To celebrate its 60^th year of publication, Cottonwood is hosting a reading featuring several of its former contributors, including poet Victor Contoski and fiction writer Thomas Fox Averill, on September 25 at 6 pm in Watson Library (3 West) on the campus of the University of Kansas. Friends and contributors to Cottonwood are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be served after the reading, and copies of Cottonwood magazine and press publications will be available for purchase.

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Article and interview about Cottonwood’s new submission website and magazine’s digital archive, with background on the 60 year history of the magazine:

Cottonwood finds online home in KU Libraries partnership | KU News

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With the exception of the 3 most recent issues, all of Cottonwood's past issues are now available on this site, including interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, William Burroughs, Seamus Heaney,, and W. S. Merwin, fiction by Thomas Fox Averill, Robert Day, Stephanid Coyne DeGhett, Antonya Nelson, and David Ohle, poetry by Stephen Bunch, Lee Chapman, Patricia Corbus, Victor Contoski, Jim Daniels, Harley Elliott, Denise Low, Wayne Propst, Jr.,William Stafford,  Patricia Traxler, and Edgar Wolfe, and photography by Steve Ewert  Larry Schwarm, Luther Smith and Lyle Alan White.  Digitization of back issues of Cottonwood is made possible in part by the generous contributions of the Wedge and Pennewell families in honor of former Cottonwood editor George F. Wedge.

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Print versions of Cottonwood 79  (Spring 2024) are now available, including fiction by Tally Brennan and Stephen Murabito and poetry by Jim Daniels, Kathleen McCann, Kristel Rietesel-Low, and Doug Ramspeck

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