If you enjoy reading contemporary short stories, poetry, and essays, the Belvedere-Tiburon Library has a treat for you: the largest collection of literary journals in Marin County. The collection consists of fifteen titles, ranging from The Paris Review to Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All Story.

You can find our literary journals on a free-standing case in the Large Print Books alcove. Back issues of literary journals circulate for one week and can be checked out at the Circulation Desk.

Agni
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"We see literature and the arts as part of a broad, on-going cultural conversation that every society needs to remain vibrant and alive.... The magazine is one of the strongest voices of one of the most active writing communities in America, and we continue to focus on developing audiences for contemporary literature." Agni is supported by the graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University.

Georgia Review
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"Since its inception in 1947, The Georgia Review has grown steadily to its current position as one of America's premier journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a rich gathering of stories, essays, poems, book reviews, and visual art orchestrated to invite and sustain repeated readings."

Granta
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"Granta magazine publishes new writing -- fiction, personal history, reportage and inquiring journalism -- four times a year. It also publishes documentary photography. Every issue contains at least 256 pages in paperback book format; special issues, such as those on India, London and (most recently) Australia, can be up to 100 pages more."

Iowa Review
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"With 2003, The Iowa Review enters its 33rd year of continuous publication. Several hundred unsolicited manuscripts arrive each week through most of the year, from throughout the country and abroad, from which we select most of our contents. We take our mission to be nudging along American literature, to be local but not provincial, to be experimental but not without love for our literary traditions."

Kenyon Review
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"The mission of The Kenyon Review is to identify exceptionally talented emerging writers, especially from diverse communities, and publish their work (fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, reviews, etc.) alongside the many distinguished, established writers featured in its pages." The Kenyon Review is published by Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

The Mississippi Review
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The Mississippi Review offers "new fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews by important young writers." MR is published by The Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and edited by Frederick Barthelme. Each issue also has a guest editor.

North American Review
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"The North American Review is the oldest literary magazine in America (founded in 1815) and one of the most respected. We are interested in high-quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on any subject, but we are especially interested in work that addresses contemporary North American concerns and issues, particularly with the environment, gender, race, ethnicity, and class."

Paris Review
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"The Paris Review was founded by Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes in the summer of 1953. The two young writers were dissatisfied with the emphasis on criticism in the literary magazines then being published—the preference for "writing-on-writing" over writing itself—and to address the problem conceived of a new review singularly devoted to original works of fiction and poetry. Matthiessen invited George Plimpton, then a student at Cambridge, to take a position as editor. Plimpton has headed the magazine ever since."

Ploughshares
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"Ploughshares was founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in the Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Published in April, August, and December in quality paperback, each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles."

The Threepenny Review
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"For literature in the traditional sense to continue in America, we must continue to have serious, eccentric, imaginative magazines. The Threepenny Review is one of the few, one of the very best. Therefore indispensable." -- Susan Sontag

Zoetrope: All-Story
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"In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched a magazine devoted to supporting the brightest young voices in fiction. In its short history, Zoetrope: All-Story has received every major short fiction award, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction, while simultaneously discovering authors such as Adam Haslett, Melissa Bank, and David Benioff and publishing literary luminaries such as Gabriel García Márquez, Don DeLillo, and Cynthia Ozick."

Zyzzyva: The Journal of West Coast Writers & Artists
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"Little magazines played a key role in the triumph of early modernism. They were emblematic of the new, hotbeds of radical experiment. That was then. Now we confront a culture obsessed with big numbers. Big-time magazines have all but given up on fiction & poetry. ZYZZYVA attacks the new smugness by asserting classical values: the possibilities of individual vision; the enduring magic of words; the delight of variety; absolute freedom from commercial constraint."