Red River Review

27/07/2025

✍️ We’re looking for poetry, prose, and visual art that maps the intersections of memory, identity, and experience. We want work that considers where it’s been and dares to reimagine where it’s going.

The kind that breathes, unearths, and remembers aloud.

Bring us what haunts you. What heals you. What still hums beneath the surface.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Know someone whose voice belongs here? Tag them.
📣 What brings you home to yourself? Drop a word 👇

23/07/2025

Submissions are open at Red River Review!

The form is back online: thanks to those who reached out and for your patience while we sorted out a form glitch.

We’re looking for poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms, and visual/digital art that explore memory, identity, place, and lived experience.

🖊 Submit your work by August 31, 2025
📍 Full guidelines: www.redriverreview.org

We can’t wait to read your work.

16/07/2025

Rest, Andrea Gibson, Colorado Poet Laureate.
❤️‍🔥💔 thank you for the time, the words, the opening, the racing heart, the luminous light still burning.

10/07/2025

Red River Review Is Back with New Vision + Leadership
RRR helped shape the early world of online poetry. Now it returns: rebuilt, reimagined, and ready to uplift bold, creative voices while preserving its rich poetic legacy.
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The new editors are now accepting:
📝 Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
🎨 Visual/digital art
🔀 Hybrid and experimental forms
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This new chapter is led by writer and editor Heather Robinson Hernandez, and powered by passion, not institutional funding. The $15 submission fee helps cover the real costs of relaunching, reviewing, publishing, and preserving a long-standing literary archive.
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But we’re committed to access, too. We’ll offer free submission periods throughout the year: follow us so you don’t miss them.

Whether you’ve published with us before or just found us, we invite you to help shape what’s next.

📍 Submit at redriverreview.org

10/07/2025

Red River Review is back!
The journal that helped define early online poetry is returning with a new site, new spirit, and an expanded vision for creative work.

Now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms, and visual art.
Read the full call for submissions: redriverreview.org

Let’s write the next chapter together.

🖼️ See the image for more details + submission info!

26/03/2025

Dusting ourselves off
Getting ready for new changes
Poetry is vital... watch this space!

06/09/2019

What's your favorite poem about Autumn?

31/07/2019

Check out Issue 72...our final issue (for now)

The August issue here! We have so much to be thankful for. Our featured poet for August is Cullen Whisenhunt

It pains me to announce that this will probably be the last issue of Red River Review for some time. I started this review in 1999 and ran it for many years alone until 2007. I took a break from editing and publishing until Michelle Hartman came along and breathed new life into the journal. She ran Red River from 2010 until 2018 when she stepped aside. This site deserves much more love and support than I can give it. I would be happy to pass it on to a qualified editor or institution if arrangements could be made. Reach out to me if you wish.

Any submission that is still unpublished at this time, including your video blogs, are released for publication elsewhere. It's been a great ride but for now, I need to let this rest.

Peace!

Bob McCranie

02/02/2019

The February issue of Red River Review has been posted. This is our 70th issue. We are proud to announce that Diane Webster is our featured poet this issue. Check it out!

Established 1999

14/07/2018

Dear RRR Friends,
It is with great gratitude and appreciation, that I announce my resigning as Editor of RRR. You have trusted me with your most prized possessions for eight and a half years. I never took that trust lightly. I have made so many friends and connections through RRR and I value each of them highly. I’m proud of the work that Bob McCranie and I have done together. I want to thank him for giving me this awesome opportunity. Nobody could work with or for a better boss. Thank you and good writing to each and everyone of you.
Michelle Hartman

12/07/2018

I'll put this here, just in case.

That's how you say it! :)

UPDATE: We found this picture online, thought it was interesting and shared it. We did not create it or know for sure where it is from. We definitely cannot give you details on where to find a print or amend it.

UPDATE pt. 2: came forward claiming ownership of this research and stating it can all be found in his book 'A Mess of Iguanas, A Whoop of Gorillas...: An Amazement of Animal Facts'