2025 ALR Awards are Open for Submissions!
Submissions for the 2025 ALR Awards are open from June 1 – Oct. 1, 2024.
Creating a Happy Home: An Interview with Maggie Rue Hess
Interview conducted by Amber Walters-Molina.
Books by Women about Women: An Interview with Marcia Aldrich
Interview conducted by Meghan Hernandez
Flash Flood Winner—Tara Isabel Zambrano
Watching Lucky smile at us it feels like a bunch of birds are released from the spaces between our breasts.
Flash Flood Winner—Tolu Ogunlesi
There is ice—forbidding, jagged, sentient—that can form inside the human soul.
Spring 2024
Featuring ALR contest winners R.M. Cooper, KT Herr, and Carly Stone, as well as an interview with Maggie Nelson by Jasmyn Huff and work by Amber Adams, Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal, Alexis Sears, Chi S., Ira Sukrungruang, Frances Thomas, and many more.
Flash Flood Winner—Willow Campbell
Jack is a nice name and a good one for him, but nobody called him that until he was dead.
Flash Flood Winner—Miriam McEwen
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.
Flash Flood Winner—Michael Hammerle
There’s a pattern I repeat. I’m looking for little moments of perfection, like synchronicities on digital clocks, to pray to. These are the moments it’s easiest for me to pray for my daughter.
Fall 2023
Featuring work by Sean Cho A., Derrick Austin, Amy Bagwell, Cory Carlson, Erin Carlyle, Adriana Rambay Fernández, Justin Groppuso-Cook, Melissa Darcey Hall, Mitchell Jacobs, Jody Keisner, Sue Fagalde Lick, Graham Marema, Jacob Sheetz-Willard, Allegra Solomon, Charlotte Stevenson, and Sean Towey; and reviews by Anna Chotlos, James Davis, Dan DeVaughn, and [...]
American Literary Review Awards, 2023 Winners
We're pleased to announce the winners, runner-ups, and finalists for the 2023 American Literary Review Awards!
Flash Flood Winner—Angélica Martinez
The hailstorm came on suddenly, do you remember?