About the magazine

Literary Matters is the online literary magazine of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW).

We publish three issues per year, containing original works of scholarship and criticism, poetry, fiction, literary translation, and memoir. Recent issues have featured work from U.S. Poets Laureate and winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, and many other prestigious awards.