American Literary Review Annual Contest
We are pleased to announce the American Literary Review Annual Contest. Submissions are open until October 1. Check here for more information including this year's judges!
Reaching for Epiphanies: An Interview with John McCarthy
John McCarthy’s latest book, Scared Violent Like Horses, ruminates on growing up lower class in the Midwest and coping with family traumas. The stories of a hardscrabble life dominated by silos and switchgrass are told with an impressive tenderness that contrasts starkly with their often-painful subjects. Particularly striking are those [...]
Spring 2019 Issue
Featuring work by Gary Fincke, Sindya Bhanoo, Willy Palomo, Steven Harvey, Elizabeth Hazen, Julie Marie Wade, the winners of our annual contest, Cady Vishniac, Julialicia Case, and Ellen Seusy, an interview with Lucas Mann, artwork by Melissa Cundieff, and more!
Best New Poets Nominees
Congratulations and good luck to our nominees for Best New Poets! Katie Schmid, “Apple Glory” Katherine Stingley, “A Daughter is a Pilgrim”
A Review of Sweet & Low: Stories by Nick White
Time after time in Nick White’s second book, Sweet and Low, characters confront dilemmas they “haven’t yet found a language for.” In “Cottonmouth, Trapjaw, Water Moccasin” a solitary bigot is crushed underneath a wrecked lawnmower, bellowing impotently knowing “no one would hear him,” out alone in the country, abandoned by a [...]
Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful: An Interview with Dorothy Chan
...splitting time between writing, editing, teaching, and all things poetic is something Chan sees as a dream life, a fantasy come true. This idea–the true life fantasy–is something that often surfaces in her poetry whether that is creating the perfect array of dishes for a meal or the fetishization of [...]