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Keep reading Matthew Neill Null’s story “In the 301” in issue 48.1 of The Florida Review! Link in our bio to purchase.  ...
18/11/2024

Keep reading Matthew Neill Null’s story “In the 301” in issue 48.1 of The Florida Review! Link in our bio to purchase.

                                                           

Check out Ygor Noblott’s essay “101 Steps to Becoming an American” on Aquifer!Ygor Noblott is a Venezuelan-American writ...
14/11/2024

Check out Ygor Noblott’s essay “101 Steps to Becoming an American” on Aquifer!

Ygor Noblott is a Venezuelan-American writer with too many words and not enough pages. He has a B.A. in Writing & Rhetoric Studies from The University of Utah and a small assortment of poems and essays scattered across the literary world. He’s also self-published two poetry collections with more in the works. He lives in Salt Lake City with his two wonderful children.

                                                           

🐊Allie is hard at work proofing this week’s Aquifer piece. Want us to read your work? We are open for submissions!https:...
11/11/2024

🐊Allie is hard at work proofing this week’s Aquifer piece. Want us to read your work? We are open for submissions!

https://floridareview.submittable.com/submit

                                                         

A reminder that we are open for submissions for the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award!!! This award honors the life o...
05/11/2024

A reminder that we are open for submissions for the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award!!! This award honors the life of Jeanne Leiby, Editor of The Florida Review from 2004 to 2007.
The winner of the award receives chapbook publication, 50 copies of the winning chapbook, and $1,000 upon publication.

To submit a prose or graphic narrative chapbook see submission guidelines in our Linktree. And while you’re at it, check out our last winning chapbook, Blue Lion Days!

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Check out in conversation with on Aquifer!Amy Stuber has published fiction in New England Review, Missouri Review, Co...
04/11/2024

Check out in conversation with on Aquifer!

Amy Stuber has published fiction in New England Review, Missouri Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She’s a flash editor at Split Lip Magazine. Her debut collection, SAD GROWNUPS, comes out October 8 from Stillhouse Press.

Eric Tegethoff is a fiction writer and journalist. He is currently in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida. His reporting has appeared in The New Republic, Orlando Weekly, and elsewhere. He lives in Orlando, Florida with his partner.

                                             

Allie’s been working on a new story for the magazine, but someone needs to tell her employees can’t submit 😔But YOU can ...
01/11/2024

Allie’s been working on a new story for the magazine, but someone needs to tell her employees can’t submit 😔

But YOU can submit your work! Submissions are open for:
✍️Fiction
✍️Poetry
✍️Nonfiction
✍️Graphic Narrative
✍️Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award                                                            

Keep reading Carolene Kurien's "Saudade" and "A Confession" on Aquifer! Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from...
31/10/2024

Keep reading Carolene Kurien's "Saudade" and "A Confession" on Aquifer!

Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from South Florida. A MacDowell Fellow and Tin House alum, she holds an MFA from the University of Miami, where she was a James Michener Fellow. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Passages North, Sixth Finch, Salt Hill, Bennington Review, Bellevue Literary Review, BOOTH, Diode Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. You can learn more at carolenekurien.com.

Keep reading “Saudade” and “A Confession” by on Aquifer! Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from South Florida...
31/10/2024

Keep reading “Saudade” and “A Confession” by on Aquifer!

Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from South Florida. A MacDowell Fellow and Tin House alum, she holds an MFA from the University of Miami, where she was a James Michener Fellow. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Passages North, Sixth Finch, Salt Hill, Bennington Review, Bellevue Literary Review, BOOTH, Diode Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. You can learn more at carolenekurien.com.

Allie the Alligator has her nose in the newest issue of The Florida Review (which you can snag a copy of on our website!...
28/10/2024

Allie the Alligator has her nose in the newest issue of The Florida Review (which you can snag a copy of on our website!)

Read more of Kira Compton's story "(the sound of children screaming has been removed)" in Aquifer!Kira Compton is bad at...
24/10/2024

Read more of Kira Compton's story "(the sound of children screaming has been removed)" in Aquifer!

Kira Compton is bad at writing bios, as well as several more important things. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Boise State, where she serves as the associate editor of the Idaho Review. She is a proud member of the Hemingway Society and presented at the international conference this summer. Her writing has been published in the Saranac Review, hex literary, Creative Nonfiction, Into the Void, and others. Stalk her professional life at kiracompton.com and her personal life .

Keep reading Edmund White's poem "GIOVANNI" on Aquifer! https://cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/article/giovanni/Edmund White ...
17/10/2024

Keep reading Edmund White's poem "GIOVANNI" on Aquifer!
https://cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/article/giovanni/

Edmund White has written some thirty books. He is perhaps best known for his biography of French writer Jean Genet, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of a trilogy of autobiographical novels—A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. He has written brief lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud and a book about unconventional Paris called The Flaneur. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters and has received a medal from the French Academy. He taught at Princeton and lives in New York City. He won the 2018 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and received the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. His s*x memoir, The Loves of My Life, will be published in January, 2025.

Read more from David James Poissant's interview with Pat Spears, author of Hotel Impala, in Aquifer!Pat Spears is the au...
03/10/2024

Read more from David James Poissant's interview with Pat Spears, author of Hotel Impala, in Aquifer!

Pat Spears is the author of three novels and numerous short stories. Her second novel, It’s Not Like I Knew Her, won the bronze medal for Foreword Review’s Book of the Year in LGBTQ Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including North American Review, Sinister Wisdom, Appalachian Heritage, Common Lives, Le***an Lives, and Seven Hills Review, and anthologies including Law and Disorder (Main Street Rag), Bridges and Borders (Jane’s Stories Press), Saints and Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2012, and Walking the Edge: A Southern Gothic Anthology (Twisted Road Publications). She is a sixth generation Floridian and lives in Tallahassee, Florida with her partner, two dogs, and one rabbit.

We're excited to announce our 2025 Best of the Net Nominations! You can check out all these great pieces in Aquifer: The...
02/10/2024

We're excited to announce our 2025 Best of the Net Nominations! You can check out all these great pieces in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online.
Congratulations and good luck to the nominees!

Read more from Anton DiSclafani's essay "Instar" on Aquifer!Anton DiSclafani's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in s...
26/09/2024

Read more from Anton DiSclafani's essay "Instar" on Aquifer!

Anton DiSclafani's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such venues as Guernica, American Short Fiction, Narrative, and the New York Times. She is the author of two novels, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls and The After Party, both published by Riverhead Books. She lives in Alabama, where she is a professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University.

https://cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/article/instar/

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Keep reading “I Woke Up Eating Donuts in the Rain,” by Jarrett Moseley for #nationalpoetrymonth2024 through the link in our bio! Jarrett Moseley is a bisexual poet living in Miami, where he was a James A. Michener fellow in the University of Miami's MFA program. He is the author of the chapbook Gratitude List (forthcoming, Bull City Press, 2024). His poetry has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Baltimore Review, earned an honorable mention for the Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writer Fellowship, and been longlisted for the Poetry Society’s 2022 National Poetry Competition. His poems are featured or forthcoming in Ploughshares, POETRY Magazine, Poets.org, Baltimore Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.

For #nationalpoetrymonth2024, the first poems we’re sharing are “Ocean Beach” and “Phasiphae” by Rebecca Foust! Click the link in our bio to keep reading. Rebecca Foust's fourth book, Only (Four Way Books 2022), earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was recently reviewed by Mark Jarmon in The Hudson Review. Her poems appear in journals including Narrative, POETRY, Ploughshares, and Southern Review, and in 2023 won the New Ohio Review prize and were runner-up for the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. Past recognitions include the James Hearst, Pablo Neruda, and Poetry International prizes, fellowships at Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Marin County Poet Laureateship where Rebecca’s program, “Poetry as Sanctuary,” featured readings by local immigrant poets.

**This video contains difficult subject matter which may not be suitable for children.** From 1999 to 2017, almost 218,000 people in the United States died from overdoses related to prescription opioids. Click the link down below to watch Arturo Mireles’s “A Breakup Letter to Opium,” a short film on Aquifer that thrusts us into the forefront of one’s battle with opioid addiction. https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/article/a-breakup-letter-to-opium/ #litmag #flreview

Here are just a few of the engaging films that have been published on Aquifer in the past months! Feel free to check out the film category and other multimedia features on our website: floridareview.cah.ucf.edu

It’s the night before Halloween, and we’re feeling spooky here at The Florida Review. 👻 If you are too, click the link in our bio to be welcomed to the somnambulistic circus show “Merry-Go-Round” by Ihor Podolchak.

The Florida Review has officially published its first short film on Aquifer this week! Here is a short clip from "The Word of Several Million Years" by Morgan Joseph Hamilton. Check it out now: https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/article/the-word-of-several-million-years/

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