Vestal Review

01/02/2025

It may be below freezing outside, but we're now open for our Spring submissions reading period!

20/12/2024

Two pngs that speak for themselves, though they do feature words:

19/12/2024

Last installment--batch--series of pull-quotes from issue 65, hot off the virtual press, all at https://www.vestalreview.net/issue-65

18/12/2024

What do the names Sheskin, Townsend, and Weik have in common? They're all authors with stories in the latest Vestal Review, #65, at https://www.vestalreview.net/issue-65

17/12/2024

Behold the fourth installment of pull-quotes from VR 65--stories at https://www.vestalreview.net/issue-65

16/12/2024

The third installment of 3 x pull-quotes from work in issue 65, at https://www.vestalreview.net/issue-65

15/12/2024

Second installment of three daily pull-quotes from issue 65, at https://www.vestalreview.net/issue-65

14/12/2024

Here are three lead-ins from the stories in issue 65. More to come, natch. https://www.vestalreview.net/issue-65

13/12/2024

Our Issue 65 is the best material that we can assemble and from a host of talented writers: Aimee Bender, Gerri Brightwell, Acie Clark, Guy Cramer, K. M. Elkes, Fannie H. Gray, Mark Hendrickson, Sophie Hoss, Zoie Jones, Kip Knott, Dawn Miller, Debabrata Sahoo, David Sheskin, Angela Townsend, Kyle Weik, Francine Witte. We also have an interview with Alan Michael Parker and a review of Bare Ana and Other Stories (Robert Shapard).

Cover art by Sophia Deng

issue 65 Cover art: It’s Just Good Journalism, by Sophia Deng. A lot has changed in the world since our last issue. That may the understatement of the year. But in the midst of it all, we’re still dedicated to putting out a flash fiction magazine, the best material that we can assemble from a ho...

29/11/2024

If today's November 29th (and it is; we just checked), that means one more day in our fall submissions window. Let's see whatcha got! Sounds confrontational? Isn't meant to be.

Submission guidelines SUBMIT Vestal Review is a magazine for flash fiction. We realize that a flash story has different definitions, and all of them have merit. For us, a flash story is no longer than 500 words, and it moves from point A to point B. If it’s longer than 500 words or is too static,...

27/11/2024

Herewith:

27/11/2024

Only four more days of our fall reading period! Let's see what you've been working on--we'll even read during Thanksgiving!

Submission guidelines SUBMIT Vestal Review is a magazine for flash fiction. We realize that a flash story has different definitions, and all of them have merit. For us, a flash story is no longer than 500 words, and it moves from point A to point B. If it’s longer than 500 words or is too static,...

09/11/2024

Putting together a panel on New Jersey novelists for the Montclair Literary Festival and need a couple of authors who’ve published or will publish a New Jersey novel anytime between this past June and this coming April. Contact David Galef at [email protected].

Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival launched in 2017 to celebrate the love of reading and raise funds for Succeed2gether's academic programs.

28/08/2024

Existentialism and marriage usually don't go hand in hand--except here:

Commitment is an act, not a word. Now, I want you two to demonstrate the love you share, right here in the office.

08/08/2024

Really hard to make these decisions, given the wealth of talent, but our nominations for Best of the Net 2025 are:

Shauna Friesen’s

“Gem City”: https://vestalreview.net/gem-city

Zainab Omaki’s

"Place of Dreams”: https://vestalreview.net/a-place-of-dreams

01/08/2024

Show us your stuff! (Maybe that didn't come off right, but you know what we mean. 🙂)

01/07/2024

“The Difference Between an Opening Sentence and an End-Sentence” in the latest Brilliant Flash Fiction
https://brilliantflashfiction.com/2024/06/30/june-2024/ (last piece in the June issue). Makes a point usable in any workshop.

Modern LoveBy David Waters I lock the door, hike up my dress, roll down my pantyhose, and perch on the toilet in the bathroom of Ed Dwyer’s Victorian townhouse. I look around. The only bright color…

26/06/2024

Also, the usual string of "authors we've published but not for this story"--proud of everyone.