News Updates:
GHLL is currently under construction. Please pardon the mess while we update
back issues and transition to a new format. Thank you for your understanding!
Questions, comments, and thoughts are always welcome.
The GHLL is published by Truman State University
Welcome to the
Green Hills Literary Lantern!
Beginning with Volume XVII (2006), GHLL is an online, open-access journal.
News about GHLL people:
Mark Fabiano (An Arrangement of Blue and Green) has a story forthcoming in the Atlantic Monthly's Special Fiction Issue. 'We Are All Businessmen' will appear in August 2008. Mark was awarded a $10k Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Fiction for 2008.
GHLL founding editor Jack Smith has won the George Garrett prize in fiction. His novel Hog to Hog is scheduled for release by the Texas Review Press in summer 2008.
Barry Kitterman has a new novel forthcoming from SMU Press in May. Click here for details.
Nancy Cherry's "Yearly Trek to Bear Valley" (volume XVIII) has been selected for the "Best of the Web" anthology. Watch this space for more details.
Read the Writer's Digest article from our founding editor, Jack Smith
GHLL editorial board member Robert Garner McBrearty, of Louisville, CO, is the winner of the annual $15,000 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. His entry to the competition was noteworthy for its blend of pathos and humor, according to the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. McBrearty submitted three short stories from a new collection of stories in progress. Some stories from the new collection in progress have been previously published in the North American Review, Story Quarterly, and Narrative Magazine.
DeWitt Henry, one of GHLL's favorite authors, has a new volume of narratives, essays and meditations. Click here to read about Safe Suicide
Midge Raymond's short-story collection, Forgetting English, received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and is forthcoming from Eastern Washington University Press in the fall of 2008.
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Publication Information
The Green Hills Literary Lantern ( ISSN 1089-2060) is published annually, in June, by Truman State University. Historically, the publication ran between 200-300 pages, consisting of poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews, and was printed on good quality paper with a glossy, 4-color cover. The digital magazine is of similar proportions and artistic standards. All views, conclusions, or opinions are those of the authors of the pieces and not necessarily those of the editorial staff or publishers. The Green Hills Literary Lantern is indexed by the Index of American Periodical Verse (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press) and The American Humanities Index.
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