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Mud Season Review is an international literary journal affiliated with the Burlington Writers Workshop. We seek to celebrate the full process of artistic creation, from inspiration to publication. mudseasonreview.com

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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Stephen Haines's nonfiction essay "The Unseen" is featured in Issue 83, with accompanying artwork by Tammy Pieterson. Read the rest at mudseasonreview.com. #essays #litmags
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're seeking creative nonfiction readers to join our team! Readers review submissions 4x/year and vote on which ones we'll publish. In addition to gaining valuable experience as part of a literary organization, you'll also receive a complimentary membership to the Burlington Writers Workshop. (1/2)
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Submissions are OPEN for poetry, prose (fiction & nonfiction), and art! We pay a small honorarium for accepted work. For more details on what we're looking for and how to send it our way, please visit the link in our bio.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Issue 83 is here! We’re excited to bring you striking artwork and beautiful writing. Featuring art by Sara Maino, fiction by Coralie Loon, nonfiction by Stephen Haines, and poetry by Stacy Miller, accompanied by art from Mahnoor Shujrah, Tammy Pieterson, and Sarah Weir. 🎨: Sara Maino
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
September marks twelve years of 𝘔𝘶𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸! 🎉 Help us celebrate by reading the issue that started it all: www.rfr.bz/b5ce1287b Artwork: "Rust on orange" by Fabio Sassi for Issue 1. #tbt
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Missed an issue? We've got you covered! Browse our full archive here: www.rfr.bz/b639b6c33 Artwork: “Picture a Perfect Sunshine" by Emma Anna for Issue 75.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Please help us welcome Issue 81 contributor Barrett Bowlin as our newest Creative Nonfiction reader! Barrett is the author of 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮, and his work appears in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 & 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦, 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴, and more. We're so excited to have him on our team!
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Please join us in congratulating Lenore Weiss on her new role as Creative Nonfiction Editor at 𝘔𝘶𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸! Formerly our Associate CNF Editor, Lenore is a widely published, award-winning writer whose work spans poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We're thrilled to have her with us!
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ready to take your writing to the next level? We're currently accepting submissions for full-length manuscript reviews, as well as feedback requests on fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. For full guidelines and fee information, visit www.rfr.bz/b72ba51e6
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please help us congratulate Drew Miller on his new role as a reader for 𝘏𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦! Drew joined our team in 2021 as a reader and served as our Creative Nonfiction editor from March 2024-July 2026. We're grateful for all he's shared with us and wish him the best!
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Last year at this time, I sent out my first long-form nonfiction piece. It was accepted by Mud Season Review, which later nominated it for a Pushcart Prize. It's the most vulnerable, meaningful thing I've published (so far), and I'm proud of myself for finally having had the courage to share it.
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Creative Nonfiction Issue #79 - Mud Season Review
A Way Out Of Nowhere My stepdad, Jay, jumped on the hood of the car as Mom was backing out of the driveway, then kicked the windshield in to stop her from leaving. Tiny, clear-blue shards flew with en...
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Take a peek into the creative process behind Issue 82! -Memory and Archives: An Interview with Sarah Clapp by Jasmine Harrell -Looking to the Smallest: An Interview with Doug Fritock by Kris Kaila -A Very Special Friend: An Interview with Bliss Goldstein by Andrew Miller (excerpted here)
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Read the rest of Sarah Clapp's "Little Minnie," with accompanying artwork by Lindsay Lamp, in Issue 82. mudseasonreview.com
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ryota Matsumoto is Issue 81's featured artist. Find more of his work at mudseasonreview.com. #art
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Doug Fritock is Issue 82's featured poet. Read more of his work at mudseasonreview.com, with accompanying artwork by Willy-O'. #poetry #litmags
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We're looking for poetry, art, fiction, and nonfiction for our next issue! Submissions are open until 7/31 or until our cap is reached. Learn more at mudseasonreview.com/submit. #callforsubmissions
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Read the rest of Bliss Goldstein's "Hollywood Chuck, Patron Saint of Wonderment" in issue 82: www.rfr.bz/bb3a6d4a8 Accompanying artwork by Lindsay Lamp.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Mud Season Review is looking for volunteer creative nonfiction readers to join our team! Submissions are open 4x a year. Interested? Please email editor@mudseasonreview.com.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We're delighted to share our extraordinary selections for issue 82! Featuring poetry by Douglas Fritock, nonfiction by Bliss Goldstein, and fiction by Sarah Clapp. All of our selections are accompanied by art from Willy-O, Lindsay Lamp, and our featured artist Ryota Matsumoto. Link below!
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Barrett Bowlin @barrettbowlin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The world is bleak, but I'm so thankful for mags like @mudseasonreview.bsky.social that publish amazing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Speaking of, I got the chance to talk with the awesome @jen-bryant.bsky.social recently about my essay, "Pugilism." mudseasonreview.com/2026/05/fill...
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Start your week off right with three new author interviews: -Perpetual Motion: An Interview with Franz Neumann by Nelly Shulman -Filling in the Missing Spaces: An Interview with Barrett Bowlin by Jen Bryant -Vulnerability as Strength: An Interview with Jasmine Vallejo-Love by Princess Zuri McCa
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Please help us congratulate Spring 2019 contributor Grace (@thrillandgrace) on her upcoming poetry collection, Be Water (Anvil Press, June 2026), in which "water becomes both vessel and mirror, reflecting how we adapt, how we hold grief and joy at once, and how we learn, finally, to flow." 🎉 #poetry
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mud Season Review is still looking for volunteer creative nonfiction readers to join our team! If you’re interested in reviewing thought-provoking work from emerging and established writers, we’d love to have you on board. Interested? Please contact editor@mudseasonreview.com.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Read the rest of Barrett Bowlin's creative nonfiction essay "Pugilism," with accompanying artwork by Sean Bw , in Issue 81 of Mud Season Review. #cnf #essays
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Please join us in congratulating our Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor Lenore Weiss, winner of Magpie Zine's Clark Closser Memorial Literature Award in Nonfiction! 🎉 Read "Lobo, King of the Dogs" at magpiezine.com.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Issue 81 features artwork by Jiaqi Liu, including "“Sanctuary in the Storm" (pictured here). Find more at mudseasonreview.com. #art
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Jasmine Vallejo-Love is Issue 81's featured poet. Read more of her work at mudseasonreview.com, featuring accompanying artwork by Nicole Sylvia Javorsky. #poetry #litmag
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sneak peek from "Galaxies" by Franz Neumann; accompanying artwork by Jack Bord. Read more at mudseasonreview.com.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We're looking for deeply human work that will teach us something about life, but also about the craft of writing or visual art. Authors and artists receive a small honorarium. No AI-generated work, please. mudseasonreview.com/submit
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nicolejavorsky.bsky.social @nicolejavorsky.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One of my artworks, "details in the fabric a stubborn soul trying to make gumdrops of lemon oh so bitter and so sweet," is published alongside Jasmine Vallejo-Love’s stunning, gut-wrenching poetry in this issue of @mudseasonreview.bsky.social ✨
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Poetry Issue #81 - Mud Season Review
Having Severe Generalized Anxiety Disorder is Crippling Me into Agoraphobia He leaves to walk the dog: a mundane task I imagine him shanked prison-style. Dog kicked or taken. I see a Dodge Charger run...
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Mud Season Review is looking for volunteer creative nonfiction readers to join our team! Submissions are open 4x a year. Interested? Please email editor@mudseasonreview.com.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Calling all artists! Submissions for Issue 82 open on 4/1. Artists receive a small honorarium for their work. No AI. To learn more, please visit mudseasonreview.com/submissions.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Issue 81 is here, and it's packed with good stuff: creative nonfiction by Barrett Bowlin, fiction by Franz Neumann, poetry by Jasmine Vallejo-Love, and featured artwork by Jiaqi Liu (including "“Fragments of the Divine," pictured). Catch up with us at mudseasonreview.com.
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Barrett Bowlin @barrettbowlin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It's taken me a long, long time to write about my parents' deaths, but I'm incredibly thankful to the good folks at @mudseasonreview.bsky.social for giving "Pugilism" a wonderful home. [accompanying collage c/o the awesome @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social] mudseasonreview.com/2026/03/crea...
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Creative Nonfiction Issue #81 - Mud Season Review
Pugilism 2020-2022 A week after my father’s 78th birthday, he has a stroke, and then another, and then it takes him six months to die. A little over a year later, my mother’s two bichons frisé dead-le...
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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Honoured that my painting Malkinson's Iceberg was chosen to accompany Pugilism, this excellent short story by @barrettbowlin.bsky.social, in @mudseasonreview.bsky.social mudseasonreview.com/2026/03/crea...
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"The intention of these images is to reduce a photograph to its essence – the transmission of light – and to turn light itself into subject matter." Roger Camp's vibrant "Light Music" photos are on display in issue 80; link in bio. #photography #light
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"A star passed overhead with a long bright tail. Lena snuggled closer to you. The cushions were a lumpy mess, but you were twelve and unbreakable." Read the rest of Sally Cunningham's "Radiant Drift" in Mud Season Review issue 80. #fiction #litmag
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Maybe, in circling back to Natalie, I might begin to thread my own way through this strange tapestry of fate and choice, family and self. I might begin to weave myself a story that holds weight." From "Two Supplicants in the Queen City" by Emily Alice Katz, issue 80. #essays #creativenonficti
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
During Black History Month, we honor and celebrate the many Black writers, artists, and poets whose work continues to enrich our literary and artistic communities. #celebrateblackhistory
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"At night I dream of a house with the smell of coulton pine drifting in through the windows..." Read more of Julie Shulman's poetry in Mud Season Review issue 80. #poetry #litmag
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
MSR is open for feedback requests! For a small fee, one of our highly qualified reviewers will provide you with a 250- to 500-word critical response to fiction and creative nonfiction writing (up to 3,500 words) or poetry (limit 3 poems, up to 10 pages). Visit our submissions page for more info.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Our manuscript reviews are currently open! We welcome full-length poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscripts for review. Please visit mudseasonreview.com for more information.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Submissions are open from January 1-31 for art, poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We're looking for deeply original, moving work that teaches us something about life. Visit mudseasonreview.com/submit for more info.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Issue 80 of Mud Season Review is here! Featuring art by Roger Camp, poetry by Julie Shulman, fiction by Sally Cunningham, and creative nonfiction by Emily Alice Katz. 📸: "Light Music 19" by Roger Camp.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"We’re at an interesting point in history where the degree to which we are living online is almost equal to the degree we are living out in the world..." www.rfr.bz/b8268ca
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Between the Believer and the Skeptic: An Interview with Eli Karren - Mud Season Review
I love the line “you wouldn’t like it here.” What makes the speaker so sure there is nothing on the other side of death? Do you agree with the ghost ...
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My first ever Pushcart Prize nomination! I'm so incredibly honored! Wow. Stunned and in tears. Thank you so much @mudseasonreview.bsky.social!
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"There’s some kind of magic growing up in east Iowa, always gazing across the river into Illinois, that lends itself to daydream and fantasy..." www.rfr.bz/b118481
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Flying Into Something More True: An Interview with Summer Hammond - Mud Season Review
“Dove” is infused with layers of family dynamics. What does family mean to you? This is a big question, and one I’ve had reason to meditate on at great length ...
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Please join us in congratulating Leah Holbrook Sackett, creative nonfiction reader for Mud Season Review, on the release of her book Death Is a Hungry Angel! Join Anna in her isolation as she delves into the shadows of her new home and her heart to defeat the angel of death, Samael.
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Reminder: Art and poetry submissions close soon! Visit mudseasonreview.com/submit to learn more. Please note: fiction and creative nonfiction submissions are currently closed due to high volume. Thanks for sending us your work!
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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Reminder: Art and poetry submissions close soon! Visit mudseasonreview.com/submit to learn more. Please note: fiction and creative nonfiction submissions are currently closed due to high volume. Thanks for sending us your work!
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