Work published in Gargoyle has been awarded, nominated for, or received honorable mention in the following:
- Acker Awards
- American Book Awards
- Best African American Fiction
- Best American Fantasy
- Best American Nonrequired Reading
- Best American Poetry
- Best American Short Stories
- Best of the West
- New Stories from the Midwest
- New Stories from the South
- O. Henry Prize
- Poetry Daily
- Pushcart Prize
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
- Towson Prize for Literature
- Verse Daily
- Best American Essays
- Editor’s Choice
- The Best Small Fictions 2015
- Best American Mystery Fiction 2015
- Walt Whitman Award
- Factoid
In our first 40 years, Gargoyle has published work by:
14 American Book Award winners,
10 Acker Award winners,
6 National Book Award-winning authors,
3 PEN/Faulkner winners,
4 Pulitzer Prize winners,
2 MacArthur Fellows,
2 Nebula Award winners,
2 Yale Younger Poets,
1 Hugo Award winner,
1 Poet Laureate,
6 Iowa Short Fiction Award winners,
6 Flannery O’Connor Award winners,
3 James Laughlin Award winners,
2 Lamont Poetry Selection winners,
2 William Carlos Williams Award winners,
8 National Poetry Series winners,
5 Orange Prize Long List writers,
2 Orange Prize Short List writers,
2 National Book Critics Circle Award winners,
6 Lambda Literary Award winners,
1 Gertrude Stein Award winner,
3 Firecracker Alternative Book Award winners, and
1 Walt Whitman Award winner, among others.
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Burnside Review
Camera Obscura Journal
http://www.obscurajournal.com/
Crab Orchard Review
http://craborchardreview.siu.edu/
Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
http://thedoctortjeckleburgreview.com/2012/10/31/issue-no-17-fall-2012-contents/
Evergreen Review
http://www.evergreenreview.com/b/
Five Points
http://www.fivepoints.gsu.edu/
Guernica
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The Literarian
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Noon
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The Sun
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News about Gargoyle authors
• Congrats to Monica McFawn, who has won the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction. Her work appeared in Gargoyle 58. For details, click here.
• Art Taylor‘s story “Precision” from Gargoyle #61 received
an honorable mention in the 2015
Best American Mystery Stories anthology.
• Congratulations to Kelly Cherry, whose “A Dream with the Wind in It” from Gargoyle #61 was published in The Best Small Fictions 2015 from Queen’s Ferry Press.
• You can enjoy this story by Karen Chase from Gargoyle #62 as a downloadable PDF:
Gargoyle publisher celebrated at AWP 2015
There was a publication party for Gargoyle publisher Richard Peabody‘s new book, The Richard Peabody Reader, on Saturday, April 11, 2015, during the Associated Writers Programs (AWP) conference. To quote the announcement: “… a career-spanning collection of this great writer’s poetry and prose. … we honor Richard’s many important contributions to writers and writing, and congratulate him on his new book, his life and the founding of Gargoyle magazine.”
For more details, go to: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/4714
Gargoyle in review
Click here for a new review of Gargoyle #57, at newpages.com. It says in part: “Don’t let the length throw you. Take it as an invitation to skip around and find the pieces that really satisfy your reading hungers.”
Enjoy this review: “At Last–a Literary Journal for the 99%”
Gargoyle #57 is a 600-page doorstop of an issue!
The launch party for Gargoyle #57 was a blast! Our thanks to hostess Zena Polin, owner of the Daily Dish, who has a story in #57 as well.
Gargoyle magazine celebrates
35 years of literary activity!
Photos are at http://gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle/history3.htm
In the wake of this and related events, the Washington Post Magazine published what a colleague has called “a lovely and long-overdue profile of (Gargoyle publisher) Richard Peabody, who does so much and then some to tirelessly promote, publicize and shape Washington writers and writing”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020405355.html
A banner day – first time the New York Time has linked to Gargoyle:
For a review of Gargoyle issue #56, go to:
http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2010-08-30/#Gargoyle-56-2010
For a review of Gargoyle issue #55, go to:
http://newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2010-07-16/index.htm#Gargoyle-55-2009
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• News from Paycock Press •
Defying Gravity launch
is standing-room only
The January 11, 2014, launch party at Washington, DC’s renowned Politics & Prose bookstore for Defying Gravity, the sixth anthology in the Grace & Gravity series of fiction by Washington, DC-area women, published by Paycock Press and edited by Richard Peabody, was a blast! The bookstore was full to capacity with a standing-room crowd eager to meet contributing authors and enjoy the opportunity to network with lovers of literature. Watch this space for photos!