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
- 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.
- Flannery O'Connor Issue in 2010
We're planning a double issue featuring work related to or in honor of the fiction and life of Flannery O'Connor. Contributors will include Joyce Carol Oates, Claudia Emerson, Dave Smith and Rodney Jones. Also, Ron Rash, Betty Adcock, Fred Chappell and Michael Knight. The special issue is published in celebration of Shenandoah's 60th anniversary and will be available in June, 2010.
- 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.
- James Lee Burke story in Delta Blues
James Lee Burke's " Big Midnight Special" (Shenandoah 58/3) has been selected for inclusion in Delta Blues (Tyrus Books, 2010). It was also chosen to appear in Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
News
Shenandoah Turns 60 and Turns a Corner
This spring, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, celebrates one milestone and prepares for another. First comes the 60th anniversary issue of the journal, a tribute to writer Flannery O'Connor. And then comes a change, when Shenandoah shifts from print to Web.
Shenandoah Awards Graybeal-Gowan Prize for Virginia Poets
Jennifer Key of Dallas, Texas has been named winner of the annual Graybeal-Gowan Prize for Virginia Poets offered by Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review for the best poem entered by a Virginia poet.
Winter 2009 Edition of Shenandoah Features Barry Vance Paintings
The Winter, 2009 issue of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review (Vol. 59, No. 3) features both a seasonal cover and a portfolio of paintings of Blue Ridge landscapes and culturescapes by Winchester (Virginia) artist Barry Vance, each in dialogue with an Appalachian literary passage chosen by the author.
Shenandoah Editor’s New Short-Story Collection Spotlights Southwest Virginia
In his new short-story collection, The Calaboose Epistles, R.T. Smith, W&L's Writer-in-Residence and editor of Shenandoah magazine, gives a voice to the criminal types who fascinated him as a boy.
