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American Literary Review The American Literary Review has been published since 1990 through the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Texas.

We’re excited to announce our Spring 2025 issue is now available! Head over to AmericanLiteraryReview to see & read:🪻 Ar...
04/19/2025

We’re excited to announce our Spring 2025 issue is now available! Head over to AmericanLiteraryReview to see & read:

🪻 Artwork by Kathleen Frank .sf

Poetry by🪻
Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe (ALR Award Winner),
Monica Fields (ALR Award First Runner-Up),
Zoë Luh (ALR Award Second Runner-Up),
Ash Adams
Meagan Arthur, .e.arthur
Daisy Bassen
Zoe Boyer
Sarah Brockhaus ._23
Kami Enzie
Makayla Danielle Gay
Jessica Hincapié
William Palmer
Brian Simoneau .simoneau
Erik Tschekunow

Fiction 🪻
Lauren Barbato (ALR Award Winner),
Terry Engel
Siavash Saadlou .official

Essays 🪻
Dayna Bateman (ALR Award Winner),
Sharon Kwik
Zach Miko

Interviews and Reviews 🪻
Gretchen Walsh reviews Losing Music by John Cotter,
Heather Myers interviews Aza Pace, Author of Her Terrible Splendor, .pace

*If we happened to miss tagging you in the post for this issue, please message and let us know!

Congratulations to Mish Gajewski-Zambataro’s “woman in the reservoir,” our flash flood winner. Swipe to read an excerpt,...
04/08/2025

Congratulations to Mish Gajewski-Zambataro’s “woman in the reservoir,” our flash flood winner. Swipe to read an excerpt, and then head over to AmericanLiteraryReview.com to read the piece in full!

ALR at conference! Come see us and our line-up of readers on Friday, 3/28, at 4:30 pm with at ✨ Don’t forget to stop ...
03/24/2025

ALR at conference! Come see us and our line-up of readers on Friday, 3/28, at 4:30 pm with at ✨

Don’t forget to stop by our booth during the bookfair. We’ll be at

There’s an ALR reading today, at Denton South Branch Library, featuring phd grad students and ALR staff: , , and Anthony...
03/22/2025

There’s an ALR reading today, at Denton South Branch Library, featuring phd grad students and ALR staff: , , and Anthony Gabriel. Alum Guest Writer, Josh Zimmerer, will read too! See you at 4 pm.

This Friday night, we’re revisiting the spring 2024 issue: you’ll find a great discussion with writer Jacqueline Doyle, ...
03/22/2025

This Friday night, we’re revisiting the spring 2024 issue: you’ll find a great discussion with writer Jacqueline Doyle, a editor, interviewed by

Head over to AmericanLiteraryReview.com to read in full (access past issues by going to the “issues”tab, then select “online issues”).

Our Spring 2025 issue will be coming soon!

This evening, Wednesday, March 19th, ALR is hosting a lightning round featuring over a dozen of our UNT graduate student...
03/19/2025

This evening, Wednesday, March 19th, ALR is hosting a lightning round featuring over a dozen of our UNT graduate students in Curry 204!

The weekend begins. Take a look back at our Spring 2024 issue and read Alexis Sears’ poems featured in the issue! Head o...
03/08/2025

The weekend begins. Take a look back at our Spring 2024 issue and read Alexis Sears’ poems featured in the issue! Head over to AmericanLiteraryReview.com to browse our past issues.

We’re delighted to share “Arkansas” by Annie Crouch, an essay in our Fall 2024 issue, available to read over at American...
03/07/2025

We’re delighted to share “Arkansas” by Annie Crouch, an essay in our Fall 2024 issue, available to read over at AmericanLiteraryReview.com.

Want to have your art featured in a literary journal? Head over to AmericanLiteraryReview.com. We want your artwork subm...
02/25/2025

Want to have your art featured in a literary journal? Head over to AmericanLiteraryReview.com. We want your artwork submissions! Please see submission guidelines on our website, or hold the QR in your saved photos. You can browse previous issues online for examples of artwork we have featured.

We hope to see you for another round of our ALR reading series at ! Grad students Ashley Balcazar, Cheyenne Laroque, Meg...
02/21/2025

We hope to see you for another round of our ALR reading series at ! Grad students Ashley Balcazar, Cheyenne Laroque, Meg McManama (Megan Lim), and Guest Writer, Laura Kopchick will be reading.

You have until tomorrow for our flash flood contest! Get your flash fiction, nonfiction, and prose poems in by Feb 17— s...
02/16/2025

You have until tomorrow for our flash flood contest! Get your flash fiction, nonfiction, and prose poems in by Feb 17— see more contest details over at AmericanLiteraryReview.com.

“for every new procedure, every new nerve pain, / artists inject ink into dermal layers i can touch / things uninvisible...
02/09/2025

“for every new procedure, every new nerve pain, / artists inject ink into dermal layers i can touch / things uninvisible:”

Tamar Ashdot’s stunning poem, “dermal delta,” is available to read in the Fall 2024 issue.

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