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"One of the best known and best loved literary magazines in the country. It is outstanding." —Ever

By publishing new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is both challenging and inviting, New England Review encourages artistic exchange and thought-provoking innovation, providing publishing opportunities for writers at all stages in their careers. - See more at: http://www.nereview.com/about/

12/01/2025

Mark your calendars—"pay what you can" pricing returns for the holidays!

We understand that our regular subscription rate may be inaccessible to some, so as a festive surprise we're bringing back our "pay what you can" subscription model for a limited time. Gift yourself or a loved one a 1-year print or e-book subscription for as low as $7—or, if you can, pay it forward!

Print "pay what you can" pricing is valid on December 4, 2025, and ends midnight EST. Our print offer is only available in the US.

E-book "pay what you can" pricing is valid on December 5, 2025, and ends midnight EST. Our e-book offer is available to readers everywhere.

All orders will be processed through the Middlebury College Store. Order links will be shared the day of, so keep an eye out!

11/17/2025

The print edition of NER 46.3-4 is on its way to subscribers and part one of our online preview is now live! Experience electric prose by Joel Cuthbertson, Caley Henderson, Patrick Madden, Sergio Ramírez, & Christine Sneed; and eclectic poetry by Abigail Dembo, Nathan McClain, and Lisa Williams.

Featuring fifty-eight authors and translators, half of whom have yet to publish a book in any genre, this double issue has many more gems worth sharing.

We'll continue to roll out more 46.3-4 selections online over the next several weeks, but why wait? Order the double issue now in print and e-book editions, or better yet, subscribe.

View the online preview: https://nereview.com/

Subscribe: https://newenglandreviewsubscriptions.submittable.com/submit

11/07/2025

We're excited to reveal the artwork for our fall/winter double issue (46.3-4): Spread by Shanti Grumbine, courtesy of the artist.

Issue 46.3-4 is now at the printer and sits at a whopping 392 pages, half of which is dedicated to emerging writers. Featuring new work by Devon Walker-Figueroa, Yael Herzog, Kaveh Bassiri, Nathan McClain, Jessie Li, Bruce Snider, Jackie Chicalese, & Lukasz Grabowski; translations from the Slovenian, Japanese, Catalan, and Greek, & much more.

You won't want to miss a word of this jam-packed special volume! Subscribe now & receive NER 46.3-4 as your first issue: https://newenglandreviewsubscriptions.submittable.com/submit

10/24/2025

In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader Carolyn Orosz talks with NER 46.2 poet Bridget Lowe about the reflexive nature of meaning-making, brokering the relationship between form and content, and radical wonder.

Read their conversation here: https://nereview.com/bridget-lowe/

10/17/2025

"Contradicting the flow of clock-time while also staying connected to some relative sense of realism is not easy. How does one break from the shared hallucination that is time in order to create another time—a time that has never been—through the work of fiction?"

Introducing the second installment of our Staging Style series, "Shared Hallucinations & Chance Operations" by Lara Mimosa Montes.

Experience the essay here: https://nereview.com/shared-hallucinations-chance-operations/

10/15/2025

The thirteenth installment of our Literature & Democracy series is now live!

Curated by NER international correspondent Ellen Hinsey, it features selections from Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet (Seagull Books, December 2025), along with an interview with Mulzet, translator of numerous contemporary Hungarian authors including the 2025 Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai.

Experience the feature here: https://nereview.com/hungarian-women-poets-beney-gergely-szekely-balla-rakovszky-toth/

10/08/2025

In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader Carina Imbornone talks with NER 46.2 author Christopher Kempf about memory and the personal essay, corporate-backed country music, and his manuscript-in-progress.

Read their conversation here: https://nereview.com/christopher-kempf/

10/07/2025

We are fastly approaching our submission caps in fiction and poetry. With this in mind, we will close submissions in these genres tomorrow, October 8, at midnight EST. Submissions in nonfiction and dramatic writing will remain open through November 1.

If you haven't already submitted to NER this reading period, please review our guidelines and send us your work before the deadline: https://nereview.com/ner-submissions/

10/01/2025

Our September ‘25 roundup includes a sexy historical novel set in 1600s Amsterdam, a sophomore poetry collection that's currently longlisted for the National Book Award, an "edifying" literary horror novel, & much more.

Browse & shop the list here: https://nereview.com/september-25-reading-roundup/

09/12/2025

Join us on Saturday, October 4, at 1 PM EST for a virtual reading in honor of the special folio "The Sharpened Will of Us All," guest edited by Alexandra Lytton Regalado, from New England Review issue 46.2.

Featuring William Archila, Mauricio Espinoza, Nestor Gómez, María Fernanda Gómez Peralta, Oscar Moisés Díaz, W***y Palomo, Gabriela Poma, Jessica Rainey, Reyes Ramirez, Emma Trelles, & select authors.

Register here to receive your private Zoom link: https://middlebury.zoom.us/meeting/register/nOMy7CMASR-Llt0cVN7Xgg #/registration

09/10/2025

In a new Behind the Byline interview, NER staff reader Dana Lynch talks with writer Lindsay Ahl about tracking place like a ghost, objective versus subjective reality, and rendering the 1970s in her story "Green Wall, Red China" from issue 46.2.

Read their exchange here: https://nereview.com/lindsay-ahl/

09/02/2025

New England Review is delighted to announce that Maggie Su has joined our staff as a fiction editor!

Maggie is a seasoned editor as well as an accomplished writer and novelist. Prior to joining our team, she held editorial appointments at The Georgia Review, Acre Books, The Cincinnati Review, and Indiana Review. She was a senior reader for Ploughshares for several years and has read manuscripts for Hub City Press.

Learn more about Maggie Su and her new appointment here: https://nereview.com/maggie-su-joins-ner-as-fiction-editor/

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