Copper Nickel is a journal of art and literature published by the students and faculty of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Copper Nickel is dedicated to showcasing the best Denver has to offer alongside the best we can find in America today, to marrying the novice and the professional, the known with the volatile.

Issue 9, "Imaginary Films," is on the newstands and available for sale right here. Issue 9 features work by Seth Abramson, Bill Adams, Andrew S. Bodine, Oni Buchanan, Emily Cervantes, Wm Anthony Connolly, Molly Giles, Jim Goar, Robert Grindy, David Gruber, Anne Heide, Carolyn Hembree, Charles Jensen, George Kalamaras, John Major, Gary L. McDowell, Juan J. Morales, Deborah Poe, Christopher Ryan, C. J. Sage, Nate Slawson, Stephanie Smith, Nate Stone, A. E. Watkins, Meagan Wilson, and Snezana Zabic.

Copper Nickel 10, "Women Writing the West," will be released on October 15, 2008. You may pre-order a copy here and it will be mailed to you when it's released.

Copper Nickel 10 will be published as part of a three-day symposium featuring readings, talks, and conversations by Alyson Hagy, Pam Houston, Page Lambert, Deirdre McNamer, Maria Melendez, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and Karen Volkman. The symposium will be held on the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver October 15-17. All events will be free and open to the public. More information here when it becomes available.

And don't forget Copper Nickel 8 featuring photographic and literary work from and about New Orleans. Contributors include Cynthia Arrieu-King, Jenn Blair, Blake Butler, Julia Cohen and Mathias Svalina, Christopher Chambers, Kathryn Colburn, Peter Cooley, Julie Doxsee, R. Jason Fraley, Kelle Groom, R. J. Lambert, Alex Lemon, Deanna Kern Ludwin, Andrea Marcusa, Clay Matthews, Theo Mullen, Kay Murphy, Kristen Prevallet, Melissa Pritchard, Nick Regiacorte, Nicole Louise Reid, Clinton T. Sander, Brandon Shimoda, Rebecca Strauss, Sara Veglahn, and Andy Young. You can buy copies directly from us or from one of the many independent booksellers along Colorado's Front Range.

Our first broadside is here, a limited edition of Allison Titus's poem "The Nineteenth Century." There are only 57 of these babies, all hand-signed by the poet. They'll go on sale next week here for $12 each.

 

 

 

And don't forget...

Copper Nickel 7 is here, featuring work by Roxanne Banks, Gina Franco, Noah Eli Gordon, G. L. Grey, Mark Guilbeau, Megan Harrison, Matthea Harvey, Conor Hollis, Rian Kerrane, Jen Lamb, Amorette Lana, Al Maginnes, Christopher Merkner, Jeff Newberry, Christopher Newgent, Joshua Poteat, Nicholas Reading, Rob Sumner, Mathias Svalina, Allison Titus, Fred Ulrich, and Joe Zeppetello.

Buy it here or at our local sponsors, Book Buffs of Denver and Composition and look for its imminent arrival on the shelves of the local Tattered Covers as well.

For more info and some web exclusives, click here.

The editors are now at work on issues 11 and 12. All submissions should be sent as attachments in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf).

All poetry should be sent to the (click for e-mail address) and all fiction to (click for e-mail address). All other submissions and queries may be sent to the (click for address).

Please read our complete submission guidelines here.