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THE COACHELLA REVIEW is the literary arts journal of the University of California Riverside - Palm Desert Graduate Center and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. We celebrate original work that is vibrant, brave, thoughtful, and precise. Whether experimental or traditional, TCR editors strive to celebrate writing that holds readers in awe. Readers, please let u

s know what you think of the works we have collected in TCR. New issues debut in January and June. In the meantime, please keep up with us via our page and our TCR Blog.

17/12/2024

Thanks for exploring our new WINTER 2024 issue with us!

Don't forget that submissions are now open for our SUMMER 2025 issue, themed GOOD TROUBLE, after the legendary activist and congressman John Lewis. Send us your poetry, prose, and scripts fighting the good fight. Submissions are open now!

17/12/2024

The art of a relationship can be expressed in various ways. In Sydney Strange's short film Play It Again, we witness how love can be felt through understanding, awarness, and sometimes even distance.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/play-it-again-by-sydney-strange/

16/12/2024

As U.S. states grow divided over abortion rights, many people have voiced opinions over what a woman should do with her body. In today's Pushcart-nominated story, "Funfetti Kisses," Lorraine A. Wheat explores the pressures of everyone else's expectations on an Arkansas teen.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/funfettti-kisses-by-lorraine-a-wheat

16/12/2024

in Mark Routhier's essay "White Lines," suburban boredom and childhood shenanigans escalate and bear consequences. But which authority carries the greater threat: the cops or your parents?

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/white-lines-by-mark-routhier/

15/12/2024

In today's Pushcart-nominated poem, "Cow Stomach Quartet," poet, educator, and architect Jess Yuan builds an organic, precise system to metabolize industry and our tender world.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/cow-stomach-quartet-by-jess-yuan/

15/12/2024

Aspiring writers often measure success by publication, but how do published authors see it? Novelist Jamie Harrison looks back on all the books she hasn't published and contemplates all the things she did when she wasn’t "writing."

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/a-history-of-my-enthusiasms-or-use-everything-by-jamie-harrison

14/12/2024

For those who believe, purgatory is both their greatest fear and a thought-provoking wonder. McCracken's piece bucks the system of acceptance and explores a universal truth of the blurry line between "good" and "bad."

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/captive-in-purgatory-by-mark-mccracken

14/12/2024

Gale Acuff's poem testifies to the power of simple truth-telling and the gentle retreat of make-believe. In "Jesus loves me, this I know, though He's dead," grownups teach a child to lie.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/jesus-loves-me-this-i-know-though-hes-dead-by-gale-acuff

13/12/2024

We're not saying Kerri Brady Long's short story, "Jessup's Quick Fill" takes place in the same stretch of desert as Dacia J. Harrold's poem, but we also know a lot of questionable art installations and devilish deals happen in SoCal ghost towns. Just remember, the security cameras are watching.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/jessups-quick-fill-by-kerri-brady-long

13/12/2024

As publication rooted in the California desert, we identify with Dacia J. Harrold's poem, "One Whiskey Jag West of Amboy." But we're sure no matter where you live, you'll be able to feel this poem's Mojave sun and taste its dust.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/one-whiskey-jag-west-of-amboy-by-dacia-j-harrold

12/12/2024

"Sewing Corn to Feed the Rats" is strewn with surprising turns of phrase, sounds that jangle and echo, and images that ache. Ronda Piszk Broatch writes, gorgeous and startling, on the afterlife of devotion.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/sewing-corn-to-feed-the-rats-by-ronda-piszk-broatch

12/12/2024

This morning, we're taking a quick break from the creative pieces to chat writer-to-writer. Award-winning crime writer Rachel Howzell Hall spills all of the tea in this rolicking, emotional conversation with our Dave Oei about her first romantasy novel, The Last One.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/tcr-talks-with-rachel-howzell-hall-author-of-the-last-one

11/12/2024

The search for misplaced jewelry leads to a moment of self-exploration and reckoning with all of society's ills. Are we talking about Leah Fisher's essay, "The Necklace" or the lives of modern women?

Yes.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/the-necklace-by-leah-fisher

11/12/2024

Matt Poindexter's "Blessing for Doris" is crystalline alchemy: a bank teller, the bank, and money itself is made briefly holy by the poet's meditations on time and human kindness.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/blessing-for-doris-by-matt-poindexter

10/12/2024

It's been over tweny years since 9/11, and it's now a world where AI meets the truth of memory. In the short play The Gate by Peter Sands, two souls circle each other as they try to recognize the horrors of past realities.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/the-gate-by-peter-sands

10/12/2024

Today's featured fiction may not be a horror story, but after experiencing a tragic event while on a date, we definitely feel the narrator in James Armstrong's "The Belt" is being haunted in her apartment.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/the-belt-by-james-armstong

09/12/2024

Ukrainian poet Dmitry Blizniuk's 9-line poem "My Wife Hangs Winter Clothing in the Closet," translated by Sergey Gerasimov from Russian, is short, unpretentious, and carries extraordinary weight. We've nominated this one for a Pushcart.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/my-wife-hangs-winter-clothing-in-the-closet-by-dmitry-blizniuk

09/12/2024

They're the couple that everyone loves, they're the IT couple that everyone envies, but, what if they aren't? As revealed by Matthew Moore's one-act, Portugal, if you listen close enough to people, it's sometimes just all just smoke and mirrors.

https://thecoachellareview.com/2024/12/06/portugal-by-matthew-moore/

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