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?
The Resilience of Writers Who Continue to Submit
One of the most difficult aspects of writing to publish is the seemingly endless number of submissions sent out, only to be responded to with varying degrees of “sorry, try again.” We at Portland Review are inspired by…
10 Tips for Public Reading
As I finish up my first year in Portland State University’s MFA in creative writing program, I still find myself wondering how writers work up the courage to read their work to a live audience. I’ve…