Biannual literary magazine founded in 1990 at @UNTEnglish. Spring 2024 Issue: https://xitter.cf/t.co/7FhN5AhcRm
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ALT On a background of plated bell peppers and colorful stripes, Arnisha Royston's "cutting bell peppers" is featured along with the quoted text: " "my best friend is having a baby and i had to have half of my reproductive organs removed. i wish. i was better at making mistakes. i would give anything to want those almost babies now."
ALT AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW AWARDS 2024 WINNERS on a red, orange and yellow ombre background with a line drawing of a sun at the bottom. There are sparkles in the upper corners.
ALT The winning essay, selected by Jaquira Diaz, is "Deracination, or How to Disappear" by Dayna Bateman. Our runner up is "Alter Ego" by Lilly Dancyger.
ALT The winning short story, selected by Kim Garza, is "The Great Renunciation" by Lauren Barbato. Runners up are "Rabbit, Rabbit" by Aimee LaBrie and "Beasts" by Reena Shah.
ALT The winner of the Poetry Contest, selected by Carolina Ebeid, is "Post-Colonial Theory" by Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe. Runners up are "Blue Camellias" by Monica Fields and "tongue/暴力” by Zoe Luh.
ALT Essay Contest Finalists “Motel” by Marcia Aldrich “Deracination, or How to Disappear” by Dayna Bateman “Drinking with Ghosts” by Matt Cashion “Counterpoise” by Katie Daley “Alter Ego” by Lilly Dancyger “Night Watch” by Jacob Evelyn “Rut Season” by Katiy Heath “Passing” by Mike Karpa “Songs We Sing in the Car” by Emily McNally “Roots” by Jer Xiong
ALT Fiction Contest Finalists “Leo Season” by Daphne Armbruster “The Great Renunciation” by Lauren Barbato “Better-Ordered Verona” by Brian Belefant “It” by Peter Kessler “Ghost Removal” by John Kingsley “Rabbit, Rabbit” by Aimee LaBrie “Weirs and Ways” by Anthony Morrone “The Imposter” by Katie Robinson “Beasts” by Reena Shah “The Name of the Bear” by Rachel Sobel
ALT Poetry Contest Finalists pt. 1 “Echolocation” by Ash Adams “Elegy for My Ninth Grade Natural Science Project” by Sarah Brockhaus “Shoulder Season” by D. T. Christensen “Empty Nest” by Rebecca Faulkner “Blue Camellias” by Monica Fields “Mammoth” by Jessica Hincapie “Bread-Makers” by Susan Hunter “Post-colonial Theory” by Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe “Low-key Midwest Girl Dad Vibes: My Wardrobe is Mostly Kohl’s Middle-Class Casual & My Skin Care Routine is $1.59 Men’s 2-in-1 Total Body Wash” by Bob King
ALT Poetry Contest Finalists pt. 2 “tongue/暴力” by Zoe Luh “Retrograde” by Clara D. McLean “Camera Maids, Camera Soul” by Lauren Myers-Hinkle “Meditation at a Utah Motel, August” by Michael O’Ryan “mirror cemeteries” by Arnisha Royston “Jupiter Among the Corybantes” by Jess Smith “new girl” by Deig Sullivan “This Call Is from an Inmate at a Federal Prison” by Erik Tschekunow “Mounds and Trenches” by Matthew Tuckner
ALT AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW AWARDS 2024 WINNERS on a red, orange and yellow ombre background with a line drawing of a sun at the bottom. There are sparkles in the upper corners.
ALT The winning essay, selected by Jaquira Diaz, is "Deracination, or How to Disappear" by Dayna Bateman. Our runner up is "Alter Ego" by Lilly Dancyger.
ALT The winning short story, selected by Kim Garza, is "The Great Renunciation" by Lauren Barbato. Runners up are "Rabbit, Rabbit" by Aimee LaBrie and "Beasts" by Reena Shah.
ALT The winner of the Poetry Contest, selected by Carolina Ebeid, is "Post-Colonial Theory" by Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe. Runners up are "Blue Camellias" by Monica Fields and "tongue/暴力” by Zoe Luh.
ALT Olivia Sio Tse, "A Favor": "I want every / year past to press firmly against/ yesterday, exactly how/ it feels" - American Literary Review, Spring 2024. All text on a background of a window looking out towards other apartments, with a cat on the sill.
ALT Steel blue background with lighter blue lines like waves on it; the text reads: November Flash Flood Contest. Open Nov. 3-17. Submit flash prose and prose poetry under 1000 words to [email protected]
ALT On a background of plated bell peppers and colorful stripes, Arnisha Royston's "cutting bell peppers" is featured along with the quoted text: " "my best friend is having a baby and i had to have half of my reproductive organs removed. i wish. i was better at making mistakes. i would give anything to want those almost babies now."
