About the magazine
Literary Matters is the online literary magazine of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW).
We publish three issues per year, containing original works of scholarship and criticism, poetry, fiction, literary translation, and memoir. Recent issues have featured work from U.S. Poets Laureate and winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, and many other prestigious awards.
From the archive
What we’re watching
- ALSCW Zoom Series: American Classics, American Crisis (recording)
- Past President John Briggs interviewed on Leisurely Conversations with Rob Jackson
- Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize: a Keynote Address by Christopher Ricks
News
Meringoff Writing Awards: March 31, 2023 Deadline
The Meringoff Writing Awards have deadlines of March 31st, 2023. Everyone who enters the Meringoff Writing Awards competition must be a member of the ALSCW or sponsored ...
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Straight Labyrinth: János Pilinszky in the Poetry, Music, and Thought of Three Hungarian Artists is now available
Straight Labyrinth János Pilinszky in the Poetry, Music, and Thought of Three Hungarian Artists March 20, 2022 at 3 p.m. EDT a Zoom event hosted ...
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Meringoff Writing Awards: February 1, 2022 Deadline
The Meringoff Writing Awards have deadlines of February 1, 2022. Everyone who enters the Meringoff Writing Awards competition must be a member of the ALSCW or sponsored ...
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Recent Books from ALSCW Members