Split Rock Review

30/04/2024

Exciting news! Whitney (Walters) Jacobson has a new book review on SRR's SHORELINE. Don't miss her review of GROUNDGLASS by Kathryn Savage (Coffee House Press).

"Savage resists the inclination to focus solely on what has been done to contaminate the present, and insists readers consider the implications of our attempted fixes today, in particular what we bury." -Whitney (Walters) Jacobson

https://www.splitrockreview.org/shoreline-reviews #/groundglass

07/01/2024

"Writing, too, doesn’t work when you’re squeezing too tight. It’s only when we learn to open—or are cut open—that it can be born." - Marin Smith on writing "Sphinter Law"

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

10/11/2023

01/11/2023

Happy publication day to Willa Carroll, Beth Gordon, and Kateri Kosek! Please help celebrate these amazing writers and support their work! https://www.splitrockreview.org/store

04/10/2023

We are happy to announce DEMOLITION SUITE by Willa Carroll, HOW TO KEEP THINGS ALIVE by Beth Gordon, and VERNAL by Kateri Kosek are now available for preordering!

Use discount code PREORDER to recieve 15% off all new poetry chapbook titles.

Chapbooks will ship the week of the November 1 release date.
Apply code at checkout.

Split Rock Review's Online Store is the place to purchase eco-friendly chapbooks and anthologies that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

03/08/2023

"I wrote “Forget the Warts” as a nod to the small joys that reside among the outdoors." - Bethany Cutkomp, Issue 20 Contributor

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

30/07/2023

"Within this never ending, well, end, of life-as-we-know-it, there is also a fierce, collective momentum to remember, to dream, and to find ourselves where it matters." ~ Emily Ford, Issue 20 Contributor

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

22/07/2023

"What would it be like, I wondered back then, to walk around in my version of Leonard Cohen's world, camera in hand, and try to find equivalencies? . . . It would mean breaking things apart to find my own song."

Karen Elias shares her inspriation and creative process for her lovely photo "Flight" in today's installment of SRR's Contributor Spotlight Series!

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

25/06/2023

Need a boost in your writing? Check out Whitney (Walters) Jacobson's interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery, author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press).

"By ending on a precise and unexpected image, writers leave readers with something that will endure in their imagination long after they have stopped reading." -Montgomery

The Photic Zone interview series features emerging and established writers to gain insight on their creative work, practice, and relationship with the environment.

20/06/2023

Marjorie Maddox Hafer discusses how a photograph inspired & informed the writing of her poem "Still Life with Milkweed or Bird" in today's installment of SRR's contributor spotlight series.

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

19/06/2023

"I felt the force of all the choices and curiosities that had influenced me towards that moment, and my love for language, climbing, and limit pushing renewed itself all at once. I was compelled to write.” Monica Joy Fara, Issue 20 contributor.

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

18/06/2023

For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by authors identifying as LGBTQ+ that they recommend reading in celebration.   Poetry   Saltwater Demands a ...

18/06/2023

Whitney (Walters) Jacobson reviews HALFWAY FROM HOME by Sarah Fawn Montgomery in this new installment of SRR's Shoreline. Check it out! “Montgomery is an incredibly smart writer. Her instincts for telescoping in and out, examining the multiple facets of her subject matter for nuance, and mining the ordinary to find the extraordinarily meaningful details makes for a rich reading experience."

A place to read short reviews of books floating in the world.

03/06/2023

We're so excited to release Issue 20 into the wild!

Thanks to all the incredible writers, artists, and readers/editors for making this issue come to life.
Joy Arbor Kellam Ayres Rebecca Brock Bethany Cutkomp Barbara Westwood Diehl Daryl Farmer Marjorie Maddox Hafer Heidi Seaborn Monica Mankin Erika Saunders David Goodrum Shara Kay Johnson Susan Solomon Scott Davidson Karen Elias Monica Joy & many more

18/04/2023

"As a writer, you have access to so much, and you are often obligated to keep most of it in your back pocket." - Kelly Gray, "Writing Lightly: The Metabolic Rate of a Story," SRR Issue 19 contributor.

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

30/03/2023

Join us April 13th at 6pm to celebrate Rebecca Macijeski’s book of poems, out now with Split Rock Review. Macijeski is Creative Writing Program Coordinator and an Associate Professor with NSULA Department of English, Languages, and Cultural Studies.

30/03/2023

March 31st is the last day to submit your work for Issue 20 of SRR!

Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP.

26/03/2023

Five days left to submit to Issue 20 at Split Rock Review! They accept poetry, short creative nonfiction and fiction, comics, hybrids, interviews, book reviews, and visual art that explores “the relationship between humans and the natural world.” https://www.clmp.org/members/open-submission/split-rock-review-seeks-submissions-for-issue-20/

25/03/2023

What can an epigraph add to a poem? Emily Trantham discusses the impetus & process of writing "Three Raccoons" (Issue 19) in today's SRR Contributor Spotlight!

"The opening of the poem was the last piece I needed. Finding the epigraph marked its completion – not a defense, exactly, because it didn’t absolve me of my choices. But it succinctly made the argument I was trying to interrogate in my poem." -Emily Trantham

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

19/03/2023

Look who's in the SRR spotlight today! Martha Silano discusses the writing and revision process of her poem "Once," (Issue 19).

"the most important thing a teacher ever told me: listen . . . Where the poem wanted me to go, I went." - Martha Silano

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

04/03/2023

New on SRR's Shoreline is Brendan Curtinrich's book review of IMAGINARY PEAKS by Katie Ives. "Imaginary Peaks reminds us to embrace the unknowable, revel in the obscure, and partake in the infinite wilderness that is the natural world overlaid by human imagination." Mountaineers Books

A place to read short reviews of books floating in the world.

28/02/2023

Congratulations to Dagny Sellorin for being selected as a Best of the Net Finalist for his artwork "Things to Come"! We are so honored to have featured your work in Issue 18 of SRR!

Fiction Emily Adrian’s “E-Friends” from GrantaVincent Anioke’s “The Stars Yet Undiscovered” from Peatsmoke JournalDeya Bhattacharya’s “Gin and Peach” from BlackbirdG.D. Brown’s “Gospel” from CounterclockGeorge Choundas’ “The Thing About Pansyncrasy—Okay, Fine, Many Thin...

26/02/2023

"What I discovered writing this poem is that even when we fail to witness, through curiosity and respect for our passion to know and understand, we maintain the ability to see clearly and gain wisdom." - Ellen White Rook on her poem "Sparrows Fall," Issue 19 SRR contributor.

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

23/02/2023

Looking for a good book to read this weekend? Check out A LINE IN THE WORLD by Dorthe Nors, trans. by Caroline Waight, from Graywolf Press!

"Nors’ adept usage of sensory detail to highlight the landscape’s autonomy, despite humanity’s best efforts to control it, makes the text as rich as the place’s history...” - Reviewed by Whitney (Walters) Jacobson

https://www.splitrockreview.org/shoreline-reviews #/a-line-in-the-world

04/02/2023

Erin Coughlin Hollowell discusses the inspiration for and the process of writing her lovely poem "Instructions for compass truing" in this new installment of SRR's Contributor Spotlight Series!

"Compass truing is a method of calibrating a compass so that it reads correctly for wayfinding. And perhaps that is truly what I’m doing as I walk along Bishop’s Beach – finding my way in the world.” - Erin Coughlin Hollowell

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

02/02/2023

We're now accepting submissions for Issue 20! Send us your wild words and art! Deadline: March 31.

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and nature.

18/01/2023

Many thanks to DJ Hills for letting us interview them about their new poetry collection and writing life!
"[My] hope, as Leaving Earth takes its place outside of me, is that the poems will join a larger rallying cry of q***r literature." -DJ Hills, author of Leaving Earth (Split Rock Press)

The Photic Zone interview series features emerging and established writers to gain insight on their creative work, practice, and relationship with the environment.

04/12/2022

Congratulations to these Split Rockers and good luck to all the nominees!

Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication that features literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

13/11/2022

Hot off the press! Two new poetry chapbooks from Split Rock Press are now available!

Leaving Earth by DJ Hills
The poems in this chapbook “are meditations on the slippery, intangible notion of home.”

Autobiography by Rebecca Macijeski
Macijeski’s poetry chapbook is “a celebration of the experience of discovering, recovering, and re-envisioning the self.”

Get your copy today!

https://www.splitrockreview.org/store

12/11/2022

Issue 19 of SRR is now LIVE! We're so thrilled & honored to feature these amazing writers & artists! https://splitrockreview.org/issue-19

Sean Thomas Dougherty Marge Piercy Martha Silano Leslie Adrienne Miller Claire Jussel Ronda Piszk Broatch Grant Clauser Erin Coughlin Hollowell Rebecca Macijeski Matthew Murrey Catie Rosemurgy Dana Sonnenschein Glen Vecchione Jane Zwart Shelley McEuen Howard and many more!