Quarry West was founded by Raymond Carver, who taught at Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1971. The first four issues were called Quarry; then it was discovered that there was already a Canadian literary journal of that name -- hence Quarry West. Now on an annual publication schedule, Quarry West is a nationally distributed magazine devoted to printing the finest poetry, poetry in translation, fiction, art, essays and reviews available, with a particular emphasis on encouraging quality new voices alongside the best new works of more established writers.

Ceased with #35/36.

Published much short fiction; authors include Rick Bass, Cooper Esteban, Gary Lutz.

"The Quarterly Conversation runs reviews of fiction and nonfiction alike, so long as the books are of literary and/or cultural value. We are especially interested in works that have been translated into English, and we try to cover a number of works-in-translation in each issue. Special interest will be given to works translated from traditionally neglected nations or languages."

A heavyweight journal of literary importance (chief rival to The Edinburgh Review throughout the 19th century), it published essays by Sir Walter Scott and many other famous writers, but may not have published any fiction.

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Runs both mainstream and experimental fiction. Has biennial novella competition. Has published Fred Chappell, Albert Goldbarth, Gary Soto, Philip Levine. Circulation 2,000.

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#merges with Descant (US)

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Subtitled "An Artistic, Literary and Musical Quarterly".

A short-lived literary magazine which ran some fiction; distributed with SM Magazine.

Merges with the UK Harper's Bazaar to become the monthly Harpers & Queen.

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The weekly summary and literary edition of the Brisbane Courier.

The journal's commitment has always been to offer both the academic and the general reader a lively collection of analysis and reflection, in fields as diverse as international relations, science policy, literary criticism, travel writing, economics, religion, short fiction, and poetry.

Subtitled "a national magazine of Catholic activities and the official organ of the Sodality in America", occasionally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1913

Publishers:   Archer
Formats:   small
Pagecounts:   24pp

This title probably does not exist. It does occur in the occasional magazine checklist but exhaustive research and inquiries have turned up absolutely no information on it.

The earliest reference to it is in a Bradford Day checklist of the early 1950's. Day lists the title as being British and appearing in 1929, but has no data on it.

Copies do not exist in either the British Library or Oxford's Bodleian Library. No known researcher or collector has ever seen a copy of Queer Stories, so it is likely that this title is apocryphal, and that indexers after Day simply picked up his reference and incorporated it into their own work.

Esoteric magazine that published occasional fiction, including pieces by Algernon Blackwood.

Religious paper. Subtitled "A magazine for young people" at first, and later "A Baptist magazine for young people"; was briefly entitled The War-time Quest.

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