This fall, we’re asking you to make a choice: Truth or Dare? We want to see work that deals with truth – uncovering it, hiding it, coming to a personal truth, living your truth, or…
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Transit / Transition / Translation: A Pandemic Year in Review
What’s it like to make a lit mag in the middle of mass upheaval? As a student-run magazine, Portland Review’s staff changes yearly, meaning we’re used to learning as we go and teaching each other….
Call for Submissions: TRANSIT / TRANSITION / TRANSLATION
Languages and change, buses and trains, the tracks of planets – for our series on transit, transition, and translation, we’re looking for stories, poems, and nonfiction that deal with change and movement in under 1000…
Submissions Open
Portland awoke to yet another bleak day of trapped smoke, but we’re still eager to read your words! This fall, we’re looking for work born out of grief and a rage for justice. Work born…
Announcing the 2020 Verna Marion Nugent Contest Winner
Portland Review is thrilled to announce Sara Duff as the winner of our inaugural Verna Marion Nugent Chapbook Contest. Her short story, “Perfect Specimens” was chosen by author Porochista Khakpour. The award supports emerging writers who have not…