The February issue of The Lake, online journal of poetry and poetics, is now available to read open access. Readers can enjoy new works by Clive Donovan, Tom Kelly, Andy Humphrey, Fish Lu, Dana Holley Maloney, Bruach Mhor, Kate Noakes, Fred Pollack, Fiona Sincliar, Rachel Wild. The Lake also offers reviews of recent books, this month spotlights Charles Rammelkamp’s review of Dementia Lyrics by Dennis Hinrichsen. ‘One Poem Reviews,’ a unique feature in which poets allow The Lake to publish a sample poem from a recently published collection, includes works by Laura Daniels, Jeremy Gadd, Lance Mazmanian, J.R. Solonche, and Davie Earl Williams.
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine is devoted to publishing quality work that doesn’t merely strike a familiar chord but enriches our experience. The Fall/Winter 2025 issue offers tribute to Peter Solet, poetry staff reader and founding member of SBLAAM who passed away late last year.
The issue invites readers to experience new fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual imagery from Marie Manilla, Pamela Schoenewaldt, Megan Trihey, Joe Greco, James Irwin, Marie-Andree Auclair, Carol Booth, Hannah Genevieve Cornell, Mohsen hosseinkhani, Garrett Phelan, Linda Scheller, Enid Cokinos, Donald L Patten, and many more.
Smoky Blue Literary an Arts Magazine (SBLAAM) is a sponsored project of Creative Aging Network-NC, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Published by Washington & Lee University and supporting poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, comic artists, and translators since 1950, the online Fall 2025 issue of Shenandoah introduces a new series called “Catalyst,” profiling people whose craft — defined broadly — advances justice and equality. The first conversation in this series is “’Reading is a subversive act’: Shenandoah interviews Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor – Elect Ghazala Hashmi.”
The issue also features an interview with visual artist Kristen Mills and Hope Prize Winner Isaac Kanyinji’s “A 2019 Survey on How People Imagine Themselves Dying.”
The rest of the issue includes fiction by N.S. Ahmed, leena aboutaleb, Muhammad El-Hajj (trans. Yasmine Zohdi), Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim, Jeneé Skinner, Swati Sudarsan; poetry by Tran Tran, Sayuri Matsuura Ayers, Apollo Chastain, Ali Choudhary, Prosper Ifeanyi, Dabin Jeong, Nicole W. Lee, Kabel Mishka Ligot, Susanna Rich, River, Sarp Sozdinler, Para Vadhahong, Teri Vela, nonfiction by Nancy Bell, Youssef Rakha, Tracy Rothschild Lynch, Christy Tending, Wenyi Xiao; and comics by Mariah Gese, Joel Holub, Parisa Karami, and Audrey Odang.
The Common Issue 30 opens with Editor Jennifer Acker’s celebration of The Common’s 15th Anniversary and closes with an interview with Teju Cole, “The Epiphany in the Ordinary.” There is also a special portfolio of art and poetry from Ukraine; short stories from Morocco, Canada, Maine, Phoenix, and Cape Cod; essays about the body and a ruined city in the Argentine Pampas; and poems on art, dance, family, waiting, and loss from Wyatt Townley, Robert Cording, Lawrence Joseph, Anna Maria Hong, and more.
“Writing is power because it can provide hope. This is why, throughout history, tyrants have always come for the poets first; a populace is much easier to terrorize and subjugate without the flame of hope sustaining them.” ~ Sky IslandJournal Editors
Readers and writers searching for a source of hope and resistance against oppression need only click to join Sky Island Journal’s global, fearless community. In their introduction to Issue 34, the editors affirm their pledge to keep literature freely accessible, independent from political or commercial pressures, and dedicated to empathy, freedom, and hope. “Art creates empathy. Empathy creates kindness. Kindness creates strength. This is our purpose, and we will not stop. This is our mission, and we will not fail.”
Upholding the Sky Island Journal mission in the newest issue are contributors Alina Kalontarov, Allison Mei-Li, Annalise Parady, Anne Ramallo, Athena Serbourne, Bex Hainsworth, Bray McDonald, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas, Christian Knoeller, Dara Goodale, Dick Altman, Elda Oreto, Elizabeth Rosen, Filiz Fish, Gabrielle Munslow, Grace Crouthamel, Grace Lynn, Inez Chong, J.M.C. Kane, Jay Udall, Jessica Aure Pratt, Jillian Stacia, Jocelyn Ajami, John Muro, Katy Luxem, Ken Malatesta, Kiana McCrackin, Kristen Keckler, Kristen Reece, Lin Fay, Marisha Kashyap, Michael Brookbank, Michael J. Galko, Morrow Dowdle, Nicole Dalcourt, Olga Khmara, Parineeta Habib, R.H. Booker, Rachel Lauren Myers, Rachel M. Hollis, Rachel Mallalieu, Robin Zastrow, Sheree Stewart Combs, Susmita Mukherjee, Wasima Khan, Yuening Weng, Zoe Culbertson, and Zoleikha Baloch.
The inaugural issue of The Dolomite Review is now available to read open access online and also offers e-subscriptions so readers will not miss each new quarterly issue of poetry, short stories, and essays. The Dolomite Review welcomes writers of every level of experience, from novice to master. “We seek out writers, primarily from the Midwest,” says Managing Editor Maryann Lawrence, “but welcome writers outside the Midwest as long as the writing has some relation to the region — be that setting, plot, or character.”
“We would love to hear someone say, I just read a random story in The Dolomite Review and was blown away,” Lawrence shares. “And, in fact, we are delighted that someone said exactly that! Considering this is our first issue, we are tickled with the feedback we are receiving. We hope every issue gets this response.”
Representing Readers & The Midwest
That kind of reader response is key to the mission of The Dolomite Review. “We noticed a need for a literary journal that appeals to readers primarily,” says Lawrence. “So many magazines are written for authors, other publishers, editors, and those in the publishing community, bogged down with reviews and how-tos and appeals to writers. We want to bring readers into the fold and provide them a space online that is free of writer-centric content. Additionally, we just feel like there is not enough Midwest representation in publishing. And by Midwest we mean sensibilities and lifestyle.”
Readers first encounter that Midwest sensibility in the name of the publication. Lawrence notes, “We considered the word dolomite might mislead people into thinking we were named after the Dolomite mountain range in Italy.” While Lawrence does have Italian roots, the name actually refers to the limestone rock formations on Michigan’s Drummond Island. “The island is the most easterly point in the U.P.,” she explains, “and, while Canada is just beyond, it’s the views of Lake Huron that really ignite the imagination. We think the atmosphere of those rocks looking over the vast lake, alternately brutally cold and awesomely beautiful, a place that takes your breath away, is what we are trying to achieve with the literary works we publish, reflecting the beauty and the brutality of life in the Midwest.”
Masthead Expertise & Submissions
The masthead of The Dolomite Review includes Managing Editor Maryann Lawrence, who lives in Michigan and is an award-winning journalist and author of two books, Season of the Great Bird and Uneventful. For the past thirty years, her short stories, poetry and essays have been published in journals and magazines throughout the U.S. Joining Lawrence is Lead Technician Sarah Penrose, who keeps the website up and humming while also studying User Experience Research & Design at the University of Michigan. She has experience with web and mobile design, user research, and site development. Rounding out their expertise is Editor Katherine Bird, who has also worked with Mayapple Press [once based in Michigan; currently upstate New York] and Sky & Telescope.
For writers wanting to find a home for their works, submissions can be sent through The Dolomite Review website (no direct email submissions). They first go through the managing editor who decides which will be accepted. Next, they go to the editor for line editing and proofreading. “We wish we could provide feedback, but there are just too many submissions and too few staff to make that happen right now,” says Lawrence. “As for response time, we aim for two weeks.”
Storytelling for Readers
Readers clicking over to The Dolomite Review can expect a welcome mat! “We have purposely created The Dolomite Review with simple, clean lines for a comfortable reading experience,” says Lawrence. “We are ad-free, so no disruptive side bars. We offer subscription, but you don’t have to subscribe to visit. There are no pop-up blockers. Just excellent writing. Storytelling is our niche so narrative form poetry is generally featured. We don’t go for enigmatic poetry or any kind of poem that requires an explanation. The short stories and essays we publish are engaging; we generally do not publish genre-specific work such as horror or romance. Just plain old great storytelling.”
Contributors to the first issue include Diane Scholl, Darcy Hicks, Steve Gardiner, Melissa Crandall, Grace Fabbri, John Lennon, Susan Swartwout, Elisabeth Crago, Brian Cronwall, and JoAnne Tillemans.
Surprises & Goals
Reflecting on the start-up for The Dolomite Review, Lawrence considers what she has learned, which can also include pleasant surprises. “Finding enough people to subscribe to a magazine that isn’t published yet was a lesson I did not expect to learn. Same for contributors. It’s a lot to ask a writer to submit to a magazine that (1) doesn’t pay and (2) hasn’t been published/proven. I am really surprised by how many people did one or the other or both.”
Going forward with The Dolomite Review, Lawrence is hopeful for continued growth and mutual support. “We want to, of course, increase our reach, and draw in more excellent writers. We are hoping to create an anthology every couple of years. We would love to have a homebase – a physical office to call our own so that we might also be able to offer residency programs, readings, writer workshops, maybe bring in guest editors. We are thinking about a podcast or creating audio for each issue. The sky is the limit, really, as far as future goals.”
The mission of Rogue Agent: A Journal for Work that Inhabits the Body is to center the body as a site of truth, risk, and resistance — inviting poetry and artwork that explores pleasure, pain, sensuality, vulnerability, and power. Guest Editor AllisonBlevins introduces Issue 130, who shares, “The poems I chose were a balm to me as I continue to navigate chemo after a breast cancer diagnosis [. . . ] I hope you will all find something in this issue that speaks to the hope you need today.”
Contributors offering hope in this issue include Travis Chi Wing Lau, Justin Lacour, Amie Whittemore, Emily Hockaday, Shae, Chloe Yelena Miller, Scott Ferry, Susan Michele Coronel, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Daniel Edward Moore, and Donna Vorreyer.
By reclaiming sensitivity as courage and confronting how bodies are written over by oppression, Rogue Agent seeks to dismantle those forces and amplify embodied truth through daring, intimate work.
“In this final issue of Kaleidoscope,” the editors share, “we pause to reflect on how far we have come during our journey. We’ve made significant strides to change perceptions of disability and championed the talents of countless writers and artists.”
It seems fitting that a theme unifying these final pieces is movement — specifically, forward motion. While some are obvious from their titles, “We Walk” by Kirk Lawson and “Falling Forward” by Adam B. Perry, others reveal, through more subtle narratives, the need to advance, evolve, and adapt.
“Papa was a Rollin’” is the featured essay and provides a heartfelt glimpse into the life of a child who has only ever known a father who uses a wheelchair. She saw the chair as “boundless” but encountered those who viewed it as a “limitation.” The chair provides access, but the world is often inaccessible. Through the ups and downs, she has been along for the ride, admiring his humor, strength, grit, and determination. All of which have shaped the woman she’s become.
“Seasons are ever-changing throughout life,” the editors close, “and we are grateful to those who have been with us for so many years. While this is the end of our journey, we know you will continue the mission to explore the experience of disability and change perceptions moving forward. Thank you for being an essential part of our story.”
Editor Steven Harvey open River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 27.1 (Fall 2025):“’The one thing I will not tamper with in this class,’ I tell my students when I teach the art of the personal essay, ‘is your voice.’” Harvey goes on to examine the role and value of voice in writing as sacred and unteachable no matter its form, but also the political vulnerability of voice and the role of literary magazines to safeguard the human voice.
Contributing voices to this newest issue include Jim Daniels, Shannon Cram, Corrie Williamson, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Phong Nguyen, Allison Field Bell, L.C. Killingsworth, Emma Bolden, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jenny Molberg, Rachel Cline, Lynda Rushing, Gary Fincke, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Asena McKeown.
River Teeth is also home to Beautiful Things, a weekly online magazine of micro-essays of 250 words or fewer. Readers can subscribe for free and “find beauty, curiosity, and meaning in the everyday.” Recent contributors include Andreea Boboc, Lauren Fath, Allison Kirkland, James T. Morrison, H.K. Hummel, Jessica Franken, Allison Field Bell, Natalie Goldberg, Kat Moore, Jeannine Pitas, and many more.
Published by Press 53, Prime Number Magazine celebrates its 16th Anniversary! Prime Number is home to distinctive poetry, short fiction, and flash nonfiction from writers around the world. Each issue of Prime Number features winners of their free, monthly 53-Word Story Contest, regular content selected by guest editors, and information about upcoming guest editors. Their annual September edition features the winners of the Prime Number Magazine Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction that are open for entries January through March each year, and the winners of their two free contests: the monthly 53-Word Story Contest and the “Prime 53 Poem” Summer Challenge.
The newest issue, #281 (Jan-Apr 2026), features selections from guest editors Maura Way (poetry), Gerry Wilson (short fiction), and Shuly Xóchitl Cawood (flash nonfiction), who selected works by Bethany Bruno, Melissa Ostrom, David M. Alper, Dustin P. Brown, Maureen Martinez, Sarah Sorensen, Laura Freudig, B.P. Gallagher, and Steven Schwartz. Readers can also enjoy the publication’s 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees.
Plume publishes the best contemporary poetry: national and international voices in monthly issues with twelve poets contributing one poem each. Plume Issue #173 (January 2026) includes a portfolio of poems by George Bradley with additional contributions by Samuel Amadon, Marisa Martínez Pérsico, Lindsay Stuart Hill, Joseph Campana, J.T. Barbarese, Fleda Brown, Cynthia Cruz, Charles Bernstein, Bruce Bond, and Alan Shapiro. Readers can also find commentary from authors in the section “The Poets and Translators Speak” as well as “On the Prose Poem, the Fragment, Literary Influence, and Kafka’s Ears: An Interview with Peter Johnson” by Cassandra Atherton, and the essay, “A Love Letter to Longing” by Alice B Fogel. Ann Leamon reviews the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless by Matthew Cooperman.
Since 1998, OffCourseis a quarterly journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, stories, and essays edited by Ricardo Nirenberg for readers to enjoy open-access, online. OffCourse December 2025 offers a diverse literary collection exploring surreal imagery, memory, place, identity, and the intersections of the everyday with the mythic and psychological. Contributors inlcude Sarah Carleton, Linda Fischer, Louis Gallo, Lois Greene Stone, Mark Jackley, Miriam Kotzin, Ricardo Nirenberg, Claire Scott, Ian C. Smith, J. R. Solonche, Daniel P. Stokes, R. L. Swihart, and Jim Tilley. Readers will also find the publication’s full archive online.
The Winter 2025 Issue of Humana Obscura features work from 54 contributors from around the globe, including cover art by Brigitte B. Burckhardt, back cover art by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig, interviews with artist Carol Haynes and poets Abby Harding and Sukriti Patny, and spotlights on the work of poet David Sleeth-Keppler and photographer Brooke Ryan.
Other contributors include Alexandra Karnasopoulos, Anne Kulou, Barbara Hickson, Beverley Sylvester, Caroline Brown, Christen Lee, Cynthia Anderson, D A Angelo, Debbie Strange, Dena Heitfield Smith, Diane Perazzo, Ellen Rowland, Ethan Pines, James Toupin, Jason Dean, Jason Harlow, Jen Lothrigel, Jennifer Gurney, Jil St. Ledger-Roty, Jim Stewart, Karah Snyder, Kiera Obbard, Kristine Amundrud, Lauren Chavez, Lee-Anne Schmidt, Lisa Perkins, Louis Talbot, Luke Levi, Melissa Dennison, Michael J. Kolb, Mike Taylor, Najib Joe Hakim, Nicholas Olah, Robert MacLean, Ron C. Moss, Ruth Sharman, Sarah Banks, Sarah Hewitt, Sarah Lilja, Shutta Crum, Sierra Glassman, Silvia Felizia, Soumya Mukherjee, Talitha May, Thomas Smith, Xenia Tran, and Yana Kane.
Published by Nostalgia Press, HEART literary journal hails from the lowcountry of South Carolina, with a penchant for modern prose poetry, poems that give life and motion to moods, messages from simple moments, and sparkling lines from meditative thought. The newest issue shines a spotlight on HEART Poetry Award winner Melinda Coppola for her work “Rinsing Blueberries.” Other contributors include Amber Rose Crowtree, Jenny Bates, Lexi Deeter, Jane Maria Robbins, Nicole Grace, Carrie Esposito, Julia H. Fonte, Lori Goff, Jacob Friesenhah, Richard Eric Johnson, Matthew Francis Mazzoni, Gib Prettyman, Shanina Carmichael, Nichola Viglietti, J. Anthony Jackson, and Connie Lakey Martin.
HEART also publishes HEARTPosts online, true personal experiences or personal opinions about how you manage to keep heart in your journey: the good, maybe bad, but insightful. Recent contributors include Ronald L. Nester, Sr., Harriette Graham Cannon, and Connie Lakey Martin.
Collateral online journal showcases literary and visual art that reveals the impact of military service and violent conflict beyond the combat zone. Take a moment to appreciate the artistry and humanity expressed by the newest issue’s contributors: Callie S. Blackstone, Anna Bowles, Benjamin Busch, Ryan Calo, Tommy Cheis, Julie Friar, Enrique Gautier, Gloria D. Gonsalves, Romney Grant, Christina Hauck, Wayne Karlin, Jayant Kashyap, Anja Mujić, Christian Paige, Madeleine Schneider, Thomas Short, Rachael Trotter, Bunkong Tuon, and Andy Young. Artwork by Alex Kuno.
Readers can also still catch Collateral‘s 2025 Pushcart Nominations by Anna Bowles, Gloria D. Gonsalves, Ryan McCarty, Wayne Karlin, Francisco Martínezcuello, and Bunkong Tuon.
The reading period for Collateral 10.2 is open until March 1, 2026.
Cleaver Magazine Issue 52 Winter 2025-2026 showcases the Visual Poetics Contest Winners: First Place “Box of Air” by Katrina Roberts; Second Place “MASH (a Cento Game for Poetry Lovers)” by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose; and Third Place “Untitled Mural, Acrylic on Four Vertical Metal Panels, 6’ x 8’, c. 1979” by Cindy Hill.
The issue also includes poetry by Robyn Schelenz, Simon Parker, David John Rosenheim, Ivy Hoffman, Jim Stewart; fiction by KSM, N.D. Brown, Andrew V. Lorenzen, Marc Kaufman, Terri Lewis; micro fiction and nonfiction by Barbara Westwood Diehl, Louella Lester, Emily Rinkema, Aurora Bonner, Preeti Talwai, Sydney Lea, Bobby Crace, Kevin Spaide, Beth Gilstrap, Claudia Monpere; nonfiction by Vivienne Germain, Sara Quinn Rivara, and the visual narrative “Connecticus Diggs, Cultural Detective Episode 4: Letters” by Clifford Thompson.
Cleaver Magazine is free to read online and offers a full online archive and free subscriptions.
Founded in 2016 in Joshua Tree, Cholla Needles publishes monthly issues showcasing ten writers in depth, including international voices and translations. The magazine focuses on established and emerging writers who have a distinctive voice and communicate well with readers. The January 2026 issue features works by Jason Jones, Arvilla Fee, Marlene M. Tartaglione, Bonnie Bostrom, Duane Anderson, Joseph Hutchison, Christien Gholson, Zita Murányi, Royal Rhodes, Justin Hollis, J. Malcolm Garcia, David Larsen, and Jonathan Ferrini. Cholla Needles is open year-round to submissions of poetry, short stories, creative essays, art and photographs.
The Winter 2025 issue of Boulevard includes 2023 Fiction Contest winner Mary Elizabeth Dubois, 2023 Nonfiction Contest winner Phillip Barcio, and 2023 Poetry Contest winner Lucinda Trew. It also features a Boulevard Craft Interview with Chelsea T. Hicks by Daniel J. Musgrave and an essay by Devin Thomas O’Shea, along with new fiction from Cole Chamberlain, Emerson Henry, Zehra Nabi, Jude Whiley, and Anthony Yarbrough, new poetry from Claressinka Anderson, Carrie Beyer, Colby Cotton, Tiara Dinevska-McGuire, Kindall Fredricks, Sammy Lê, and Anna Tomlinson, and translations of Luciana Jazmín Coronado by Allison deFreese, another translation of Roxana Crisólogo by Dr. Kim Jensen and Judith Santopietro, and essays by Brandi Ocasio, Riley Rockford, and Damieka Thomas. Cover art by August Lamm.
Publishing essays weekly online, bioStories features literary essays portraying ordinary and influential lives, revealing moments of grace through vivid, empathetic word portraits. Recent essays include “Attempting Fate” by Adam Perry, “The Gymnast” by Mark Lucius, “FedEx: When You Absolutely, Positively Need That Third Job” by Patrick D. Hahn, “Rocket 88” by Sydney Lea, and “The Scottish Play” by Naomi DeMarinis. Readers will also delight in reading bioStories 2025 Pushcart Nominees: Elizabeth Bird for “On Love, War, and Loss: A Life in Three Acts” and Lee Jeffers Brami for “My Grandmother’s Secret.“
bioStories accepts submissions of nonfiction prose submissions only 500–7500 words (their typical piece runs an average of 2500 words). bioStories is also always on the look-out for art that is representative of their mission and that fits well with essays they feature as well as cover art for digital issues and digital/print anthologies. See the bioStories website for more information.
Wordrunner eChapbooks is a hybrid of online literary journal and chapbook collections. Their 56th issue, The Alice Project by David Hadbawnik, is excerpted from a longer work, Dolores Park: A Memoir of the 1990s’ Bay Area Art Scene, in which the author reflects on his younger, insecure self struggling to find his voice. Hadbawnik’s alter ego, Horner, strives to find his place in a community recently gutted by the AIDS crisis and grappling with widespread gentrification wrought by the dot-com bubble. He falls in with an eccentric group of dancers, musicians, poets, and artists of all kinds. Like the city, the Alice Project becomes a world unto itself, with moments of the sublime and absurd, triumph and failure, love and loss. The chapbook may be read online here or in a Kindle edition.
Also available online are all previous Wordrunner eChapbooks publications: 28 fiction, 8 CNF/memoir, and 5 poetry collections, each by one author — plus 15 anthologies by multiple authors and 3 micro-prose issues.
Submissions for the annual themed anthology will be open January 1 through February 28, 2026. More details here.
The January 2026 issue of The Lake now online featuring new poetry by J. Ajula, Rick Christiansen, Patrick Deeley, Carrie Farrar, Fin Fearn, William Ogden Haynes, Gabrielle Munslow, J. R. Solonche, Hannah Stone, Kamil Zaszkowski. The Lake also offers book reviews of Parch by Menna Elfyn, Soulful Dancer by William Ferris and Jianqing Zheng, and Singing the Forge by G. H. Mosson. The Lake’s unique feature ‘One Poem Reviews’ invites poets to send poems from recently published collections, this month spotlighting works by Elizabeth C. Garcia, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Daniell McMahon, and Charles Rammelkamp.
Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose from Columbia College Chicago’s Department of English and Creative Writing publishes provocative, evocative, and bold literary works, interviews, and review, offering two online issues (Fall and Summer) and one print issue (Spring) as well as a podcast with new episodes on the first and third Friday of every month.
Allium Fall 2025 can be read online with poetry by Kenyatta Rogers, James Thomas Stevens, Hoa Nguyen, Damen O’Brien, Nick Raske, David Trinidad, Denise Duhamel, Hilary Sideris, Daniel Morris, Mel Alexander, Olivia Cronk, Anh P. Le, JeFF Stumpo, Danne Wendel, Tara Hollander, Bernard Welt, Simone Muench & Jackie K. White, Zaneta Lockwood, Nathaniel Santiago, Max Zhang, Candice M. Kelsey, Tim Hunt, Priyanuj Mazumdar, Thi Nguyen, Ally Feisel, Aiden Fijal, Colin Bailes, roberto harrison, Kailie Foley, Katelynn Bishop, Katie Cain, Nicole Tallman, Isabella Balta, Jeanette Kelleher; fiction by François Bereaud, Ann Graham, K Tyler, David Gonzalez, Madison Garbuz, Cody Kucker, Meghan Arenz, Mary Ann Presman, Emiliano Lievano, Jacqueline Kolosov, Paul Lewellan, Dena Pruett, Emma Grace, Yance Wyatt, Danne Wendel, Shaymaa Atwa, Katie Collins-Guinn, Gemini Wahhaj, Charlie Wade, Daniel Webre, Paul Holler, Ruth Ann Dandrea, Natalie Hernandez; and nonfiction by Louise Heller, Vi McMahon, Naila Buckner, Kenyatta Rogers, Gary DeCoker, Steve Weed, Karen Hindin, and Harvey Lieberman.
2River is an independent press offering free, innovative, print-ready poetry literary magazines as well as individually authored chapbooks. The 2River View Winter 2026 issue features new works by Forrest Rapier, George Burns, Erin Carlyle, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, Kathryn Gilmore, Sarah Kersey, Megan O’Patry, Lynne Potts, Christianna Soumakis, and Garrett Stack. Authors also provide audio recordings, so readers can download and print the publication, listen to it online and via SoundCloud, and access the publication’s archive of issues and chapbooks.
From Consequence Volume 17.2 Letter from the Editors: “As many writers are told, having a child play an integral role in a narrative or poem can be challenging. Their finite worldview, inability to grasp complexities, and narrow range of expressions can handicap the ideas and experiences one may want to articulate. However, as the editors read the pieces that would eventually be included in this volume, many of which have children in them, they were reminded that this potential handicap can also be a powerful tool. Unlike adults, children (or child-like characters) are often free from facades and other traits that can convolute meaning, so can offer a less encumbered, more direct view of an idea or experience. This view can be a formidable artistic tool when dealing with complex subjects, which would certainly include the nuanced and emotionally-charged matters of war and its consequences.”
Published at Suffolk University, the newest issue of Salamander features 2025 Fiction Contest First Place Winner “Scheherazade in the Tropics” by Ivan Suazo and Second Place Winner “The Wild Hunt” by Andrew Joseph Kane as selected by Final Judge Helen Phillips. Readers will also find additional fiction by Bizzy Coy and Kate Lister Campbell, creative nonfiction by Gwen Niekamp, Jillian McKelvey, Sarah C. Baldwin, Acie Clark, and Kristina Garvin, with an art portfolio by Catherine Graffam.
For those looking for more poetry, Salamander 60 offers much to appreciate, with works by Mk Smith Despres, Angie Macri, Hana Damon-Tollenaere, Ansel Elkins, Anastasia Vassos, Emma Bolden, Jonathan Greenhause, Tiffany Promise, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Jane Donohue, Christian Paulisich, Richard Lyons, Jehanne Dubrow, Jill Michelle, Connemara Wadsworth, Eneida P. Alcalde, Allie Hoback, Hope F. Wabuke, Rebecca Foust, Jackie Delaney, Eben E.B. Bein, Bunkong Tuon, Christy Lee Barnes, Emily Schulten, Jeffrey Thompson, Cecil Sayre, Shana Hill, Jeff McRae, Michelle Matz, Dimitri Reyes, David Thoreen, Daniel Gaughan, Carolene Kurien, Sandra Marchetti, Francis Lunney, Julia Lisella, Darren C. Demaree, Gemma Cooper-Novack, Kunjana Parashar, Jonathan B. Aibel, Hanaa Ahmad Jabr, Wadaq Qais, Jennifer Jean, Javen Tanner, Sonya Schneider, and Dina Folgia.
The newest issue of Gargoyle online invites readers to enjoy new poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by nearly 100 authors, in addition to audio of authors reading their own works, including Maxine Clair, James Norcliffe, Mark Ari, as well as video works by Carl Gopalkrishnan and Tim G. Young. Two interviews feature Victor Armando Cruz Chavez, interviewed by Lillian O. Haynes, and Edward Hirsch, interviewed by By Gregg Shapiro. Gargoyle #12 also hosts artwork by Barbara DeCesare, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Carl Gopalkrishnan (including cover image: Hello Pretty Pretty), Tammy Higgins, Jody Mussoff, William Wolak. Gargoyle #12 is open access online along with their full archive of online issues.
The Shore Issue 28 celebrates the 7the Anniversary of the publication. The editors are excited to share compelling poems that, like winter, have so much new life lingering beneath the surface. Readers will enjoy ringing in 2026 with revelatory poems by Emily Rosko, Gabby Zankowitz, Lizzy Ke Polishan, Rebecca Brock, Atia Sattar, Emily Harman, Giljoon Lee, K Hari, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Melanie McCabe, Safira Khan, Ashley Mo, Julia C Alter, Stephanie Chang, Maria Giesbrecht, Allison Blevins, Adam Chiles, Samuel Day Wharton, Kevin Clark, Brooke Harries, Julie Wong, Sumayya Arshed, Mariana Gioffre, Grace Lynn, Michael J Kolb, Elizabeth Porter, Christopher Buckley, Hayden Park, Grace Anne Anderson, Ruiyan Zhu, Topher Shields, Sarah Horner, Terry Tierney, Staci Halt, Alejandra Vansant, Arpita Roy, Veronica Fletcher, Peter Pizzi, Mary Fontana, Zixuan (Angel) Xin, Shari Zollinger, Caleb Jagoda & McKinley Johnson. Fractal art by Natalie Rainer is featured throughout.
The mission of Watershed Review is to create a multifaceted gathering of voices by publishing literature and visual art that captures crucial narratives and images of our current cultural moment. The Fall 2025 issue available to read open access online includes fiction by Heather Bell Adams, David Martin Anderson, Robert P. Kaye, Eliza Marley, Evan Lawrence Ringle; nonfiction by Erin Binney, Laura Mullen, Stephanie Provenzale-Furino, Angela Townsend; poetry by Samia Ahmed, Erik Armstrong, ari b. cofer, Lila J. Cutter, James Ducat, Heather D. Frankland, Olivia Jacobson, Kate Kearns, Cecil Morris, Sam Olson, Rachel Pearsall, Sarah Pross, Claire Scott, Linda Serrato, SM Stubbs, Farah Taha, Jeanine Walker, Arianna Xu; and art by Roger Camp, Chloe Foor, Jacqueline Rose, and Bill Wolak.
West Trade Review is a quarterly literary journal publishing diverse, risk-taking contemporary writing and art from both emerging and established voices. The Winter 2025 issue offers readers a collection of online exclusives including poetry by Anya Kirshbaum, Zizipho Godana, T. De Los Reyes, Sandra Tan, Rachel Becker, Ewen Glass, Timothy Stobierski, Schyler Butler, Rita Mookerjee, Natalia Godyla, Eric Baker, D Anson Lee, Sean Wang, Nathan Erwin, Collin Kim, James Lilliefors, Annette Sisson, Rowan Tate; fiction by Janine A. Willis; creative nonfiction by R.C. Blenis; and a video of visual poetics, “The Dreamworld Radicalizes” by Maya Miracle Gudapati. Cover art by David Deweerdt (IG: @davidpeintladifference).
The Greensboro Review Fall 2025 is dedicated to Christopher Swensen (1985 – 2025), and opens with Editor Terry L. Kennedy’s introduction titled “Attention.” Kennedy writes, “Memory doesn’t work as archive but as poem. It keeps not records but fragments . . . Over time, these sensory moments become our quiet foundation.” Kennedy offers that the stories and poems in this issue “testify” to a mindfulness that “feels both foreign and familiar,” and extends “an invitation to stillness in motion, to the vibrant pause where poems and stories bloom.”
Contributors to this issue include fiction by Suqi Karen Sims, Michelle Ross, Glenn Taylor, Marylou Fusco, Sophia Huneycutt, K.C. Allison, K.S.M., Emma Cairns Watson; poetry by Becka Mara McKay, Eliana Franklin, Jackson Benson, Lucas Dean Clark, Tara Bray, Sarah Brockhaus, Anna Lewis, Adam Tavel, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Matt Poindexter, Alicia Rebecca Myers, and Callie Plaxco.
Southern Humanities Review issue 58.4 is a blustery new collection of poetry and prose, featuring poetry by Debmalya Bandyopadhyay, A.J. Bermudez, Claire Christoff, Dorsey Craft, Caprice Garvin, Jared Harél, Bob Hicok, DT Holt, Diana Keren Lee, Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi, Sabrina Spence, and Jessie Wingate. Nonfiction contributors include Laura Grace Hitt and Gabriela Mayes, and fiction by Ariel Katz, Lim Hyeon translated by Yaerim Gen Kwon, Joanna Pearson, and Pardeep Toor.
Some content can be read online, and individual copies, as well as subscriptions, are available on the Southern Humanities Review website. Subscriptions make great gifts!
Cover Art: Maurice Dumont (French, 1870-1899). Sappho, 1895. Gypsograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Friends of the Department of Prints and Drawings 1991.153.
The stories in Blink-Ink #62 respond to the theme: Museums. “In the beginning,” write the editors, “a museum was a temple of the muses, whose songs inspire the arts and sciences. Today, a museum collects, preserves, studies and displays wonders and marvels.” The stories ‘of approximately 50 words’ include “My Past Life Self Won’t Stop Following Me Around the Museum” by Nancy Stohlman, “Sardi’s Wall of Fame” by Carolyn R. Russel, “Forgotten Things” by Wasima Khan, “In the Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum” by Victoria Large, “The Museum of Insufferable Rocks” by Susan April, “When We Thought Art Could Save Us” by Kathryn Kulpa, “Ink on Wood: The Vindolanda Tablets” by S.A. Greene, “Museum Knight” by JF Inceb, and many more. At only 4×5.25 inches, this petite publication is “the gold standard for micro fiction.”
The newest issue of Colorado Review (Fall/Winter 2025) addresses many kinds of knowing and unknowing through essays, stories, and poems — people reaching for what evades them — sometimes glimpsing it, sometimes grasping it, sometimes missing it altogether. In each of the works, what is imagined, desired, feared, forgotten, or remembered can both tease and torment. But sometimes the remedy is trusting intuition, even in the darkness. As we move closer to the darkest days of the year, these contributors offer a way to find a bit of light: Dana Cann, Thea Chacamaty, Amanda DeMatto, Shira Dentz, Allison Hutchcraft, Katherine Irajpanah, Mark Irwin, Jenna Johnson, Robert Krut, Daniel Kuo, Heather Kirn Lanier, Christine Larusso, Ezra Garey Levine, Andrew Maxwell, Jenny Molberg, Nathaniel Perry, Jacques J. Rancourt, Marney Rathbun, Mariah Rigg, Madeleine Scott, Craig Morgan Teicher, and G.C. Waldrep.
The Malahat Review 232 features the winner of the 2025 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, “Little Paradiso” by Gladwell Pamba as well as poetry by Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri, Ambrose Albert, Isobel Burke, George Elliott Clarke, Marlene Cookshaw, Guy Elston, John Lent, Edward Luetkehoelter, Ismail Yusuf Olumoh, Elizabeth Philips, Ben Robinson, Mark Truscott, and Jade Wallace; fiction by Daryl Bruce, Brett Nelson, and Jean-Christophe Réhel (translated from the French by Neil Smith); and creative nonfiction by Paul Dhillon, and Karine Hack. Cover art: Labyrinth 8 (detail), 2021 by Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, (photo: Steven Cottingham).
Jewish Fiction announces their 41st issue! This fabulous new issue contains 15 stories originally written in Ladino, Hebrew, and English, and includes, in celebration of the upcoming holiday, two stories set on Chanukah. Readers have free, online access to works by Dvora Baron, Elia Karmona, Michoel Moshel, Miryam Sivan, Steve Saroff, Galina Vromen, Jessica Keener, Jake Wolff, Sky Sofer, Cynthia Gordon Kaye, Alanna Schubach, Jordan Silversmith, Hal Ackerman, Joe Kraus, and Leon Craig.
Editor Michael Dumanis opens Bennington Review Issue 14 reflecting on the power of language — its creative limits in art, its manipulation in politics, and its real-world consequences — from Russia’s censorship during the Ukraine invasion to the U.S. government’s rhetorical distortions. Like many efforts in the arts, the NEA withdrew Bennington Review‘s funding due to newly politicized priorities. Dumanis acknowledges the support of readers for sustaining the journal and introduces the writing and art that challenge language’s constraints.
Contributors to this issue include Natalie Shapero, William Ward Butler, Aaron Baker, Steve Fellner, Lauren Swift, David Baker, Jen Frantz, Daniel Borzutzky, Randall Potts, Paul Ilechko, Jonathan Duckworth, Stevie Edwards, Michael Quattrone, Maggie Dietz, Delilah Silberman, Sébastien Luc Butler, Maja Lukic, Julia Thacker, Jenny Grassl, Johanna Magin, Angie Macri, Yerra Sugarman, Chelsea Desautels, Joe Hall, Xiadi Zhai, Virginia Konchan, Chris Vasantkumar, Austin Araujo, Jill McDonough, Aza Pace, Sasha Burshteyn, William Virgil Davis, Jeff Hardin, Michael Waters, Kirsten Kaschock, Kevin Mclellan, Beth Weinstock, D.C. Gonzales-Prieto, Olatunde Osinaike, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Matthew Klane, John Dermot Woods, Tyler Barton, Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom , Tom Howard, Jordan Hubrich,David Stuart Maclean, Daniel Kleifgen, Aryn Kyle, Brian Schwartz, Laurence Ross, George Choundas, Emmeline Clein, and Justin Quarry.
The Lake online poetry magazine publishes the best contemporary poetry and reviews monthly. Poet and Editor John Murphy is a champion of poets, both emerging and established, offering the unique monthly feature called ‘One Poem Reviews.’ Murphy says he started this because “it’s not easygetting a book or pamphlet accepted for review these days. So in addition to the regular review section, the One Poem Review feature will allow more poets’ to reach a wider audience — one poem featured from a new book/pamphlet along with a cover image and a link to the publisher’s website.”
If you are a poet, One Page Reviews invites you to share a poem from a recently published collection The Lake readers. This is a great way to get more exposure for your book, make some sales, and connect with other poets.
All you need to do is read the current issue or peruse the archive to get some idea of The Lake‘s aesthetic. If The Lake is a good match, send three poems from your book, a .jpg of the cover and a link to the publisher’s website.
The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought is published by Pittsburg State University with the objective to discover and publish scholarly articles with a broad range of subjects of current interest. The newest issue (Fall 2025) features the articles “Place, Identity, and Resistance in the River Poetry of Emma Perez and Natalie Diaz” by Donna Castandeda; “Love Male Neurosis, and the Tale of two Women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Michael Justine D.J. Sales; “Treasure Island Comes of Age: One Hundred Years of Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings” by Christine Schott; “Who Killed the Duke of Gloucester? History in Shakespeare’s Richard II” by Gary Grieve-Carlson; and “Unearthing the Patriarchy: Cancer, Trash, and Ugliness in Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge and ‘The Open Space of Democracy'” by Marci Heatherly. The issue also includes essays by Michael Milburn, Thomas Fox Averill, Stephen Bunch, and John Daley, as well as poetry by Kevin Brown, Bradley Samore, Mark Neely, Lauro Palomba, J. R. Solonche, Elizabeth Rees, and Pierre Minar.
Editor William Pierce opens AGNI 102 with his thoughts on “Mattering,” starting with this thought: “There is a rift, in our troubled century, between imaginative writing and the various mainstream U.S. cultures. I get the sense from conversations, articles, and shifts in educational curricula that a growing contingent fears literature (why else would they work to restrict access?) and an even larger group dismisses it as irrelevant. Those reactions are nearly opposite, but together, they have me thinking about how literature matters. Can fiction, poetry, and essays be a meaningful force for truth? And how — considering that word imaginative — do they stand apart from the various modes of distraction and deception?”
AGNI 102 explores this through works related to crisis and talismans, with the threaded objects of Lia Purpura fronting an issue intent on noticing, holding, and putting forward. Siew Hii, Carl Phillips, and Denise Duhamel (in poetry) and Donald Quist and Rilla Askew (in nonfiction) confront the wiliness of false narrative. Stories by Scholastique Mukasonga (translated by Mark Polizzotti) and Niamh Mac Cabe, with poems by Megan Fernandes and Fereshteh Sari, trace the veins of complicity. And stories by Subhravanu Das and Reyumeh Ejue, with poems by Brenda Hillman, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, and Peter Balakian, discover honest, tenuous shelter.
The Fall 2025 issue of The Missouri Review (46.3) is themed “Under the Influence,” which opens with Editor Speer Morgan’s commentary, “Much of this issue concerns altered states of consciousness caused by illness, personal struggles, and drugs.” and goes on to explore how altered states — especially those induced by alcohol — shape personal experience and historical events. Speer traces alcohol’s long cultural role from colonial America’s heavy consumption to his own ‘youthful encounters’ with drinking. Like Speer’s commentary, this issue features works that provide a collective reflection on society’s evolving relationship with alcohol and its lasting impact, as well as other ‘influencers.’
Readers can enjoy debut fiction from Arabella Sanders, plus new stories from Seth Fried, Philip Hurst, and Brecht de Poortere; new poetry from Kai-Carlson Wee, Rebecca Foust, and Campbell McGrath; new essays from Jacob M. Appel, Molly Rideout, Cara Stoddard, and S.L. Wisenberg; features on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Marlene Dietrich; and an omnibus review of four short story collections from Robert Long Foreman.
Editor Carolyn Kuebler opens the New England Review double issue (46.3-4) by explaining, “It is both an emerging writers issue, with a full two hundred pages dedicated to discovery, and a ‘regular’ issue of NER, where experienced writers and translators have found a home for their newest work. The result is this spectacular new volume, with its thick spine and swirling cover art, which we hope will offer enough color and light to see you through the long winter ahead.” This volume features fifty-eight authors and translators, half of whom have yet to publish a book in any genre, including new work by Devon Walker-Figueroa, Yael Herzog, Kaveh Bassiri, Nathan McClain, Jessie Li, Bruce Snider, Jackie Chicalese, and Lukasz Grabowski; translations from the Slovenian, Japanese, Catalan, and Greek, and much more, with cover image by Shanti Grumbine.
This month’s issue of The Lake is now online featuring poetry by Angela Arnold, Zhu Xiao Di, Margaret Galvin, Usha Kishore, Alexandra Monlaur, Kenneth Pobo, Tony Press, Debbie Robson, David Mark Williams, Greg Wood. Reviews of newly published collections of poetry include Sarah James’ Darling Blue, Rachael Bower’s Bee, Claire Pollard’s Lives of the Female Poets, and Amina Alyal and Sarah Wragg’s Unheimlich at Home.
Valley Voices is a biannual journal of prose, poetry, interviews, and criticism from writers and scholars from the Mississippi Delta and beyond. The Fall 2025 issue includes the special features “Photographing Nature” by Jerome Berglund; “African American Tanka” by Kevin Powell, Lenard D. Moore, L. Teresa Church, Gideon Young, Opal Palmer Adisa, Tara Betts, S. Shaw, Charlie R. Braxton, and Gina Streaty; and Ce Rosenow’s review of Runagate: Song of the Freedom Bound by Crystal Simone Smith. Editor John Zheng in his introduction writes, “Editing an issue of Valley Voices is like an escape to nature or a way to forget the self.” The same experience awaits readers in the essays and criticisms of Howard Lee Kilby, Charlie R. Braxton, Bernth Lindfors, Carolyn Wilson-Scott, and Sydney Bowen-Sweet, and poetry by JC Alfier, Tobi Alfier, Matthew Brennan, Lenard D. Moore, Andrew Riutta, Jerome Berglund, Mike Spikes, Beth Brown Preston, Ron McFarland, Thomas Piekarski, George Freek, and Ken Letko.
Libre’s newest release, Issue Four, was created in partnership with Pratt Institute’s art department with the theme, “Surrealism Tomorrow.” Libre looks to create partnerships that continue this support of humanitarian / disability-centric publications, and this issue’s work is thanks to contributions from Pratt’s staff and students, notably Luka Lucic, Associate Professor of Pratt Institute’s Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, who provides a forward for the issue.
Libre editors write, “What Pratt’s artists are doing here is similar to an extrication process: abscessed tooth, shiny molar of a fate dealt in decay and lonely back-waters of the diseased gum, brought alive again by cut, strategy, and replacement. These ten students aim mightily towards examination of illness, resuscitation of generational trauma, and archival of death and doubt under the intelligent pretext of heroic foundational upheaval. They mix media with grief and paint water from inside the artwork instead of out, and we’re no longer the lonely examiner but the paint fiber. Mix your hands in mud sometime and place them against something else white. Stand back and point with one hand, saying, ‘this is me, this is who I’ve broken into.’ You’ll understand the point of Issue Four then.”
Artists’ works are featured along with their statements and bios. Libre is a free, open-access journal.
Mudfish 25 is marked by generous representations from many Mudfish writers, such as Stephanie Dickinson, Doug Dorph, Tim Macaluso, Richard Fein, Paul Wuensche, Dell Lemmon, Tom Hunley, Angela Schmidt, Robert Clinton, Paul Schaeffer, Joyce (Chunyu) Wang and many others. Stacy Spencer, winner of the 18th poetry prize judged by Vijay Seshadri, and the two honorable mentions, Elisabeth Murawski and Ann Robinson, set a standard of excellence from which there is no decline. One poem will have readers thinking, ‘yes, this is what poetry is,’ and the next has them thinking, ‘no, this is what poetry is,’ and they are right every time. For the first time, the publication has a single artist, Jack Pierson, whose nakedly gorgeous and varied art unifies all of Mudfish so that it reads like a single poem, a moment’s thought.
The Writing Disorder publishes quarterly online issues of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, interviews, and reviews, highlighting emerging and established writers while blending experimental creativity with classic storytelling. In addition to the mesmerizing artwork of Tom Plamann, the newest issue (Fall 2025) features fiction by Nia Crawford, C. Inanen, Roberto Ontiveros, Sohana Manzoor, Denisha Naidoo, Lia Tjokro, Andy Shocket & Paul Cesarini, David A. Taylor; poetry by Kevin Dwyer, John Grey, Cynthia Pratt, Juanita Rey, Erika Seshadri, Allen Seward; nonfiction by Daniel Buccieri, A. M. Palmer, Robert Eastman. Book reviews in this issue include Eject City by Jason Morphew, reviewed by Patricia Carragon; The Idea of Light by John Ronan, reviewed by Kristin Czarnecki; Sojourns by John Drudge, reviewed by Peter Mladinic.
Blue Collar Review Summer 2025 issue is a collection of poetry focusing on “the oppressive reality of mindless labor and the dictatorship of bad managers and bosses we are all familiar with in the workplace. . . on the inseparability of war and climate destruction. . . on our struggle for the necessary fightback from the workplace to national politics and the necessity of building a movement capable of defeating this fascist regime and the corporate empowerment at its root.” Contributors include Cathy Porter, Kurt Nimmo, Jessie Kiefer, Roy N. Mason, Gregg Shotwell, Josh Medsker, Emma Weiss, Mary Franke, Dave Seter, Matthew Feeney, John Maclean, George C. Harvilla, Dave Roskos, Mitch Valente, Stewart Acuff, Andrew Slipp, and many more. Sample poems are available to read on the publication’s website.
The newest South Dakota Review is their annual double issue, jam-packed with enough poetry, short stories, and essays to last you through a long, hard winter, yet light enough to pack in a carry-on as you travel for the holidays. Contributors to this volume include Brandon Amico, Natalie Bavar, Annette C. Boehm, Frances Boyle, Will Burns, Justin Carmickle, Teresa Carmody, C.S. Carrier, KJ Cerankowski, Shane Chase, Amanda Chiado, Abigail Cloud, Travis Cohen, Lauren Crawford, Taylor De La Peña, C.G. Dominguez, Puneet Dutt, Tyler Dunston, Angelica Esquivel, David Greenspan, Dariana Alvarez Herrera, Whitney Koo, Diane LeBlanc, Kristina Martino, Kylie Martin, Abhishek Mehta, Casey McConahay, Amy Monaghan, Syan Mohiuddin, Sam Moe, Sam New, Kathy Nelson, Kris Norbraten, Ralph Pennel, samodH porawagamagE, Adrian Quintanar, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, E.B. Schnepp, Steven D. Schroeder, Robert Stothart, Liam Strong, Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat, Emily Townsend, Ann Tweedy, William Woolfitt, Miles Waggener, John Yohe, Sophia Zhao, and Jianqing Zheng.
The Main Street Rag Fall 2025 issue opens with the feature “The Art of Welcome: Joel Matthews in Conversation” an interview with Jess Hylton. ‘Stories & Such’ contributors include Paula Brancato, Michael Matejcek, R. M. Kinder, Stephen O’Connor, Carlos Ramet, Timothy Reilly, and Mark Spencer, and poetry contributors include Joel Matthews, Rebecca Brenner, Ralph Culver, Tom Husson, Matthew James Friday, Michael Gaspeny, Tim Jones, Chuck Joy, Richard Cecil, Elizabeth Libbey, Preston Martin, Benjamin Nash, Fred Pelka, Livingston Rossmoor, Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill, Alissa Sammarco, Rikki Santer, Claire Scott, Matthew J. Spireng, Geo. Staley, Deborah C. Strozier, Tad Tuleja, James Washington, Jr., Ramiro Valdes, Mark Vogel, Jennifer Weiss, Gerald Yelle, Ronald Zack, and John Zedolik.
The editors of Broadsided Fall 2025 are grateful to share eleven collaborations accompanied by thoughtful conversations about process, response, and the creative life of the writer and artist. Every November since 2012, Broadsided has presented works by writers creating in languages Indigenous to the Americas — sometimes wholly, sometimes in part. This is Broadsided‘s annual Translation feature, partnering with poets and scholars to solicit and select these poems. In this year’s folio, editor Inés Hernandez-Avila has selected work by two poets working in Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people of Chile, and she also offers history, context, and story to the beautiful work. Teachers: Broadsided also has a new lesson plan to support classroom use of Broadsided‘s publications, which are free to download, print, and share.
