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THE COACHELLA REVIEW, a literary arts journal from the University of California Riverside - Palm Des We look forward your comments.

THE COACHELLA REVIEW is the literary arts journal of the University of California Riverside - Palm Desert Graduate Center and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. We celebrate original work that is vibrant, brave, thoughtful, and precise. Whether experimental or traditional, TCR editors strive to celebrate writing that holds readers in awe. Readers, please let u

s know what you think of the works we have collected in TCR. New issues debut in January and June. In the meantime, please keep up with us via our page and our TCR Blog.

16/12/2025

We hope you've all enjoyed reading the Winter 2025 issue of The Coachella Review!

We'll be taking a break from updates until January, but we're accepting submissions for our SUMMER 2026 issue now! Send us your best poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and short plays/films/monologues/one-acts.

15/12/2025

Our last featured piece from our Winter 2025 issue really pulls the entire issue together with surprising tidiness. In nonfiction writing workshops, we learn that memory is always a revision of actual events, but Elizabeth Bolton takes that literally in today's essay, "Imaginary Friends." In it, she recalls living in Amsterdam with people who may or may not have existed and in situations that are not quite as accurate as we're accustomed...

We recommend reading this and then circling back to our first featured poem, "She Closes Her Eyes. She Opens Her Eyes." by Joshua St. Claire, to get a glimpse at how well this essay works in tandem with other pieces in this issue.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/imaginary-friends-by-elizabeth-bolton/

15/12/2025

Today's the last day of highlighting our Winter 2025 issue pieces! Our final featured poem of the issue, "Birdsong," may be short, but Gemma Cooper-Novak knows a thing or two about the fallacy of scale. We are the birds' Ozymandias.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/birdsong-by-gemma-cooper-novak/

14/12/2025

In today's featured essay, "City of Industry," speaking English as a first language makes Shara Karasic the odd one out at a Los Angeles Country site for proofreading official translations. We love how this essay turns the tables by making an American a stranger in a familiar land.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/city-of-industry-by-sarah-karasic/

14/12/2025

Colleen Rich dives into family drama and the desire to do better in today's features short story, "Let It Go." Highlighting its earnest observations of the mundane with naturalistic prose and dialogue, this story reminds readers of the beauty in the little things in life.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/let-it-go-by-colleen-kearney-rich/

13/12/2025

Today's two poems by Rebecca Pyle pay respect to the stirring beauty and quiet horror that coexist within the mundane. Billfolds, cookies, lamps—the stuff that becomes symbolism, for better or worse.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/two-poems-by-rebecca-pyle/

13/12/2025

Out in the solitude and heat of the high desert, it's easy to escape one's past... until it isn't. Erin Mayes's short story, "Ignition," is a succinct and thoughtful exploration of loneliness, trauma, and seeking out catharsis after a loss.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/ignition-by-erin-mayes/

12/12/2025

Some days we need to be reminded of our connection to other human beings, even the ones we'll never meet. Today's featured poem, "Dresden in the Morning" by John Horvath, is a visceral snapshot of what happens when we forget.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/dresden-in-the-morning-by-john-horvath/

12/12/2025

Maggie Cregan's () short play "Line Cooks Like Baby Birds" may be set in a restaurant, but it takes a sharp look at what it means for justice to come home.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/line-cooks-like-baby-birds-by-maggie-cregan/

11/12/2025

Today we're featuring two poems on the site. In “On Memory as a Shade of Torture” and “On Dreams and Inevitable Hurdles,” Abdulmueed Balogun explores the continuum of ghosts we inherit, the romance of existence, and the taste of God's favorite pasta.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/two-poems-by-abdulmueed-balogun/

11/12/2025

In our featured interview for the issue, TCR's Kevin Morales chats with National Book Award finalist and Riverside literary legend Susan Straight about writing the places we call home, as well as the realities that led to her writing what is, intentionally or not, a great American COVID novel.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/tcr-talks-with-susan-straight-author-of-sacrament/

10/12/2025

In today's two featured poems, R. Jerome Michael's sensory genius evokes a rural American landscape that poetry editor Mason Martin calls "just the right side of awe and melancholy"; his words are transportative and fittingly warm.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2025/12/05/two-poems-by-r-jerome-michael/

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