DownstateStory:Details

Welcome to DOWNSTATE STORY!

• We're a not-for-profit literary magazine daring to be different. (We're also a pioneer website! See the original design, above.)
• We offer original, exciting, illustrated short stories for every taste.
• We're reader-oriented and want your reactions... Email us at [email protected]
• Check out the links below.

And here's a link to a story in the Peoria Journal Star about the 2016 edition.

Here's a link to a comment by author Kent McDaniel which includes reviews of some of the Vol. 21 stories.

VOL. 20, the 2011 edition, and other back issues are still available. Order now, at the link below where you print out and mail an order, or at the downstatestory.com site, where you can use our service, Democracy Engine.

Watch the 2012 video interview on Downstate Story, by The Peorian magazine. It's in there somewhere.

Listen to the March 13, 2011 podcast interview of publisher Elaine Hopkins done for the Illinois Central College radio station, WAZU-FM

Here's a well done Pekin Times story about Vol. 19.

The reviews are always good. Read a news story about Vol. 18 in the Peoria Journal Star.

Site Contents:

• About Downstate Story
• What's in Downstate Story?
• What the Critics Say
• Guidelines for Writers
• Ordering Copies of Downstate Story
• Links to related sites...
  • A true Peoria tale: Historic preservation (Not!)
  • Another Peoria tale, and a terrific example of free speech: http://peoriasmedicalmafia.blogspot.com
  • True Peoria stories, a project of Downstate Story: PeoriaStory.com
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  •  RETAILERS that carried the print edition of Downstate Story: (We thank them!)
  • I Know You Like a Book, 4704 Prospect, Peoria Heights. Email: [email protected]. Facebook: I know you like a book). Cozy atmosphere.
  • New Copperfield's, Macomb, Il. on the square, carries many local authors.
  • See our DSS listing at www.litmags.org