north american review

FOUNDED IN Boston in 1815, North American Review is the longest-lived literary magazine in the U.S. and has published at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, since 1968. On six occasions during that period, it was a finalist for the National Magazine Award (the magazine equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and it has twice won the top award in the fiction category in head-to-head competition with The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and so on. No other university-sponsored periodical has an equivalent record of achievement. Published four times each year, the North American Review is well-known for its early discovery of young, talented fiction writers and poets. But it also publishes creative nonfiction, with emphasis on increasing concerns about environmental and ecological matters, multiculturalism, and exigent issues of gender and class. At North American Review, we strive to make literature and art matter.