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“A recent survey of small press publishing by a Calyx intern revealed only twenty-five percent of those published are women. . . In contrast is the percentage of women on the list of contributors to Gargoyle, the annual literary magazine edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody in Arlington, Virginia, which is also celebrating thirty years in print. At least 45 percent of the writers who have had work published in Gargoyle since 1976 are women, including Kathy Acker, Rita Dove, Jennifer Egan, Shelley Jackson, and Naomi Shihab Nye. But Gargoyle, which has also published the likes of T.C. Boyle, Russell Edson, Allen Ginsberg, Ben Marcus, and Rick Moody, doesn’t make any declarations about gender distinctions. The cover of its anniversary issue, also released in August, features an illustration by Patricia Storms that pretty well sums up thirty years of work by a magazine that doesn’t take itself too seriously: A UFO indiscriminantly beams up its cargo, including toilet paper, a telephone, a rat, a cat, a drumstick, a brassiere, a granny with a book, and Frankenstein with a typewriter. God bless literary magazines with a sense of humor.”
– Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers Magazine

Gargoyle #57 is now available!

Gargoyle #57 - "Button Typewriter"
art by Marilyn Stablein.

Gargoyle #57 is a 600-page doorstop of an issue!

Enjoy this review: "At Last--a Literary Journal for the 99%"

Richard always accepts too much work for Gargoyle, and he did it again this past summer with #58, so the Gargoyle Brain Trust, in its semi-infinite wisdom, has decided to divide everything accepted for #58 and the extra biz we had on hand for #59 and print two issues in 2012 – #58 in May and #59 in September. That means we'll be rearranging some of #58 into #59 so we wind up with two 350-page issues instead of another 600-page monster. If we accepted your work for #58, it'll be out in one or the other in 2012, barring a Zombie Apocalypse. Thanks for understanding and for trusting us to make it work.

The launch party for Gargoyle issue 57 was a blast! Our thanks to hostess Zena Polin, owner of the Daily Dish, who has a story in #57 as well.

Gargoyle publisher Richard Peabody with issue 57 launch party hostess Zena Pollin.

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Gargoyle magazine celebrates
35 years of literary activity!

Photos are at http://gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle/history3.htm

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In the wake of this and related events, the Washington Post Magazine published what a colleague has called "a lovely and long-overdue profile of (Gargoyle publisher) Richard Peabody, who does so much and then some to tirelessly promote, publicize and shape Washington writers and writing":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020405355.html

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A banner day – first time the New York Time has linked to Gargoyle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/books/02book.html?_r=2&src=twrhp

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Gargoyle 56

For a review of Gargoyle issue #56, go to:

http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2010-08-30/#Gargoyle-56-2010

For a review of Gargoyle issue #55, go to:

http://newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2010-07-16/index.htm#Gargoyle-55-2009

NOW AVAILABLE Drawings and Ceramics by Jody Mussoff, 37 color illustrations  $29.95 hdbk.; $18.95 pbk. www.blurb.com

Gargoyle gear! Surprise your friends with Gargoyle T-shirts, mugs, clocks, lunchboxes, etc.

Richard Grayson blogs on 35 years of Gargoyle.

Check out Lucinda Ebersole's latest project —
http://lucindaswoodcakeboxes.com
and her blogs:
http://lucindaville.blogspot.com/
http://cookbookoftheday.blogspot.com/

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Awards

Work published in Gargoyle has been awarded, nominated for, or received honorable mention in the following:

• New Stories from the Midwest
• Best of the West
• Best American Fantasy
• Best American Nonrequired Reading
• Best American Poetry
• Best American Short Stories
• Editor's Choice
• O. Henry Prize
• New Stories from the South
• Poetry Daily
• Pushcart Prize
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
• Verse Daily

Factoid

In our first 35 years, Gargoyle has published work by:
6 National Book Award-winning authors,
3 PEN/Faulkner winners,
4 Pulitzer Prize winners,
2 MacArthur Fellows,
2 Nebula Award winners,
2 Yale Younger Poets,
1 Hugo Award winner,
1 Poet Laureate,
6 Iowa Short Fiction Award winners,
5 Flannery O'Connor Award winners,
3 James Laughlin Award winners,
2 Lamont Poetry Selection winners,
2 William Carlos Williams Award winners,
8 National Poetry Series winners,
5 Orange Prize Long List writers,
2 Orange Prize Short List writers,
2 National Book Critics Circle Award winners,

6 Lambda Literary Award winners, and
3 Firecracker Alternative Book Award winners,
among others.

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