Welcome to Confrontation Magazine Online!
Confrontation began operation in 1968 with the mission of bringing new talent to light in the shadows cast by well-known authors. Open to all submissions, each issue contains original work by famous and by lesser-known writers.
Among the authors we've published are Nobel prize winners W.H. Auden, John Steinbeck, Derek Walcott, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph Brodsky, Nadine Gordimer, and S.Y. Agnon. Pulitzer and other-prize-winners include Arthur Miller, Ned Rorem, Ed Bullins, Joyce Carol Oates, T.C. Boyle, and Lanford Wilson. We have also published a talented 14-year-old, college students, and other writers beginning their careers. Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux, Walter Abish, and Susan Vreeland all published work in the magazine before they achieved wider fame. Confrontation is eclectic; eclecticism is in fact our mission.
NEW!! THE 2011 CONFRONTATION POETRY PRIZE
$750, and publication in Confrontation, for a single poem. Submit up to four previously unpublished poems with a $10 entry fee during the month of January, 2011. Your entry fee includes a yearlong subscription to the magazine, beginning with a copy of the prize issue. Your entry should include a cover page with your name, address, e-mail address and/or phone number, and the title of each poem you are entering; you should not include your name on the poems themselves. All entries will be considered for publication. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, as long as you let us know if a poem is accepted elsewhere. Send to: 2011 Poetry Prize, Confrontation, C.W. Post/Long Island University, Brookville, NY 11548. Enclose a SASE, and the $10 entry fee (checks payable to Confrontation). Enclose a SAS postcard if you would like us to confirm receipt of your entry. Belinda Kremer, Poetry Editor of Confrontation, will judge. Postmark entries January 1 through 31, 2011.
$750, and publication in one of our 2011 issues, for the winning poem
Confrontation is published twice a year, usually in November and late May.
"One of the best literary bargains in the country" --Publishers WeeklyIssue 108, above: Art courtesy of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.