Shenandoah Literary Magazine

Shenandoah Literary Magazine ...passionate understanding, formal accomplishment & serious mischief. Online at http://shenandoahliterary.org.

Check out the new Small Town Dispatches piece on The Peak. It features poet Leona Sevick’s small town, Bridgewater, Virg...
02/14/2025

Check out the new Small Town Dispatches piece on The Peak. It features poet Leona Sevick’s small town, Bridgewater, Virginia!

Attention Fiction writers! We’ll be open for submissions starting January 15 🤩 Swipe to read the call from our Fall 2025...
12/31/2024

Attention Fiction writers! We’ll be open for submissions starting January 15 🤩 Swipe to read the call from our Fall 2025 Editorial Fellow in Fiction, Ames Ahmed!

The Believers by A.K. Herman is out now! 🥳We sat down with the author to talk about her creative process and how her deb...
12/11/2024

The Believers by A.K. Herman is out now! 🥳

We sat down with the author to talk about her creative process and how her debut short story collection The Believers grew from her own experiences. Check it out on The Peak now!

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Check out this post on The Peak! “Grief in the Earth: A Conversation with Desiree Santana” is a Q&A with the Graybeal-Go...
11/22/2024

Check out this post on The Peak! “Grief in the Earth: A Conversation with Desiree Santana” is a Q&A with the Graybeal-Gowen Prize runner up. She discusses her poem “The Starving Time,” and how her work is influenced by where she grew up as well as personal and historical perspectives.

Head on over to shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/ to read! 🤩

Check out “Deleted Scenes: Insight into Revision with Michelle Donahue” on The Peak now! 🥳 Head on over to shenandoahlit...
11/15/2024

Check out “Deleted Scenes: Insight into Revision with Michelle Donahue” on The Peak now! 🥳 Head on over to shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/ to read!

Mita Mahato is coming to Washington and Lee to speak about her new book Arctic Play! She’ll be speaking next Thursday, N...
11/01/2024

Mita Mahato is coming to Washington and Lee to speak about her new book Arctic Play! She’ll be speaking next Thursday, November 7, and we are so excited to welcome her and hear all about her book 🥳

Only 2️⃣ more days to submit poems for the Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets! Head on over to shenandoahliterary.c...
10/29/2024

Only 2️⃣ more days to submit poems for the Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets! Head on over to shenandoahliterary.com/submissions for details and shenandoah.submittable.com/submit to send in your work 🥳

Check out this post on The Peak! In “Pushing the Boundaries: A Conversation with Helena Pantsis,” Pantsis discusses her...
10/29/2024

Check out this post on The Peak!

In “Pushing the Boundaries: A Conversation with Helena Pantsis,” Pantsis discusses her vision, including her original artwork and genre-defying writing, for her debut story anthology. Her artwork “Again Boy” was featured in issue 73.2 of Shenandoah.

Read the piece at shenandoahliterary.org!

Check out our new Peak post, an article written by student Emma Malinak. It features quotes from authors Sarah Fawn Mont...
10/25/2024

Check out our new Peak post, an article written by student Emma Malinak. It features quotes from authors Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jehanne Dubrow, both Shenandoah contributors. Check it out at shenandoahliterary.org!

Congratulations to our Spring 2026 Editorial Fellow, Samyak Shertok, on winning the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry fr...
10/18/2024

Congratulations to our Spring 2026 Editorial Fellow, Samyak Shertok, on winning the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from AWP! 🥳 He won for his poem “No Rhododendron.” Well done!!

Check out this post on The Peak! In this interview, Associate editor Moriah Katz and author Dorsía Smith Silva discuss m...
10/04/2024

Check out this post on The Peak! In this interview, Associate editor Moriah Katz and author Dorsía Smith Silva discuss motherhood, healing within the family unit, and the creative process behind the author’s debut poetry collection, In Inheritance of Drowning.

“My drive definitely comes from my belief that I have something to say. Who else is going to say what I want to say but me?”

Read the full interview at shenandoahliterary.org!

Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, P...
09/27/2024

Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Alice James Award, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he is currently the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University.

ANNOUNCING Our Fall 2025 Issue Editorial Fellow In Fiction N.S. AHMED! N.S. Ahmed is a first-generation Egyptian-America...
09/25/2024

ANNOUNCING Our Fall 2025 Issue Editorial Fellow In Fiction N.S. AHMED!

N.S. Ahmed is a first-generation Egyptian-American fiction writer based in New York City. His writings have been featured or are forthcoming in publications such as Joyland, The Margins (AAWW), The Offing, The Lumiere Review, and the New York Public Library. Currently, he is a CUNY Pipeline Fellow, a CLS Scholar, a TEDx speaker, a Periplus Collective Fellow, and a graduate student and Hertog Research Fellow at Hunter College’s MFA program for creative fiction. He is presently working on a novel and short story collection.

Keep an eye on our page this week - we’ll be announcing our new editorial fellows through 2026 🥳🥳We’re really excited to...
09/23/2024

Keep an eye on our page this week - we’ll be announcing our new editorial fellows through 2026 🥳🥳

We’re really excited to be working with all these wonderful writers!

On The Peak! In this interview, Shenandoah contributor Luisa A. I gloria talks about the themes and origins of her new p...
09/20/2024

On The Peak! In this interview, Shenandoah contributor Luisa A. I gloria talks about the themes and origins of her new poetry collection, as well as her time as Virginia’s Poet Laureate.

“It still gives me goosebumps to think that a contribution from someone like me has become part of this moment in history.”

Read the full interview at Shenandoahliterary.org

Head on over to The Peak and check out this interview with Marc Dickinson on his new book, Replacement Parts, out today!...
09/10/2024

Head on over to The Peak and check out this interview with Marc Dickinson on his new book, Replacement Parts, out today! Congratulations to Marc on the book release!

Check out the interview at shenandoahliterary.com/thepeak/marc-dickinson-on-replacement-parts/ 🥳

Mark your calendars: We’re open for Fiction and Eco-Nonfiction submissions starting Tuesday, September 10!Swipe to the s...
09/07/2024

Mark your calendars: We’re open for Fiction and Eco-Nonfiction submissions starting Tuesday, September 10!

Swipe to the second slide for the special Eco-Nonfiction call!

For more details, check out shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/ 🥳

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Virginia Poets!!! Reminder to submit your poetry for the Graybeal-Gowen Prize before October 31st! This year’s judge is Kyle G. Dargan. One poem will be selected to receive a $1000 prize and will be published in Shenandoah! Check out our last post for more info.

Calling all Virginia Poets! The deadline for the Graybeal-Gowen Prize is October 31st! Spooky! The Graybeal-Gowen Prize was established to honor the memory of WLU graduate and lover of poetry, Howerton Gowen. All poets living in or born in Virginia, as well as those with long-term residency in the past, are eligible. Submit as many as three poems, each no longer than fifty lines, along with brief biographical note, which should confirm the basis for eligibility as a Virginian. One poem will be selected to receive the $1000 prize and will be published in Shenandoah. All submissions will be considered for publication. No Washington and Lee staff, faculty, or their families are eligible.

Head to The Peak to check out contributor Lesley Jenike’s video essay “Ax Handle.” Lesley’s work “I have Drunk and Seen the Spider” is in our Spring 2019 issue. Jenike’s essay explores motherhood and she gives us some insight into her piece on our site!

Self-Portrait as Water Witcher
Self-Portrait as Water Witcher

Introducing the winner of the Graybeal-Gowen Prize, Emma Aylor, and her poem “Self-Portrait as Water Witcher”! She is a poet whose work appears or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Sixth Finch, Barrow Street, Yemassee, and Salt Hill, among other journals. This video, created by the talented Leeann Passaro, pairs Aylor's reading with some images from the Shenandoah Valley. #literarymagazine #shenandoah #shenandoahliterarymagazine

In case you didn’t make it, here is a time lapse of our launch party two weeks ago! Thanks to everyone who came out and keep checking out the new issue—link in bio! #literature #literarymagazine #launchparty #launch #poetry #prose #fiction #nonfiction #comics #translation #shenandoah #shenandoahliterary

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