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Our Website is currently undergoing a complete redesign, so we will be making only the most basic changes and updates to this site until the new site is up and running. So, while you will still be able to read work by our various featured writers, we will not be posting any new work. Additionally, we will not be updating the Current Issue page. It and all the other purchasing pages are still safe and secure, but the issue you see will not be the issue you will receive or that your subscription will begin with; you will receive the most current issue we have in the office, which right now is the Autumn 2007 issue. Thanks for your patronage and your patience.

The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers

We are pleased to invite you to the 2nd Annual Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers, which will take place June 4-9, 2008. This year’s faculty will be Lee K. Abbott and G. K. Wuori in fiction, Terrance Hayes and Peggy Shumaker in poetry, and Suzannah Lessard and Rebecca McClanahan in nonfiction. For more detailed information about the conference and faculty, click here. For application materials, go to the Registration and Application Forms page. Hope to see you here this summer.

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Kudos

We hear that Christopher Bakken has a new book, Goat Funeral (Sheep Meadow Press), which contains some poems that first appeared in The Gettysburg Review. Be on the look out for it at your local bookseller, or Amazon, or wherever you acquire your reading material.

Wayne Miller’s first full-length book of poetry, Only the Senses Sleep, is out from New Issues Press. It received a starred review in the July 31 issue of Publisher’s Weekly, and contains the poem “Ice Storm,” which debuted in our Spring 2001 issue.

Jesse Lee Kercheval has a short story collection, The Alice Stories, coming out from the University of Nebraska Press this fall. She also recently won the 2006 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition and the center published her manuscript, Film History as Train Wreck, as a limited-edition, letterpress chapbook.

Thomas Larson (Winter 2001) has published a book about the craft and purpose of memoir titled The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative through Swallow Press, the literary imprint of Ohio University Press.

Sean Nevin recieved an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry this year.

Congratulations to all.

We would like to celebrate:

Bob Hicok (“My career as a director,” Spring 2005), Mark Kraushaar (“Tonight,” Winter 2004), and Robert Wrigley, (“Religion,” Autumn 2005), all of whom will see the above mentioned poems reprinted in the 2006 edition of The Best American Poetry.

Erin Brooks Worley, whose story “Grove,” which first appeared in our Spring 2005 issue, has been selected for the 2006 edition of New Stories from the South.

Robert Liddell, whose story “Whatever Happened to Sébastian Grosjean?” (Autumn 2005) will be reprinted in Best New American Voices 2007.

Emily Raboteau, whose story “Smile” (Autumn 2005) will reappear in The Best American Mystery Stories 2006.

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