Berkeley Fiction Review Explained

Berkeley Fiction Review
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Category:	Literary magazine
Frequency:	Annual
Publisher:	University of California, Berkeley
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Issn:	1087-7053
Oclc:	34383126

Berkeley Fiction Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1981 and based at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] Stories that have appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthology.^[2] The Berkeley Fiction Review sponsors an annual Sudden Fiction Contest.^[3]

Notable contributors

• Ellen Akins
• Jacob Appel
• Peter Bichsel
• Charles Bukowski
• K-Ming Chang
• Seamus Deane
• Mark Dery

• Will Eno
• Jürgen Fauth
• DeWitt Henry
• Neil Jordan
• Perri Klass
  • Jeanne M. Leiby Karin Lin-Greenberg

• B. K. Loren
• Valerie Miner
• John Montague
• Jess Mowry
• Álvaro Mutis
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Dmitri Prigov

• Daniel Scott
• Olga Sedakova
• Hal Sirowitz
• Elena Shvarts
• Julia Vinograd
• Gerald Vizenor
• Nellie Wong

Masthead

• Managing Editors
  • Gillian Gee
  • Julianne Han
  • Sofia Hernandez
  • Joyce Ro
• Editors
  • Angela Shu
  • Bianca Sandoval
  • Alexis Giltner
  • Audrey Ouh
  • Avantika Chitturi
  • Chloe Mendoza
  • Emily Choi
  • Emily Hamill
  • Kate Hayashi
  • Luna Garza-Hillman
  • Michael Bazarov
  • Peter Hong
  • Quan Phanguyen
  • Sofia Wallace

Founders

• Julia Littleton
• Jenne Mowry
• Joe Sciallo
• Paul Wedderien

Past Managing Editors

• Lauren Cooper
• Hannah Harrington
• Ben Rowen
• Lisa Jenkins
• Miranda King
• Kelsey Nolan
• Paige Vehlewald

• Tessa Gregory
• Eva Nierenberg
• Christian White
• Brighton Earley
• Jennifer Brown
• Caitlin McGuire
• Rachel Brumit

• Bryce Kobrin
• Rhoda Piland
• John Rauschenberg
• Elaine Wong
• Grace Fujimoto
• Nikki Thompson
• Daphne Young

• Hugh O'Byrne Pedy
• Gregory Charles Magnuson
• Mark Landsman
• Sean Andrew Locke
• James Penner
• Shelley Crist
• Julia E. Lave

• Julie Christianson
• Christina Ferrari
• Christopher Greger
• Dionisio Valesco
• Terrence Gee
• Summar Farah
• Bailey Dunn

• Arya Sureshbabu
• Molly Nolan
• Regina Lim
• Alex Jiménez
• Madelyn Peterson
• Aaron Saliman

• Isabel Hinchliff
• Kasandra Tapia
• Liam Magee

Special Features

• Issue 6 (1985–86): Contemporary Poetry from the Soviet Union
• Issue 8 (Fall 1988): Works by, and Interviews with, Contemporary Irish Authors
• Issue 9 (Fall 1989): Stereoscopic Photographs
• Issue 16 (Spring 1997): First Annual Sudden Fiction Contest
• Issue 17 (Fall 1997): An early work by international award-winning Colombian writer Álvaro Mutis

See also

• List of literary magazines

References

1. "East Bay a Hotbed of Literary Journals," Contra Costa Times Feb 25, 2005
2. "Awards for Local Literati," San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 21, 1986
3. Web site: Sudden Fiction Contest . 2015-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208063823/http://berkeleyfictionreview.com/sudden-fiction/ . 2015-12-08 . dead .

External links

• Berkeley Fiction Review Homepage