Kevin Rabas

Kevin Rabas co-directs the creative writing program at Emporia State and co-edits Flint Hills Review. He has six books: Bird’s Horn, Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano (a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner), Sonny Kenner’s Red Guitar (also a Nelson Poetry Book Award winner), Green Bike, Eliot’s Violin, and Spider Face: Stories.

Evening Pick Up, Volume 2, Issue 1

Issue 5 Update!

We are accepting art, photography, comics, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, and fiction for our fifth issue. This time we are going to have a themed section, and we will accept other pieces that do not fit with the theme.

The theme: Depression. Show us the diagnosis, dealing with depression, overcoming depression, anything to do with depression. Give us artwork, stories with depressed characters, poems with depressed speakers, comics, and so on. Interpret it yourself and show us what you created.

Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page. We are interested in comics, so please send them our way!

DSM-IV-TR Mood Disorders

1. Major Depressive Episode and Major Depressive Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder requires two or more major depressive episodes.

Diagnostic criteria:

Depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in life activities for at least 2 weeks and at least five of the following symptoms that cause clinically significant impairment in social, work, or other important areas of functioning almost every day

1. Depressed mood most of the day.
2. Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities.
3. Significant unintentional weight loss or gain.
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much.
5. Agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death (APA, 2000, p. 356).

 

Volume 2, Issue 2

Please click The Magnolia Review Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2016 for Volume 2, Issue 2.

Contributors: Fabrice Poussin, Bill Wolak, Emilio Pinedo, Capota Daniela Lacramioara, Louis Staeble, Kelci Crawford, Maria Picone, Joslyn Neiderer, Hannah Robison, Robert D. Kirvel, Tom Harper, Joshua Daniel Cochran, Marsha Roberts, Teressa Rose Ezell, Phil Temples, Katrina Johnston, Samantha Madway, Quinn Ramsay, Micah Bradley, Scott Blackburn, Lindsay Chudzik, Hillary Kobernick, Barbara Buckley Ristine, Lana Bella, CLS Ferguson, Bruce McRae, Hannah Carmack, Lisa M. Hase-Jackson, Kalyn Maria, Jean A. Kingsley, Goirick Brahmachari, Arielle Lipset, Edward Lineberry, Susan Speranza, A.J. Huffman, Rita Chapman, Ann Howells, Sally Zakariya, Marissa Davis, Laurie Kolp, David-Matthew Barnes

Reviews: The Goodbye House by Lawrence Coates, Day One by From Ashes to New, Gargoyles by Robert Krantz, Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North, Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee, Journeymen’s Songs by Steven Winteregg and Daniel Zehringer, and Matthew by Omer Zamir.

Issue 5 Open to Submissions!

Don’t forget to submit to the fifth issue of The Magnolia Review! Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page. We publish art, photography, poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction. We are interested in comics, so please send them our way!

Issue 4 is on its way!

For the fourth issue of The Magnolia Review, 9 artists submitted 50 pieces of art and photography, 8 creative nonfiction writers submitted 8 creative nonfiction pieces, 75 fiction writers submitted 78 stories, and 77 poets submitted 334 poems.

The Issue will be available on July 15.

Update: The issue has been delayed and will be available by the end of July. Apologies for the delay.

 

Volume 2, Issue 1

Welcome to the third issue of The Magnolia Review!

To download the PDF, click The Magnolia Review Volume 2 Issue 1 Jan 2016.

Thank you, and enjoy the issue!

Contributors for Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2016: W. Jack Savage, Samantha Peterson, Richard Vyse, Patty Paine, Sharon Tapia, Amy Wood, Meghan McNamara, Rob Sobel, Robert Schuster, Sri Ram, William Morris, Elisha Holt, Margarita Meklina, Todd Mercer, Kevin Rabas, Richard Jones, Aden Thomas, Tom Montag, Matthew Wallenstein, Jesse Millner, Danny P. Barbare, Cathryn Shea, Art Heifetz, Joseph Dorazio, J.R. Solonche, S. Whitaker, Carol Lynn Grellas, Gary Beck, Tobi Alfier, Tom Pescatore, Doug Bolling, David Anthony Sam, Chumki Sharma, Lavana Kray, Lisa Stice.

Reviews for Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2016: Scrapper: A Novel by Matt Bell, The Bloody Planet: Poems by Callista Buchen, Camp Olvido: A Novella by Lawrence Coates, My Unsentimental Education: A Memoir by Debra Monroe, and Beautiful Day: Poems by J.R. Solonche.

Issue 3 is almost here!

The Magnolia Review Volume 2 Issue 1 will be available on Friday, January 15!

Here’s a sneak peek at our cover.

This Is Where He Fell

For the third issue of The Magnolia Review, 5 artists submitted 25 pieces of art and photography, 11 creative nonfiction writers submitted 11 creative nonfiction pieces, 61 fiction writers submitted 67 stories, and 104 poets submitted 440 poems.