Welcome to CONFRONTATION: A Literary Magazine

Just Out: Issue 109 / Spring 2011

Stories by: Deborah Baker, Craig Curtis, Maury Feinsilber, Carolyn Kegel, and others

Poems by: Derek Henderson, Marcia L. Hurlow, Doug Ramspeck, Christine Hope Starr, Daniel Tobin, William Kelley Woolfitt, and others

Art: Esteban Vicente; Kevin E. Consey on Vicente

Also:
Christopher Thornton
Letter from Iran: Voices from the Street
&
Kathleen Spivack
Talents in a Teapot: Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Boston

Just In! Congratulations to our 2011 Poetry Prize Winner
Zoe Donaldson
$750, and publication in our Fall 2011 issue, for
Nonesuch

Further poetry contest news: As stated in the guidelines, all entries were considered for publication. We are happy to report that 10 poems have been selected for publication in an upcoming issue. We received many strong entries; thank you, poets, for the chance to read your work, and we hope you will enjoy your one-year gift subscription (or extension of existing subscription), beginning with Issue 110 / Fall 2011.

CONFRONTATION began operation in 1968 as a print literary magazine 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, and S.Y. Agnon. Pulitzer and other-prize-winners include Arthur Miller, Ned Rorem, Ed Bullins, Joyce Carol Oates, T.C. Boyle, and Lanford Wilson. We have also published a talented 14-year-old, college students, and other writers beginning their careers. Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux, Walter Abish, and Susan Vreeland all published work in the magazine before they achieved wider fame. Confrontation is eclectic; eclecticism is in fact our mission.

CONFRONTATION: A Literary Magazine is published twice a year, usually in November and late May.

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