Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review

For over half a century Shenandoah has been publishing splendid poems, stories, essays and reviews which display passionate understanding, formal accomplishment and serious mischief.

Founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty and students, Shenandoah has achieved a wide reputation as one of the country's premier literary magazines. Work from the magazine's pages has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Poems, Best American Essays, Best American Spiritual Writing, The O'Henry Prize, New Stories from the South and The Pushcart Prize, as well as numerous other anthologies and quite literally thousands of collections by the original authors. Recent issues have featured Pulitzer winners Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Emerson and Ted Kooser, as well as fiction by James Lee Burke, George Singleton, Alyson Hagy, Chris Offutt, Bret Anthony Johnston and Pam Durban.

SHENANDOAH is recipient of a
Governor's Award for the Arts for 2008

From the cover art to the Editor's Note, Shenandoah consistently delights, surprises, and inspires.
-- Claudia Emerson
2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry

Current Feature:

Interview with Domnica Radulescu

Domnica Radulescu is Professor of Romance Languages at Washington and Lee University. In addition to her many academic publications, she is the author of Train to Trieste (Knopf, 2008).

The work of language deserves our greatest care, for the tongue’s fire may devour
the world, or may light the way.

-- from Scott Russell Sanders’ “Amos and James”
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