Rebecca Holcomb
Rebecca Holcomb Rainbow Club We were traveling down Hwy 93, a lonesome cut through the Nevada desert. S, my sister, sat passenger seat in the van and I sat on [...]
Veronica Silva
Veronica Silva Education: A Glossary Second Runner-Up in the American Literary Review Essays Contest, Judged by Dinty W. Moore Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless [...]
Frances Thomas
Frances Thomas Against Pushpin Feminism First Runner-Up in the American Literary Review Essays Contest, Judged by Dinty W. Moore Disclaimer: Names have been changed to protect the privacy of those [...]
Carly Stone
Carly Stone The Impressionists Winner of the 2024 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Dinty W. Moore clarity I ask the barber what he would be if he was [...]
Ira Sukrungruang
Ira Sukrungruang Passed Away I tell my four-year-old son his fish RB has passed away. I say “passed away” because “died” and “dead” contain the same hard sound at the [...]
Graham Marema
Graham Marema Songwood I. Grandaddy Dies In one story, Grandaddy dies. In this story, on your way to Songwood, you’ll see a road sign with my name on it. It’s [...]
Charlotte Stevenson
Charlotte Stevenson The Molt It was, but it wasn’t. All the details were there—the undulating texture of brown, segmented skin, and needle-sharp, serrated forearms—but this was not actually a mantid, [...]
Jody Keisner
Jody Keisner Surprise! You're Adopted After David Shields, “42 Tattoos” When a woman caresses her belly during the final months of pregnancy, her fetus reaches for the uterine wall, as [...]
Nancy Huggett
Nancy Huggett The Perseids Winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip The night of her first major stroke, we stay up to watch the Perseids. We [...]
Talia Adry
Talia Adry The Tide Pool Runner-up for the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip I wanted to stay still that spring—in the moment before the golden-eyed grass produced [...]
Tracy Neiman
Tracy Neiman The Last Leg of the Journey Finalist for the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip On my forehead, I wear a Post-it with my name on [...]
Steffan Hruby
Steffan Hruby The Forge "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his [...]