American Literary Review

    A journal of the Creative Writing Program at UNT

Our Fall 2011 issue is here:

ALR Fall 2011: Cover Art by Dana Kroos
 

ALR's Fall 2011 issue features new fiction from Christine Sneed, Elizabeth Eslami, Karl Taro Greenfeld, poems by Brian Culhane, William Virgil Davis, Eric Pankey, Andrew Feld, Carl Phillips, Anne Pierson Wiese, and creative nonfiction from Sarah Jefferis, Taline Voskeritchian and Joey Franklin.

The American Literary Review is excited to announce its 2011 contest winners:

  • Thank you for participating in American Literary Review's 2011 contest. We received a large number of entries, and had the wonderful and difficult job of selecting winners from a number of excellent submissions. Our thanks to all entrants and our congratulations to the winners.
     
  • Fiction Winner: Marc Dickinson, "Smoked"
       
        Fiction Runner-Up:     Sean Madigan Hoen, "Back is Where You Go"
       
    Fiction judge Kyle Minor's thoughts on the winning story and runner-up.
     
  • Creative Nonfiction: Barbara Cameron, "Hawk Blood"

        Fiction Runner-Up: Starre Vartan, "Icewalkers"
    Nonfiction judge Alice Dark's thoughts on the winning piece and runner-up.
     
  • Poetry: Joseph Duemer, "Lake Surface Full of Clouds"

    Poetry judge Joanie Mackowski's thoughts on the winning poem.

    These winners will receive $1000 each, and, along with an array of new and interesting writing from around the globe, will appear in our Spring 2012 issue. We hope you will consider submitting for our 2012 contests, which will open June 1 of 2011. See a list of past winners and runners-up.
     
  • Our regular reading period is now open, and we welcome your regular submissions beginning October 1 to May 1.

Exclusively online

It is our pleasure to publish, exclusively online, Nora Khan's wonderful story Gunn, a runner up for our 2010 Fiction Contest.

We asked three of our authors to tell us about the ways in which they craft their stories, come up with ideas, think of characters, generate conflict. You can read the three essays here, exclusively on our site.