With 2008, The Iowa Review enters its 38th year of continuous publication. We select most of our content from the several thousand unsolicited manuscripts that arrive each year from throughout the country and abroad. We take our mission to be nudging along American literature, to be local but not provincial, to be experimental but not without love for our literary traditions. Although you may find writers already familiar to you in most of our issues, you will surely find others who are not. Discovering a new and compelling writer, one we'd never heard of before but whose writing comes through to us—that still seems the magic of our work.

The Iowa Review Web, an online publication, features electronic literature, experimental writing and art, critical essays, and interviews with innovative writers.

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