The Iowa Review
The Iowa Review selects most of their content from the several thousand unsolicited manuscripts that arrive each year from throughout the country and abroad.
About
They take their mission to be nudging along American literature, to be local...
They’ve published
Jericho Brown
Joyelle McSweeney
Kiki Petrosino
Wayne Koestenbaum
Stephanie Burt
Shane McCrae
What they want
PoetryFictionCreative NonfictionTranslation
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