The San Diego State University Collection; Harold Jaffe, Editor in Chief.

Issue #45: About Seeing	Issue #44: DV8	Issue #43: Walls	Issue #42: The Artist in Wartime
Issue #41: Freak	Issue #40: Animals	Issue #39: Abject / Outcast	Issue #38: Sacred / Shamanic
Issue #37: War / Resist	Issue #36: Ecstasy	Issue #35: Fetish	Issue #34: Madness II
Issue #33: Madness	Issue #32: Sabotage	Issue #31: Terror(isms)	Issue #30: Pain II
Issue #29: Pain	Issue #28: Visual Writing from Brazil	Issue #27: Political Correctness	Issue #26: Beuyscout Shock Tales
Issue #25: Mexican Fiction	Issue #24: Japanese Fiction	Issue #23: Visual Art Against War	Issue #22: Pornography & Censorship
Issue #21	Issue #20: American Indian Writers	Issue #19.2: AIDS Art	Issue #19.1: Third World Women Writers
Issue #18.2	Issue #18.1	Issue #17.2: Futurismo	Issue #17.1
Issue #16.2: Central American Writing	Issue #16.1	Issue #15.2	Issue #15.1: Writing & Politics

The St. Lawrence University Collection; Joe David Bellamy, Editor in Chief.

According to his recent memoir, The Lost Saranac Interviews: Forgotten Conversations with Famous Writers, Joe David Bellamy founded the Fiction International magazine and press, the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction, and the Saranac Writer’s Conference. His association with Fiction International ended in 1980, when he realized he “had spent the decade of the seventies engaged in far too many activities that began to seem by 1980 to be a distraction from my true purpose in life…”

These first five issues weren’t exclusively fiction: They included interviews, critiques, poetry, prose poems, and reviews.

Nevertheless, his decade’s output of fiction reflects the range of young, talented writers and editors he attracted to the Saranac Writers Conference and to St. Lawrence University, including (but not limited to): Jerry Bumpus, Tess Gallagher, Gary Snyder, and Asa Baber (2/3); Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Abish, Larry McCaffery, and Jerome Klinkowitz (4/5); Russell Banks, Robley Wilson, Jr., and Clarke Blaise (6/7). He then changed his editorial strategy to devoting one entire issue to a single writer: Robley Wilson, Jr. (8/9) and Asa Baber (10/11).

New (not used) copies of the first five issues of the St. Lawrence University Collection can be purchased exclusively through this website. They are not available on Amazon or St. Lawrence University Press or any other venue. If you are interested in reading work inspired and influenced by the writers attending the Saranac Conference (like Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Carolyn Forché and John Hawkes, you will want to read one.

Issue #14: Love Stories / Love Poems	Issue #13: New Writers for the Eighties	Issue #12: Moral Fiction
Issue #10/11: Asa Baber	Issue #8/9: Robley Wilson, Jr.	Issue #6/7: Various
Issue #4/5: Various	Issue #2/3: Various	Issue #1: Various