About
Washington Square Review, an award-winning journal of new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translations, and interviews, is published biannually by the students and faculty of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program.
Recent acclaim:
Kristina Ten’s story, “Kamchatka,” from issue #51, was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction of 2024 and has been selected for The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1
Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio’s poem, “Index of Me,” from issue #50, was selected for the Best New Poets 2023.
Washington Square Review was a finalist for the 2019 CLMP Firecracker Award in the category of Magazine: General Excellence
Kiki Petrosino’s poem, “Monticello House Tour,” from issue #41, was selected for the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
David Leavitt’s story, “The David Party,” from issue #40, was published in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, edited by Sheila Heti.
Gbenga Adesina’s poem, “Hiding Place,” from issue #40, was listed as a “Notable Work” in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018.
Dustin M. Hoffman’s story, “Scraps on Fire,” from issue #39, was listed in the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2017” section of Best American Short Stories 2018, edited by Roxane Gay.
Megan Tucker's debut story, "Candidates," from issue #40, won the 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and appeared in the PEN America Best Debut Stories 2018, edited by Yuka Igarashi.
Amy Hempel's story, "The Chicane," from issue #37, was featured in Best American Short Stories 2017, guest edited by Meg Wolitzer.
"The Lucky Lady" by Rebecca Schiff and "We the Grandchildren" by Loredo Lucas, both from issue #37, were listed in Best American Short Stories 2017 as "Other Distinguished Stories of 2016."
Past issues include work by:
Hanif Abdurraquib, Etel Adnan, Kaveh Akbar, John Ashbery, Dan Beachy-Quick, Zeina Hashem Beck, Joshua Beckman, Marie-Helene Bertino, Charles Bock, Anne Carson, Dan Chaon, Patrick Cottrell, Marilyn Chin, Susan Choi, Martha Collins, Courtney Craggett, Mahmoud Darwish, Lydia Davis, E. L. Doctorow, Nguyen Do, Timothy Donnelly, Stephen Dunn, Meg Elison, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Ferris, Rivka Galchen, Ross Gay, Eamon Grennan, Lauren Groff, Terrance Hayes, Amy Hempel, Yuri Herrera, Brenda Hillman, Edward Hirsch, Etgar Keret, David Kirby, Yusef Komunyakaa, Catherine Lacey, Ada Limón, Ben Lerner, Colum McCann, Shane McCrae, Jeffrey McDaniel, Joe Meno, Paul Muldoon, Carol Muske-Dukes, Eileen Myles, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Howard Norman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Chinelo Okparanta, Sharon Olds, Meghan O'Rourke, Helen Phillips, Tommy Pico, D. A. Powell, Brian Morton, Anne Marie Rooney, Sanjena Sathian, Evie Shockley, Charles Simic, Ruth Stone, Nguyen Trai, Deb Olin Unferth, Cesar Vallejo, G. C. Waldrep, Jess Walter, Elizabeth Willis, John Yau, Jenny Xie, Javier Zamora, Rachel Zucker, and many more.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Joanna Yas
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Matthew Rohrer, Darin Strauss
MANAGING EDITOR: Jane Lockwood
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Jessica Blatt, Jāzep Felkers
FICTION EDITOR: Blake McGowan
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Joseph Braun, Sarena Kuhn, Sona Verdi (Allahverdiyeva)
POETRY EDITORS: Audrey King, Aspen DeGroot, Ethan Seeley
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Eleanor Colligan, Elizabeth Fierro, Kaylee Jeong
NONFICTION EDITOR: Nina Semczuk
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Olivia Q. Pintair, Veronica Sirotic, Jenevieve Ting
TRANSLATIONS EDITORS: Inkyoo Lee, Mallika Rao
ASSISTANT TRANSLATIONS EDITOR: Annie Schumacher
INTERVIEWS EDITORS: Willem Patrick, Janay Kelley
ASSISTANT INTERVIEWS EDITORS: Allison Argueta-Claros, Mia Sloan
LAYOUT EDITOR: Mara Raygor
COPY EDITOR: Letitia Chan
ASSISTANT COPY EDITORS: Katie Nichols, Quinton Okoro, Annabelle Williams
WEB EDITOR: Malvika Jolly
ASSISTANT WEB EDITORS: Gabby Bromberg, Margaret Meehan
ART EDITOR: Kes Maro
Contact
Before contacting us about submissions, please review our submission guidelines. If you still have questions, our editors would be happy to assist you via email.
Reach the editors at
wsr@nyu.edu
Mailing Address
58 West 10th St. / New York, NY 10011
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Distributor
We invite booksellers to order Washington Square Review from TNG (formerly Ingram Periodicals). Our ISSN is 2575-9396.
Support Washington Square Review
As a nonprofit literary journal, we welcome donations of any kind. Our ability to publish emerging and established writers greatly depends on the generosity and support of donors. Those who are able to make a donation in excess of $50 receive a one-year subscription and are recognized on our acknowledgment page based on donor level.
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