The Magnolia Review

20/03/2023

Volume 7 Issue 1 is now available! Check out this issue's winner of The Magnolia Review Ink Award.

06/07/2021

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

01/06/2021

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

20/04/2021

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Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

13/04/2021

https://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2021/04/bookreview-of-how-to-be-antiracist-by.html

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

10/04/2021

Check out this book review of Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue.

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

27/03/2021

"I do not have a “set” routine for writing. For me, it is something that happens spontaneously and I prefer not to plan it out. However, when I am in the editing stage of a piece, I do set aside a specific time for proper review."

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? I usually work at home, since I find that I need a quiet place to write and reflect. Sometimes, when I look for inspiratio…

01/03/2021

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

16/02/2021

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

03/02/2021

Volume 6, Issue 2 is here!

https://themagnoliareview.com/2021/02/02/volume-6-issue-2-is-here/

The issue is available as a PDF here. tmr-6.2-january-2021Download The optional theme is A Defining Moment. Contributors: Serena Agusto-Cox, Charles Joseph Albert, Madison Barlow, Gary Beck, Isaac …

02/02/2021

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

26/01/2021

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

13/01/2021

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

29/12/2020

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

22/12/2020

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

15/12/2020

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

10/11/2020

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

03/11/2020

Writers in various stages of the publishing journey, spreading the awesome to other authors. Check out our query an agent contest.

06/10/2020

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Final contest of the year.
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25/04/2020

Volume 6, Issue 1 is here!

https://themagnoliareview.com/archives/volume-6-issue-1/

19/01/2020

The Magnolia Review apologizes for the delay of Volume 6, Issue 1. The issue will be available by February 15 at the latest. We will update the blog and here on Facebook when the issue is available. Thank you for your patience.

–The Magnolia Review Editors

28/12/2019

I’d like to say I wake up early every morning and write; that is usually my plan and sometimes a habit, but my routine is more typically random. I’m typing these responses at 3:00 am after drafting a poem. I see nights like this as writing between two naps.

https://themagnoliareview.com/2019/12/28/kristin-kowalski-ferragut-interview/

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? I write primarily in the Nook of my bedroom looking out on a hill and four thin pines I pretend I own, although it’s reall…

26/12/2019

Keep at it. I meet so many people who say they used to write. You don’t have to be good at first. You just have to do it and do it a lot.

https://themagnoliareview.com/2019/12/26/jennifer-makowsky-interview/

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? I usually write at home in a chair that’s situated in front of a row of windows that go from floor to ceiling. It’s an odd…

22/12/2019

I don’t think of an audience when I am writing. I write for the piece itself. I spend a lot of time examining the messes I make to see what they’re asking of me, what they’re telling me, what I need to do to turn them into something that has some meaning or some beauty or some something that will make them seem whole and in some way complete.

https://themagnoliareview.com/2019/12/22/susan-taylor-chehak-interview/

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? I work at home, and always have. Now my children are grown and I have more time for that, but I don’t always use tha…

20/12/2019

Everything inspires me. The wind at night. A new scientific discovery. An odd juxtaposition of events in the news. I try to let it all in and link with whatever else is already in my head. I don’t think I have ever been truly blocked…maybe less inspired…but not fully blocked. The flow is usually still there. Part of that may come from my copywriting day job. If you write for a living every day, you can’t really allow yourself to be blocked.

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? As a screenwriter, singer/songwriter and advertising copywriter, as well as a poet, my creative space and process var…

19/12/2019

Volume 6, Issue 2 Theme Announced!

A Defining Moment.

See the submit tab for details on how to submit.

https://themagnoliareview.com/submit/

We accept submissions year-round. We are currently reading submissions for our tenth issue! The optional theme for the eleventh issue is: The Day That Changed Me. We accept photography, art, comics…

06/08/2019

Check out Michael Paul Hogan's review of Helen Ivory's The Anatomical Venus.

The Anatomical Venus by Helen Ivory. Bloodaxe Books, 2019. 64 pages. $9.95, paperback. Gentlemen, the Venerina is a dissectible young woman          &nb…

05/08/2019

I would have said in the past for as many people as possible, but I have come to the reluctant conclusion that most people like clichés, and as poetry is a war against cliché (a statement that may be a cliché itself) the poet really can't write for everyone if they want to be true to their art.

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? I like the idea of writing in coffee shops, and often do drafting there but the main business of writing takes place in my…

15/07/2019

Volume 5, Issue 2 is here!

The issue is available here. tmr-5.2-july-2019Download Campus at night by Riku Ylönen The optional theme is Questions. Contributors: Bill Abbott, Maya Alexandri, Gary Beck, Adam Levon Brown, Frank …

11/07/2019

Check out Charles Joseph Albert's new poetry collection!

Congratulations to Charles, who published poems in The Magnolia Review Volume 3, Issue 2, Volume 4, Issue 1, and Volume 5, Issue 1, which are in his new collection, CONFESSION TO THE COCKROACHES AN…

10/05/2019

Congratulations, Gary Beck!

Check out Gary Beck's latest poetry collections, Transitions and Contusions.

Check out two of Gary Beck’s latest poetry collections, TRANSITIONS and CONTUSIONS.

10/05/2019

Steven B. Rosenfeld–Interview

Steven B. Rosenfeld–Interview

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? My wife and I each have home offices in our West Village apartment, so I am fortunate enough to have my own creative space…

10/05/2019

Steven B. Rosenfeld–Interview

Just do it—don’t be afraid to tackle any idea that occurs to you. Take all the writing workshops you can (in-person, if you can, on-line if you can’t), because it puts you in touch with other aspiring writers and shows you that, even though the actual task of writing can feel lonely, you’re hardly alone. Oh, and even if you’re 70+ years old like I was, it’s never too late to start.

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? My wife and I each have home offices in our West Village apartment, so I am fortunate enough to have my own creative space…

05/04/2019

Theresa Williams–Interview

Since I was a child. I ALWAYS wanted to be an artist first. I got an undergraduate degree in studio art at East Carolina University. When I graduated, though, I got two Master’s degrees in English and upon graduation taught English courses at the university level. I thought it was a more stable path financially. I didn’t draw for a long time. I came back to it about 7 years ago. My plan all along was to somehow combine art and writing.

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? I work at home. Since all our children moved out, I have taken over half of the house. In one room I have an art desk. &nb…

22/03/2019

Paul Mills–Interview

I play the piano. Well sort of. What you’re supposed to do when you’re learning an instrument is start off with easy pieces and get gradually harder, but I couldn’t be bothered with that, so I started with Maple Leaf Rag, by Scott Joplin, which is not an easy piece at all. I’ve learnt it, but it took me about a year of going through the sheet music chord by chord, painfully slowly, then very gradually getting faster and faster. Now when people hear me play it, they’re very impressed, and they assume I’m a fantastic pianist—they don’t realise that it’s the only piece I can play!

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? If I’m working to a tight deadline, it doesn’t matter where I work; I can be productive anywhere. At other tim…

12/03/2019

Simon Perchik–Interview

I read. I estimate I read 5 or 6 poetry books a month.

My favorite part is when the poem is finished. The process is not enjoyable in any sense of the word. It’s brutal.

My advice is not to take anyone’s advice. But read. You have to know what’s been done.

I write in a public space, a coffee shop most often. Sometimes the YWCA. I use a fountain pen, write by hand,. At 9 am I’m at the table and write till about 12. Sometimes later, depending on …

06/03/2019

TJ Neathery–Interview

Ideally, I like to write longhand in a college-rule notebook. I wrote my first novel manuscript on two notebooks. The ability to take notes is important to me. For example, I might think of a scene that should come ten pages later so I just write that idea in the margins. I can’t really do that as easily on a computer. I also love writing with Pilot G2 07 pens. Those are the best pens. End of discussion.

Describe your creative space. Do you work at home, in public spaces, etc.? I prefer local coffee shops (note the plural use of “shops”). I appreciate a change of scenery now and then. Right now I h…