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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In December, NAR opened a new contest to select a Short Story Prize winner, who will be published, along with the other finalists, in Short Story's 2026 publication. Our congratulations to inaugural contest winner Whitney Watson, whose story "In Ypres" was selected by final judge Molly Antopol.

Congratulations to Whitney Watson, winner of the 2026 Short Story Prize.

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have you gotten your copy of the summer issue yet? If not, check out the table of contents, read the letter from the editors, and order a copy here: northamericanreview.org/magazine

NAR 311.2 cover art: The Bather by Gary Kelley

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Congratulations to Michael Palmer, winner of the 2026 Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize! See the full list of essays on Open Space. You can read his winning essay "I Don't Usually Talk Like This" in the fall issue! northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

Congratulations Michael Palmer, winner of the 2026 Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We are sad to announce that our longtime cover art editor, Gary Kelley, passed away on Sunday. He was 81. His art style gave the magazine a distinct visual identity that is much admired. He was generous, prolific, and talented beyond measure. We are planning a special fall issue to honor his legacy.

A collage of different North American Review cover images by Gary Kelley.

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

One week from today! Join us on Friday, March 6 for an off-site reading and open mic event sponsored by RHINO Poetry, Hypertext Magazine, and North American Review. Friday, March 6, 2026 from 6:00-8:00 PM at M.A.P. Technologies 322 W Baltimore St. Baltimore, MD 21201 See you there!

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Congratulations to Shelby McDonald, named among the 12 writers selected for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! Her winning story “Don’t Worry” from our Fall 2025 issue will appear this fall in Catapult’s Best Debut Short Stories 2026: The PEN America Dau Prize.

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Congratulations to Benjamin Hollo, the author of "RetroDate," selected by final judge Rachel Yoder as the winner of the 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize! A list of contest notables is now posted on Open Space. Look for "RetroDate" in the Summer 2026 issue!

Vonnegut Prize winner announcment: Benjamin Hollo's "RetroDate" story

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The Iowa Poetry Slam Cedar Falls Qualifier event is next week! Join us at UNI on February 11th at 7:00 pm in the Lang Hall Interpreter's Theatre. Competing poets register at iowapoetry.org/slam.

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Congratulations to Jarrett Moseley, winner of the 2026 James Hearst Poetry Prize, selected by final judge Danez Smith! You can read his winning poem "Micropsia," along with the other finalists listed on our website, in the upcoming spring issue which is available for preorder now. Links in comments!

Jarrett Moseley, winner of the 2026 Hearst Poetry Prize

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Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I'm pleased that my review of @martinespadapoet.bsky.social's "Jailbreak of Sparrows" is in @northamerreview.bsky.social's Open Space. Espada's poetry has long championed the voiceless. My piece also highlights a lesser-known aspect of his work. Read more: bit.ly/jailbreakofs.... #poetry

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Congratulations to our six 2025 Pushcart nominees! Thanks for letting us publish your fine work!

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Daniel Lurie evokes nostalgia in his piece “Before Foreclosure” northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Thank you to the editors of @northamerreview.bsky.social for saying yes to this ars poetica of mine from my new mms of ars poeticas. This one owes a debt to @slowdownshow.org and Major Jackson.

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Explore hypotheticals with a flourish of the natural world-from goldfish to begonias in Claire Jean Kim’s “dear one” northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

“Emotion without expression dies. I am trying to write my way to the moment when I understood that grief is not in the heart but in the hand, reaching, ﬁnding cloth instead of warmth, metaphor instead of mother.” northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

These are the final weeks to submit work for the 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize judged by Rachel Yoder, and the 2026 James Hearst Poetry Prize, judged by Danez Smith. Winner of each Prize receives $1,000. Visit northamericanreview.org/contests for submission details.

Hearst and Vonnegut contest deadlines: November 1st.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

What a treat to get my contributor's copy of North American Review with my sunburn at the beach poem "In Bed with Green Gels." Such an honor to appear in these pages for my 3rd time! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger & everyone who helps make NAR so awesome! @northamerreview.bsky.social

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Our newest issue is out now!! Find it online here: northamericanreview.org/magazine

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Happy to have a new poem in the gorgeous fall issue of North American Review! Many thanks to J.D Schraffenberger and the NAR team. This is a poem from a new manuscript I’ve been working on. @northamerreview.bsky.social

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Writing your next best spec fic story? Submit it for consideration in our Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize💫 This year’s judge is Rachel Yoder @rachelyoder.bsky.social ! Learn more about the contest here: northamericanreview.org/kurt-vonnegu...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Calling all poets to submit their best work for consideration in our James Hearst Poetry Prize! We are honored to have Danez Smith as the final judge for this contest📝 Learn more here: northamericanreview.org/james-hearst...

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

And another Kol Nidrei poem, published in the Spring 2019 issue of @northamerreview.bsky.social (unfortunately I can’t find a copy of the issue, so here it is copied from my website)

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Congratulations to Arthur Sze, who was appointed the Library of Congress' 25th Poet Laureate! Hear him discuss his craft with Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/160065...

Graphic with Arthur Sze: The Nation’s 25th U.S. Poet Laureate

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Have you ever wondered how we select visual art for publication? Read Emily Stowe's behind the scenes look at her process for finding art to accompany prose pieces, and working with Gary Kelley Art to inspire the cover art. Blog post now live in Open Space! northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The summer issue is arriving to mailboxes, and the boxes from the printer have arrived to our offices, so all pre-orders will ship out this week. Preview the table of contents, read the letter from the editors, and follow a link to our store here: northamericanreview.org/magazine

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"...and no matter how much I swore I could smell the grass and taste the salt on the breeze... none of it could be real because my brother was dead..." Tommy Vollman weaves the familiarity of an old film with the devastating newness of grief on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"All the unspoken / hung heavy in air, an unresolved chord / a word could have brought down..." @rebeccafoust.bsky.social explores an ended romance in this music-laden poem on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"New Age energy worshippers and fascist Musk-Trump idolators both represent the failure of community and shared culture..." Helena Feder explores science, pseudoscience, and climate change in this essay on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"now see me / in headlights over rumble strips, / vibration, stars, the empty fields..." Ride shotgun with Margaret LeMay's telestich on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"The vastness of the un-encountered / is breathtaking. Trust me, / I've crunched the numbers. / The math is wet fox fur / and Baudelaire, a forbidden / fathoming of eyelashes..." Lara Egger ponders the un-encountered in this surreal poem on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Queerness for me has always been a way to evade surveillance and, in a way, English: Its tendency to overidentitfy, overclaim..." First generation Pakistani Diya Abbas reflects queerness and culture in this essay on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Our bass player's across the strait, / hospitalized with pancreatitis. / I'm not sentimental about bass players..." Look across our northern border with Cal Freeman and his latest poem on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"...a decade passes quietly, no maternity / leave, no pumping stations, no diaper sales- / preschools begin to go out of business / and everyone's blissed out on sex without babies..." Cait Orcutt imagines a speculative future without children on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Freelancers, we dug in. Pitched cabbaged like Mad Men / pitching ads against famine..." Katie Kemple makes a cabbage lyrical in her latest poem on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"You mistook these blue veins / for blackberry veins, this white hair for your / childhood / cat in a tree..." Charles Hensler's latest poem ends in ecstatic freedom and escape on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Soaked-through blouses. Names, their lover's, / sweet in their mouths, like flesh lapping the water..." Asheley Nova Navarro keeps the camera rolling in this desirous love poem on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"We were Jewish, not Black like J.T. but maybe poor in another way..." Erik Gleibermann remembers the Harlem of his youth on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"I can't know if he was trying to remember exactly what would kill him, or if by writing it over and over he thought he might tame it and keep it at bay..." In his latest poem, Gary Young finds notes in his father's house after he died on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Wide-ranging in tone and topic, these poems lead by example, showing us how the world could be, how a book could be..." Brittany Micka-Foos guides us through Rob Macaisa Colgate's debut poetry collection on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"The seer paused and set / his gaze to the horizon, / which was blue and clear / and heavenly. 'We must brace / for the storm," he said..." Christopher Brean Murray has an elliptical conversation with a prophet in his latest poem on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"If these monuments do anything better than cause fear and give a false sense of who is a hero... they serve as reminders of parts of the past that it's tempting... to forget..." Rose McLarney reflects on memories and memorials in this essay on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"he thinks I'm making more / ocean and takes it as / my gift to him, as if I could / raise the waters high enough / to flood the world's dry places..." Benjamin Grossberg's poem begins with a delightful lump in the throat and ends in wisdom on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"The sparkling Christmas lights still hang around the window's bitter portrait of the early darkness and the rain..." @esylviapoet.bsky.social rings in the New Year and eats cake with the last queen of France on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"The most dangerous thing we grow here isn't the algae blooms or the meth labs. Isn't the diabetes or heart disease. It's the apathy..." Joshua T. Anderson writes about the land in his ritual North Dakota home on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Congratulations to Nancy Geyer (@nkgeyer.bsky.social), the winner of the 2025 Terry Tempest Williams Prize for Creative Nonfiction! See the full list of essays from runner-up to all semi-finalists on Open Space🛝 #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #terrytempestwilliams #northamericanreview

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"But we can only notice what we pay attention to. And we miss so much..." @pcmadden3.bsky.social muses on attention in this clever essay on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"The landlord asks if I will be finding another roommate. That's how he will remember us. Roommates..." Katie DeLay writes a poignant poem of love lost on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Mother Octopus is broad reaching in scope, cyclical and regenerative like an ecosystem..." @asavagewriter.bsky.social delves into the ecosystem of Sara Giragosian's Mother Octopus on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"This is the world after the fruit's first bite: puffy white caps open, decay. / Mist glazed highways, wipers blinking, fields choked with spongy grapes..." Moriah Cohen doesn't look away in this vivid poem on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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