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?
Spring 2023
Featuring ALR Contest winners Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Maha Kamal, and Nancy Huggett, and work by Mara Beneway, Todd Davis, Shawna Ervin, Benjamin Faro, Emily Jalloul, Sebastian Merrill, Polley Poer, Natalie Tombasco, Matthew Tuckner, Emily Van Kley, Stella Wong, Sara B. Fraser, Kathleen Furin, Ananya Kumar-Banerjee, Nick Rattner, Talia Adry, Steffan [...]
Flash Flood Winner–jessie knoles
I want to go to the symphonyPut on my mohair sweaterThe one I bought at the steamy estate saleWhile you waited in the coffee shop
Fall 2022
Featuring work by Denise Duhamel, Robin Gow, Andrew Hemmert, Bill Hollands, Justin Hunt, K Iver, Emma Thomas Jones, Kirun Kapur, Kimberly Kralowec, Joy Moore, John A. Nieves, Samantha Padgett, Esther Ra, Bergita Bugarija, Mathew Goldberg, Emily Grandy, Munib Khan, Danielle Harms, Kristine Langley Mahler, and Catherine Palmer. Artwork by Mihee [...]
Flash Flood Winner–Olga Shomska
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 place all residents. We actually lived there all the time. My room was on the third floor. It was a nice room, not big, with [...]
American Literary Review Awards, 2022 Winners
We are thrilled to announce the winners, runner-ups, and finalists for our 2022 American Literary Review Awards!
Flash Flood Winner–Timothy Wojcik
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 unloaded all of our things into the drafty, old Colonial, we finally realized just how cramped we’d been living, everything compressed into two hundred and fifty [...]
Spring 2022
Featuring work by Emma Aylor, Marianne Chan, Chelsea B. DesAutels, David Kirby, Christopher Brean Murray, Greg Nicholl, Marc Phillips, Taylor Supplee, Adam Tavel, D.S. Waldman, Lauren Winchester, Sara Mae, Thomas H. McNeely, Aram Mrjoian, Michelle Ross, Negesti Kaudo, Liesl Schwabe, Kelsey Ward, and reviews by James Davis, Cassia Hameline, and [...]
Flash Flood Winner–Kayla Spirito
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 want to be new? She asked.
Flash Flood Winner–Silas Jones
Two years ago, Connie McHale’s older sister Alexis got t-boned driving home drunk from a graduation party and even though she didn’t die and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t even technically “her fault” or whatever, it's now mandatory for all grads to go straight from the stage at the center [...]