American Literary Review
@ALitReview
Biannual literary magazine founded in 1990 at @UNTEnglish. Spring 2024 Issue: https://americanliteraryreview.com/current-issue/
We've hit our cap on Poetry submissions, but will reopen Fiction submissions February 1st. We are currently accepting Essays and Art!

We are now OPEN for Poetry and Essay submissions! americanliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit
you can find work from this collection (and otherwise) in @GeorgiaReview @ALitReview @NewOhioReview @TheAccountMag — all lovely mags I’ve loved having my work in!
Sharing my new #Essay just published in American Literary Review. @ALitReview Feeling very honored. americanliteraryreview.com/2024/11/07/ali…
Work we ❤️ from @ALitReview
In the poem "cutting bell peppers," Arnisha Royston writes with poignancy about how "it isn’t fair to know the hollowness of this body." Read it now: americanliteraryreview.com/2024/03/25/arn…
I won a prize! Thank you so much to the editors at American Literary Review and the Judge Carolina Ebeid! Thank you God! 💫
Congratulations to our 2024 ALR Award winners! Thank you to everyone who submitted, to our judges, and our staff. The contests will open again in June.
Many thanks @ALitReview & @CarolinaEbeid for recognizing “Blue Camellias.” Congrats to poets @Obasiotaibe & @zoe_luh !
Mary-Hilda Obasiota Ibe (@Obasiotaibe) is a Winner of The American Literary Review (@ALitReview) Contest 2024 jaylit.com/mary-hilda-oba…
Congratulations to all of our 2024 ALR contest finalists and thank you to all who submitted! There were so many great works to read through. Here is our full list of finalists in all categories. Submissions will open back up June 2025.




Our submissions will close for the winter holidays at the end of the day. We'll re-open on January 1st!
Join us today for our ALR reading series featuring managing editor @bczyzykwrites, as well as UNT grad students and ALR staff: Jasmyn Huff, Gabby Robbins, along with alumna guest writer, @inabluefog!

The opening poem of my manuscript is now live at @ALitReview! It's something of an overture that introduces some of the images, language, and ideas that appear throughout the collection.
Our Fall Issue is now live! Including works by @MattMonizPoet, @WattersonCass, @me_goyette, and more! americanliteraryreview.com/2024/11/09/fal…
Our Fall Issue is now live! Including works by @MattMonizPoet, @WattersonCass, @me_goyette, and more! americanliteraryreview.com/2024/11/09/fal…

short story out today in @ALitReview ! it’s a retelling of daedalus and icarus fascinated with the queerness of girlhood and class in the american south americanliteraryreview.com/2024/11/12/mar…
Olivia Sio Tse's "A Favor" examines staying and leaving in the Spring 2024 issue: americanliteraryreview.com/2024/03/25/oli… Revisit this work, and keep an eye out for our Fall 2024 issue that is soon to launch this month!

ALR's Flash Flood is back this November! Submit your flash prose and prose poetry under 1000 words to [email protected]. The contest is open until November 17.

In the poem "cutting bell peppers," Arnisha Royston writes with poignancy about how "it isn’t fair to know the hollowness of this body." Read it now: americanliteraryreview.com/2024/03/25/arn…

Join us Saturday, October 26, 4-5 pm @patchoulijoes for the ALR Reading Series! Our fantastic readers are Will Brooks, Sera Harris, Erik Moyer, and guest writer @Nomi_Stone. See you there!
