Bennington Review

08/20/2025

Please help us welcome our newest installment,
ISSUE FOURTEEN: ALL THE WORDS

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ERIKA MEITNERBear Me to My Resting Place / Riparian    ZonesI’ll Be Getting Out Soon and I Haven’t    Forgotten Your Testimony  Put Me In    Here

05/09/2025

Last week, Bennington Review was notified that our 2025 funding offer from the NEA has been withdrawn. The NEA will now "focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President," and we longer align with these priorities.

We are one of the many literary and arts organizations to receive this same news. As Bennington Review operates on a shoestring budget, the rescinded $10,000 grant is a significant loss that will directly impact our ability to cover skyrocketing printing and shipping costs, which have doubled in recent years.

To continue fulfilling our mission to find, foster, and publish intelligent, innovative, and moving fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that is at once graceful and reckless, we need your help: It would make an enormous difference for us if in the month of May we were to raise $10,000 to recoup the lost funds.

To show your support (for Bennington Review and for the writers whose work we champion), please donate here:
https://www.bennington.edu/bennington-review-0

01/14/2025

We are so excited to share that Bennington Review has received a 2025 Literary Arts grant from the NEA! Very grateful to use this award to continue championing playful and probing work amid ever-rising printing and shipping costs.

Thanks to the NEA and of course to all of our readers and writers for your support 💫

More details about all 2025 grants available here:

https://www.arts.gov/news/press-releases/2025/national-endowment-arts-supports-arts-nearly-368-million-funding-nationwide

01/03/2025

Send us your poems and stories!

Bennington Review’s reading period reopens this Monday, January 6th, for poetry and fiction. We expect to reopen for nonfiction submissions later this year.

For more info, visit: benningtonreview.org/submit

NOTE: If you are waiting to hear back on a current submission, we can confirm that your work is still under consideration and we will reply as soon as possible. Thanks for your support of BR.

08/29/2024

Our Family Gathering issue includes prpse by Rachel Lyon, Douglas W. Milliken, Angela Ball, &Joanna Luloff; poems by Rick Barot, Cole Swensen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Iain Haley Po***ck, Adrienne Raphel, Stella Wong, Ish Klein, & Anne Waldman; and an interview with Anne Waldman conducted by Sandra Simonds. Cover art by the Thai-Australian ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa.

ROBERT FERNANDEZRehearsal (Arthur [Total Eclipse, 1995 dir. Agnieszka Holland])Total Eclipse, 1995 dir. Agnieszka Holland

08/29/2024

Please help us welcome our newest installment,

ISSUE THIRTEEN: FAMILY GATHERING
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https://www.benningtonreview.org/

03/07/2024

Our reading period closes this Friday, March 8th. Just two days left to submit poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing about film to Bennington Review!

For more info, visit:

https://benningtonreview.org/submit

03/02/2024

Bennington Review's annual reading period closes Friday, March 8th. Less than one week left to submit poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing about film!

Bennington Review is published twice a year in print form. We aim to stake out a distinctive space for innovative, intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should be “making birds, not b...