Portland Review is pleased to announce its nominations for the 2018 Best of the Net anthology. A very warm congratulations to our nominees: Fiction: Mike Corrao, “Business and Sales” Molly Gutman, “You and the Clarinetist” Nonfiction:…
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Introducing the 2018-19 Editors
Since 1956, Portland Review has created a space for students at Portland State University to gain collaborative publishing experience, while at the same time, contributing to the broader landscape of contemporary literature. Our magazine is excited…
Call For Themed Submissions
Portland Review welcomes submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and mixed-genre works for its 2019 themed anthology, Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns. It is the nature of the human mind to seek, to touch, to understand and occupy vast unknowable terrains, but which of our daily environments resist comprehension?
A Queered Bildungsroman: A Review of Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
Rosalie Knecht’s newest novel Who Is Vera Kelly? (Tin House Books, 2018) aims to answer the difficult question posed in its title. In large part, it’s a coming-of-age story about a girl growing up in the…
Overcome By Events: A Review of Crash Course by Julie Whipple
Julie Whipple’s Crash Course (Yamhill Canyon Press, 2018) is a lucid and engaging examination of a tragedy that occurred in the city of Portland. On December 28, 1978, a DC-8 jet airliner plummeted out of the night sky and…