Amy Leigh Owen — Associate Editor
Meredith Davies Hadaway — Poetry Editor
Lindsay Denninger — Assistant Editor The Summerset Review is a literary journal released quarterly on the 15th of March, June, September, and December on the Internet, and periodically in print form. Founded in 2002, the journal is exclusively devoted to the review and publication of unsolicited fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
All correspondence and submissions should be emailed to editor@summersetreview.org. Postal mailing address: 25 Summerset Drive, Smithtown, New York 11787, USA. See our guidelines for more information.
This publication is made possible, in part, with grants from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), supported by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency. We are very thankful for the support and encouragement these organizations have given our journal and the literary community.
The Summerset Review is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, incorporated in New York State.
Republication or redistribution of any material on this web site should not be done without permission from the originator.
ISSN 1933-7175.
Staff Bios
Joseph Levens was a finalist in the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Fiction. In 2011, his stories are appearing in cream city review and Sou'wester. In past years, he has had fiction and nonfiction appear in Florida Review (2007 Editors' Award for Fiction), New Orleans Review, AGNI, Sou'wester, Meridian, Other Voices, The Good Men Project and Swink, among others. He has taught fiction writing a number of years, and currently works for a publishing company in Manhattan. He lives on Long Island.
Amy Leigh Owen joined The Summerset Review when it first launched in 2002. Leigh has a BA in Communications from the University of Alabama where she majored in journalism and minored in creative writing with a fiction emphasis. Her background includes work in magazines, publishing, special events, and film production. Leigh is also the assistant editor of Columns for Moondance and currently freelances as an editor/copy editor in Alabama.
Meredith Davies Hadaway is the author of Fishing Secrets of the Dead (Word Press, 2005) and The River is a Reason (Word Press, 2011). Her poems and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Apalachee Review, Stand, Cincinnati Review, Harpur Palate, Atlanta Review, and Poetry International. One poem was recently selected by Mark Doty as a finalist (Honorable Mention) for the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Prize. She serves as chief marketing officer for Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
Lindsay Denninger reads submissions and writes book reviews for the journal, enjoying the experience of finding new and talented authors. She received a BA in English Literature and Public Relations from Long Island University in 2008, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and is completing an MA in British and American Literature at Hunter College in New York City.
History of the Journal
The Summerset Review started as an online literary quarterly in 2002, publishing exclusively fiction and nonfiction. With a staff of three volunteers, the magazine faithfully produced its issues on time, reviewing unsolicited submissions year-round, the great majority of which were made electronically and sent through email from hopeful writers ranging from high school students to authors with many published books to their names.
Since 2002, the magazine gained two staff members and lost one (still all volunteers), has taken on poetry, book reviews, and occasionally art, and produced a few print issues collecting a sampling of work that previously appeared online. Remaining ad-free and simple to navigate and read, the publication has continued to release all issues on time and full of variety.
The Summerset Review has read at The New York Public Library, national conferences, colleges, and other places, including events sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC). Print issues of the magazine are frequently donated to book fairs across the country, with all proceeds going to charitable causes in the respective areas.
Mission Statement
We think of ourselves as simply people who like to read good contemporary literature, who want to share the best of our experiences with others. The highest form of retribution for our efforts is a lasting impact on a few sensitive readers of our journal—people we don't know, people we will never meet. We received an email from a reader once, who said a story in our current issue (at the time) changed her life. Assuming this change was for the better, what more could we ask for?
