What is the Backwards City Review?

The Backwards City Review was founded in 2004 by five graduates of the Greensboro Writing Program with one goal in mind: to create a journal that caters to the world above, beyond, around, near, within-sight-of and slightly out of tune with conventional literary outlets.

Cities are built upon need. In the physical world, they collect around resources: a spring, a bay, fertile soil. Imaginary cities collect around ideas: a style of art, a search for information, a game, a movie, a band, a book, a political ideal. It is these new cities, these backwards cities, that nourish us and make it possible for us to live.

In our Backwards City, there is no mayor, and we eat all our meals at one long table.
Come sample our dishes.