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?
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!