Looking for Guest Editors for Our International Sections!

Atlanta Review prides itself on its Spring issues, which are focused on an international country or region.  Every year, we try to bring you the best new work, in translation, that we can.  But we can’t do it without guest editors, and that’s where you come in.

Are you fluent in another language?  We’re looking for volunteer guest editors who can solicit poetry, translate the work (if necessary), collect bios, organize the work, and write an introduction to it.  We look for roughly 40-50 manuscript pages (one poem per page).

If you’re interested, PLEASE get in touch with us at jc.reilly@lmc.gatech.edu.  We already have Spring 2024 and 2025 lined up, but we’ll be needing folks in the future and would love your help!  We’re especially eager to have an issue from France, if anyone is inclined.

Contact JC if you have any questions.  And thank you very much!

From NYPL Digital Collections

Hi, Everyone!

We just wanted to give you an update on the contest:  we’re still reading submisions (there were a lot of them!), and still looking for a judge, but we’re hoping to finish up all decisions by October at the latest.  The Fall issue will come out in December, as usual.

Meanwhile, just a reminder that our fall general submission window opens in 38 days, on September 15th.  We’re looking forward to reading your new work!

Last Week for the Contest!

If you’ve been waiting to send us your contest submission, first of all, what are you waiting for?  And second of all, Monday, May 1st is the last day to submit!

That’s right, May Day is the last day we’re accepting poems, so be sure to get them to us for a chance to win $1000 and publication.  (And then you can go back to dancing around the May Pole.) 🙂

Submit here!

 

International Poetry Contest 2023 Open!

from the NYPL Digital CollectionsIt’s that time of year again!  We can’t wait to read your submissions for the 2023 International Poetry Contest.  We want to read poems that sizzle, poems that make us cry or laugh or lose our breath.  We want to be inundated with your beautiful and strange words.

As always we appreciate all kinds of poems, so feel free to send us your sonnets and villanelles and sestinas, your free verse, your nonce forms–whatever you got, we want to read it.

Contest submission entry is $15 per each packet of 5 poems (not per poem!!).  Feel free to enter the contest as many times as you like, provided you pay the fee.

https://atlantareview.submittable.com/submit

The contest runs until May 1st!

International Poetry Prize 2022 Winner!

We are thrilled to announce that Elizabeth Knapp’s poem “It’s Ok to Worry about the State of Britney Spears’s Mental Health” has been selected by this year’s competition judge, Steven Reigns, as the winner of the 2022 International Poetry Prize.

Of her work, Steven writes, “There’s a cleverness to this poem that could potentially alienate or verge into careless campiness, but it never goes there thanks to the balance of global awareness, sincere concern, and artful imagery.”

Elizabeth wins the Grand Prize of $1000 and publication in the Fall issue.

Congratulations to our Finalists too!

      • Stevens Amidon
      • Rhoni Blankenthorn
      • Harley Anastasia Chapman
      • Grant Chemidlin
      • Hollie Dugas
      • Therese Gleason
      • Ellen Pauley Goff
      • Norman Goodwin
      • P M F Johnson
      • Sarah Kersey
      • Hannah Lee
      • Corinne Wohlford Mason
      • karla k. morton
      • Mitchelle Mukeli
      • Veronica Patterson
      • Jennifer M. Phillips
      • Ivy Raff
      • vinode ramgopal
      • Angela Sucich
      • Jeri Theriault
      • Tanya Tuzeo
      • Isi Unikowski

Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets 2022 Winner!

 

We are so excited to announce the winner of the 2022 Dan Veach Prize!

Congratulations go to Edwin Williamson, for his poem, “Each D ay I Press My Ear to the Ground.”

Of his own writing, Edwin says, “My poetry often aims to blend natural and scientific concepts occurring on Earth (or off-Earth) with tender emotional experiences. I am a lifelong visual artist and musician and started writing poetry in 2018 as a freshman in college. I have always loved science but never found myself able to pursue any of the more technical fields academically. The kind of poetry I’ve been generating over the last few years, I feel, comes out as the product of what I can do as a creative individual and of what we should all be fascinated with as human beings on this planet.”

Edwin will have his poem published in the Fall 2022 issue of Atlanta Review and he wins $100 prize.

Congratulations also to our finalists!

        • Alejandro Aguirre, “Berlin Candy Bomber”
        • Gigi Cheng, “Obsidian Fish”
        • Hana Saad, “I cut down to the core”

And thanks to everyone who entered the contest.  It’s exciting to see so many younger folks writing and sharing their poetry.

Fall 2021 Atlanta Review Team

Hello World!

The Atlanta Review is in the process of re-vamping our social media so that we can connect more with you all. The people behind our social media are none other than Master’s students in the Global Media and Cultures program (GMC) at Georgia Tech taking a class by the name of—you guessed it—The Atlanta Review. Basically, the class is designed to give students hands-on editorial experience in running and maintaining the Atlanta Review (AR). Students learn to make editorial choices across a number of media platforms, from choosing poems to publish for our print issues, to maintaining social media like Instagram and Facebook, to managing subscriber and contributor lists, updating and improving the AR website, and overall contributing to the long-term indexing project of back issues.

Here are the bios of the graduate students in the Fall 2021 AR Class!

Meg Carver is currently working on her masters degree in Global Media and Cultures with a focus in French. She completed her undergraduate degree at Georgia Tech as well with a major in Literature, Media, and Communication and a minor in French. She enjoys video games, art, and spending time with her family. Her greatest love is her dog Bonnie.

Mackenzie Dumaresque is originally from East Coast Canada but has lived in multiple American states. She is a GMC student completing a concentration in French. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Alabama in International Studies with a double major in French. In her future, Mackenzie hopes to work for a non-profit or NGO and she is so excited to see what opportunities arise in the future.

Eboni Goar is an Atlanta native majoring in GMC with a Japanese language concentration. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia (go dawgs!) in Asian Languages and Literature. When she is not in class, she can be found at events with Georgia Tech’s Japanese Student Association, hanging out with friends at restaurants in Atlanta/Athens or at home doing some online shopping.

Rebecca Hammond obtained a B.S in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with a minor in Spanish from Georgia Tech. Through her internship experiences working in beauty and personal care for Unilever, Rebecca has gained an understanding of inclusive product development and consumer communication. She enjoys listening to music and cooking in her free time.

Elle Kostka is getting her Master’s in GMC at Georgia Tech, researching German Corporate Social Responsibility. She received her BA in German and BA in Comparative Literature from UGA, particularly enjoying German Romantic Literature. She continues to enjoy Ballroom dancing, both socially and on the Georgia Tech competition team.

Peruse Past Issues

–from the NYPL Digital Collections

We’ve been busy uploading sample poems from past issues so that you can see all the great poems that we’ve published down through the years.

The most recent past issues include Poetry 2014, Pakistan, and Poetry 2015, and you can find between 8-10 poem .pdfs per issue.  This project (like the Index Project) is time-consuming and slow-going, so be sure to check back periodically to see what “new” past issues we have available.

Hope you’re having a great summer!