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.
Web site:
http://www.english.pitt.edu/publications/boundary2.html
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.
Web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~collide
Creative Nonfiction
A journal devoted entirely to creative nonfiction, including essays, profiles and reviews
Edited by Lee Gutkind, who teaches in our Writing Program, this journal began publication in 1993.
Web site: http://www.creativenonfiction.org
Deek [magazine]
Online magazine
Edited by students and supported by a grant from Student Government Board, Deek is an online magazine that features work by undergraduates at Pitt.
Web site: http://www.deekmagazine.com
Hot Metal Street Bridge (formerly Nidus)
Hot Metal Bridge, the new online literary magazine edited by University of Pittsburgh MFA students.
Web site: http://www.hotmetalbridge.org.
The debut issue features fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction from writers that are both well known and unknown. It includes new work by acclaimed author Michael Martone and an interview with National Book Award nominee Dan Chaon. Meanwhile, Bryan Hurt and Molly Fuller are seeing their work published for the very first time.
Hot Metal Bridge's first issue, Number One, also includes fine writing from Lee Capps, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Janis Butler Holm, Sue Jostrom, RoseMarie London, Alan DeNiro, Sally Pfoutz, Simone Poirier-Bures, Lynn Potts, Abby Sinnott, Morelle Smith and Johnathan Wilber.
Taking its name from one of the icons of the Pittsburgh landscape, Hot Metal Bridge is the only literary magazine from the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. With two online issues planned annually, Hot Metal Bridge expects to be in print by the end of 2008.
Graduate students interested in being involved in upcoming issues should contact Carolyn Kellogg (cak48@pitt.edu).
Online journal
Journal of contemporary art and literature is published at the University of Pittsburgh by graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts Program.
Web site: http://www.hotmetalbridge.org/
PaperCut
A collection of poetry, art, and fiction from the undergraduate community at Pitt
Edited by students and supported by a grant from Student Government Board, PaperCut features work by undergraduates at Pitt.
Reader
Reader encourages submissions in areas such as literature, reading research, gender studies, rhetoric, composition, visual representation, and cultural studies.
Please Note: Reader is no longer under the stewardship of the Department of English and has been passed on to Professor Patricia Donahue at Lafayette College. The last issue co-edited by the Pitt Department of English was Number 54 - Spring 2006. There are back issues of Reader available that have been co-edited by our department. Please send email to pkameen@pitt.edu or maf91@pitt.edu
Web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~reader
