Past Issues

Obsidian is currently in the process of digitizing past issues dating to year 1986. Once we digitize the entire archive, we will make the past issues available to anyone upon request, by email, after receiving payment. Please see the bottom of this page for more information. In most cases, the issue will be emailed to you in .pdf format once we receive and process the payment. Then the file can be downloaded to your computer and/or printed.

Click on the links below to see the Tables of Contents for the following issues:

ONLINE ACCESS TO FULL ISSUES WILL BE AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. ONCE YOU CLICK ON "FULL ISSUE" YOU'LL BE ASKED TO LOG IN.

Obsidian:

• Volume 10, Number 2/Volume 11, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2009-Spring/Summer 2010
• Volume 10, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2009
• Volume 9, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2008
• Volume 9, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008 (full issue)
• Volume 8, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2007 (full issue)
• Volume 7, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2006
• Volume 6, Number 2/Volume 7, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2005-Spring/Summer 2006
• Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2005
• Volume 5, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2005
• Volume 5, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2004
• Volume 4, Number 2, Fall-Winter 2002-2003
• Volume 4, Number 1, Spring/Summer, 2002
• Volume 3, Number 2, Index Issue. Focus Section: Children's Literature
• Volume 3, Number 1, Celebrating Children's Literature
• Volume 2, Number 2, Catch Afire: New Jamaican Writing
• Volume 2, Number 1, Obsidian's 25th Anniversary Year
• Volume 1, Number 2, Poets as Outlaws/Cowboys: Gerald Barrax and Sam Cornish
• Volume 1, Number 1, African Women in Theater

FULL ACCESS option will be available to individual subscribers only. Institutional subscribers do not currently have this privilege. At any point our current subscibers will get full access to past four issues on our website in .pdf format. If you are not a subscriber and want to avail the privileges of an individual subscriber, please subscribe to us. Once you have sent us payment, we will email you the username and password to gain full access online.

NOTE:

1) If you want access to a single past issue then the price will be $10.00 (US Dollars). First, email us to obsidian@gw.ncsu.edu stating clearly the issue you want (please mention the volume and issue number). Second, we will reply to your email about the availability of the issue. Third, send your payment to the address mentioned below in the form of check or money order only. Fourth, once we process the payment, we will email the issue to you in .pdf format. The file can then be downloaded to your computer and/or printed.

2) If you want to order a hard copy of a past issue then the price will remain the same: $10.00 (US Dollars), including shipping and handling charges. But, we can not guarantee that the hard copy of a specific issue will be available. In that case we will offer you the option of emailing the issue in .pdf format.

3) Please send us your payment (in the form of check or money order only) to:

Obsidian
Department of English
Box 8105
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105

Allow two weeks for the payment to be processed.