Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills Literary Magazine has become a vital part of the vibrant literary heritage of the West Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area. Its commitment to presenting a diversity of experimental and progressive work by emerging and cross-genre writers, as well as by award-winning and established authors, has earned it a reputation for literary excellence. Being independent means our aesthetic is dynamic and fluid, ever changing to meet the needs of the culture and the historical moment as we perceive them.

Staffed exclusively by graduate students in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University with the oversight of faculty advisor Matthew Clark Davison, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review is an international literary magazine publishing original poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, and cross-genre work written by writers in the U.S. and abroad. We strive to publish the strongest literature put out not only by any other literary journal staffed by graduate students, but any journal period.

As an international literary magazine, Fourteen Hills has established itself as a mainstay not just in the San Francisco Bay Area, but in the international literary magazine community. As an international magazine, we accept submissions of original poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, and cross-genre work written by both American and international writers.

The work in Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review has won numerous awards and been included in prestigious anthologies, including:

• 2009, Best New Poets Anthology: Joshua Robbins’ “The Man in Hopper’s Office in a Small City”
• 2006, Pushcart Prize Special Mention: Eugene Martin’s excerpt of “Waste”
• 2000, Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction: Bill Roorbach’s “Thanksgiving”
• 1998, O. Henry Prize Anthology: Peter Weltner's “Movietone: Detour”
• 1997, 100 Distinguished Stories of 1997: Sonia Gernes' “Ye Watchers”
• 1997, Best American Gay Fiction Prize Anthology: Kolin Ohi's "A Backward Glance" and Stephen Beachy's "Shapes"
• 1997, O. Henry Prize Anthology: Mary Gaitskill's “Comfort”
• 1996, Best American Poetry Prize Anthology: Alice Notley's “The Longest Times”

Fourteen Hills Press publishes two titles each year. They include: two volumes of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, and the annual winner of the Michael Rubin Book Award. The Michael Rubin Book Award (MRBA) is a single-author first-book award that memorializes the much-celebrated SFSU lecturer Michael Rubin. The MRBA is selected by an independently solicited judge each year. Past judges have included: John Skoyles, Holly MacArthur, Brian Henry, Carol Snow, and more.

Recently, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review issues 15.1 and 15.2 both sold out within months after their releases. The 2008 Michael Rubin Book Award Winner, “At Or Near the Surface” by Jenny Pritchett, was received with great excitement by the literary community and also sold out in months. We look forward to maintaining the quality of the titles that Fourteen Hills Press puts out in the coming years.

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