Greetings and welcome to the webpage of Panhandler. Panhandler is a journal of literature and art published by the University of West Florida's Department of English and Foreign Languages.

Unique among literary journals, Panhandler is published in three distinct ways: as an open-source emagazine, as a downloadable pdf, and as a printed, full-color magazine.

Panhandler has featured many emerging and established writers and artists, including Natasha Trethewey, Brooks Haxton, Youngsuk Suh, Jim Grimsley, Kenneth Fields, Beth Alice Cook and C. Dale Young, among others.

Work featured in Panhandler has gone on to be reviewed in Art in America and reprinted in American Writers, among other venues.

The editorial policy of Panhandler is to present in each issue many of the aesthetic forms that the majority of contemporary magazines do not have the space or the desire to publish. With the goal of bringing many of these genres to a wider audience, Panhandler publishes substantial folios of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, art, interviews and criticism.

Poetry folios contain 10-20 pages of poetry. Fiction folios range from short stories to novel excerpts to novellas. Drama folios consist of either a one-act play or a single act from a larger work. Panhandler welcomes all forms of nonfiction -- memoir, literary nonfiction and traditional journalism -- as well as substantial and insightful criticism. Art folios consist of 10-20 pages of visual art and/or scholarship by one or more artists/scholars.

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Please visit the issues page to view the content of the current and past issues.

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