New Ohio Review

07/08/2024

NOR Issue 34 is now available!

To order, follow the link here:

https://commerce.cashnet.com/ohionor

*cover art by Beth Klaus and the Athens Photo Project

06/10/2024

The latest Summer Online Exclusive from New Ohio Review is now available!

The issue includes art from the Athens Photo Project; fiction from S Graham, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Aimee Parkison, and Owen Thomas; nonfiction from Marissa Yuan; poetry from Pam Baggett, Danny Caine, Lauren Camp, Rob Cording, Savannah DiGregorio, Ockert Greeff, Evan Gurney, Mickie Kennedy, Patrick Kindig, Georgia McKay Lodge, Jennifer Martelli, Olga Maslova, Jory Mickelson, Dion O’Reilly, David B. Prather, Linda Ann Strang, Leigh K. Sugar, Emily Wheeler, Steven Winn, and Dan Wriggins; and reviews of work by J. C. Scharl, George David Clark, Nancy Miller Gomez, and Kari Gunter-Seymour by Betsy K. Brown, Jonathan Geltner, Michael Lavers, Erin Redfern, and Bonnie Proudfoot.

We hope you enjoy our 2024 Summer Online Exclusive.

Thanks for reading,

-The Editors

04/22/2024

Don't forget to submit to the NOR Literary Prizes. The last day to submit is today!

04/21/2024

"I don’t have much on my calendar for today,
another April 21st featuring a walk around the lake,
then boxing up the cat and driving her to the vet.
It’s overwhelming to think of all the things
I’m not doing"

From "April 21st" by Billy Collins in NOR23!

By Billy Collins Featured Art: A Pond Near Rousillon by Adolphe Appian It’s the birthday of John Muir and Charlotte Brontë, born just 18 years apart,she in Yorkshire and he somewhere in Scotland, b…

04/17/2024

If you have not submitted to our 2024 contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, there is still time.

The deadline has been extended to April 22nd.

Visit newohioreview.org/contests for more details.

04/16/2024

"As she talks I walk the backyard—all day

I have watched a fat bee plunder
the same plush marigold, slowly
sinking his velvet face into the pollen,
raising it up again."

From "October" by Hannah Sullivan Brown in NOR30!

By Hannah Sullivan Brown My mother calls to tell me she can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. As she talks I walk the backyard—all dayI have watched a fat bee plunderthe same …

04/14/2024

Don't forget to submit to the NOR Literary Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry!

The submission deadline is tomorrow, April 15th.
Submission includes a 1-year subscription to New Ohio Review and consideration for publication!

04/11/2024

"The lone wild goose sticks out his tongue at me"
By Joyce Schmid

"half-heartedly, not like the one last April— fierce,
protecting pear-green goslings. But this year, no little ones.

It’s been so long since I have seen a baby"

From NOR Winter23

By Joyce Schmid half-heartedly, not like the one last April— fierce,protecting pear-green goslings. But this year, no little ones. It’s been so long since I have seen a baby—even seen one—not to sp…

04/09/2024

"We were watching the planes...It was April and we were glad we could sit there without our jackets on, even though we were a little cold when the wind picked up.

'It’s time,' Hannah said."

From "Lonely, Lucky, Brave" by Jillian Jackson

By Jillian Jackson When I hit on the scratch ticket I was at Castle Island with Hannah. We used to go there every Friday. After Hannah finished walking dogs and I finished up my shift at the café, …

04/07/2024

Don't forget to submit your work to the NOR Literary Prizes before the April 15th deadline!

The fee for submission is $22 and includes a 1-year subscription to NOR. Entries will also be considered for publications.

Literary Prizes Three prizes of $1,500 each and publication in New Ohio Review are given annually for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay. Submit a story or essay of up …

04/05/2024

The New Ohio Review poem of the week is "Pythagoras" by Bruce Bond from NOR15!

Read more from the issue at newohioreview.org

03/25/2024

"There’s a split down the center
of your upper lip, like the crack
of a window on that first warm-
blooded day of spring, when
cherry blossoms sprinkle back
broken pavement"

From "Cocooned" by Maud Welch in our Winter21 edition!

By Maud Welch Featured Image: Before I Leave by Tanner Pearson There’s a split down the center            of your upper lip, like the crackof …

03/20/2024

Come check out the Spring Literary Festival Events today in the Baker Center Theater!

7:30 p.m. — Mary Szybist Lecture
8:30 p.m. — Lily Hoàng Reading

See a full schedule and more details here:

The Ohio University English Department plans to hold 2024 Spring Literary Festival on the Athens campus on March 20–21.

03/19/2024

We are thrilled to announce that the following poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes!

Check all of these poems out at newohioreview.org

03/12/2024

"In spring I can never remember fall
and I talk myself through the laughing-at-you days of spring
that never deliver what they promise."

From "Spring Cleaning" by Laura McCullough in NOR10

by Laura McCullough Feature image: Vasily Kandinsky. Houses at Murnau, 1909. The Art Institute of Chicago. When we moved the couch we found the pumpkin, the tiny one we’d picked that …

03/06/2024

"You crave
For the wheels to ride across the puddle, muddied
With pebbles & all your past lives too

You want to find again
That sky blue that’s been shut tight
All winter long"

From "Spring Reflection" by Stephanie Choi in NOR29

By Stephanie Choi Featured Art: Scarlet by Joseph Taylor You craveFor the wheels to ride across the puddle, muddiedWith pebbles & all your past lives too You want …

03/03/2024

"Trees in early March,
aroused, their branches slightly reddened by the slightly stronger sun, may feel
something similar. They have a new sense of their importance"

From "Trees in March" by Linda Bamber in NOR24

By Linda Bamber We were seated near the back of the Chinese restaurant, and waiters were rushing in and out of the swinging doors to the kitchen. At the time we had not as yet so much as brushed sh…

02/28/2024

"Let me feel a little love for everything.
The steaming pile of wood chips, the barren
stumps, the grove of trees still bearing
open wounds from February’s ice storm."

From "Bumping Around" by Eileen Pettycrew in our Summer 2022 edition

by Eileen Pettycrew Featured Art: Vaider, by John Schriner Then I saw a man sheltering from the raininside a concrete circle meant to bea work of art. I didn’t want to thinkhe was homeless, just a …

02/23/2024

We are pleased to announce Michele Bombardier as the winner of the 2024 NORward Poetry Prize!

Michele Bombardier is the author of "What We Do", a Washington Book Award finalist. Her work has appeared in JAMA, Parabola, Atlanta Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and elsewhere. She's received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Mineral School and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. She is the founder of Fishplate Poetry and the inaugural poet laureate of her town.

02/22/2024

"I feel the cold more
I stay in bed longer
To linger in my dreams
Where I’m young
& falling in & out of love
I couldn’t imagine then
Being this old"

From "In the Winter of my Sixty-Seventh Year" by Susan Browne in our Winter 2020 edition

By Susan Browne Featured Art: pass with care by Gina Gidaro I feel the cold moreI stay in bed longerTo linger in my dreams Where I’m young& falling in & out of loveI couldn’t imagine t…

02/20/2024

"So now my neighbor’s twelve-foot skeletons are all-season haunts,
this February morning holding huge pink balloon hearts
and grimacing against the freezing fog."

From "Love is a Kingdom of Obsidian" by Andrew Hemmert in our Summer 2023 edition

By Andrew Hemmert So now my neighbor’s twelve-foot skeletons are all-season haunts,this February morning holding huge pink balloon heartsand grimacing against the freezing fog. I like themthis way,…

02/19/2024

“That first winter after you vanished
into the white rafters

of the afterlife the old boyfriends returned
in texts and letters, one close enough

to walk with me beside a fast river
in the snow; these were the men I loved

when I was young and now I was alone”

From “Keeping Warm” by Faith Shearin in NOR26
https://newohioreview.org/2019/11/26/keeping-warm/

02/16/2024

NOR had a wonderful time at AWP last week.

Thank you to our contributors for putting on such a warm and wonderful reading and to Katie Berta for signing books at our table.

It was lovely to meet so many new people, and if we didn't get the chance to chat, maybe we will see you in LA next year.

02/16/2024

This poem of the week originally appeared in NOR27!

Read more from the edition at newohioreview.org

02/14/2024

“Valentine’s Day and I’m at the farmers’ market
with my aquamarine Olivetti, typing poems for
whatever the buyers think they’re worth.

For Annie, the homeless woman who stops by
each week, I pull the sun out of the sky,
let it hover just above her solar plexus
and shoot its rays out of her eyes, superhero style.”

From “Saturday” by Veronica Kornberg in NOR27

By Veronica Kornberg Featured Art: by Johan Teyler Valentine’s Day and I’m at the farmers’ marketwith my aquamarine Olivetti, typing poems forwhatever the buyers think they’re worth. For Annie, the…

02/09/2024

Meet our 2024 Fiction Judge, Kate Bernheimer!

Kate Bernheimer is the author of two story collections, including How a Mother Weaned a Girl from Fairy Tales, three novels, and, with Laird Hunt, the collaborative novella Office at Night. She has edited four fairy-tale anthologies of original work, including the World Fantasy Award-winning My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales. In 2005 she founded, and continues to edit, Fairy Tale Review. Her newest short stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Hopkins Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. With her brother, Andrew Bernheimer, she curates their long-running series Fairy Tale Architecture for Places Journal and co-authored a book of the same title.

02/08/2024

NOR will be holding an offsite AWP reading TODAY at 6 p.m. at The Big Rip Brewing Company!

Come join us for an evening of literature with our incredible readers. We hope to see you there!

216 E 9th Ave,
North Kansas City MO 64116

02/05/2024

There are only three days until our offsite AWP reading!

Join us at The Big Rip Brewing Company (7 minutes from the Convention Center)
216 E 9th Ave,
North Kansas City MO 64116

With readings by:
Sarah Green
K.T. Landon
Jill Michelle
Brad Aaron Modlin
Abby E. Murray
Danielle Batalion Ola
Weijia Pan
Emily Tuszynska
Adele Elise Williams

02/02/2024

Meet our Nonfiction Judge, Lily Hoàng!

Lily Hoàng is the author of six books, including Underneath (winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award), A Bestiary (PEN/USA Non-Fiction Award finalist), and Changing (recipient of a PEN/Open Books Award). She has two books forthcoming in 2024—The Mute Kids (micro-tales) and A Knock at the Door (fairy tales)—and her collaborative collection Timber & Lụa with Vi Khi Nao is forthcoming in 2025. She is a Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she teaches in their MFA in Literary Arts.

Visit newohioreview.org/contests for more contest information!

02/02/2024

“...I listen—
‘I tend to believe in the neuroplasticity of the human brain

to adapt’—and half-open my eyes to see
two dudes in beards and surf shorts on a bench

poolside. It’s February.”

From “Sad As Is” by Kathleen Lee in NOR31

By Kathleen Lee I’m trying to nap for ten minutesbefore swimming laps when two voiceswaver as if in a dream. If you died todaywe could know everywhere you lived from your bones.Because I am alert t…