Confrontation (journal)
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Confrontation is an American literary magazine
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 founded in 1968 and based at Long Island University
Long Island University
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 in Brookville, New York
Brookville, New York
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. It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year. The journal helped launch the careers of Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.-Background:Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children...

, Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar . He has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his...

 and Walter Abish
Walter Abish
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. The editor is Martin Tucker.

Work that has appeared in Confrontation has been short-listed for 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 The Best American Short Stories.

Notable contributors

  • W.H. Auden
  • John Steinbeck
    John Steinbeck
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  • Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
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  • Joseph Brodsky
    Joseph Brodsky
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  • Nadine Gordimer
    Nadine Gordimer
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  • S.Y. Agnon
  • Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller
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  • Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem
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  • Ed Bullins
    Ed Bullins
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  • Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates
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  • T.C. Boyle
  • Lanford Wilson
    Lanford Wilson
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  • Richard Burgin
    Richard Burgin
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  • Dan O'Brien
    Dan O'Brien (playwright)
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  • Jacob Appel
    Jacob M. Appel
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