Ascent is an Americanliterary magazine that publishes stories, poems, and essays, many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies. The journal is based atConcordia College inMoorhead, Minnesota.^[1]

The journal was founded in 1975 at theUniversity of Illinois by Daniel Curley.^[2] In 1996, essayist and English scholarW. Scott Olsen became the editor-in-chief. The journal moved to an online format in 2010, where it would reach a wider audience for its award-winning authors.

Recent notable contributors include Victoria Anderson,Jacob M. Appel,Karen Brown, Peter Chilson,Leo Damrosch,Philip Heldrich,Michael Martone, Sarah Baker Michalak and Marjorie Stelmach.

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