The Idaho Review

13/09/2024

I’m way beyond thrilled to announce that my third novel, THE GHOSTS OF OKUMA, will be published by Regal House in 2026. The novel has already received blurbs from Joy Williams, Charles Baxter, Andrea Barrett, Madison Smartt Bell, George Pelecanos, Marion Dayre, Brady Udall, and Ridley Pearson. “Snow Angels,” my short story the novel is based on, first appeared in The Missouri Review and was reprinted in their anthology, Hello, I Love You. THE GHOSTS OF OKUMA is #1 all-time in novel manuscripts in the drama category on Coverfly's Red List in Hollywood.

An all-women indie press, Regal House was featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly in April for their tenth anniversary, and was named the 2021 Independent Press of the Year by Foreword Reviews. It’s a singular honor to be joining their fantastic community of authors.

25/01/2024

We're thrilled to announce that Issue no. 21 of the Idaho Review is now printed and available for purchase on our website! Huge congratulations to all of the remarkable writers featured. We're so honored to publish your work. Visit www.idahoreview.org to get your copies today!

13/11/2023

Just a reminder that we will be accepting submissions for three more days! If you haven't already, send us your work by this Wednesday, 11:59 PM MT!

13/11/2023

A reminder that the new Best American Short Stories is out, and in it, you'll find "This Isn't the Actual Sea" by Corinna Vallianatos, originally published in Issue no. 20. Pick up a copy and read this breathtaking story! Congrats as well to the IR contributors who received honorable mentions this year: Gina Chung for "Attachment Processes" and Nicole Cullen for "Trespasses." Read all of these beautiful stories in Issue 20!

08/09/2023

We are officially open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Let's get you published!!!

Visit our website to submit! https://www.idahoreview.org/submit

06/09/2023

The Idaho Review will begin accepting submissions this Friday for our 22nd issue. Send us your best stories, poems, and essays! We can't wait to read them!

For more info and guidelines, visit our website: https://www.idahoreview.org/

21/08/2023

Brace yourself. Sam Berman's "Scalping the Lego King" is a lyrical gut punch. Forthcoming in Issue #21. Read it here!
https://www.idahoreview.org/archive/2023/5/25/scalping-the-lego-king

02/08/2023

Forthcoming from Issue #21!! For our latest blog post, Ariel Delgado Dixon (Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You) shares her correspondence with Ellyn Gaydos (Pig Years). In a classic exchange of letters, two of today’s most exciting writers discuss their lives in farming, writing, Proust questionnaires, and more.

By Ariel Delgado Dixon & Ellyn Gaydos I read an early copy of Pig Years (Knopf, 2022) by Ellyn Gaydos over the course of a mobile few weeks, beginning at the window seat of a café in Midtown Manhattan and concluding in the Swiss Alps, up in a steep cow town called Wilderswil. The cows in

17/06/2023

Read new poetry from Ezza Ahmed, now on our website and forthcoming in our print issue #21!

The river was  as the river is  when home was still  the red walls  before the door k**b was cold.  A mud house,  now taken  by gre

31/05/2023

Read our interview with Dana Winsmith and her stunning short story, "Proprioception," now online and forthcoming in our print issue #21!!

IR: I'm always fascinated by the drafting process of short stories, especially longer ones like "Proprioception" (Issue 21, 2023) . What was the process like on this story?   DW: To be honest, I don’t remember much of the early drafting process because I started writing it

12/05/2023

Read new poetry from Anna Weber, now on our website and forthcoming in our print issue #21!

Yesterday, the plumber came and unearthed a pound of hair from the shower drain. A whole mess of it , he marveled. He’d made me come watch. Ma’am , he called— I was hiding downstairs, pretending to read— you’re going to need to see this . And so I looked too. Wanted to be somewhere, anywhe...

03/05/2023

We're thrilled to share that the editors of The Best American Short Stories 2023 selected “This Isn’t the Actual Sea” by Corinna Vallianatos, originally published by The Idaho Review in Issue 20, for this year’s prize anthology!! Read the award-winning story and more here!!

The editors of “The Best American Short Stories 2023” selected “This Isn’t the Actual Sea” by Corinna Vallianatos, originally published by The Idaho Review in Issue 20, for this year’s prize anthology. Heidi Pitlor, the series editor, and Min Jin Lee, the guest editor and  author of...