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Welcome to River StyxRiver Styx, now in its 37th year, is a tri-annual, non-profit, multicultural literary and arts magazine based in St. Louis. Issues run 100-120 pages, 6x9, perfect-bound, with glossy four-color covers and 15-20 pages of visual art in each issue. River Styx publishes the work of approximately 60 poets, 20 fiction and essay writers, and 20 visual artists yearly. Six of the most recent US Poets Laureate and two Nobel Prize winners have been River Styx contributors. Other contributors have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, O. Henry Awards, and American Book Awards. Read about River Styx in the Riverfront Times Subscriptions
Events
Since 1975, River Styx has sponsored a popular monthly reading series, running from September through May, at Duff's Restaurant in the Central West End. The readings typically feature one local and one nationally-based artist and attract a diverse audience of 60-100 persons. This series also includes special yearly events such as the River Styx Literary Feast, A Night of Irish Poetry and Music, April's National Poetry Month Celebration (featuring St. Louis based all-women poetry group, Loosely Identified), Schlafly's MicroFiction and MicroBrew reading, and the summer reading series, the Hungry Young Poets.
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River Styx embodies the best of non-profit independent literature. As an independent magazine, we earn just enough to keep publishing not trendy or politically connected work but what we love most—thoughtful yet accessible, unpredictable yet moving literature and art. We will always adhere to the lean and mean production ethic and keep the youthful energy that's made us, as Small Press Review says, "a beacon of light on which deserving voices dance."