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

In its first three issues, Panhandler has featured work by Natasha Trethewey, Brooks Haxton, Jim Grimsley, Kenneth Fields, and C. Dale Young, among other emerging and established writers.

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.

We look forward to receiving your work.

To view the contents of the current issue please click on the issue cover.