The Iowa Review

16/07/2024

One more day to apply! By midnight July 17.

The Department of English is seeking a Managing Editor of The Iowa Review.

09/07/2024

Work at TIR! 📖🗄✏️

Deadline to apply: July 17.

The Department of English is seeking a Managing Editor of The Iowa Review.

27/06/2024

26/06/2024

Today, I painted after a month. When I don’t paint, I think about it a lot. I stress out about not painting. I build things in my head. I make mental notes every hour of every day. Right now, the new painting looks like fire. Black, orange, blue.

25/06/2024

Our new issue pairs perfectly with a porch and a glass of lemonade (seen here at PorchLight: Iowa City's Community Literary Salon).

Featuring work by Janice N. Harrington, Jennifer S. Cheng, Gracie Newman, Robert Wood Lynn, Ryan Van Meter, Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk, John A. Nieves, Stella Wong, and more!

Read selections or subscribe: https://iowareview.org/issue/volume-53-issue-3-winter-202324

24/06/2024

This week we are sharing an excerpt from the short story "The Oracle" by Alanna Schubach, which can be read in our latest issue, 53/2!

17/06/2024

This week we are sharing an excerpt from the poem "Pilot, 1935" by K. Avvirin Berlin, which can be read in our latest issue, 53/2!

10/06/2024

We're so happy to announce the winners of the 2024 Iowa Review Awards, judged by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Sarah Viren, and Terrance Hayes! Congratulations to winners Valentina Rivera-Lies, Lucy McBee, and Mitchell Jacobs, and to runners-up Luc Le, Christian Bodney, and Petro Moysaenko! Thank you to all who entered!

Read the full announcement here:

https://iowareview.org/blog/winners-2024-iowa-review-awards

18/05/2024

We want to celebrate Brent Ameneyro, who contributed to issue 53/1 of The Iowa Review. His poem, “Sweet Little Things,” will be a part of his forthcoming collection, A Face Out of Clay. Read his poem at https://iowareview.org/from-the-issue/volume-53-issue-1-spring-2023/sweet-little-things and find more out about his collection at https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/books/a-face-out-of-clay/.

Congratulations, Brent!

02/04/2024

We are so grateful to everyone who donated to our One Day for Iowa campaign--The Iowa Review was able to raise nearly $6000 for our Veterans' Writing Contest, ensuring its existence for the next several years. We can't thank our community enough! 💛🖤

Thanks to all the veteran writers who lent our contest their writing and support! Visit our Veterans' Writing Gallery to read more of our winners' work: https://iowareview.org/veterans!

Started as a time-limited “extracurricular activity,” our Veterans' Writing Contest now seems essential to our identity. Please consider donating by 12 tonight, when our portal closes!

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27/03/2024

Thanks to all the veteran writers who lent our contest their writing and support! Visit our Veterans' Writing Gallery to read more of our winners' work: https://iowareview.org/veterans!

Started as a time-limited “extracurricular activity,” our Veterans' Writing Contest now seems essential to our identity. Please consider donating by 12 tonight, when our portal closes!

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27/03/2024

Thank you, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, for inspiring us, too!

https://www.laurajoycehubbard.com

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27/03/2024

In 2022, Best American Essays listed her essay as notable. Laura Joyce-Hubbard has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and VCCA via the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a fiction editor for TriQuarterly and lives in Highland Park, Illinois.

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27/03/2024

Winner Laura Joyce-Hubbard graduated from the Air Force Academy and served for twenty years. She was among the first women to pilot the C-130H. Her work has appeared in Boulevard, Creative Nonfiction, Ninth Letter, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere.

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27/03/2024

"Flying Superman into Sarajevo" by Laura Joyce-Hubbard placed first in 2022. Judge Jerri Bell said "I loved the braiding of research on landmines into the essay and the deep reflection on the complicity of support troops in the atrocities of war." Read more: https://iowareview.org/from-the-issue/volume-53-issue-1-spring-2023/flying-superman-sarajevo

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27/03/2024

Thank you, James Janko. Your work is a lifeline for us.

https://jamesjanko.com

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27/03/2024

James Janko is the author of three novels, The Clubhouse Thief, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel and was published by New Issues Press, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo from Northwestern University Press, and What We Don’t Talk About from University of Wisconsin Press.

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27/03/2024

"Fallujah in a Mirror" by James Janko came in first in our 2020 contest. Janko's story switches between the perspectives of a Marine tasked with searching a basement in Fallujah and the Iraqi girl hiding there. Read more here: https://iowareview.org/from-the-issue/volume-51-issue-1-spring-2021/fallujah-mirror

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27/03/2024

We are honored, Libby Kurz, to house part of your memoir!

https://www.libbykurz.com

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27/03/2024

Libby Kurz is a writer, poet, registered nurse, and Air Force veteran. Her work appears in Ruminate, The Other Journal, Literary Mama, and Driftwood Press, among others. In 2019, Finishing Line Press published her poetry chapbook, The Heart Room.

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27/03/2024

Libby Kurz's excerpt from "Bloodlust: A Memoir" won second in our 2022 contest. Judge Jerri Bell said of the excerpt, "Strong writing and images; tension; I’ve read a lot of military nursing memoir. [Bloodlust] holds its own." Read the rest here: https://iowareview.org/from-the-issue/volume-53-issue-1-spring-2023/bloodlust-memoir

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27/03/2024

Thank you, Erik Cederblom, for lending us your voice!

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27/03/2024

Erik Cederblom, a San Francisco Bay Area Writer, prefers the short form: 6-word wonders, dribbles, drabbles, flash, and short stories. His stories have been shared in The Military Experience and the Arts, inScribe, Typishly, and others.

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27/03/2024

"Where's Charlie?" by Erik Cederblom was a runner-up in our 2020 contest. Cederblom's characters risk their lives to complete a high-stakes night medevac. Read the rest here: https://iowareview.org/from-the-issue/volume-51-issue-1-spring-2021/wheres-charlie

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27/03/2024

Thank you, Brian Kerg, for sharing your experience in our pages!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-kerg-426644a4/

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