Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing (ISSN 1536-8475) is edited by faculty in the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University.
The editors accept submissions of poetry, literary prose, and visual art from faculty, staff and students at the campus, although cover art has at times been solicited from local artists who have shown their work in campus galleries.
The magazine was founded by the poet Barbara Henning, and the first annual issue appeared in 1992. Full sets of back-issues are available in the Periodicals Collection of Salena Library at Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus) and in the Little Magazine Collection of Memorial Library at The University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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