Publications
Our department shares affiliation with a handful of well-known online and print publications listed below.
Boundary2
An international journal of literary and cultural criticism
Edited by Paul Bové and published by Duke University Press, this exciting journal publishes cutting edge criticism, reviews and interviews.
Collision
A journal of nonfiction
Collision was created by undergraduate students at the University of Pittsburgh in the Spring of 2001, and publishes student works of nonfiction prose, poetry and art. Collision is a publication of The University of Pittsburgh Honors College.
Creative Nonfiction
Generally, creative nonfiction is a way of writing that combines relevant and enlightening information (journalism), with ideas presented by the author (personal essay), inspired by the in-depth experiences of the author (memoir) or others (biography), and written with artful clarity (poetry). In creative nonfiction, everything you say must be true—you can’t make stuff up—but you can use the literary techniques of fiction writers—dialogue, description, plot—in order to make your story as compelling as a novel. One way or another, the creative nonfiction writer must always be telling a story—writing in scenes, invoking a narrative.
Critical Quarterly
Critical Quarterly will publish reviews which will introduce non-specialists to debates and developments across the range of the major disciplines. Our hope is that we will gradually assemble a growing set of writings that will allow non-specialist readers to introduce themselves to recent questions in any of the given disciplines.
Hot Metal Bridge (formerly Nidus)
Hot Metal Bridge, the literary magazine of the University of Pittsburgh, publishes two issues annually: fall and spring. We have published work by Russell Banks, Tom Perotta, Maxine Hong Kingston, Dan Chaon, Michelle Wildgen, Ewa Chrusciel, Charles Baxter and Don Lee, but we also maintain an emphasis on finding new material from emerging and previously unpublished writers. Hot Metal Bridge privileges no particular aesthetic or school of thought; we simply seek the most accomplished, surprising work in contemporary literature.
Newsletter, Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity and Kinship
Adoption & Culture publishes essays on any aspect of adoption’s intersection with culture, including but not limited to scholarly examinations of adoption practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, film, or any other popular or academic representation of adoption. A&C accepts submissions of previously unpublished essays for review.
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a journal of the arts
The Original
The Original is a nonprofit, semiannual arts and culture publication dedicated to highlighting the talent of artists and leaders in the Pittsburgh region. It is also beautiful.
Founded at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006, The Original is managed by a collective of local volunteers who aim to bring accessible art and creative writing to the general public, while promoting unique organizations and individuals in their city.The Original is supported in part by a Sprout Fund Seed Award and grants from the University of Pittsburgh Career Services, Office of Public Affairs, Office of Student Life, Pitt Arts, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Studies, Studio Arts Department, and Student Government Board.
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture: University of Pittsburgh Press
The Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture publishes in composition and rhetoric, literacy, and culture; in the history of writing, reading, and instructional practice; the construction of American literacy and letters; and the relations between language and gender, ethnicity, race, or class.