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 On a fall leaves background: American Literary Review Awards / Contest Closes October 1 / Submit your poems, short stories, and essays! / $1000 in prize in each genre and publication in our spring issue! / Guest Judges: Jaquira Diaz (essays), Carolina Ebeid (poetry), and Kimberly Garza (fiction) - americanliteraryreview.com/submittable/submit
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ALT "Surprise! You're Adopted" by Jody Keisner in ALR's fall 2023 issue on background of abstract mountain range art by Chris Lael Larson. Features the quote from the essay: "I have always known, as if the feeling of the separation has stayed with me, fractured from memory, but still there, floating in my subconscious as if an umbilical cord in a womb."
ALT ALR FLASH FLOOD, Angel Numbers on a black blackground featuring the numbers 11:11 (as on a digital clock) by Michael Hammerle
ALT I’m grateful for this chronostasis magic that promises some fulfillment of a wish: the caught eyelash, the blown-out candles, the longer side of the wishbone, and, here, the taking notice of the beauty when numbers align on a clock.
ALT Graphic features mixed media artwork by Chris Lael Larson from Still Life With Discarded Painting. It is a collection of home items, largely autumnal themed and colored. It reads: American Literary Review / fall 2023 / issue online / americanliteraryreview.com.
ALT Graphic, titled Pushcart Nominations, is purple with geometric lines. 3 shades of blue boxes announce fiction, poetry, and essay nominees for Pushcart Prize for American Literary Review. List of nominees: Fiction: - Allegra Soloman, "True Blue"; Ananya Kumal-Banerjee, "Short American Female" Poetry: Derrick Austin's "The Art Restorer"; Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach "The 100th Day of War in My Birthplace" Essays: Nancy Huggett, "The Perseids"; Graham Marema, "Songwood"
ALT Graphic, titled Pushcart Nominations, is purple with geometric lines. 3 shades of blue boxes announce fiction, poetry, and essay nominees for Pushcart Prize for American Literary Review. List of nominees: Fiction: - Allegra Soloman, "True Blue"; Ananya Kumal-Banerjee, "Short American Female" Poetry: Derrick Austin's "The Art Restorer"; Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach "The 100th Day of War in My Birthplace" Essays: Nancy Huggett, "The Perseids"; Graham Marema, "Songwood"