The Briar Cliff Review

The Briar Cliff Review is a literary journal based in Sioux City, Iowa, USA, home of Briar Cliff University. The Review was founded in 1989 and has awarded its well-renowned prizes in fiction and poetry since 1996. The current editors are Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Rich Yates (design), Jeanne Emmons (Poetry), Jeff Gard / Amelia Skinner Saint (Fiction), Jeff Baldus (Art), and Paul Weber / Ryan Allen (Nonfiction). The final issue of the Briar Cliff Review is to be Volume 35 (2023). Previous winners of the Briar Cliff Review fiction prize include Jacob M. Appel's "The Final Word in Bee Keeping" (2000), George V. Tucker's "Norman, Oklahoma" (2003), Rebecca Tuch's "Stop Saying My Name" (2006), Scott H. Andrews's "A Brief Swell of Twilight" (2007), and Will Schwartz's "Scheherazade" (2017).

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