Polley Poer
Polley Poer At Lunch in Rehab We Watch Bob Ross for the purity. Us grief-locked, drug-busted drunksremembering how to paint with a finger and sponge. We chew sour candy for [...]
Review: Out of Order by Alexis Sears
Review: Out of Order by Alexis Sears Reviewed by James Davis Autumn House Press. 2022. 104 pages. The title page of Alexis Sears’s debut poetry collection, Out of Order, looks [...]
Review: Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere by Robert Lopez
Review: Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere by Robert Lopez Reviewed by Vince Granata Two Dollar Radio. 2023. 280 pages. “Dispatch” suggests an expedited report, a concise official account from a far-flung [...]
Spring 2023
SPRING 2023 FICTION CONTEST Judged by Mike Robbins Maha Kamal, Peace Ganey (Winner) * FICTION Sara B. Fraser, The Visitor Kathleen Furin, Mountain Pose Ananya Kumar-Banerjee, Short American Female Nick [...]
Stella Wong
Stella Wong ship in a bottle janet fish is forfinding your wishes at the bottom of a wineglass. a win, findinga snow-furred miracle (freestanding house) in midtown manhattan,walking goldilocks-like into [...]
Maha Kamal
Maha Kamal Peace Ganey Winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest, Judged by Mike Robbins I started killing Hamza after he began work in Islamabad. His affair [...]
Nancy Huggett
Nancy Huggett The Perseids Winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip The night of her first major stroke, we stay up to watch the Perseids. We [...]
Talia Adry
Talia Adry The Tide Pool Runner-up for the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip I wanted to stay still that spring—in the moment before the golden-eyed grass produced [...]
Tracy Neiman
Tracy Neiman The Last Leg of the Journey Finalist for the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip On my forehead, I wear a Post-it with my name on [...]
Steffan Hruby
Steffan Hruby The Forge "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his [...]
Sara B. Fraser
Sara B. Fraser The Visitor It is two o’clock and Merche knows that her husband and son are at home, waiting for lunch. She puts the remaining fish—two slippery eels; [...]
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee Short American Female Finalist for the 2023 American Literary Review Fiction Contest, Judged by Mike Robbins Each morning I woke up and something new was missing. First, it was my [...]