New England Review

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/

08/28/2025

Writers, mark your calendars! New England Review reopens for submissions in all genres on September 1. We pay our contributors $20 per page, $50 minimum.

Learn more about our submissions guidelines here: https://nereview.com/ner-submissions/

We look forward to reading your work!

08/25/2025

In our latest Behind the Byline interview, staff reader C. Rees talks with poet Richard Siken about associative landings, the fractured intimacy of address, and his forthcoming collection I DO KNOW SOME THINGS, which features three poems published in NER 46.2.

Read their conversation here: https://nereview.com/richard-siken/

08/21/2025

Last chance for 35% off all subscriptions!

Our "35 for 35" deal ends tonight at midnight EST. Save big now: https://newenglandreviewsubscriptions.submittable.com/submit/333966/35-for-35-deal

In honor of the 35 writers and translators that comprise issue 46.2's special feature “The Sharpened Will of Us All”: Contemporary Salvadoran Writers in Translation, we're offering 35% off all print and e-book subscriptions, with prices starting at just $21.45!

Subscriptions will begin with our jam-packed summer issue, which also contains new writing by Richard Siken, Gopal Balachandran, Lindsay Ahl, Donika Kelly, Rebecca Chace, Andrew De Silva, and others. Then keep an eye out for our upcoming double issue (NER 46.3-4), which positions our emerging writers portfolio alongside more established authors.

Our "35 for 35" deal is valid from August 14 through August 21.

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