American Literary Review
| Editor-in-chief | Ann McCutchan |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Jim Lee (founder) Scott Cairns Barbara Rodman William J. Cobb Corey Marks John Tait Miro Penkov |
| Categories |
Creative writing Poetry Non-fiction Fiction |
| Frequency | biannual |
| Circulation | 1,200 (print) |
| Publisher |
University of North Texas Department of English |
| Year founded | Spring 1990 (age 27) |
| First issue | 1 April 1990 |
| Final issue | Fall 2013 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Denton |
| Language | English |
| Website | americanliteraryreview |
| ISSN | 1051-5062 |
| OCLC number | 21984784 |
The American Literary Review is a national biannual literary magazine of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Since its Fall 2013 issue, ALR has been an online digital publication. Print publications are cataloged under ISSN 1051-5062.
ALR was founded twenty-seven years ago, in 1990, by the creative writing faculty of the Department of English of the University of North Texas and the now bygone Center for Texas Studies at the University of North Texas. The Center for Texas Studies, at that time, was led by James Ward Lee, PhD (born 1931), longtime professor of English at UNT, Department Chair, and a prolific writer, and A.C. Greene, an author and former newspaper editor, notably of the Dallas Times Herald. ALR published the first issue in the spring of 1990. Lee edited the first two issues in the spring and fall of 1990. In the first issue, he wrote an editorial expressing hope that the name and tagline, "American Literary Review: A National Journal of Poems and Stories, will prove to be neither pretentious nor presumptuous."
The founding objective was to showcase a range of genres and styles from emerging and veteran writers. To encourage freedom of expression, risk-taking, and experimentation, Lee said that ALR would not publish scholarly articles. That sentiment is not too dissimilar from that of the late Theodore Weiss, founding editor of the former and influential Quarterly Review of Literature, who also felt that scholarly articles and criticism might stifle writers. ALR's third issue (spring 1991, vol. 2, issue 1) was edited by poet and faculty member Scott Cairns. The first issue received more that 160 submissions.
The printed issues, prior to 2013, were typically 120 pages, digest size, perfect-bound with color card cover featuring a photo submission.
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