Allegheny Review

We are the oldest national undergraduate literary magazine in the United States, in print since 1983. The magazine is and always has been edited and produced by students at Allegheny College. Authors who were first published in The Allegheny Review as undergraduates:

• David Foster Wallace
• Ander Monson
• Joel Brouwer
• John Poch
• A. Manette Ansay
• Ben Marcus
• Victoria Chang
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Ashley Wurzbacher
• Jacques L. Rancourt
• Claire Messud
• William Brewer
• James Davis May
• Ryann Stevensonz
• Carrie Fountain
• Addie Tsai
• Rossana Young Oh
• Max Heinegg
• Wendy Chen

Submissions are open for the 2026 issue of The Allegheny Review until October 15, 2025.

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Submission Guidelines

The Allegheny Review considers submissions from undergraduate writers year-round. Submit before October 15 to have your work considered for the issue published the following spring. We only consider digital submissions via our online Google submissions form found on this page.

The Allegheny Review only accepts submissions from currently enrolled undergraduate students. If your graduation year is approaching, please use an email address, physical address, and phone number that will be in use beyond graduation. We will need to reach you if your piece is accepted!

Please only send either one batch of up to five poems or twenty pages of prose per person during each annual submission period. Please note that we sometimes accept more than one piece per author.

We do consider simultaneous submissions. However, if part or all of your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let us know right away by emailing us at review@allegheny.edu.

Submission Format

Submissions must be in either PDF or Word format.

• Fiction – Not to exceed 20 pages, double-spaced.
• Poetry – Up to 5 poems
• Creative nonfiction – Not to exceed 20 pages, double-spaced

Send the year of the volume you want to purchase with a check or money order payable to “The Allegheny Review” to: The Allegheny Review, Allegheny College Box 32, 520 N. Main Street, Meadville, PA 16335.

CURRENT ISSUE

($4) – Our 2024 issue featured work by Grace Ashley, Ryan Trostle, Zoey Birdsong, Naheda Nassan, and Ryo Nishikubo. Interviews with Katherine Locke and Ashley Wurzbacher.

BACK ISSUES

($3) – Order back issues for shipping charges only! ($3.00) Back issues are available between 1983-2016, except: 1983, 1989, and 1999 have limited availability. 1985 is sold out.

SPECIAL EDITION

A few copies of the 1984 issue, featuring David Foster Wallace’s first published story, “The Piano in the Pantechnicon,” are available to collectors for $250.

From 2002 to 2021, The Allegheny Review awarded annual prizes in poetry and prose, judged by writers visiting campus for Allegheny’s Single Voice Reading series. Below are listed the winners and judges from those years.

• Vol. 38 (2020-21)
  Prose: Emma Wolfe, “Night Fishing” (chosen by Jericho Parms)
  Poetry: Phoenix Kendall, “Daddy Issues” (chosen by Graham Barnhart)
• Vol. 37 (2019)
  Prose: Skye Tait, “A Thousand Ships” (chosen by Dustin Parsons)
  Poetry: Maurice Norman, “Loose Gravel” (chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil)
• Vol. 36 (2018)
  Prose: Annie Hilenski, “Near Fall” (chosen by BJ Hollars)
  Poetry: Sofia Fall, “For You, If You Would Take Our Bodies” (chosen by Natalie Scenters-Zapico)
• Vol. 34/35 (2016-17 Double Issue)
  Prose: Rachel Krumenacker, “The High Place Phenomenon” (chosen by Catherine Chung)
  Poetry: Anna Goodson, “Anacuisus” (chosen by Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs)
• Vol. 33 (2015)
  Prose: Katie Antonsson, “Santa Ana” (chosen by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher)
  Poetry: Kelly Barraza, “Sunday Meditations” (chosen by Eduardo C. Corral)
• Vol. 32 (2014)
  Poetry: Emily Pittinos, “Benzie County, Michigan” (chosen by Richard Blanco)
  Prose: Ben Sandman, “Midway” (chosen by Benjamin Busch)
• Vol. 30 (2012)
  Poetry: Nicole Balin, “los angeles” (chosen by Shara McCallum)
  Prose: Andrew Waddell, “Wells” (chosen by Pam Houston)
• Vol. 29 (2011)
  Poetry: Erin Dakas, “Thunderdays” (chosen by Andrew Hudgins)
  Prose: Steven Reaugh, “Dough Soul” (chosen by Scott Russell Sanders)
• Vol. 28 (2010)
  Poetry: Samuel Holley, “A Balloon or a Key” (chosen by Geoffrey Brock)
  Prose: Simon Han, “And a Pack of Gum” (chosen by Padma Viswanathan)
• Vol. 27 (2009)
  Poetry: Jacques Rancourt, “Aubade with Two Moose” (chosen by Mark Doty)
  Prose: Marilyn Miller, “The Snake Wrangler” (chosen by Paul Lisicky)
• Vol. 26 (2008)
  Poetry: Robert Campbell, “An Appalachian Book of the Dead” (chosen by Philip Terman)
  Prose: Mackenzie Shay, “Our Circle” (chosen by Christopher Castellani)
• Vol. 25 (2007)
  Poetry: Zebulon Husset, “Shooting Stars” (chosen by Marilyn Chin)
  Prose: Ashley Wurzbacher, “The Invisible” (chosen by Christina Milletti)
• Vol. 24 (2006)
  Poetry: Amanda Auchter, “Birthmother Poem” (chosen by Beth Gylys)
  Prose: Ben Goldfarb, “Awful Knowledge” (chosen by Sarah Willis)
• Vol. 23 (2005)
  Poetry: Karen Zaino, “Hymen” (chosen by Richard Howard)
  Prose: Karl Stampfl, “The Other Grace Mandlebaum” (chosen by Joanna Scott)
• Vol. 22 (2004)
  Poetry: Ingrid Moody, “Onions” (chosen by Aliki Barnstone)
  Prose: Camron Terwilliger, “Lighthouse Keeper” (chosen by Christopher Tilghman)
• Vol. 21 (2003)
  Poetry: Nilay Gandhi, “Derrida’s Cow” (chosen by Jane McCafferty)
  Prose: Alex Taylor, “Dog Births” and Ann Karni, “Bus Girl” (chosen by Jane McCafferty)
• Vol 20 (2002)
  Poetry: Jennifer Whitaker, “Lines” (chosen by Robert Phillips)
  Prose: Noelle Hufnagel, “Expecting” (chosen by Robert Phillips)