Flash Flood Winner—Bizzy Coy
Bizzy Coy The Un-alivers There was a deep and narrow gorge in upstate New York where all the millennials came to kill themselves. It started with one man who smashed [...]
Laura O’Gorman Schwartz
Laura O'Gorman Schwartz The Lemon Tree Runner-up for the 2026 American Literary Review Award in Fiction, Judged by Olufunke Grace Bankole I hoisted a lemon tree onto my shopping cart [...]
Emily Uecker
Emily Uecker Prairie Fire Second Runner-up for 2026 American Literary Review Award in Essays, Judged by Ira Sukrungruang On a tallgrass prairie, the majority of the biomass lies below the [...]
Interview: Kimberly Grey
Memory and Theory: An Interview with Kimberly Grey Kimberly Grey is a hybrid writer working across essay, poetry, and multimodal forms. She is the author of the essay collection A [...]
Marcia Aldrich
Marcia Aldrich Consent: I Remember I remember the spring of my freshman year at Wells College, while living in Main, I had set up my little Sears electric typewriter that [...]
Wes Jamison
Wes Jamison Amas Veritas First Runner-up for the American Literary Review Award in Essays, Judged by Ira Sukrungruang The frogs were omen—how, one night, when the moon was only a [...]
Rebecca Hanauer
Rebecca Hanauer In the Absence of Findings Winner of the 2026 American Literary Review Award in Essays, Judged by Ira Sukrungruang Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are extra beats from the [...]
Sibbie O’Sullivan
Sibbie O’Sullivan Death of a Sweater I remember the day I bought it almost twenty years ago at my local Marshall’s, my first time shopping there. I was bored and [...]
Matt Dhillon – Butt Joint
Matt Dhillon Butt Joint Winner of the 2026 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carl Phillips 1. A joint made by fastening the parts together end-to-end without overlap [...]
Ashley Colley
Ashley Colley from The Let Down Ashley Colley's poems have appeared in Orion, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, Southern Indiana Review, Annulet, The Spectacle, and elsewhere. The recipient of a [...]
Interview: Lauren Markham
Interview: Lauren Markham Remorialization: An Interview with Lauren Markham Lauren Markham is an award-winning writer based in California. Her work has appeared in VQR (where she is a contributing editor), [...]
Nicole Robinson
Nicole Robinson Here in the After Second Runner-up for the 2026 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carl Phillips We linger at the lake a little longer, try [...]