Flash Flood Winner – Julie Cadman-Kim
Read the fifth winner of our ALR Flash Flood Contest, Julie Cadman-Kim's "The Art of Losing."
ALR Flash Flood Contest Returns
The return of ALR's contest, publishing new flash pieces (1000 words or less) every two weeks!
Grackles review Portrait of a Lady on Fire
American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.
A Review of Peripatet by Grant Maierhofer
As suggested by its title, Peripatet meanders about, considering as it does the life and work of not only its author, Grant Maierhofer, but the lives and works of multiple other artists and writers. A work of ambient nonfiction, the book does not make what lies inside its pages the [...]
A Review of Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett
In selecting Chad Bennett’s debut poetry collection for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Ocean Vuong calls the book an “ark of queer embodiment and thought” that insists “a writer’s most tenable lineage is one he must make for himself.”
Announcing the winners of our 2019 Annual ALR Awards
We’re pleased to announce the winners of our Annual Writing Contests! We plan to publish the winning pieces in the upcoming Spring issue.
A Review of Staten Island Stories by Claire Jimenez
Claire Jimenez’s debut collection, Staten Island Stories, skillfully balances the global with the local, the particularity of place, alongside the universally human.
Grackles Review 1917
American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.
Pushcart Prize Nominees
Congrats and good luck to all of our 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
A Review of Cyborg Detective: Poems by Jillian Weise
About a third of the way into Jillian Weise’s latest book of poems, Cyborg Detective, one of her speakers asks, “And did you get it? That part you wanted.”
Best of the Net Nominees
Congrats and good luck to all of our 2019 Best of the Net Nominees!
Reaching for Epiphanies: An Interview with John McCarthy
John McCarthy’s latest book, Scared Violent Like Horses, ruminates on growing up lower class in the Midwest and coping with family traumas. The stories of a hardscrabble life dominated by silos and switchgrass are told with an impressive tenderness that contrasts starkly with their often-painful subjects. Particularly striking are those [...]