Flash Flood Winner—Shruti Goel
Shruti Goel Zari The gauzy wedding mandaps, laden by the sea, shimmered like they would in a glossy magazine. The sunlight bounced off every metallic surface possible—bangles, chair backs, even [...]
American Literary Review Awards, 2026 Winners
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!
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 [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Mish Gajewski-Zambataro
Mish Gajewski-Zambataro woman in the reservoir we’d thought we’d found a corpse when we came upon her floating. we thought, maybe this is the waitress who’d disappeared last month from [...]
Flash Flood Winner – Atzaed Arreola trans. by Rachel Whalen
Flash Flood Winner—Atzaed Arreola translated by Rachel Whalen Página en blanco Fue a las 19:30 horas cuando los agentes del Ministerio Público encontraron una Lap topamordazada con una cinta roji-negra [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Brian Coughlan
Fighting Talk Your strategy to win the crowd over with a dazzling display of fancy footwork and lightning-quick jabs has changed, just this second: now it’s close your eyes tight [...]
2025 ALR Awards are Open for Submissions!
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, [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Tara Isabel Zambrano
Tara Isabel Zambrano Slumdog Wives Let’s face it—we’re not all that beautiful, we have bad postures due to heavy lifting at the construction sites, sleeping at odd angles in [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Tolu Ogunlesi
Tolu Ogunlesi Harbinger There are icicles that form on the surface of oceans, translucent teeth putting roots down in the submerged mouth of God. There is ice—forbidding, jagged, sentient—that can [...]
Books by Women about Women: An Interview with Marcia Aldrich
Books by Women about Women: An Interview with Marcia Aldrich Interview conducted by Meghan Hernandez Marcia Aldrich, essayist and author, focuses her lens on the personal and overlooked in women’s [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Willow Campbell
Willow Campbell Jack Jack is a nice name and a good one for him, but nobody called him that until he was dead. He told his family about it in [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Miriam McEwen
Miriam McEwen Aunt Lou See, but you have this thing about not going to restaurant bathrooms with obnoxious able-bodied people who aren’t even attempting to assist you in some way. [...]