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Now available: Subtropics 13, featuring stories by Timothy Cook, Allegra Goodman, Amy Hempel, James Magruder, Emmett Shepard, and Maggie Shipstead; an essay by Anis Shivani; and poems by Bruce Bond, Todd Boss, Jim Daniels, Patrick Ryan Frank, Elton Glaser, David Huddle, Hailey Leithauser, Karyna McGlynn, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Jill Osier, Joanna Pearson, Anne Marie Rooney, A. E. Stallings, and Caki Williamson. In translation: a story by Paul Willems and poems by Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, and Cai Quijao.

Subtropics is now accepting electronic submissions, via Submittable® (formerly Submishmash), in addition to snail mail submissions. See our Submit page for details.

We are very pleased to announce that Lauren Groff’s story “Eyewall” (Subtropics 10) has been chosen for inclusion in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories for 2012.

Poetry Daily plans to feature Jay Hopler’s poem “O, the Sadness Immaculate,” from Subtropics 10, on Tuesday, May 31.

We are very pleased to announce that Maurice Manning (Subtropics 10), D. A. Powell (Subtropics 3), A. E. Stallings (Subtropics 6), and Cynthia Zarin (Subtropics 2) have received Guggenheim Fellowships for 2011.

In memoriam: Subtropics 10 contributor Paul Violi (1944–2011).

Peter Cameron’s story “The End of My Life in New York” (Subtropics 7) appears in The Literarian, the new literary magazine from The Center for Fiction.

Now available: a double issue of Subtropics, featuring stories by Lauren Groff and Edna O’Brien; Erik Reece’s “Remembering Guy Davenport”; John Weir’s novella “Katherine Mansfield”; poems by Geoffrey Brock, Billy Collins, Geri Doran, James Lasdun, Amit Majmudar, Idra Novey, Eric Pankey, and Lucia Perillo (among others); and, in translation, poems by Rosa Alice Branco, Eduardo Chirinos, Marosa di Giorgio, Jose Marti, Murathan Mungan, Eunice Odio, Tatiana Shcherbina, and Knuts Skujenieks.

One-year subscriptions have been reduced from $26 to $24 (not $14, as misstated on the masthead of Subtropics 10). We apologize for any thwarted joy you may have experienced.

Congratulations to Subtropics contributors Peter Cameron, James Magruder, and Padgett Powell, whose stories from Subtropics 7 have been chosen, respectively, for The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, and New Stories from the South.

Subtropics is featured in the Jan./Feb. 2010 issue of Poets & Writers magazine.

We are very pleased to announce that Jennifer K. Sweeney (Subtropics 4) has received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets for her book How to Live on Bread and Music.

Verse Daily has featured three poems from Subtropics 8: Stephen Kampa’s “The Reclamation of Paradise” on August 7, Kate Angus’s “I Will Begin Tagging ‘Sad Robot Inc.’ on Numerous Surfaces Because I am Sorry I am not Always Good at Certain Emotional Intimacies Shared Between Friends” on August 10, and Heather Hamilton’s “Shark” on August 11.

Verse Daily has featured three poems from Subtropics 7: Randall Mann, “Monday” (April 5); Idra Novey, “A History in Six Couplets” (April 3); and Roberto Juarroz, “Scales of a Little Wisdom,” translated by Mary Crow (April 1). Suzanne Zweizig’s poem, “Bicycling from Todtnauberg,” from Subtropics 6, appeared on December 2, 2008.

Subtropics is featured on Tina Brown’s site The Daily Beast, as one of “Tomorrow’s Literary Superstars Today.”

This page last updated Feb. 8, 2012.