CONFRONTATION magazine began operation in 1968 with the mission of bringing new talent to light in the shadows cast by well-known authors. Open to all submissions, each issue contains original work by famous and by lesser-known writers. Among the authors we've published are Nobel prize winners W.H. Auden, John Steinbeck, Derek Walcott, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph Brodsky, Nadine Gordimer, S.Y. Agnon; Pulitzer and other-prize-winners -- Arthur Miller, Ned Rorem, Ed Bullins, Joyce Carol Oates, T.C. Boyle, Lanford Wilson. The magazine has also published the work of a 14-year-old talented writer, college students and writers beginning their career. Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux, Walter Abish, and Susan Vreeland all published work in the magazine before they achieved wider fame.

CONFRONTATION is eclectic; indeed that is its main specialization. It is open to all forms and genres except proslytizing monographs and propagandistic discourse. It publishes stories (no more than 20 pages usually), poems, plays (a special drama issue appears periodically), and memoirs; a special section contains book reviews and cultural commentary. Each issue also contains a thematic supplement that "confronts" a topic; the ensuing "confrontation" is an attempt to see the many sides of an issue rather than a formed conclusion.

Among the prizes it offers are the Sarah Tucker Award for fiction, the H.R. Hays Poetry Award, the Sarah Russo Award for the an essay on the subject of exile, and the John V. Gurry Drama Award.

CONFRONTATION is published twice a year, usually in November and late May.

Issue No. 86/87

Spring/Summer 2004

A Harvest of New & Re-Emerging Writers

Stories • Plays • Poems • Memoir & Commentary

Editor's Introduction