Type Of Publisher
Magazine
Year Established
1966
Address
Denver, Colorado
Name
W. Scott Howard
Title
Editor-in-chief
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Denver Quarterly is a dynamic space where innovation energizes tradition. We are known for publishing works that limn the edges of experimentation and that play thoughtfully with convention. Denver Quarterly is the literary journal housed in the Department of English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Founded by novelist John Williams in 1966, the journal has had work honored in the Pushcart Anthology, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Essays, The Best American Short Stories, and The Best American Poetry. Denver Quarterly seeks to offer diverse publications that embody the wide-ranging possibilities for the worlds from which writing may come, and the worlds our authors imagine and write into being. We welcome the work of writers and artists from marginalized communities, identities, and traditions; those who work with differing abilities or who are non-professional writers; and those who have otherwise been traditionally excluded from the space of literary journals. We do not tolerate submissions that contain hate speech, bigotry, discrimination, or racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist language or violence of any kind. In our capacity as an editorial staff, we ensure that Denver Quarterly is committed to past and future minoritized contributors, and that our journal is a supportive creative space, so that the most imaginative, critical, and challenging writing and thought will be bolstered in its pages. We seek and publish writing that imagines, indeed already lives, a more diverse and inclusive future, that illuminates what has yet been occluded from the literary-historical record. In addition to consistently publishing writers whose work we believe to not only be expressive of our wide-ranging and shifting understanding of the experimental, we also seek to publish writers over time whose own relationship to that notion expands, develops, and changes. We are committed to developing our editorial practice so that we will continue to support such work. Via our social media channels, we broadcast news of our ongoing activities as well as news of our authors’ accomplishments and forthcoming works and readings.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Yes
