Flash Flood Winner—Atzaed Arreola translated by Rachel Whalen
Fue a las 19:30 horas cuando los agentes del Ministerio Público encontraron una Lap top amordazada con una cinta roji-negra debajo de las escaleras.
Fall 2024
Featuring work by Tamar Ashdot, Andrea L. Hackbarth, Matthew Moniz, Eric Odynocki, T R Poulson, Hannah Smith, Cassandra Whitaker, Leslie Williams, Marie Goyette, Marina Ramil, Annie Crouch, Rebecca Holcomb, Jean Wolff and more!
Flash Flood Winner — Brian Coughlan
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 and swing wildly in every direction until you hit something.
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.











