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…
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Call for Submissions: 2020 Anthology
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…
More than Nine-to-Five: 10 Works on Labor
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,…
Portland Review Receives 2019 Literary Magazine Fund Grant
Portland Review has received a Literary Magazine Fund grant, awarded through the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) An inaugural fund provided through the Amazon Literary Partnership, the grant is offered in support of publications,…
Ethics in Publishing: Genre Bending and Pushing the Craft
In the first chapter of her instructional text Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin observes that “getting an act or an idea across isn’t all a story does. A story is made out of language, and…