We’re so excited to nominated six poets for a Pushcart Prize. (The Pushcart honors the best writing in small presses.) Our nominations (in no particular order) are: “Ten Love Stories” by A. Molotkov “Mexican Tongue” by JD Amick “Back Among My Own” by Wendy Drexler “Our First Time Making Love After the Funeral” by Shannon
We are so excited to share that this year’s winner our annual International Poetry Contest is Kurt Luchs, for his poem “Suzie.” This year’s judge was Dan Vera. Kurt wins the $1000 prize, and his poem, along with the wonderful poems by the other Finalists, will appear in the fall issue. Congratulations to Kurt and
Last year’s International Poetry Contest winner, Carlos Andrés Gómez, will be in Atlanta to promote his new poetry collection Hijito at Spoke ATL on Sept. 13th. Can’t make the reading? Check out his book. And in case you missed his winning poem “Underground” from 2018, you can read it here. Got a new book out?
We’re always excited when our past contributors have new books out. Check out Douglas Cole’s The Blue Island, available from Kelsay Books. If you are a past contributor who’s got something new to share, please let us know. We love to support the Atlanta Review fam!
Did you miss us while we were closed to online submissions? Of course you did. And we missed you too! Our doors are open once more! You can start sending us your wonderful poems at Submittable. We are ready for a new batch. (Though tbh we’re still making our way through contest subs, so we
It’s summer which means we’re about to take a month off from receiving new work so that we can catch up on all the general/ contest submissions you’ve sent us—well, we will try anyway! Our Submittable portal will be closed from June 1-30 for general submissions. (Of course, you can always snail mail us work
This year’s International Poetry Contest is up and running. Send us your poems from around the globe! We’re eager to read them. What’s new: We’ve lowered our contest submission fee to a flat rate–now you can submit any 3 poems for $10. Enter as often as you like! Send us 3 poems or 30, it’s
SOLD OUT!! Waiting List is available. This event is free. However, because of overwhelming interest, seat reservations are necessary. Click here to reserve a seat or get on the waiting list.
Atlanta Review is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2017 issue. June 1st is the deadline for General and Dan Veach Prize submissions. Consider submitting your work for our journal! For more information about submission guidelines, click here. For more information about the annual Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets, click here.
The Spring 2017 issue of Atlanta Review will be launched April 15th. It contains general poetry submissions as well as poetry by writers from New Zealand, edited by Ivy Alvarez. Subscribe now to receive this exciting new issue!