Five Points

Since the publication of its inaugural issue in 1996, *Five Points* has become one of this country’s best literary magazines. Published three times a year by the Georgia State University Department of English, each issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews with the most compelling writers working today. Philip Levine called *Five Points* “A refreshing combination of the old and the new. The best literary magazine I’ve read in ages!” *Five Points* is ranked in the top ten magazines in the nation by Every Writer’s Resource. Works first published in *Five Points* have been selected to appear in *Best American Short Stories*, *Best American Poetry*, *O’Henry Prize Stories*, *Pushcart Best of the Small Presses*, *New Stories from the South*, *Utne Reader*, *Harper’s*, and *Poetry Daily.* Previous contributors include Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Frederick Busch, Edward Hirsch, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Christine Stewart, Martin Walls, Charles Wright, and many others. *Five Points* is named after an area of downtown Atlanta where cattle paths once converged at the site of an artesian well. As editors, the name offers us a metaphor for our goal of presenting a convergence of ideas and genres, photographs and text, north and south, east and west, young and old. Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art is published by [Georgia State University](http://www.gsu.edu/) twice a year.