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Sugar House Review promotes a nurturing literary community at the heart of Utah by advocating for an eclectic range of beginning and experienced poets and their poetry through publishing, social media, and free or low-cost live events.
Sugar House Review is one of the most highly-esteemed literary projects in America that fosters writers within diverse and rural literary communities.
Values:
Submitting work to Sugar House Review is an act of generosity: Sugar House Review is honored that poets submit their work to be considered for publication. Unlike many literary magazines, our submissions are read by at least two readers—usually more. We are invested in our contributors and we take their work seriously.
Poetry and the literary arts are sacred vehicles through which ideas become conversations. We believe that the transaction between writer and audience, reader and listener, can teach life-affirming habits of patience, empathy, self awareness, and critical thinking.
Sugar House Review is committed to collaboration to achieve its mission statement and to help like-minded organizations and partners to achieve theirs. In the past, we have worked with churches, bookstores, art galleries, advocacy groups, grant makers, coffee shops, schools, universities, individual artists, and other literary projects.
We believe that a remarkable variety of exciting things are happening in contemporary poetry. We work to assure this excitement continues by publishing and promoting as wide a range of poets, voices, and styles as possible.
We celebrate the diversity of gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, race, religion, region, and any other category that informs creativity and identity. We do not celebrate opinions and perspectives that can’t share in this celebration. Poetry is an assertion of voice that is strongest when enacted and celebrated by a “teeming nation of nations” (as Walt Whitman described).
We are committed to treating our poets with kindness, professionalism, and just a bit of whimsy to keep things fresh. Our lives center around poetry because we choose that they should. Our intent is that anyone who publishes with us, reads for us, or works with us feels valued throughout the process and is pleased with the results of our relationship.
History:
Sugar House Review has published eighteen serialized issues since 2009. We have released one spring/summer and one fall/winter issue each year, with a double-length five-year anniversary issue in 2014. Our editors and readers evaluate submissions during allotted periods, choosing pieces that best represent our mission of publishing an eclectic range of voices. In addition to publishing national and international poets, we place emphasis on showcasing local and regional poets to contribute to our region’s poetry community and to lower barriers for live events. Work first published in Sugar House Review has appeared in Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and four Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthologies.
