Washington Square is a nationally-distributed literary journal publishing fiction and poetry by emerging and established writers. Edited and produced biannually by the students of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program, Washington Square also sponsors an annual literary contest and hosts an annual benefit reading in New York City.

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Recent Contributors

In addition to exciting emerging writers, the 2007-2010 issues included new work by:

Steve Almond, John Ashbery, Joshua Beckman, Anne Carson, Mahmoud Darwish, Nguyen Do, Timothy Donnelly, Stephen Dunn, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Eamon Grennan, Terrance Hayes, Edward Hirsch, Phillis Levin, Todd Hasak-Lowy, Etgar Keret, David Kirby, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jeffrey McDaniel, Paul Muldoon, Carol Muske-Dukes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Howard Norman, D. A. Powell, Charles Simic, Ruth Stone, Nguyen Trai, Deb Olin Unferth, Cesar Vallejo, G. C. Waldrep, Elizabeth Willis, and John Yau.

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