Welcome
For over half a century Shenandoah has been publishing splendid poems, stories, essays and reviews which display passionate understanding, formal accomplishment and serious mischief.
Founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty and students, Shenandoah has achieved a wide reputation as one of the country's premier literary magazines. Work from the magazine's pages has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Poems, Best American Essays, Best American Spiritual Writing, The O'Henry Prize, New Stories from the South and The Pushcart Prize, as well as numerous other anthologies and quite literally thousands of collections by the original authors. Recent issues have featured Pulitzer winners Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Emerson and Ted Kooser, as well as fiction by James Lee Burke, George Singleton, Alyson Hagy, Chris Offutt, Bret Anthony Johnston and Pam Durban.
Announcements
- English 453: Internship in Literary Editing
An internship opportunity for students at Washington and Lee University for Fall 2010.
- Shenandoah 2010 Reading Moratorium
Unsolicited manuscripts will not be read between January 1 and October 1, 2010. All manuscripts received during this period will be recycled unread.
Barry Moser, Amy Weldon share $1,000 Bevel Summers Award
Prize for what is judged to be the best work included in Shenandoah's 60th anniversary double issue, No. 60/1-2 (Spring/Fall, 2010): A Tribute to Flannery O'Connor.- 2010/11 New Stories from the Midwest
Judith Cooper's "Sister Light-of-Love Love Dove" (Shenandoah 59/3) has been selected for New Stories from the Midwest 2010/11.
News
60th Anniversary Issue of Shenandoah Published
The 60th anniversary issue of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review is tribute to Flannery O’Connor includes essays, poems, short stories, reviews, photographs and other artwork about, related to or in honor of the fiction and life of O’Connor.
Shenandoah Announces Recipient of $2,000 Glasgow Prize For Emerging Writers
Shenandoah and Washington and Lee University have named author Robin Ekiss of San Francisco as the recipient of the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers for her book "The Mansion of Happiness" (Georgia, 2009). This is the final Glasgow Prize, which has been awarded annually.
Shenandoah Story Selected for Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology
“Burying Jeremy Green,” a story by Nora Bonner published in the winter 2009 issue of Shenandoah: the Washington and Lee University Review, the literary magazine of W&L, has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 volume of Best American Nonrequired Reading.
Works First Published in W&L’s Shenandoah Are Winners of Pushcart Prize
Work first published in "Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review" by Stephen Dunn and Jeffrey Hammond has been selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses annual anthology.
