Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads

14/11/2023

Hello readers and writers! A reminder that Silk Road Review is seeking submissions for our 26th issue! We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, screenplays, graphic narratives, translations, first chapters, and artwork.

Pictured is a copy of Silk Road Review Issue 25, with cover art by Bette Ridgeway titled, “An Aria for RBG.”
A link to our website where you can purchase the issue is available in our bio!

23/10/2023

Hello readers and writers! Here’s a picture taken of our display of past Silk Road issues right outside of our office. We at Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads are committed to publishing writers from all walks of life. Our team is staunch in our mission to uphold fine writing and art from varying perspectives and genres.
Click the link in our bio to submit to Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads Issue 26!
Silk Road issues in order from left to right are issue 20, issue 22, issue 24, issue 17, and issue 21.

14/09/2023

Hello readers and writers! Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads Issue #25, is now available for purchase. Click the link to order your own copy today: https://silkroadreview.submittable.com/submit/42638/silk-road-review-print-copy

Cover art by: Bette Ridgeway

07/09/2023

Hello readers and writers! Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads is officially opening its submissions for issue #26! We accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, first chapters, one-act plays, screenplays, graphic narratives, and artwork. Click the link to be taken to our submission page: http://silkroad.pacificu.edu/submit.html . We are looking forward to reading your work!

P.S. We will have a link to order our previous edition, issue #25, available soon, so stay tuned!

10/11/2022

We are delighted to announce the launch of Issue 24 of Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads.

This issue features poets, memoirists, short story writers, translators, playwrights, and artists exploring the fluid notions of home.

Before you give this issue a read we encourage you to ask yourself the question: what does home mean to me?

Swipe to see our contributors.

Access & purchase journal through the link in our bio. :)

Artwork:
"Everything The Light Touches is Yours" by Carter Kohler

03/05/2022

The Silk Road Review’s very own senior editor Jung Hae Chae has won an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her prose. “The anonymous process is focused on artistic quality, and awards may be used to help artists produce new work and advance their careers.” - The Village Green

Congratulations to Jung Hae Chae and her well-deserved fellowship award! - Assistant Editor Taryn Brencola

Four artists from South Orange and Maplewood are among the 85 New Jersey artists to receive 2022 individual arts grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts through the Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship program.

17/04/2022

Happy National Librarian Day!
Sending our vast appreciation to all the workers in libraries today, without their hard work we wouldn't have as much access to books and education. Libraries have such an impact on the world, just look at the Library of Alexandria. Without the little bit of ruins found from that library we wouldn’t be the society we are today. To help support librarians and libraries visit The American Library Association.
https://www.ala.org/aboutala/node/229/

Mission The ALA Constitution states the purpose of ALA as, “The object of the American Library Association shall be to promote library service and librarianship.” The stated mission is, “To provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services a...

12/04/2022

Happy Tuesday! It has been awhile since our last post but we are happy to announce Issue #24 will be available in May. The hard work of this year’s editorial team has definitely paid off and we can’t wait to share this issue with the world.
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05/04/2020

READING UPDATE:

We will be taking our previously scheduled break from reading in the coming months. We will not be reading pieces again until September 2020. You may still submit via our Submittable, but we will not be accepting or declining pieces until September.

At this time our website will also be down for routine maintenance.

Keep an eye on this page for more updates!

18/02/2020

We are very excited to learn that Scott Korb (http://scottkorb.com) will be taking on the role of director of the Pacific University MFA in Writing! Members of our editorial staff intern and work with the program. Welcome Scott! For more: https://www.pacificu.edu/about/media/scott-korb-direct-mfa-program

We are pleased to announce that Scott Korb will become the new Director of the MFA in Writing Program beginning in May, 2020.

18/02/2020

While our site is getting some renovations, we are always accepting submissions (and read year-round!) at our
Submittable
home: https://silkroadreview.submittable.com/submit.

Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads an Undergraduate run magazine out of Pacific University, Oregon, publishes vibrant, well-crafted fiction, essays, poetry, one-act plays, short screenplays, translations, graphic narratives, and art that explore human dynamics and social transformation that occ...