Memorious

24/12/2021

Happy Holidays! Special all poetry co-edited w/ Jessica Guzman! www.memorious.org

Memorious is an online literary journal publishing quality verse, fiction, and views on literary craft, including reviews, interviews, and criticism.

05/12/2021

Check out our 2021 Contributor Book Round-Up! We'd name drop here, but isn't it more fun to visit the full list/s?https://memoriousmag.wordpress.com

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30/06/2021

Our round-up of Memorious contributor books for the first half of 2021 is live! I hope you'll share, celebrate, and, most importantly, read!
https://memoriousmag.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/round-up-2021-contributor-books-thru-june-2021/

Congratulations to all of our Memorious contributors who launched books during the challenging first half of 2021! Stay tuned for news of upcoming contributor books including Fall 2021 poetry from …

29/06/2021

Former Memorious cover artist Dorothea Van Camp has a solo show show, Breach, at HallSpace in Boston, extended through July 17th. And you can met the artist July 2 and 3. Check out the review in the Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/24/arts/where-wallpaper-patterns-become-sheer-drama/?fbclid=IwAR2VIPMJzNUPDrao1H0oACp1fDvu-OWRwtrD2edLdy-9lf_4KFvc692DiyY

In Dorothea Van Camp’s painting/screenprint hybrids, upholstery and wallpaper patterns heave, twist, and flutter into something more.

25/06/2021

Congrats to contributors Gail Mazur(Lands End, UChicagoPress), Joyce Peseroff(Petition, CMUPress), Margot Livesey (The Boy in the Field ) and Steven Cramer (Listen, MadHat Press), all on the longlist for the 2021 Mass Book Awards!
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/21st-Annual-Massachusetts-Book-Awards.html?soid=1118683784419&aid=DwZaJ8h59lU

Announcing the 2021 Must Read Titles View as Webpage Heading Out Into the World And Taking Our MassBooks With Us! Dear Friends of Books and Reading: This year has sometimes seemed like the long winter

08/04/2021

Congratulations to contributors Sandra Lim, Andrea Cohen, Paul Yoon, and Alexander Chee for being awarded Guggenheim Fellowships!
https://www.gf.org/announcement-2021/

Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Director of CIERA, Northwestern University

05/04/2021

Congratulations to contributor Catherine Pierce, winner of the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award in poetry! https://www.ms-arts-letters.org/winners.html

2020 Award Winners pictured above: (top left to right): Minrose Gwin, Margaret McMullan, Bark (Susa ​ n and Tim Lee), C. T. Salazar, and Steve Rouse (bottom left to right): Ann J. Abadie, Will...

16/03/2021

Congratulations to fiction contributor Ricco Siasoco, who's terrific story collection The Foley Artist is the honorable mention for the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award!

Please join us in celebrating the 2021 Association for Asian American Studies book award winners. The various committees had to make agonizing choices about finalists and honorable mentions. Our members produce amazing scholarship and creative writing, and we are glad to see these awardees honored.

06/03/2021

Find us at the AWP Community Bookfair (its own tab under events) today- we have a live room from 2:30-5 pm: come say hi! Love meeting contributors, seeing friends and readers, and meeting future contributors!

26/02/2021

Check out this upcoming virtual gallery event featuring current Memorious cover artist Tori Weston!

16/02/2021

Happy Pub day to contributor Andrea Cohen, whose poetry collection Everything is out today from Fourway Books:
https://fourwaybooks.com/site/everything/

16/02/2021

Happy pub day to contributor Kevin Prufer, whose new collection of poems, The Art of Fiction, is out today from Fourway Books:
https://fourwaybooks.com/site/the-art-of-fiction/?fbclid=IwAR0snvlUZDRaLKL4Rkx2eH2-Qzq3dVPN-Xsvc6PadpPFzzFO4mVX4dcQUus

In this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction i...

05/02/2021

2021 is going to be a great year for poetry contributor books, including books by Sandra Lim, Caki Wilkinson, Derrick Austin, Jennifer Moore, Michael Kleber-DiggsJehanne Dubrow, M. Soledad Caballero, Amy Gerstler, Anna Leigh Knowles. Plus chapbooks by Sara Elkamel and Sean Cho A. Meanwhile, check out some Jan/Feb poetry contributor titles:
Andrea Cohen, Everything (Four Way)
Kevin Prufer, The Art of Fiction (Four Way)
Natalie Shapero, Popular Longing (Copper Canyon)
Alex Dimitrov, Love & Other Poems (Copper Canyon)
GC Waldrep, The Earliest Witness (Tupelo)

04/02/2021

Five Memorious contributors granted NEA fellowships! Congrats to Albert Abonado, David Roderick, Sally Wen Mao, and Diana Khoi Nguyen, and all the poets on this list. Celebrate Poetry!

28/12/2020

Issue 31 of Memorious is now live! Featuring fiction by Beth Lizardo and Cleyvis Natera! Poetry by Sean Cho A.; Sarah Ghazal Ali; Austin Araujo; Noah Baldino; Anna Lena Phillips Bell; Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer; Michael Dhyne;Sara Elkamel; Kathy Fagan; Rochelle Hurt;Michael Kleber-Diggs; Jen Levitt; Mia Ayumi Malhotra ; Michelle Peñaloza; José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes;Jessica Bell Rizzolo; Mary Spooner;Leah Umansky. And cover art by Tori Weston! http://www.memorious.org

09/12/2020

Welcome to our Fall/Winter Contributor Book round-up!https://wordpress.com/view/memoriousmag.wordpress.com

05/12/2020

Contributor Nickole Brown, whose new book–written with Jessica Jacobs–is Write It: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire, is interviewed by Keelan Hawkins about Brown's chapbook The Donkey Elegies from SiblingRivPress, All over at the blog!
https://memoriousmag.wordpress.com/2020/12/05/contributor-spotlight-nickole-brown/

09/11/2020

Exciting news! Congrats to contributor Kate McQuade, whose story "Helen in Texarkana" from issue 30 is cited in the “Other Distinguished Stories” in the new Best American Short Stories! And you can read it here: http://memorious.org/?id=783

Memorious is an online literary journal publishing quality verse, fiction, and views on literary craft, including reviews, interviews, and criticism.

25/09/2020

Congratulations to contributor Major Jackson, winner of the New England Book Award in Poetry!!

17/09/2020

Congratulations to contributor Rick Barot, whose beautiful book The Galleons is longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry! (Fourth year in a row a Memorious contributor has made this list!)
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2020-national-book-awards-longlist-poetry?fbclid=IwAR2DAtOIx9kgGJNCECltcnOTtQLHAgZ5Z7n9iyKOKS92385Criwc6nQbEyE

Many of this year’s contenders observe the violence of empire and excavate histories that have been forgotten or erased.

09/09/2020

The Mass Book Awards are out and we see contributors all over them! Congrats to Grace Talusan for the award in nonfiction for The Body Papers! And Memorious poetry contributors swept the poetry awards with their beautiful books: Karen Skolfield, winner of the poetry award, and Oliver de la Paz and Andrea Cohen for honors in poetry
https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards

08/09/2020

Happy pub day to , whose debut collection Arrow is out today with Alice James Books. (Sample a poem in our pages:http://memorious.org/?id=770
https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/arrow

Sumita Chakraborty “In poems that focus on gender and race-based violence, environmental destruction, and grief, Chakraborty investigates the unknown, unexpected, and unexplained.” — Publishers Weekly September 2020 ISBN: 9781948579117

28/08/2020

Ending the week with some good news: TJ Jarrett's "Greenville (Reprise)" from Memorious issue 30 was selected for the 2020 Orison Anthology! And as a Memorious reader/follower, you get to read it now, too:
http://www.memorious.org/?id=775

Memorious is an online literary journal publishing quality verse, fiction, and views on literary craft, including reviews, interviews, and criticism.

01/08/2020

Poets: Last call! Submissions close at midnight! www.memorious.org

30/07/2020

Check out the Meet the Readers interviews on Instagram to see who our readers are and what they are reading from the archives and from their bookshelves!Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/memoriousmag/?hl=en

27/07/2020

One of the best parts of the new "Meet the readers" series on Instagram, curated by our two newest readers, is hearing everyone's favorites from the archives! Here are reader Todd Osborne's picks: poems by Dora Malech, Cathy Linh Che, and Jake Adam York, who lives on through his poems. Visit Memoriousmag at Instagram to read more about our readers:https://www.instagram.com/memoriousmag/

26/07/2020

Our wonderful new staffers, Patricia Damocles and Zakiya Cowan​ have launched a new "Meet the Reader" series over on Instagram. Find out who our readers are, what they are looking for, and what they are reading!

https://www.instagram.com/memoriousmag/

24/07/2020

Contributor Gail Mazur's new collection, Land's End, is nearly here! We can't wait!

In this comprehensive volume, Mazur (Forbidden City) demonstrates a remarkable mastery of poetic technique as she depicts human relationships in all of their ambiguities. These poems highligh

17/07/2020

Shhh, don't tell, we are open for poetry submissions until July 31st! Who am I kidding? Tell everyone! Meanwhile go to The Beach with Natalie Shapero in Issue 30:
http://www.memorious.org/?id=782

Memorious is an online literary journal publishing quality verse, fiction, and views on literary craft, including reviews, interviews, and criticism.

07/07/2020

Happy Pub Day to contributor Lee Conell, whose novel The Party Upstairs drops today!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624402/the-party-upstairs-by-lee-conell

07/07/2020

Counting down to see which poems are selected for
Best New Poets? So are we! Love that our nominee
Augusta Funk was chosen last year & fingers crossed for our 2020 nominees Gerardo Pacheco Matus & Sarah Audsley:

06/07/2020

Contributor Books for your summer reading pleasure: Dilruba Ahmed's BRING NOW THE ANGELS from the Pitt Poetry Series. Read Ahmed's poem in Memorious: http://www.memorious.org/?id=619

02/07/2020

Submissions are open to poets new to our pages! Now through July 31st! We await your wonderful poems! (Please share!)

30/06/2020

You heard it here first! Submissions are open for poetry, July 1-31, with a two-months-tops turnaround goal. (Previous contributors, we've opened up this submission period to new poets only, but we look forward to hearing from you down the line!) Please share!

28/06/2020

Flashback: Remember when we had a free raffle for this awesome Corona back at AWP 2020? All we asked was you joined our mailing list. Now the mailing list is obsolete: help us out by following us across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and sharing! (And we are dreaming of reaching 8000 followers over on Twitter before opening submissions July 1st! Yes, it's true: follow for details!)

Our Corona made lots of new friends at the bookfair, but only went home with one lucky reader.

22/06/2020

Visit our blog for this round-up of 2020 contributor books: poetry, fiction, and essays! Two dozen terrific choices for your summer reading pleasure! Including Megan Fernandes Lee Conell Major Jackson Traci BrimhallMolly McCully BrownVirginia KonchanLauren Mukamal CampDora MalechShena McAuliffeKiki PetrosinoEd PavlicTess TaylorJason SchneidermanElizabeth Lindsey RogersAngela Voras-HillsKathleen WinterValerie VogrinDilruba AhmedRick BarotRicco SiasocoCori A. Winrock, Paul Yoon & David Barber.
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15/06/2020

Congratulations to contributorJoanna Pearson, nominee for a Shirley Jackson Award!

12/05/2020

Congratulations to contributors Nomi Stone, Jill McDonough, and Keetje Kuipers Poet, all on the longlist for the Julie Suk Award for their most recent books!

07/05/2020

Congratulations to contributor Rick Barot, who has been awarded the Shelley Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of America!
https://poetrysociety.org/about/news/announcing-the-2020-shelley-memorial-award-winner-rick-barot

The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.

04/05/2020

And here's the official Pulitzer announcement! Our first contributor Pulitzer Prize: Jericho Brown's The Tradition from Copper Canyon! You can preview five poems from the collection in Issue 29 (link in comments.)

2020 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists