In the recent documentary, My Beautiful Broken Brain, a thirty-four-year-old woman in London records her recovery from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) following a massive stroke. While watching, I couldn’t help but relive my own experiences…
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“A startling prescience”: Portland Review editors reflect on labor and lit mags in 2020
At the time of writing, we as a planet are still soundly in the uncertain time of COVID-19, and especially now there is no shortage of things vying for our collective attention. Every day feels…
Playing House in Fiction: The Hunger for Worldbuilding
The rush I used to get from a good game of House is the same cozy urge adults feel when surveying a fictional landscape, projecting themselves into the zombie apocalypse or Earthsea or the strange rhythms of Regency suppers and seasons in London.
Winter 2015 Release Reading
This Saturday, February 21st at 7 pm, Portland Review celebrates the release of our winter issue with readings by local contributors. We would like you to join us! Featuring poetry and prose by: Chrys Tobey,…
Spring 2015 Call for Submissions
Dear writers, artists, and friends, Portland Review is now open through February for a new batch of submissions for Spring 2015. We are looking for exceptional fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art (full-color images included) to publish in…