North American Review
@NorthAmerReview
First published in 1815, North American Review is America's oldest literary magazine. We are self-supported and non-profit. We seek to share great work.
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"It’s fall by the calendar, the days shortening, the nights lengthening. But the sun? Unrelentingly ripening." Read Martha Silano's poem "Ghazal for the Summer of 2023" now on our Open Space platform. Link in bio. More of her work can be found on marthasilano.net

“you wanted me to turn you around to face the sun. The appropriately, but unsentimentally, setting sun. The fittingly and wholly indifferent November sun.” As November arrives, check out “Post-Op Appointment With My Father” by Jesse Wallis, available in Open Space- link in bio!

"Easy to laugh at him, but he was kind of heroic, you know?" --Ziggurat Check out this thoughtful new piece from @billsquirrell, live now on the NAR Open Space! northamericanreview.org/open-space/fic… #fiction #publication #shortstories
Forest Gander's new collection MOJAVE GHOST @NewDirections is haunted with life--reviewed by Eric Bies. Read it here: northamericanreview.org/open-space/rev… #poetry #bookreviews
Happy October! This is the final month to submit work for the Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize judged by Kevin Brockmeier, and the Hearst Poetry Prize, judged by Stephanie Burt. Winner of each Prize receives $1,000. For contest details and to submit: northamericanreview.org/submit

Congratulations to Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nathan Erwin, Gary Dop, Susannah Lee, Thea Matthews, Martín Espada, Glenn Shaheen, Lindsay Starck, Laura Leigh Morris, and James Morena for being our nominations for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology! Read their work on Open Space!




NAR contributor & James Hearst Poetry Finalist @IChristian3030 has a SPLENDID new book out GREATER GHOST fourwaybooks.com/site/greater-g… @FourWayBooks #poetry #BookRecommendations #poetrycommunity
Join NAR contributor Naoko Fujimoto for ONLINE: Graphic Poems: Create Your Own with Naoko Fujimoto September 30-October 14 :: 6-8 pm CST — Hive Center for the Book Arts (hivebookarts.org) @TupeloQ @rhinopoetry #poety #art #visualpoetry
NAR contributor Perry Janes's debut FIND ME WHEN YOU'RE READY from @northwesternup is out!! Myth -making & myth-correcting, set in L.A. & Detroit ✨✨✨ nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147645/… #poetry #bookbirthday
Kevin Brockmeier is the author of The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories, three other novels; two story collections, two children’s novels, and a memoir. Submit your best speculative fiction for consideration here: northamericanreview.org/submit

Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor with nine published books, including two critical books on poetry and three poetry collections. Submit your best poems for consideration here: northamericanreview.org/submit We accept up to five poems for one submission fee.

Only two weeks left to send your manuscript of poems to @TheLouRev. We look forward to publishing a review of the winning book that @JeanieThompson selects!
Attention Poets! TLR's National Poetry Book Contest is accepting submissions NOW-AUGUST 31. $1,000, publication by Fleur-de-Lis Press, and 25 copies for a debut poetry collection. Jeanie Thompson will judge. $25 fee includes 1-year TLR subscription. louisvillereview.org
We're excited to share @TheLouRev's new national poetry book contest, judged by NAR contributor @JeanieThompson. The winner will receive $1,000 prize, 25 author copies, and an online review of the winning book in the North American Review!
TLR is thrilled to announce our NEW National Poetry Book contest! Details: louisvillereview.org
We are pleased to announce that Toni Jensen has selected Sophie Collins Arroyo as winner the 2024 Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize. Congrats to her, and all notables listed in Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/awa…

NAR Contributing Editor @mespadapoet's poem "Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper" is featured on the latest @PoetryInAmerica poetryinamerica.org/episode/who-bu…
💙 We agree: "Maybe that's what poetry's for." Listen to a beautiful poet @marthasilano (one of our all-time favorites!) reading two beautiful poems for @AQReview 💙youtube.com/watch?v=NkURvk…