The Briar Cliff Review Celebrates 20^th Anniversary

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University’s award-winning literary magazine, The Briar Cliff Review, will celebrate its 20^th anniversary with a reading and reception at the Sioux City Art Center, Downtown Sioux City, 7 p.m., on April 17, 2008.

The celebration will feature a sampling of poets, writers, and artists whose works are published in The Briar Cliff Review 20^th Anniversary Edition. At the reception, guests will have the opportunity to purchase posters featuring art and poetry from the magazine with proceeds benefitting The Briar Cliff Review. The event is free and open to the public.

From April 4-18, the Sioux City Art Center will exhibit art featured in The Briar Cliff Review, including Solanum Pomiferum Textrina by famed Nebraska textile artist Robert Hillestad.

“We are thrilled about reaching this milestone,” said founding editor Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Ph.D., professor of English and writing at Briar Cliff University. “When we started this magazine 20 years ago, we had no idea it would become the award-winning publication it is today.”

The Briar Cliff Review started as a small literary publication with seed money in 1988 on the Briar Cliff campus and has become widely acclaimed for its literary and artistic content, garnering multiple national awards. Since its inception, The Briar Cliff Review has published the works of 1,025 writers/artists from 45 states in the U.S. and the countries of Croatia, Madagascar, Vietnam, Japan, Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Philippines and Taiwan.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 26 states, Bosnia, Canada, Ecuador and Pakistan.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion.