title: Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry
text: # Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry
  
  The Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry is a literary journal established in 1956 that publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
  
  ## History
  
  The journal was established in 1956 by student at the University of Tulsa, and its first editor-in-chief was James Land Jones. The journal began as a thrice-yearly publication, but since 1970, it has been published twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall.
  
  Notable contributors include Sue Monk Kidd, Tricia Holland Baatz, Gish Jen, Natalie Diaz, Jacob M. Appel, and Sharon Solwitz, among others.
  
  ## Awards
  
  Stories from the journal have been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays, and have won the O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize anthologies, among others.
  
  