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'''The Southwest Review''' is a [[literary journal]] published quarterly, based on the [[Southern Methodist University]] campus in [[Dallas, Texas]]. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the [[United States of America|US]]. The current editor-in-chief is [[Willard Spiegelman]]▼
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| language = English
| former_names = Texas Review
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| publisher = [[Southern Methodist University]]
| country = United States
| frequency = Quarterly
| history = 1915-present
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| website = http://smu.edu/southwestreview/
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*[http://www.southwestreview.org/ Official Website]▼
=== ''Texas Review'' ===
The ''Southwest Review'' was founded as the ''Texas Review'' in 1915 by [[Stark Young]], professor of general literature at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Thomas |first=Mary Martha |title=Southern Methodist University, The First Twenty-Five Years, 1915-1940 |publisher=[[Emory University]] |year=1971}}</ref> Jay B. Hubbell, the [[Southern Methodist University]] professor who would bring the ''Review'' to Dallas in 1924, later reflected on the goals of Young's new journal:<blockquote>"Young's ambition was to put out a literary magazine, not a critical review like the ''[[The Sewanee Review|Sewanee Review]]'' or the ''[[South Atlantic Quarterly]]''. What he particularly desired was excellent verse and light essays; he did not want learned articles by college professors."<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Hubbell |first=Jay B. |date=1965 |title=Southwest Review, 1924-1927 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43467655 |journal=Southwest Review |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=1–18 |issn=0038-4712}}</ref></blockquote>When Young left for [[Amherst College]], editorship of the journal passed to Young's colleague at the University of Texas, [[Robert Adger Law|Robert Agder Law]], an authority on [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. The ''Texas Review'' languished under Law and seemed doomed—a sentiment he expressed to SMU's Hubbell in 1921. After conferring with his colleagues, Hubbell offered to bring the journal to SMU. Law replied that the University of Texas would not permit the journal to move.<ref name=":2" /> Three years later, however, they relented. The transfer involved no movement of materials or personnel—Hubbell received only a list of the journal's sixteen subscribers, one of which was the Southwestern Insane Asylum.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
=== ''Southwest Review'' ===
[[Category:American literary magazines]]▼
At SMU, the ''Texas Review'' became the ''Southwest Review'', and embraced a regional identity and focus.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Southwest Review |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/southwest-review |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref> Hubbell, assisted by English scholar George Bond and historian [[Herbert Gambrell]], edited the journal from 1924 to 1927. The journal was published out of the basement of [[Dallas Hall]], where the editors would sometimes be visited by SMU's founding president, [[Robert Stewart Hyer|Robert S. Hyer]].<ref name=":2" /> The ''Review'' received acclaim but struggled financially, and at one point Hubbell even wrote to Law to ask if, in the event it became impossible to continue, the University of Texas would take it back.<ref name=":2" /> Law said it would. In 1927, however, SMU's administration agreed to allocate $1,000 for the journal in the coming year—enough to keep it going.
When Hubbell and Bond left SMU in 1927, John McGinnis, an English professor, became editor. [[Henry Nash Smith]], then a young instructor in the English department, would recall that the ''Southwest Review'' flourished under McGinnis—who taught a full schedule and contributed regularly to the ''[[The Dallas Morning News|Dallas Morning News]]—''because he turned the production of the journal into a kind of seminar where senior students and junior colleagues collaborated closely throughout the editorial process. Less than a decade after coming to SMU, the ''Southwest Review'' had nearly 1000 paid subscribers.<ref name=":0" />
The [[Great Depression]] brought various difficulties. Due to financial strain, the ''Southwest Review'' was published jointly by SMU and [[Louisiana State University]] between 1931 and 1935. The collaboration ended when the LSU side secured funding for their own magazine, the ''[[The Southern Review|Southern Review]]''. The ''Southwestern Review'' survived the decade, largely thanks to its younger staff, including Henry Nash Smith, John Chapman, and [[Lon Tinkle]].<ref name=":0" /> A frequent contributor during this era was artist and future director of the [[Dallas Museum of Art|Dallas Museum of Fine Art]], [[Jerry Bywaters]].
McGinnis continued editing the ''Southwest Review'' until 1942. His successor, Donald Day, had a Ph.D. in English but was not on the faculty at SMU. This began a long period of non-faculty editorial leadership. Day managed the publication until 1946. It was then edited by Allen Maxwell until 1963. From 1962 until 1982, it was edited by Margaret Hartley.
In 1984, the ''Southwest Review'', which had never left SMU, appointed its first faculty editor since McGinnis. English professor Willard Spiegelman, working with managing editor Betsey McDougall, would push the journal in a more literary, cosmopolitan direction.<ref name=":1" /> Spiegelman would be awarded the [[PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing]] in 2005.
In 2016, Spiegelman was succeeded by Greg Brownderville, poet and SMU professor of English. Under Brownderville's leadership, the ''Southwest Review'' has developed a significant web presence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The “Southwest Review” reimagined – Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences |url=https://blog.smu.edu/dedmancollege/2018/10/09/the-southwest-review-reimagined/ |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=blog.smu.edu}}</ref>
==Honors and awards==
*Ann Harleman's story, ''Meanwhile'', received an [[O. Henry Award]] in 2003.
*Ben Fountain's story, ''Fantasy for Eleven Fingers'', won an [[O. Henry Award]] in 2005.
*Barbara Moss Klein's story, ''Little Edens'', was short-listed for the [[O. Henry Award]] in 2005.
*Merritt Tierce's story, ''Suck It'', was included in Best New Stories from the South 2008.
*Jacob Appel's story, ''Rods and Cones'', was short-listed for Best American Nonrequired Reading in 2008.
==See also==
*[[Southern Methodist University Press]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000641503 Southwest Review archive at HathiTrust]
[[Category:1915 establishments in Texas]]
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[[Category:Magazines established in 1915]]
[[Category:Magazines published in Texas]]
[[Category:Mass media in Dallas]]
[[Category:Quarterly magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Southern Methodist University]]
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