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Every summer Portland Review receives hundreds of submissions, and our editors and readers diligently review each piece of writing and art with a careful eye for craft. In an effort to support our submitters, we have gathered a few of our reflections on the strengths and weaknesses commonly found in Portland Review’s submissions. Our editors and readers are describing submissions that, for different reasons, didn’t…
Portland Review is excited to welcome submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and mixed-genre works for its 2020 themed anthology, LABOR. We are also accepting submissions for the Verna Marion Nugent Chapbook Contest (see details below). 2020 Anthology la·bor /ˈlābər/ Noun Rihanna once sang, “There something ’bout that work, work, work, work, work, work.” For our next issue, we’d like to uncover that something, whether through story,…
On July 1st, Portland Review will open submissions for our 2020 themed issue, Labor. In anticipation, our editors have considered ten novels, short story collections, memoirs, and artworks that gather and interpret the social, political, economic, and personal threads tied to modern-day labor. Women Talking, Miriam Toews A single conversation among eight Mennonite women, the novel is framed by their impending choice following the discovery…
We were excited to discover Jeri Griffith’s work in our submissions box last fall. The dreamlike silhouettes that bridge the surreal to the natural, imbued with stained-glass colors and shapes, brought to mind many of the unwieldy questions underlying the Unchartable theme. Two of these works, “The Offering” and “The Forest” were published in the anthology. We are happy to share the artist’s full series…
at the first trace of blue I wandered the unpaths, finding myself thoroughly lost in a gray spritz of rain, the cyan-stuccoed, faded lines of shopkeep homes shut before dawn, before the tourists shuffled off …