ALR on Hiatus
Due to institutional budget cuts as a result of grappling with the changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are forced to go on a temporary hiatus. The website will remain active, but we will have no new content for the duration of the magazine’s interlude. We have put [...]
Summer 2020 Issue
Featuring work by Leila Bilick, L.I. Henley, Sarah Matthes, Dante Di Stefano, Matthew Kilbane, Jai Hamid Bashir, an interview with Ada Limón, art by Ellen Marie Leathers-Wishart and more!
Flash Flood Winner – Julie Cadman-Kim
Read the fifth winner of our ALR Flash Flood Contest, Julie Cadman-Kim's "The Art of Losing."
Best New Poets 2020
Congratulations and good luck to our nominees for Best New Poets! Sara Ryan, “I Have Found the Golden Whales” Holli Carrell, “The Woman Next Door”
Grackles review Portrait of a Lady on Fire
American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.
ALR Flash Flood Contest
ALR's new contest will publish new flash pieces (1000 words or less) every two weeks!
A Review of Peripatet by Grant Maierhofer
As suggested by its title, Peripatet meanders about, considering as it does the life and work of not only its author, Grant Maierhofer, but the lives and works of multiple other artists and writers. A work of ambient nonfiction, the book does not make what lies inside its pages the [...]
A Review of Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett
In selecting Chad Bennett’s debut poetry collection for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Ocean Vuong calls the book an “ark of queer embodiment and thought” that insists “a writer’s most tenable lineage is one he must make for himself.”
Grackles Review 1917
American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.
Announcing the winners of our 2019 Annual ALR Awards
We’re pleased to announce the winners of our Annual Writing Contests! We plan to publish the winning pieces in the upcoming Spring issue.