The Meadow

09/06/2025

Our 2025 issue is in!

02/05/2025

Our 2025 cover reveal. The printer’s proof. Artwork by Melissa Sanchez

18/03/2025

Reading through the proof of our 2025 issue. We love this prose poem by Reno local, Payge Cendagorta.

21/10/2024

We are proud to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for our current issue, and we are also open for submissions until January 15th! Send us some work and become our nomination for year!

Max Stone "The Bisexual Lighting Makes Everyone Beautiful" (poem)
Kathryn Levy “Arriving” (poem)
Meghan Sterling “Motherhood is a Necessary Erasure” (poem)
Janelle Cordero “Becoming a Human” (poem)
Terry Dubow "The Story I Will Tell if Someone Asks About my Mother" (fiction)
Michael Clark “Small Business” (fiction)

23/07/2024

Our new issue just arrived!

04/05/2024

Proofing the 2024 Meadow. We’re so happy to have Kathy Nelson in our pages.

26/10/2023

We are proud to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for our last issue.

Richard Robbins “Over Greenland” (poem)
Laura Ohlman “Silence” (poem)
Lori Howe “Cadralor #16, On Some Agencies of Electricity” (poem)
Wendy Barry "Aubade" (poem)
Jason Boling "Coyote and the Old Man" (fiction)
Zach Greenhill “All That Glitters” (nonfiction)

Our reading period is open. Maybe you'll be picked for our next issue! Submit some work!

15/08/2023

Our reading period is open. If you have a short story, an essay, or a batch of poems that need a home, please submit work. We removed our reading fee this year. Please let your friends know.

Our submission period begins August 15th and ends January 15th of each year.We no longer accept email submissions. All submissions must be uploaded through Submittable. Submission GuidelinesWe welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and cover artwork uploaded through Submittable. All s...

02/08/2023

We just discovered our favorite The Meadow cover ever.