:: Fourteen Hills - The SFSU Review ::

Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills has held an impressive reputation among international literary magazines for publishing the highest-quality innovative poetry, fiction, short plays, and literary nonfiction. The semiannual journal is committed to presenting a great diversity of experimental and progressive work by emerging and cross-genre writers, as well as by award-winning and established authors. Fourteen Hills Vol. 6, No. 1 sold out within a few short months, and Kate Small's award-winning chapbook, also published by Fourteen Hills, is now in its second printing. In the past four years, pieces first published in Fourteen Hills have won the following prestigious literary awards:

2000 Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction: Bill Roorbach's "Thanksgiving"
1998 O'Henry Prize Anthology: Peter Weltner's "Movietone: Detour"
100 Distinguished Stories of 1997: Sonia Gernes' "Ye Watchers"
1997 Best American Gay Fiction Prize Anthology: Stephen Beachy's "Shapes"
1997 O'Henry Prize Anthology: Mary Gaitskill's "Comfort"
1997 Best American Gay Fiction Prize Anthology: Kolin Ohi's "A Backward Glance"
1996 Best American Poetry Prize Anthology: Alice Notley's "The Longest Times"

Part of the vibrant literary heritage of the west coast and the San Francisco Bay area, Fourteen Hills is honored to be an active participant in the contemporary creative community. As a nonprofit press, its staff, editors, and contributors bring readers of the journal some of the most exciting offerings of independent literature. From the postmodern to the traditional, Fourteen Hills is a testimony to the fact that independent, innovative and experimental literature is alive and thriving.