Limited-time Offer
from 2021 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize Winners

The three print winners of the 2021 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes, the Massachusetts Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and the Arkansas International, are participating in a special, limited-time discount subscription bundle to celebrate. The first 50 subscribers will receive one-year subscriptions to all three magazines for $50 (a $74 value), and bundles sold after the first 50 are $65. This bundle of magazines is a passport to discovering fresh literary talent and new perspectives. Read more about the prizes and the winning magazines.

The Massachusetts Review

The Massachusetts Review promotes social justice and equality, along with great art. Committed to aesthetic excellence as well as public engagement, the Massachusetts Review publishes work that provokes debate, inspires action, and expands our understanding of the world. Since its founding in 1959 by professors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, and Smith Colleges, the Massachusetts Review has published and promoted emerging and established artists from the US and internationally. Each year, the Massachusetts Review publishes a special issue highlighting an underrepresented community or a critical social topic; past issues have addressed civil rights, the cost of war, and queer identity, and have showcased work by Caribbean, Asian American, North African and Middle Eastern, and Native American writers.

From the judges: Can a magazine stay at the forefront of literary culture for over 60 years? The answer is in the read, and the Massachusetts Review has proved it deserves its place. This rigorously edited magazine publishes lucid, risk-taking writing with flair and exquisite judgement, featuring work by emerging writers and Nobel laureates that revels in formal experiment and traditional narrative. Delving into this journal is an act of discovery and a reminder of great literature’s timeless value.

Bellevue Literary Review

Bellevue Literary Review publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that probe the nuances of our lives both in illness and health. By bringing together the perspectives of patients, caregivers, family members, healthcare professionals, and creative observers, Bellevue Literary Review highlights a diversity of voices from all communities and all walks of life. The first literary journal to arise from a medical setting, Bellevue Literary Review has published two volumes of literature annually since 2001. As a newly independent literary arts organization, Bellevue Literary Review engages its community of readers and writers through readings and events exploring the intersection of art, medicine, and science.

From the judges: Born in a legendary city hospital as the brainchild of writers and healthcare professionals, Bellevue Literary Review captures—with great intimacy and concision—the experience not just of pain, or treatment, or healing, but of day-to-day life itself, deepening our understanding of the human body and literature’s role in exploring it. Bellevue Literary Review is loyal to its theme but never constrained by it, uncovering boundless tonal and narrative possibilities as it contemplates the body as a physical entity, probes the manifestation of mental illness, or reckons with how the racialized and gendered body is perceived.

The Arkansas International

The Arkansas International seeks to put emerging and established authors from across the world in conversation with one another. Launched by the University of Arkansas’ Creative Writing & Translation program in 2016, the Arkansas International has published fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and works in translation from over 60 countries, including Egypt, Brazil, Venezuela, South Korea, Iran, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Russia, Italy, Galica, and Hungary. The Arkansas International also awards the annual C.D. Wright Emerging Poet’s Prize and an Emerging Writer’s Prize, both given to authors who have not yet published full-length works.

From the judges: Distinguished by exceptional fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics that are as attentive to place as they are to language, the Arkansas International lives up to its name, publishing fiercely observant and open-hearted work by writers from around the globe. When this literature converges and collides with emerging work from within the United States, the result is breathtaking. The ambition of this bright new star in the literary firmament is nothing less than to build a world community of writers and readers.