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Our mission is to express creativity, spark inspiration, and bring life to art. Augustine, the nation’s oldest city, our staff continually strives to bring creative energy into each page of our publication. Our purpose is to accurately represent the artists while welcoming them into a historic community that continues to uphold the value of ingenuity and originality. By selecting the best poetry,

fiction, creative nonfiction, and art from artists across the nation, FLARE works to create a truthful collaboration of the human experience. Like a flare sent into the darkness, the flames of creativity fuel our community. FLARE is a literary journal published by students through the Flagler College English Department. The publication is printed annually in the spring, along with an online Web site. FLARE seeks to publish both up-and-coming and established writers. Accepting of both the traditional and experimental in the poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and screenplay genres, we strive to showcase a variety of colorful, vibrant works from passionate writers.

07/17/2024

FLARE in the wild! Here's a photo of FLARE's 2024 editor in chief, Sophia Falber, posing from her home in Tampa, Florida with her family's new baby bird, Vinny. He may be only 3 months old and unable to read, but he loves FLARE!

06/26/2024

Did you know you can access all of FLARE’s archives from our current issue all the way back to our first issue in 1989? You can! Our archives are updated every summer. Follow the link in our bio for free access to years’ worth of spectacular poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and more!

06/26/2024

Did you know you can access all of FLARE's archives from our current issue all the way back to our first issue in 1989? You can! Our archives are updated every summer. Follow the link below for free access to years' worth of spectacular poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and more!

https://digitalarchives.flagler.edu/digital/collection/p16830coll4/search/order/date/ad/desc

06/23/2024

Flare in the Wild! This week Flare traveled to Burlington, Vermont with Ainsley McCullen, our 2024 CNF editor. Check out these pics of our 35th anniversary issue in front of the original Ben & Jerry’s shop, Lake Champlain, Church Street, and more, including the bronze statue of musician Big Joe Burrell. Thanks, Ainsley! Remember to send us shots of Flare in the Wild, wherever you may be in the world, to be featured on our pages. 📸

06/12/2024

In honor of the Dragon Boat Festival yesterday, we thought we'd post "The Women in Our Dragon Boat" by Jessica Barksdale (slide 2) as published in FLARE's 2024 issue. Enjoy!

05/10/2024

First of our new “Flare in the Wild” posts. Take a photo of your Flare 2024 issue wherever you are in the world and send it in to us to be featured! Here, our faculty supervisor, Lauren Tivey, gets a shot of our beautiful journal in front of our home base, Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida. We can’t wait to see where and how far Flare travels!

04/27/2024

The FLARE 2024 launch party yesterday evening was lovely. We were so excited to hold readings from the issue and share the work of our talented contributors in the beautiful solarium in the Ponce building of historic Flagler College. Many thanks to everyone who attended, and to Peter Hartley for providing us with music. There was a great spread of food, free issues, some swag, and lots of laughs. It was a wonderful way to wrap up another FLARE run, and celebrate our 35th anniversary!

04/26/2024

Don't forget, tonight is the FLARE launch party!

We hope to see you there 🥳

04/26/2024

04/25/2024

FLARE Contributors, check your mailboxes soon! We just sent out your copies in the mail. We are excited for you to be able to hold a physical copy of this stunning issue!

04/18/2024

We cordially invite you to attend FLARE's launch party 🥳

Enjoy complimentary copies of FLARE's 2024 issue, FLARE swag, food + drinks, and readings from the issue.

P.S: The event counts as a co-curricular for Flagler students.

We can't wait to see you there!

04/16/2024

We would like to extend our warmest gratitude to Cheyenne Koth Leahy for all her work on this latest issue of FLARE: The Flagler Review, as well as many of our past issues. Cheyenne is a Flagler College alum, and a former FLARE editor, and she has stuck by us, helping us out, and we could not have completed the issue without her. Indeed, she is the InDesign QUEEN! That careful layout and design you see is all Cheyenne’s doing. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Cheyenne! 🙏

(Photo courtesy of Ginna McGee Richards)

04/13/2024

Our editors, Annella and Alayna, hosting a Flare table in the book fair at PoetFest today. We’ve issues and lots of swag available!

04/11/2024

FLARE is finally off the printing press🎉

We can't wait for you to get your hands on this special issue and celebrate FLARE's anniversary with us ❤️

04/09/2024

🎉Introducing FLARE'S 2024 cover🎉

This piece by J.C. Alfier is called "Toward Nightfall."

This collage drew our editors in, making us feel that we, like the photo's subjects, were walking "toward nightfall" and into this odyssey-themed issue.

We can't wait for you to hold the book in your hands and see all the other amazing art pieces inside its pages!

Artist Bio:
J.C. Alfier's (they/them) most recent book of poetry, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Press (2020). Journal credits include The Emerson Review, Faultline, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Vassar Review. They are also an artist doing collage and double-exposure work.

04/03/2024

Friends of FLARE, it’s time for Roar and Raise once again! Any donation is much appreciated. Thank you for supporting the Flagler Review!

FLARE: The Flagler Review is an award-winning literary journal published by English Department students at Flagler College, recently celebrating their 35th anniversary. FLARE seeks to publish both up-and-coming and established artists and writers, featuring poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
All gifts made during Roar & Raise will support attendance at the 2025 AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference in Los Angeles to host a FLARE: The Flagler Review table at the book fair, to bolster our visibility within the national writing community. FLARE’s attendance at AWP in Philadelphia in 2022 was so successful and enriching for student interns, and raised our visibility in the literary community, and we hope to repeat the experience!

Visit FLARE: The Flagler Review · GiveCampus today to make your donation, and please share our donation link. Thank you!

03/26/2024

To our amazing contributors in the 2024 issue of FLARE, we would love for you to send a video of you reading your piece! Videos will be shared on our social media pages. For longer pieces, please read an excerpt of your choosing. Please send videos to [email protected] by April 15th. We would love to share your work through video!

03/21/2024

FLARE is at print! We are so close to having the Spring 2024 issue in our hands, and we can’t wait for you to see it too!

03/12/2024

FLARE 2024 staff. Enjoy your spring break, team—you deserve it! We’ll be back at it next week. The issue is coming along nicely, and will soon 🤞 be sent to the printer. Stay tuned for updates!

03/09/2024

Dr.Andreu's display of FLARE issues from oldest (left) to newest (right).

Thanks, Dr. Andreu and everyone else who supports FLARE!

03/07/2024

Congratulations to our FLARE editors for being inducted to Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society: Marissa Kempf, Ainsley McCullen, Sophia Falber, Corliss Cranwell, and Grace Kirkland.

03/05/2024

Introducing this year's editor-in-chief Sophia Falber!
It is her third year with FLARE, and she served last year as the Head Poetry Editor.

Sophia's favorite part of FLARE is:

"The spirited discussions we have in the editing room and the sense of community. With FLARE, the creation of the literary journal is as much of a creative process as writing for one is. It has been super beneficial as a writer myself to see the other side of the curtain. I have a big appreciation for my fellow editors now!"

02/29/2024

FLARE 2024 submitters, check your inboxes! We have finalized our decisions and sent out acceptances. Thank you to any one who submitted. We have enjoyed seeing everyone’s work!
We are working hard and can’t wait for you to have this issue!

02/28/2024

Welcome our managing editor for this year, Aidan West! Aidan's favorite part of FLARE is being able to hold the finished product of our journal.

Aidan has helped us to distribute more physical copies of FLARE by setting up our library display.

We hope you will come and pick up a copy of FLARE at our 2024 Launch Party (details to come soon)!

02/22/2024

Introducing our managing editors Sophia Falber and Aidan West!

02/20/2024

Reminder to get your submissions in while you can
The link is in our bio if you're interested!

02/15/2024

Meet our fiction team: Jaden Rudd, Grace Kirkland, and Corliss Cranwell.

Fiction had A LOT of submissions this term, so they had their work cut out for them, but they've handled it all like pros!

02/13/2024

Feel free to grab a copy of FLARE from our new library display!

We hope you enjoy perusing our past issues while we work on putting together another for this spring.

02/08/2024

Introducing our creative non-fiction team! This photo includes: Eva Michie, Ainsley McCullen , and Alejandro Lugo Cortes.

02/01/2024

Introducing FLARE's editorial poetry team for our 35th year anniversary issue!

Pictured here is: Marissa Kempf, Alayna Brower, Annella Rizzuto, and Isabella Galasso.

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Videos

To kick off the weekend, enjoy this reading of "blue ridge baby" by Emma Klopfer. To show some love, follow her @emmakklopfer #literarymagazine #flaglercollege

We hope you'll enjoy this excerpt of Kalina Smith's creative non-fiction piece "Delta Blues." (Our apologies their was a glitch with Instagram and the last one was cut in half) And don't forget, you can read the entire piece by picking up a copy of FLARE at our launch party (details coming soon). #flaglercollege #literarymagazines

We hope you enjoy this reading of "Eagle and Owl" by Eugene Stevenson. This poem and his piece "Norther Express" will appear in FLARE's 2024 issue! If you'd like to keep up with Eugene's writing, you can check his website eugenestevenson.com or follow him on X @Stevenson_Gino and on FaceBook @ Eugene Stevenson. #flaglercollege #literarymagazine #literaryjournal

Enjoy this video of Flare contributor, Amanda Gattshall, reading her prose poem, “The Mountain,” published in our 35th anniversary issue. Amanda is a Flagler College alum, and former Flare editor of our 2023 issue. We loved this piece as soon as we read it. Thanks, Amanda! @awesomeaog #flaglercollege #flaglercollegealumni #nationalpoetrymonth

We’re so excited to share this video of Flare contributor Roscoe Saunders reading his poem, “Laika Rewrites the Story,” which is appearing in our 2024 issue. We felt this piece perfectly fit our theme of “odyssey” for our 35th anniversary. Listen for the dogs barking, as if on cue (!) near the end of the video. You can catch Roscoe reading this poem at our launch party on April 26th. Thanks so much @roscoe_saunders #flagler college #nationalpoetrymonth @engdeptflagler

As we anticipate the release of FLARE's 2024 issue, we hope you will enjoy this reading of Dis/Ability, a creative nonfiction piece by our contributor, April McCloud. Thank you, April, for trusting us with your work and for going above and beyond with this video. The graphics are amazing! #flaglercollege #literarymagazine #creativenonfiction

We thought you might enjoy this video of Flare’s Editor-in-Chief, Sophia Falber, performing “Dreams,” by The Cranberries, at last night’s open mic. None of us knew she could do THIS! We are so lucky to have such talented members on our editorial team. Way to go, Sophia! #flaglercollege @sophiajfalber

Enjoy this cute unboxing video of the FLARE 2023 issue by Lead Art Editor, Rachel Miltenberg! Contributor copies will be in the mail tomorrow. 🎉😃🎉 #flaglercollege #flaglercollegealumni

Many thanks to contributor Dorothy Brooks, reading her poem, “While Picking Up My Son’s Legos, I Learn of Another School Shooting,” which appears in the latest issue of Flare: The Flagler Review, to be released later this month. #flaglercollege #flaglercollegealumni #NationalPoetryMonth

FLARE is happy to present contributor video readings this year. Please enjoy Virgil Suárez reading his work, “Poem in the Voice of Werner Herzog,” from our 2023 issue. Fitting we begin with a poem, as today begins National Poetry Month! #flaglercollege #flaglercollegealumni #NationalPoetryMonth

Flare Spring ‘22 unboxing! Our awesome editors Colleen and Charlotte are thrilled to be the first to unbox the brand new copies of our long-awaited Spring issue! These will soon be on their way to our contributors.