2026 American Literary Review Awards Winners We are pleased to announce the winners and runners-up for our 2026 American Literary Review Awards! Poetry Contest Results, judged by Carl Phillips Winner: [...]

  2026 ALR Awards are Open for Submissions! Submissions for the 2026 ALR Awards are open from June 1 - Sept. 1, 2025. We are accepting submissions of poetry, short [...]

  2025 ALR Awards are Open for Submissions! Submissions for the 2025 ALR Awards are open from June 1 - Oct. 1, 2024. We are accepting submissions of poetry, [...]

American Literary Review Awards, 2023 Winners We are pleased to announce the winners, runners-up, and finalists for our 2023 American Literary Review Awards! Poetry Contest Results, judged by Denise Duhamel [...]

American Literary Review Awards, 2022 Winners We are thrilled to announce the winners, runner-ups, and finalists for our 2022 American Literary Review Awards! Poetry Contest Results, judged by Brian Czyzyk [...]

Following our pandemic-related hiatus, American Literary Review is returning for Spring 2022! Our current submission period runs Jan. 1-May 1. Please send us your best poetry, fiction, and essays! See [...]

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"  

We're pleased to announce the winners of our Annual Writing Contests! Below are the results of the contests. We plan to publish the winning pieces in the upcoming Spring [...]

Congratulations to all of our nominees for this year's Pushcart Prize! We're rooting for you! POETRY "Legacy" by John Amen "Spiral" by Angie Macri FICTION "The Lamentations" by Jessie Roy [...]

Congratulations to all of our nominees for this year's Best of the Net! We're rooting for you! POETRY "In Medias Res" by Jospeh O. Legaspi "Poem Ending With a Scene [...]

Contributor Steven Harvey's essay, "One Boy's Luminous Skin" appeared in our 2019 essay. He has made a video version of the essay which you can view here.