Hang on, folks. This is earth-shattering. My husband not only picked up Hobart’s Art and Stories issue, he *read* several stories from it. Gasp. I know. It’s not that my husband doesn’t read, but he’s ridiculously picky about what he does. The last novel he finished was a Clive Cussler adventure about four years back, [...]

An hour after SmokeLong Quarterly’s issue 16 came out, while I was still reading, sitting wide-eyed and unblinking in front of the computer screen, my hands shading the monitor from the westerly sun, I knew I wanted to review the issue on my website. I’d launched guest editor Alicia Gifford’s profile for the Writer Profile [...]

Black Warrior Review is one of my favorite literary journals. I’ve subscribed to it for several years now, and I’m always impressed by the quality of the writing, the artwork, and the ingenuity of the editors. This issue is no exception. In addition to their chapbook series, which features work by a nationally known poet, [...]

This is a monster journal, with 14 fiction/prose pieces and 79 poems, all of which seemed to represent the theme of “Defining Family” in a unique way. Overall, I found the fiction (my main focus) to be literary in style and heavy on narration versus action. The originality of the plots was most impressive.
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Bellevue Literary Review, the “journal of humanity and human experience” is published twice a year by the Department of Medicine at New York University. The editors invite submissions “of previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that touch upon relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing. We encourage creative interpretation of these [...]