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 [...]

Angélica Martinez The Hailstorm The hailstorm came on suddenly, do you remember? We were parked in our old Malibu listening to 101.5 back when the radio still worked. Sade’s "By [...]

jessie knoles BUY IT I want to go to the symphonyPut on my mohair sweaterThe one I bought at the steamy estate saleWhile you waited in the coffee shopDrinking your [...]

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 [...]

Olga Shomska Deer Story We all knew that the rain will be heavy. We got used to it. We built a hotel in the town center—high and large, to [...]

Timothy Wojcik In The Knotweeds We’d lived in a small apartment in a quiet neighborhood in Queens, and while that was better than the place in Brooklyn, once we [...]

Kayla Spirito Jenni Jenni was the one who shaved my head. Moments after I met her she held a pair of scissors to one of my pigtails. Don’t you [...]

Mugdhaa Ranade Pitching a Scene to My Dad Imagine a MONTAGE in a film (don’t ask what genre of film, it’s still being written): we open with a WIDE [...]

Becca Carson Dark Fruit Soft Isn’t this stealing? is what your little sister asked when you unclipped the helmet and lined it with your papa’s red handkerchief, but you [...]

Sarp Sozdinler Baba The day before she died, my mother told me that I should plant an oak tree in her homeland to make up for the damage she [...]

Shelby Rice zipporah i. The electric razor shorts out the moment it touches her scalp. She suppresses the growl which builds unbidden behind her throat. All she wants is [...]