Alligator Juniper (journal)
Encyclopedia
Alligator Juniper is a national literature and arts magazine published annually by undergraduates at Prescott College
. The journal was founded by Melanie Bishop in 1995. Publication is funded by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts
.
In 2001, 2004, and 2009, the magazine won the content award of the AWP
Director's Prize for undergraduate magazines.
Stories
and poems that have appeared in Alligator Juniper have received the Pushcart Prize
and inclusion in various anthologies. The journal regularly receives positive reviews from Newpages.
Marilyn Szabo
Prescott College
Prescott College is a private liberal arts college in Prescott, Arizona, founded in 1966. It is a non-profit organization which has an undergraduate body of roughly 800 students, and an average student to faculty ratio of 7:1 in on-campus classrooms...
. The journal was founded by Melanie Bishop in 1995. Publication is funded by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
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In 2001, 2004, and 2009, the magazine won the content award of the AWP
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is a literary organization whose mission is "to foster literary talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing."-Members:AWP...
Director's Prize for undergraduate magazines.
Stories
Stories
Stories may refer to:* Height of more than one Storey * Stories , a greatest hits compilation album by Randy Stonehill...
and poems that have appeared in Alligator Juniper have received the Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
and inclusion in various anthologies. The journal regularly receives positive reviews from Newpages.
Notable contributors
- Blake Butler
- Michaela Carter
- Rebekah Banks Ewing
- Catherine Dryden
- Leonard Michaels
- Matt Mendez
- Justin St. Germain
- Robert Schirmer
- Kathleen Kirk
- Laurie Ann Doyle
- Kevin Brown
- Elizabeth Volpe
- Jessica Roth
- Eliot Treichel
- Tony Hoagland
- Elton Glaser
- Anna Green
- Jacob Appel
- Sally Ball
Marilyn Szabo
Awards and honors
- Two of the Prescott College student prizewinners appearing in the 2009 issue were selected for an anthology of best undergraduate work published in the country in 2009: Jillian Fragale’s “Splitting in Half” (creative nonfiction) and K. Angeline Pittenger’s “Untitled” (photography) appeared in plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2009, published online during spring term 2010 by Bennington College. Alligator Juniper was one of more than 60 journals in the reading mix, along with publications from Brown, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Reed, Rice, Stanford, and Tulane.
- Justin St. Germain’s story “The Last Day of the Boom” from our 2008 issue was included in Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri (University of Texas Press, 2009).
- Kevin Brown’s story “One Life” from our 2007 issue was included in the teaching anthology Voices published by The Institute.
- Elton Glaser’s poem “Drinking Alone on a Spring Day,” published in Alligator Juniper 2007, was featured on Verse Daily.
- Anna Green’s story “Food Stamps,” published in Alligator Juniper 2006, was reprinted in the anthology New Stories from the Southwest.
- Sally Ball’s poem “’Tis Often Thus with Spirits” and Claire Whitenack's poem “At the Fish Hatchery,” both published in our 2006 issue, were featured on Verse Daily.