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!
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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.

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.
Bill Wolak
Bill Wolak has just published his fifteenth book of poetry entitled The Nakedness Defense with Ekstasis Editions. His collages have appeared recently in Naked in New Hope 2017, The 2017 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Poetic Illusion, The Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ, the 2018 Dirty Show in Detroit, 2018 The Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, and The 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival.
Whoever Loves and As Bells Echo in the Distance, Volume 1, Issue 2
Openness without Seeking and A Scream in the Forest, Volume 2, Issue 2
The Mist Between Foghorns, The Radiance of an Unforeseen Delight, Climbing the Wind, Beyond the Immediate Trapdoor, and Unsettling as the Strobe Light’s Hesitation, Volume 5, Issue 1
Light’s Sudden Hesitation, The Flirtatious Dance of Memory, Involuntary Trance, Curious As Perfume, The Manifestation of a Protoplasmic Vortex, and Equipped for the Paradoxical Continuum, Volume 6, Issue 1
Maria S. Picone
Maria S. Picone has an MFA from Goddard College. Her work appears in the Homestead Review, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, GTK Creative, and, of course, the Magnolia Review. Her photography documents the interesting and unusual places she’s been, including Cambodia, Uganda, and Australia. Her Twitter is @mspicone, and her website is mariaspicone.com.
Water Kinesis 1, Water Kinesis 2, and Water Kinesis 3, Volume 1, Issue 2
Elephant in the Forest and Brink of the Nile, Volume 2, Issue 2
Migration, Tell the Story, and A Moment of Silence, Volume 6, Issue 2
Interview
Third Issue–Deadline November 15
Don’t forget to submit to the third issue of The Magnolia Review! Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page.
Volume 1, Issue 2
Welcome to the second issue of The Magnolia Review!
To download the PDF, click TMR Volume 1 Issue 2 July 2015.
For the ePub version, click here.
Thank you, and enjoy the second issue!
Correction: Sally Deskins’ pieces use text from Laura Madeline Wiseman.
Contributors for Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2015: Michael Albright, Amy Bassin, Danny P. Barbare, Roy Bentley, Mark Blickley, Katarina Boudreaux, Barbara Brooks, Audrey Carroll, Yuan Changming, Dylan Debeli, Christine Degenaars, Sally Deskins, George Drew, James English , Richard Fein, Ruth Foley, Erin Darby Gesell, Mitchell Grabois, William A. Greenfield, Zebulon Huset, James Croal Jackson, Seth Jani, Janne Karlsson, Robert S. King, Monique Kluczykowski, Lavana Kray, Thom Kunz ,Charlene Langfur, Christine M. Lasek, Andrew Lindquist, Taidgh Lynch, Carolyn Martin, Brendan McDonnell, Michael P. McManus, Brian McRoberts, Todd Mercer, Abigail Parlier, Michael Passafiume, Richard King Perkins II, Maria Picone, Frederick Pollack, Sally Reece, Jessica Robinson, Allison Rosh, Mark Antony Rossi, Terry Savoie, Domenic Scopa, Ruth E. Towne, Bill Vernon, Terri Hadley Ward, Bill Wolak
Reviews for Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2015:The Bones of Us by J. Bradley and Adam Scott Mazer, Sylph by Abigail Cloud, I Will Love You For the Rest of My Life by Michael Czyzniejewski, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan, Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions by Kyle Minor, and The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil.
Interview for Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2015: A Dance with Demons, and Other Melancholies, Interview with Abigail Cloud, author of Sylph, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize.
Issue 2 is almost here!
The Magnolia Review Volume 1 Issue 2 will be available next Wednesday, July 15!
Here’s a sneak peek at our cover.
For the second issue of The Magnolia Review, 12 artists submitted 47 pieces of art and photography, 20 creative nonfiction writers submitted 25 creative nonfiction pieces, 69 fiction writers submitted 71 stories, and 100 poets submitted 447 poems.
Deadline Extension!
We’re extending the deadline for our second issue to June 15. Send us your work! For info on how to submit, click here.
