The Ilanot Review

13/02/2024

Our guest prose editor, Christine H. Chen, has had 2 (TWO!) of her microfictions selected by Grant Faulkner to appear in Best Microfiction 2024. Congratulations, indeed!

Christine H. Chen, “Make Me Yours” (Ghost Parachute)
Christine H. Chen, “Maxillectomy” (Pithead Chapel)

https://bestmicrofiction.com/?fbclid=IwAR1x-4bltEll1oTaCFnGDrhjpD16NxEm0VbaHj53qOtzI8LEIVqhz4cnmGM_aem_AQ77YrF9kD9IEXHvhZA4xHaFVWAqeLPJqs8ymYBvjo9Dh6q1YHHxf6Q-WbrxCLmmOtc

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

13/02/2024

Congratulations to our three contributors whose work has been selected for publication in Best Microfiction 2024 !
Pooja Joshi, “A Wednesday in Dhaka”
Erin Murphy, “In Case of Emergency”
Félix Terrones, “Dictatorship of the Proletariat," translated by Andrea Reese
https://bestmicrofiction.com/?fbclid=IwAR1x-4bltEll1oTaCFnGDrhjpD16NxEm0VbaHj53qOtzI8LEIVqhz4cnmGM_aem_AQ77YrF9kD9IEXHvhZA4xHaFVWAqeLPJqs8ymYBvjo9Dh6q1YHHxf6Q-WbrxCLmmOtc

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

01/02/2024

Fixation: Obsession and Repair

We're reading your obsessions and repairs, your healing, your resolve, your repeated cycles, etc. at The Ilanot Review now through March 31.
We especially love translations.
It's free to submit until Feb. 14, and after that, you needn't be heartbroken--you can just pay the submittable fee.
Guest Editors for Poetry: Athena Kildegaard & Adam Day
Guest Editor for Flash/Micro Prose: Christine H. Chen.

Submissions to The Ilanot Review Submissions to The Ilanot Review are currently closed. Our next reading period will be from February 1 to March 31, 2024. Theme: Fixation – Obsessions and Repairs   Guest Editors for Poetry: Athena Kildegaard … Continue reading →

22/01/2024

Joan Baranow reads "Ode to Motherhood" for the poetry "Parents" edition of the The Ilanot Review.

Joan Baranow reads "Ode to Motherhood"

28/12/2023

until DEC 31 editor Marcela Sulak will give you excellent feedback on hybrid work and poetry-- individual pieces, folios, chapbooks, and full length manuscripts. Support Black Lawrence Press at the same time:

Get a detailed consultation on your in-progress manuscript. We offer both written feedback and one-on-one conferences to discuss your work.

27/12/2023

Now you can access all those stunning "Parent" themed poetry readings in one place. Listen to the poets themselves read the poems to you.

Vivian Faith Prescott: “Occurring Frequently in the Wild” First featured October 31, 2023 Margo Berdeshevsky: “…For Children Of…” First featured November 1, 2023 Alexandra Domínguez (trans. Jeremy Paden): “Aida’s Violin” First featured November 2, 2023; Read by Jeremy Paden in Eng...

27/12/2023

Listen to Karla Marrufo read her original spanish language text, and follow along with Allison A. deFreese's gorgeous translation of In the Name of the Father

Karla Marrufo reads her poem "En el nombre del padre" ("In the Name of the Father"), from the Fall 2023 "Parents | Poetry Edition" issue of The Ilanot Review...

24/12/2023

We are pleased to announce our nominations for the 2024 Best American Essays anthology:
Jeannine Ouellette
Lydia C Buchanan
Rachel Shai

24/12/2023

Congratulations to previous guest editor Julia Bouwsma https://www.sundresspublications.com/safta/uncategorized/2023/12/sundress-publications-announces-selections-from-2024-open-reading-period/?fbclid=IwAR2vkuN4gy3tpWia5b8jOMg1w1nORSeKDFrhIkxmi-mNpfQlnB6KOdMu9AQ

Sundress Publications is thrilled to announce the results of the 2023 Poetry Open Reading Period. Out of over 600 manuscripts, this year’s selections are Julia Bouwsma’s Death Fluorescence, Nora Hikari’s Still My Father’s Son, and Tiffany Hsieh’s Pork Fluff, which are set for release in 20...

21/12/2023

Just look at this stunning Orison Books "Best Spiritual Literature" anthology, which contains Yehoshua November's poem "The Infinitely Tall Rabbi Lectures on Recreation Ex Nihilo Via Divine Speech" https://www.orisonbooks.com/product-page/best-spiritual-literature-vol-8-2023?fbclid=IwAR0zgDS1qlHPxiqcKzaW8YcZadn_9Yce5SgI1FuX4BFpB7an5jfaUV9n51M

Best Spiritual LiteratureVol. 8, 2023Edited by Luke Hankins, Nathan Poole, & Karen Tucker paper / 102 pp. / $18.00Orison BooksISSN: 2833-1168ISBN: 978-1-949039-44-3Publication date: December 5, 2023Distributed to the trade by Itasca Books952-223-8373 / [email protected] Spiritual Litera...

18/12/2023

If you're like me, you might be finding it difficult to write poetry at this time. But you might be writing other kinds of things. You can send either poetry or hybrid work to Black Lawrence Press during the month of December, and I'll give you careful feedback. Individual pieces, folios, chapbooks, and complete book-length manuscripts welcomed. The latter two include a zoom consultation, as well as written feedback.

Get a detailed consultation on your in-progress manuscript. We offer both written feedback and one-on-one conferences to discuss your work.

06/12/2023

I'm so happy for my friend, Jane Medved, for winning this wonderful translation prize! These translations are exquisite! Now
Maya Tevet Dayan's poems will be available to a wider English audience.

05/12/2023

During the month of December I'm waiting to help you realize your poetry or hybrid manuscript's full potential. Also reading individual pieces, folios and chapbooks.

Your fee will be split between this fantastic press and my driving instructor (until I pass the driving test. My parents will thank you , because I'll be able to visit them again)

Get a detailed consultation on your in-progress manuscript. We offer both written feedback and one-on-one conferences to discuss your work.

01/12/2023

Wonder is what I tried to save of faith,
what I hold out for him to take: inchworms
and whirligigs, geodes and oyster shells,
icicles and lemons and postage stamps.
I wanted to give him the galaxy,

--Carolyn Oliver reads "My Son Tells Me He Loves Me Like the Stars" and "Tenebrism" for the slow launch of the "Parents" issue.

"Parents" issue

30/11/2023

I remember Aby,
my father, teaching me to skin a lamb.

I remember sitting
in the courtyard of kings, kneading a giant limb

of meat in a basin of spices. He had skinned
the first lamb in utter silence, all by himself.

Come, come boy. I ran to him,
taking away from his hands the slaughter-knife

glistening with blood
of the lamb.

---Saddiq Dzukogi

  Bakandamiya III   ———-And the horseman, with a somber look says: I remember Aby, ———-my father, teaching me to skin a lamb. I remember sitting ———-in the courtyard of kings, kneading a giant limb of meat in a basin … Continue reading →

23/11/2023

Congratulations to our quirky, profound, delightful, thought-provoking Best Microfiction 2024 Anthology nominees
Pooja Joshi, Andrea Lynn Koohi, Erin Murphy, Marc Sheehan, and Felix Terrones/Andrea Reece.

22/11/2023

Having no walls,—-her grief could have no doors,
and how could she get out?

Gail Berlin's "Door in the River" has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Hear Gail read it here.

For the Ilanot Review, Parents edition, Fall 2023.

21/11/2023

I’ve learned there are a hundred
ways to be reckless with love.
I’ve handed her my gun—
sighted, cleaned, and loaded.
There’s one in the chamber
already. And by the chamber
you know I mean my heart.

Leona Sevick

20/11/2023

My guess is that field is still green
these decades later, the kind of
tucked-back place too few find
or imagine without imagining
an empire moving out from it
but which he sowed and tended
only for the beauty of it
--Jeff Hardin reads "Balance" from the "Parents" issue.

Jeff Hardin reads his poem "Balance," which appears in The Ilanot Review.

19/11/2023

"Proof of my mother’s magic: she built me my own house that can’t ever be destroyed."
Our first Pushcart nominee video is here. This is Nicole Cooley.

Still Life, Galvez Street, 1978Elegy, Napoleon House, New Orleans

17/11/2023

Sherre Vernon reads two astonishing poems: My Daughter Mourns for Our Descendants &
She’ll Never Know Because You’re Dead

My Daughter Mourns for Our DescendantsShe'll Never Know Because You're Dead

16/11/2023

Ilanot Review is ranked #229 in the top 1000 lit mags--we have amazing contributors! Thank you for being part of this adventure. https://www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings?fbclid=IwAR3IaoFMRuqhPEi5gHH7Av9PJGq6K5s8YaSB5RLvGRWhx6izzgJcOJWV8_M

Ranking of the best literary magazines and journals

16/11/2023

Kristin Camitta Zimet's reading of her poem "My Mother as a Mermaid" will give you chills. So good!

14/11/2023

One of the year's highlights at The Ilanot Review is informing amazing writers that they are Pushcart Nominees. This year we had the pleasure of informing Anna V. Q. Ross, Siyun Fang, Nicole Cooley, Gail Berlin, Melissa Ginsburg, and Erika Meitner.

13/11/2023

My Father Takes Me to See the 32-Foot-Tall Stainless Steel Madonna Sculpture in Downtown Wilmington.
Thank you, Catherine Pierce, for seventy-eight seconds of joy and delight.

My Father Takes Me to See the 32-Foot-Tall Stainless Steel Madonna Sculpture in Downtown Wilmington