The Idaho Review

13/09/2024

I’m way beyond thrilled to announce that my third novel, THE GHOSTS OF OKUMA, will be published by Regal House in 2026. The novel has already received blurbs from Joy Williams, Charles Baxter, Andrea Barrett, Madison Smartt Bell, George Pelecanos, Marion Dayre, Brady Udall, and Ridley Pearson. “Snow Angels,” my short story the novel is based on, first appeared in The Missouri Review and was reprinted in their anthology, Hello, I Love You. THE GHOSTS OF OKUMA is #1 all-time in novel manuscripts in the drama category on Coverfly's Red List in Hollywood.

An all-women indie press, Regal House was featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly in April for their tenth anniversary, and was named the 2021 Independent Press of the Year by Foreword Reviews. It’s a singular honor to be joining their fantastic community of authors.

25/01/2024

We're thrilled to announce that Issue no. 21 of the Idaho Review is now printed and available for purchase on our website! Huge congratulations to all of the remarkable writers featured. We're so honored to publish your work. Visit www.idahoreview.org to get your copies today!

13/11/2023

Just a reminder that we will be accepting submissions for three more days! If you haven't already, send us your work by this Wednesday, 11:59 PM MT!

13/11/2023

A reminder that the new Best American Short Stories is out, and in it, you'll find "This Isn't the Actual Sea" by Corinna Vallianatos, originally published in Issue no. 20. Pick up a copy and read this breathtaking story! Congrats as well to the IR contributors who received honorable mentions this year: Gina Chung for "Attachment Processes" and Nicole Cullen for "Trespasses." Read all of these beautiful stories in Issue 20!

08/09/2023

We are officially open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Let's get you published!!!

Visit our website to submit! https://www.idahoreview.org/submit

06/09/2023

The Idaho Review will begin accepting submissions this Friday for our 22nd issue. Send us your best stories, poems, and essays! We can't wait to read them!

For more info and guidelines, visit our website: https://www.idahoreview.org/

21/08/2023

Brace yourself. Sam Berman's "Scalping the Lego King" is a lyrical gut punch. Forthcoming in Issue #21. Read it here!
https://www.idahoreview.org/archive/2023/5/25/scalping-the-lego-king

02/08/2023

Forthcoming from Issue #21!! For our latest blog post, Ariel Delgado Dixon (Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You) shares her correspondence with Ellyn Gaydos (Pig Years). In a classic exchange of letters, two of today’s most exciting writers discuss their lives in farming, writing, Proust questionnaires, and more.

By Ariel Delgado Dixon & Ellyn Gaydos I read an early copy of Pig Years (Knopf, 2022) by Ellyn Gaydos over the course of a mobile few weeks, beginning at the window seat of a café in Midtown Manhattan and concluding in the Swiss Alps, up in a steep cow town called Wilderswil. The cows in

17/06/2023

Read new poetry from Ezza Ahmed, now on our website and forthcoming in our print issue #21!

The river was  as the river is  when home was still  the red walls  before the door k**b was cold.  A mud house,  now taken  by gre

31/05/2023

Read our interview with Dana Winsmith and her stunning short story, "Proprioception," now online and forthcoming in our print issue #21!!

IR: I'm always fascinated by the drafting process of short stories, especially longer ones like "Proprioception" (Issue 21, 2023) . What was the process like on this story?   DW: To be honest, I don’t remember much of the early drafting process because I started writing it

12/05/2023

Read new poetry from Anna Weber, now on our website and forthcoming in our print issue #21!

Yesterday, the plumber came and unearthed a pound of hair from the shower drain. A whole mess of it , he marveled. He’d made me come watch. Ma’am , he called— I was hiding downstairs, pretending to read— you’re going to need to see this . And so I looked too. Wanted to be somewhere, anywhe...

03/05/2023

We're thrilled to share that the editors of The Best American Short Stories 2023 selected “This Isn’t the Actual Sea” by Corinna Vallianatos, originally published by The Idaho Review in Issue 20, for this year’s prize anthology!! Read the award-winning story and more here!!

The editors of “The Best American Short Stories 2023” selected “This Isn’t the Actual Sea” by Corinna Vallianatos, originally published by The Idaho Review in Issue 20, for this year’s prize anthology. Heidi Pitlor, the series editor, and Min Jin Lee, the guest editor and  author of...

01/05/2023

Here’s another sneak peek at issue 21! Meet Bill Carman's catfish boy (ain’t he cute?!), inspired by Blaine Prescott’s surreal and wonderful flash piece, “An Extinction Event.” Read it here! https://www.idahoreview.org/archive/2023/4/11/an-extinction-event

22/04/2023

New blog alert! Read our interview with novelist and short story writer, Jai Chakrabarti and get a preview of Issue 21 with his transcendent story, “Bought Baby” up now on the Idaho Review archive!

Each time I’ve encountered Jai Chakrabarti’s work, I’ve been struck by how his stories braid themes of parenthood, class disparity, and love into beautifully human moments that are fraught and true. His characters, and all their flaws, hopes, and loves, follow me around for days after I’ve p...

12/04/2023

We are thrilled to announce that Gothataone Moeng is joining the spring line-up for the MFA Reading Series!!! “A new force in the literary landscape,” (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review), she will give a reading at 7:30 PM on Thursday, April 13, 2023, in the Great Hall in the Hemingway Center. All MFA Reading Series events are free and open to the public.
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Gothataone Moeng’s debut short story collection, “Call and Response,” explores complex family dynamics in contemporary Botswana. Set mainly in the author’s hometown of Serowe and the Botswanan capital of Gaborone, the stories examine the inner lives of girls and women. Kirkus Review calls the collection, “A lovely debut brimming with deeply felt and well-rounded stories” (starred review). Publisher’s Weekly calls the book “lyrical and poignant” and says, “The author brings insightful prose and a distinctive voice to these layered stories, demonstrating deep knowledge of her characters and care for their worlds. Moeng is a new force in the literary landscape.”
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Born in Serowa, Botswana, Gothataone Moeng authored the story collection “Call and Response” (Viking, 2023). A 2022-2023 Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. Her writing received fellowships and support from Tin House, where she served as a 2019 Summer Workshop Scholar, and from A Public Space, which selected her as a 2016 Emerging Writer Fellow. Her writing appears in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, One Story, A Public Space, and The Oxford American, among other journals.

12/04/2023

Cover art reveal! As we hit the home stretch of putting together issue #21, we’re so excited to share a sneak peak of this amazing cover art from Boise State’s own, Bill Carman. Isn’t she a beauty?! AND! We’re sharing “Georgia O’Keeffe and the Angel of Death,” by Nina Ellis, the story that inspired the art. Read this incredibly written, wonderfully imagined piece here! https://www.idahoreview.org/archive/2023/4/11/bxqtvr5a1r837w4npvj975utsu9c0l

07/04/2023

Idaho Review Issue #20 contributor, Gina Chung, discusses her debut novel, Sea Change, in BOMB magazine. Read it here and buy her amazing novel!

A novel about family ties, animal sentience, deep sea exploration, and suburban New Jersey mall culture.

21/03/2023

We can't wait for these amazing Story Fort events for Treefort Music Fest!! Add these to your festival schedule and join Idaho Review staff for these great readings and more!
Thursday 1:30-3:00: MFA Reading Series at The Idaho State Museum
Thursday 5:00-9:00: This Is The Place reading showcase at Ochos
Friday 3:30-5:00: Bud Smith & Kevin Maloney at Ochos
Sunday 12-1:30: Poetry and Mimosas at Ochos