Sarah Bigham

Sarah Bigham teaches, paints, and writes in Maryland where she lives with her kind chemist wife, their three independent cats, and an unwieldy herb garden. Her work appears in Bacopa, Entropy, Fourth & Sycamore, Melancholy Hyperbole, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, and elsewhere. Find her at www.sgbigham.com.

When you first start to lose your mind, Volume 3, Issue 1

Marie-Andree Auclair

Marie-Andree Auclair’s poems have appeared in a variety of print and online publications in such as In/Words Magazine, Bywords, The Steel Chisel, filling Station, Contemporary Verse 2, Structo UK, Apeiron, Canthius, The Tule Review, and others. Her first chapbook, Contrails was released by In/Words Magazine and Press/Ottawa in 2013. She lives in Ottawa Canada and is working on her next chapbook.

Concession Lines, Maps, Echo, and Imperfect Codes, Volume 3, Issue 1

Issue 5 is on its way!

For the fifth issue of The Magnolia Review, 0 artists submitted 0 pieces of art and photography, 2 creative nonfiction writers submitted 2 creative nonfiction pieces, 21 fiction writers submitted 21 stories, and 32 poets submitted 147 poems.

The Issue will be available on January 15.

Issue 5 Deadline–November 15

The deadline is approaching!

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 is optional!)

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).

Issue 5 Open to Submissions!

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.

Zebulon Huset

Zebulon Huset is a writer and photographer living in San Diego. His writing has recently appeared in The Southern Review, Louisville Review, Meridian, North American Review, The Magnolia Review, The Portland Review, The Maine Review, and The Roanoke Review among others. He publishes a writing prompt blog (Notebooking Daily) and his flash fiction submission guide was reposted at The Review Review.

Code Word and When X left, Y announced he was moving, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Chaparral Crackles with Drought, Volume 3, Issue 1

Morning Walkabout, New Home, One Week Before my Neighbor is Murdered; The Creek Wonders About My Past; Last Night at the Campground; Beneath a Wave of Molasses; and Ominous Snow Tunnels, Volume 6, Issue 1