
Supplement: The Fiction of Imagination
Thomas Fleming, Martin Tucker
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