Steel City Review -- Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Julia LaSalle
724-513-0323
editor@steelcityreview.com

A Locally-Based Literary Magazine to Launch in January

Pittsburgh, PA, December 13, 2007— The Steel City Review, a Pittsburgh-based magazine of short fiction, announced today that its first
issue of collected prose will go live January 27, 2007. The first issue will be available online at www.steelcityreview.com.

The Steel City Review is a quarterly online magazine with an annual print anthology. The magazine is co-edited by Julia LaSalle and Stefani
Nellen, who both call Pittsburgh home.

“We had so many wonderful submissions for this first issue,” explains Nellen. “We can’t wait to share the stories we found with a larger
audience.”

“There are so many important stories that aren’t available to readers,” Nellen continues, “and that’s just sad. Fiction entertains and illuminates,
sparks discussions. Opens new perspectives.”

The stories in the first issue were carefully selected from submissions that arrived from not only from Oakland and Dormont, but around the
world.

“We want the magazine to be centered around Pittsburgh-inspired themes,” explains LaSalle, “we want to have stories about Pittsburgh itself,
and also more abstractly about the places where technology, academia and innovation intersect with human nature and matters of the heart.”

This first online issue will present as-yet unpublished works from both emerging writers and more established authors like Ejner Fulsang,
author of A Destiny of Fools Århus Publishing 2007; Donna Vitucci whose work has appeared in the Mid-American Review and Meridian; and
Steve Fellner author of Blind Date with Cavafy which will be released by Marsh Hawk Press in 2007. This first issue will include authors with
roots in Pittsburgh, like Maggie Shearon and Marc Lowe, and beyond.

For more information about this Steel City Review, please contact Julia LaSalle, Co-editor, Steel City Review, at 724-513-0323.

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