Spring 2025
Spring 2025 2025 ALR AWARDS Lauren Barbato, The Great Renunciation (fiction, selected by Kimberly Garza) Dayna Bateman, Deracination or How to Disappear (essays, selected by Jaquira Díaz) Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, [...]
Zach Miko
Zach Miko Zach and the Beanstalk The first time I realized someone was afraid of me was at a 7th grade dance. Some of the popular kids had started dating [...]
Terry Engel
Terry Engel Maps My mother waited for me as I pushed her wheelchair into the bedroom. I helped her up from the bed, but she refused to sit, and she [...]
Review: Losing Music by John Cotter
Review: Losing Music by John Cotter Review by Gretchen Walsh Milkweed Editions. 2024. 304 pages. When I consider what it means to write about chronic illness—specifically to write about those [...]
Interview: Aza Pace
Mythmaking as Self-Making: An Interview with Aza Pace, Author of Her Terrible Splendor Aza Pace is the author of Her Terrible Splendor, which won the Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize and is [...]
Dayna Bateman
Dayna Bateman Deracination, Or How to Disappear Winner of the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Essays, Judged by Jaquira Díaz deracinate /dɪˈrasɪneɪt/ 1. uproot. 2. to remove or separate [...]
Sharon Kwik
Sharon Kwik Exhibit #116 Sergeant Mohammed pulls out a large cardboard box from under a small table in his office. He starts rifling through the collection of items inside. White [...]
Lauren Barbato
Lauren Barbato The Great Renunciation Winner of the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Fiction, Judged by Kimberly Garza When Lian traded the dharma for a baby, I’d just hung [...]
Brian Simoneau
Brian Simoneau Mercy —St. Mawes Castle, Cornwall The moat beneath us gone to garden, sea rose and Cornish heather, the old guardhouse peddling ice cream [...]
Zoë Luh
Zoë Luh 陸 Second Runner-up for the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carolina Ebeid multiple-choice tongue/暴力 Zoë Luh 陸 (they/she) is a queer, disabled, mixed Chinese-American [...]
Makayla Danielle Gay
Makayla Danielle Gay Denny's Grand Slam at the fertility clinic Makayla Danielle Gay hails from Southeastern Kentucky. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner. [...]
Monica Fields
Monica Fields Blue Camellias First Runner-up for the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carolina Ebeid How often I think of this photo of my mother— Her [...]