Edited by
Marcia Aldrich, Senior Editor
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We invite you to experience Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, a journal devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction. The title reflects our intention to give nonfiction its due as a literary genre—to give writers of the fourth genre a showcase for their work and to give our readers a place to find the liveliest and most creative works in the form. Given the genre's flexibility and expansiveness, we welcome a variety of works—ranging from personal essays and memoirs to literary journalism and personal criticism. The editors invite works that are lyrical, self-interrogative, meditative, and reflective, as well as expository, analytical, exploratory, or whimsical. In short, we encourage submissions across the full spectrum of the fourth genre. The journal encourages a writer-to-reader conversation, one that explores the markers and boundaries of literary/creative nonfiction. In addition to contemporary nonfiction, Fourth Genre features interviews with prominent nonfiction writers, roundtable discussions of topical genre issues, mini-essays by selected photographers and visual artists, letters from readers, and reviews and capsule summaries of current books. In honor of Michael Steinberg's contributions as Founding Editor of Fourth Genre, we are dedicating what was formerly known as the Editor's Prize to him; it has been renamed The Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. The contest guidelines have not changed from previous years. Fourth Genre is indexed or abstracted in: Current Abstracts, Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus, Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes—und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ), Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes—und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur (IBR), Literary Recent awards |
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