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.

News

Winners of the Meringoff Writing Awards

The ALSCW is pleased to announce the winners of the Meringoff Writing Awards. Meringoff Award for Fiction: Winner, Becky Hagenston Becky Hagenston is the author ...
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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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