Lake Effect (journal)
# Lake Effect (journal)

Lake Effect is a literary journal based at the Erie campus of Penn State University. It was first published in 1996. In Spring 2022, the 26th volume of the journal was released.

## Editors

The current editors are George Looney (editor-in-chief) and Aimee Pogson (fiction).

It is notable among University-sponsored literary journals in that its editorial staff are undergraduate students. Most other University-sponsored literary journals have MFA students who are involved in the editorial work.

## Contributors

Recent noteworthy contributors include: Steve Almond, Jacob M. Appel, T. R. Hummer, Michael Martone, Chris Mazza, Esther Pearlman and Virgil Suarez.

## Other Awards

Stories that have previously appeared in Lake Effect have been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories. [citation and title / author needed]

