The Denver Quarterly (known as The University of Denver Quarterly until 1970) is an avant-garde literary magazine based at the University of Denver. It was founded in 1966 by novelist John Edward Williams.

Denver Quarterly
Editor-in-chiefW. Scott Howard
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
First issue1966
CompanyUniversity of Denver
CountryUnited States
Websiteliberalarts.du.edu/english/journals-initiatives/denver-quarterly
ISSN0011-8869
OCLC1566260

Publisher

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The magazine is published by the Department of English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver. It has published poems by many poets.[1]

The Best American Short Stories

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Stories from the magazine have twice been included in The Best American Short Stories: Margaret Shipley's The Tea Bowl of Ninsel Nomura, in 1969, and in 1977 Baine Kerr's Rider. Victor Kolpacoff's The Journey to Rutherford received an Honorable Mention in the 1970 anthology, Walter Benesch received a similar notation for The Double in 1971, and John P. Fox got one for Torchy and My Old Man (also in 1971).

The Best American Essays

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Three essays have had honorable mentions in The Best American Essays: Gabriel Hudson's The Sky Hermit in 1986, Stanley Elkin's What's in a Name? Etc in 1988, and Albert Goldbarth's Wind-up Sushi: With Catalogues and Instructions for Assembly in 1990.[citation needed]

The Best American Poetry

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Other awards

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Stephen Berg won a Pushcart Prize for his poem First Song/Bankei/1653/, which also was included in Best American Poetry 1990.

In 1990, Joanne Greenberg won an O. Henry Award for her short story Elizabeth Baird, originally published in the Fall 1989 issue.

Editors

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The first editor-in-chief was John Edward Williams (1965-1970). Others have included Jim Clark, Leland Chambers (1977-1983), Donald Revell (1988-1994), Bin Ramke (1994-2011, 2016—2019), Laird Hunt (2012–2016), and W. Scott Howard (2019—present).

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Denver Quarterly | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences".

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