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[Welcome to Natural Bridge]
Natural Bridge, a journal of contemporary literature, is committed to presenting the best in new writing from established as well as promising writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including literature in translation. Published twice yearly at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Selections are made by a prominent guest-editor along with a staff of editorial assistants who are graduate students in the MFA program.
On this website, you will find news, calls for submissions, as well as samples of our past issues. A non-profit literary journal supported by English Department at UM-St. Louis and the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Natural Bridge sincerely appreciates your support.
Updates:
Natural Bridge Issue 26 is now available!
Now accepting submissions online through Submishmash!
There is a $3.00 charge for non-subscribers to submit online. This is not a reading fee, but helps maintain the submission service and website. This fee is waived for current subscribers. Save this fee by subscribing now.
If you are unsure about your subscription status, please email natural@umsl.edu with the subject “Subscription Status” and include your full name and mailing address in the body of the email.
We will continue to accept submissions free of charge through snail mail, but will no longer accept submissions via email. Submissions sent by email will not be read.
The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, personal essays, and translations year-round. Because we are tied to the academic calendar, we will not read between May 1 and August 1. We normally take 4-8 months to respond. We will post a notification here if we are currently not reading new submissions.
Natural Bridge
Department of English
University of Missouri-St. Louis
One University Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63121
Enclose SASE for notification. We pay in copies and a one year subscription. Simultaneous submissions OK as long as you notify us of acceptance elsewhere.
+It is now possible to order a subscription to Natural Bridge online! Please visit here to order a one, two, or three year subscription (it will be a part of UMSL's continuing education website, and will be listed under "Registration Options.")
+A wonderful video advertisement for Issue #22 can be found here. It features a short scene from John A McDermott's "Your Luggage is Your Life", featured in Natural Bridge #22.
+Please visit our Links for additional resources.
+Congratulations to Carol V. Davis whose poem, "With No Definite End," appeared in issue no. 25,
+Congratulations to Jeffrey Tigchelaar and his poem, "Blurbs," which appeared in issue no. 23. It has been selected for the Best New Poets Anthology.
+Congratulations to Andao Tian and her story, "The Death of my Mad Uncle," which appeared in issue no. 16. It has been selected as one of seven "Recommended Stories" for the O. Henry Prize 2008.
+Congratulations to the following authors whose recent collections have been published:
Mary Makofske (issues 6, 8, and 23), Traction, winner of the Richard Snyder Prize (Ashland Poetry Press, 2011)
Carol V. Davis (issue 25), Between Storms, (Truman State University Press, 2012)
Debra Brenegan (issue 26), Shame the Devil (State University of New York Press, 2011)
Tara Masih (issue 11), Where The Dog Star Never Grows (Press 53, 2010).
Judy Kronenfeld (issue 18), Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Book Prize in Poetry.
Murzban F. Shroff (issue 14), Breathless in Bombay: Stories (St. Martin's Griffin, 2007).
Liz Robbins (issue 16), Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish (The Backwaters Press, 2008).
Erin Elizabeth Smith (issue 16), The Fear of Being Found (Three Candles Press, 2008).
-Joseph Grailer, Managing Editor
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