The Greensboro Review has been publishing the best poetry and fiction from emerging and established voices since 1966, and their Spring 2026 issue (Number 119) continues this tradition, featuring the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners, Mai Mageed’s “Signs of Intelligent Life” for fiction and Anne Shafmaster’s “Love and Beauty” for poetry, as well as new work by Marcie Alexander, Taylor Byas, Michael Chang, Alex Chertok, Kennedy Coyne, Anna Egeland, Desmond Everest Fuller, Lyn Butler Gray, Tammy C. Greenwood, Julia Kolchinsky, Suphil Lee Park, K. A. Polzin, Alison Powell, Rick Rohdenburg, Jordan Roubion, Rob Magnuson Smith, Kate Welsh, Caroline White, Avra Wing, and Corey Zeller.

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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.

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If evil is the “absence of empathy,” as defined by G. M. Gilbert, the American psychologist known for his observational commentary during the Nuremberg trials, then Editor Terry L. Kennedy offers an antidote in the Spring 2025 Editor’s Note of The Greensboro Review when he writes that the “magic of literature” is “its ability to dissolve the boundaries that separate us, revealing the common threads of fear, hope, and longing that connects us all.”

This newest issue features much to help us connect, including the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners: Jeni O’Neal’s “Loving a Man and His Kids and His House” in poetry and Emily Harper Ellis’s “The Fairy Swap” in fiction, as well as new work by Miriam Akervall, Megan Blankenship, Alex Bullock, Flora Field, Abigail Ham, Max Kruger-Dull, Seth Leeper, Angela Ma, Elisabeth Murawski, Michael O’Ryan, Leslie Pietrzyk, Caroline Porter, Lindsay Stewart, Zach Swiss, David Thoreen, Amber Train, and Andy Young.

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The Fall 2024 issue of The Greensboro Review (#116) features the Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner, James Daniels’s “We Are All Starved for Touch,” an Editor’s Note by Terry L. Kennedy, and new poetry, stories, and flash from Sean Cho A., Jake Bauer, Nathaniel Bellows, Mark Brazaitis, Sébastien Luc Butler, Lucas Cardona, Adrienne Celt, K.S. Dyal, Jason Gray, Mickie Kennedy, Sally Rosen Kindred, Kip Knott, Alejandro Lucero, Jennie Malboeuf, Cori McKenzie, Eric Paul, Lizzy Ke Polishan, Bryan D. Price, Colleen Kearney Rich, Flannery Maeve Rollins, Anna Sheffer, Hannah Treasure, Alex Tretbar, Audrey Toth, Ross White, Christopher Stetson Wilson, and Haolun Xu.

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The 115th issue of The Greensboro Review (Spring 2024) is dedicated to Fred Chappell (1936 – 2024), UNC Greensboro Professor Emeritus and former North Carolina Poet Laureate, with a special tribute essay from novelist Angela Davis-Gardner. This spring edition features the annual Robert Watson Literary Prize selections, Mark Spero’s “Pig Therapist” for poetry and Daniel S.C. Sutter’s “Mantis” for fiction, as well as new work by Josh Bell, Elizabeth Fergason, Susan Finch, Jared Green, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Caitlyn Klum, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Nik Moore, Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Weijia Pan, Suphil Lee Park, Martha Paz-Soldan, Edmund Sandoval, Jacob Schepers, Max Seifert, Michael Waters, Leah Yacknin-Dawson, and C. Dale Young.

The 114th Greensboro Review features the winner of the 2023 Amon Liner Poetry Prize, Madeleine Poole’s “Pile of Maggots,” as well as an Editor’s Note, “In Praise of LitMags,” by Terry L. Kennedy. In this Fall 2023 issue, discover new flash fiction, poems, and stories from an outstanding group of more than two dozen emerging and established writers, including Allison Field Bell, Stacie Cassarino, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Corinne Dekkers, Chard deNiord, Arielle Hebert, John Hoppenthaler, Nalea J. Ko, AG Latham, Michael Meyerhofer, Ania Mroczek, John A. Nieves, Rachel Richardson, Robert Stone, and Mimi Yang.

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In the Editor’s Note for The Greensboro Review’s Spring 2023 issue, Terry L. Kennedy describes the importance of community and our shared literary future: “It is a testament to the gift of literature that words put down on a blank page can actually change our experience of the world, and can carry us back to a time, place, or significant moment in our lives [. . . ] It’s a conversation carried on in many places and many times, past and present. One that should never stop—how can we afford to let it?”

The Greensboro Review invites readers into that conversation with this 113th issue, featuring the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners: Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio’s “Have You Been to the Palisades” for poetry and Jordan Brown’s “Jenny Lynn & Buddy” for fiction. This GR issue also includes new work from Ian Cappelli, Justin Jude Carroll, Camille Carter, Mark Cox, Hannah Craig, Emma DePanise, David Dixon, Gregory Fraser, Mike Good, Bill Hollands, James Jabar, Mimi Manyin, Rose McLarney, Nicholas Molbert, J.S. Nunn, Phoebe Peter Oathout, Dan O’Brien, Lucas Daniel Peters, Ian Power-Luetscher, Dustin Lee Rutledge, Cameron Sanders, M.E. Silverman, Gabriel Spera, and Candace Walsh.

The Fall 2022 issue of The Greensboro Review (#112) features the Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner, Dom Witten’s “Broken Showerhead,” and an Editor’s Note by Terry L. Kennedy in which he pays tribute to friends who have passed, as well as new work from ​​Todd Davis, Chris Edmonds, Larry Flynn, Cynthia Gunadi, Matt Hart, AE Hines, A. Van Jordan, Sarah MacKenzie, Louise Marburg, Chris Mattingly, Aidan O’Brien, Skyler Osborne, Suphil Lee Park, Carol M. Quinn, Madison Rahner, Sarah Elaine Smith, Caitlin Rae Taylor, Abby Wolpert, and Dean Young, with a folio of Kelly Cherry’s work. This issue is dedicated to Kelly Cherry (1940-2022), Jeff Towne (1929-2022), and Dean Young (1955-2022).