A journal of contemporary literature and culture, New Orleans Review is a publication of the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and is partially funded by the Kendall Michelle Daigle Memorial Endowment for English.
Since its founding in 1968, the journal has published an eclectic variety of work by established and emerging writers, including: Walker Percy, Pablo Neruda, Ellen Gilchrist, Nelson Algren, Hunter S. Thompson, John Kennedy Toole, Richard Brautigan, Joyce Carol Oates, James Sallis, Jack Gilbert, Paul Hoover, Tess Gallagher, Sherman Alexie, Valerie Martin, Annie Dillard, Everette Maddox, Julio Cortazar, Gordon Lish, Robert Walser, Mark Halliday, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Harper, Angela Ball, Diane Wakoski, Dermot Bolger, Ernest J. Gaines, Roddy Doyle, William Kotzwinkle, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Arnost Lustig, Raymond Queneau, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Martone, Matthea Harvey, Bill Cotter, D.A. Powell, Rikki Ducornet, Ed Skoog, and many others.
Work published in NOR has been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize, Best American Nonrequired Reading, New Stories From the South, Utne Reader, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, O. Henry Prize Stories, and other anthologies.
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Editor
Lindsay Sproul
Managing Editor
Chloe Evans
Fiction Editor
Ramón Isao
Poetry Editor
Nik De Dominic
Nonfiction Editor
Cassidy Wells
Art Editor
Myranda Cook
Editor, Songs of the Sunbirds Column, Poetry and Recipes
Hanaa Ibrahim
Editor, Songs of the Sunbirds Column, Prose and Tatreez/Crafts
Tamara Al-Barq
Editor, Songs of the Sunbirds Column, Art and Video
Noor V. Aerbay
Assistant Fiction Editor
Jennesa Regios
Assistant Poetry Editors
Joelitza Arroyo-Ramirez, Dajah Saul, Marc Fjor
Assistant Nonfiction Editor & Social Media Editor
Zaynab Zeini
Fiction Readers
Wes Byers, Annell López, Phoebe De Selincourt, Marigny Beter, Maira Pirzada, Nadir Benslimane, Ajaysah Harris-Walker Ana-Claire Perkins
Nonfiction Reader
Alyx Marroquin
Copy Editor
Suzanne Houghton
Editorial Assistants
Rosa Margarita Ayala, Ayana Cormier, Falyn E. Hardouin, Aidan Keating, Rose LaBay, Anya Levicki, Abby Lewis, Amanda Loney, Koee Pipins, Faith Regan, Stormy Rogers, Kailey E. Shakerin, Victoria Tremols, Samira Manion Corbo, Noah Rozzell
Past Editors
- Mark Yakich 2012–2019
- Christopher Chambers: 2000–2012
- Sophia Stone: 1999–2000
- Ralph Adamo: 1994–1999
- John Mosier: 1980–1992
- John Biguenet: 1980–1992
- Bruce Henrickson: 1980–1986
- Dawson Gaillard: 1978–1979
- Marcus Smith: 1974–1978
- John F. Christman: 1974
- Forrest L. Ingram: 1972–1973
- Joseph A. Tetlow: 1970–1972
- Miller Williams: 1968–1970
Buzz
- The Reading Life, interview with Mark Yakich & John Biguenet about Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing & Resistance, 2019
- LitHub, excerpt from an interview with James Baldwin, from Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing & Resistance, 2019
- Harper’s, excerpt from an interview with Jorge Luis Borges, from Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing & Resistance, 2019
- Contributor Olufunke Ogundimu’s story “The Armed Letter Writers” is shortlisted for the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing
- Contributor Olufunke Ogundimu wins a 2018 Pushcart Prize for her story “The Armed Letter Writers”
- The African Literary Hustle Issue highlighted at Africa Book Link, March 2018
- Contributor Elizabeth Knapp’s poem “Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak,“ first published by NOR, featured at the American Academy of Poets, 2017
- Contributor Saddiq Dzukogi’s “A Pond of Alcohol” featured on Verse Daily, July 26, 2017
- Shakespeare Issue honored in Graphis Design Annual 2018
- Contributor Kimberly Johnson’s “Folio” featured on Poetry Daily, September 2, 2016
- Shakespeare Issue highlighted in New Pages, August 2016
- Contributor Sara Batkie wins a 2016 Pushcart Prize for “Laika”
- Contributor Matthew Vollmer wins a 2015 Pushcart Prize for “For Beds”
- NewPages, December 1, 2014
- NewPages, May 15, 2014
- Verse Daily, excerpt from Jason Myers’ “America Mix-Tape” series in NOR Issue 39.1, May 2014
- Room 220, NOR unveils its newest issue, September 2013
- Poets & Writers, Literary MagNet (second paragraph), May/June 2013
- The Review Review, Life and Death, New Orleans Style, January 2013
- Utne Reader, reprint of Lad Tobin’s “Old Man Lying by the Side of the Stage“ in NOR issue 36.2, May 2011
- NewPages, January 17, 2011
- NewPages, May 2009
- Salon, October 2, 2006
- NewPages, July 14, 2006
