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Bluestem [1]

Basic Information
State: 
Illinois
Website: 
https://bluestemmagazine.com [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://bluestemmagazine.com/submit [3]
Address: 
Coleman Hall
Address (line 2): 
Eastern Illinois University
City: 
Charleston
Zip / Postal Code: 
61920
Contact Information
Colleen
Abel
Editor in Chief
Contact E-mail: 
bluestemmag@gmail.com [4]
Details
Formats: 
Online
Payment: 
No payment
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to Feb 15
Jul 1 to Aug 15
Response Time: 
Greater than 6 months

Bluestem, a nationally recognized literary journal that publishes the brightest new, emerging, and established literary voices, has been published since 1966 and is produced by the English Department at Eastern Illinois University. The journal has largely been run by women of perception and talent for the past several decades; Bluestem finds and publishes impactful work by writers who are quietly creating beauty in their respective corners of the world.

We enjoy work that is a bit weird, attentive to the possibilities of language, and surprising. We love discovering new voices and publishing emerging writers, as well as more established writers.

Representative Authors: 
Gus Moreno, Amber Sparks, Matthew Salesses, Leesa Cross-Smith, Chloe Caldwell, Melissa Broder, Sarah Rose Etter, Amorak Huey
Issues per Year: 
2
Year Founded: 
1966
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
1% to 5%
Subgenres: 
Fiction [5]
Flash Fiction [6]
Literary Fiction [7]
Narrative Nonfiction [8]
Nonfiction [9]
Poetry [10]
Prose Poetry [11]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/bluestem

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/bluestem [2] https://bluestemmagazine.com [3] https://bluestemmagazine.com/submit [4] mailto:bluestemmag@gmail.com [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/fiction [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/nonfiction [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/poetry [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry