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Issue 5 Update!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

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).

 

Issue 5 Open to Submissions!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

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!

Volume 2, Issue 1

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

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.

Maria S. Picone

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

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

Volume 1, Issue 2

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

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.

Volume 1, Issue 1

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Welcome to the first issue of The Magnolia Review!

To download the PDF, click The Magnolia Review Volume 1 Issue 1 January 2015.

Thank you, and enjoy the first issue!

Contributors: Gary Beck, Michael K. Brantley, Jeff Burt, Janet Butler, Valentina Cano, Matt Chamberlain, Chloe Cherubin, William Doreski, Carolyn D. Elias, Daniel von der Embse, Jeanpaul Ferro, C.S. Fuqua, Trina Gaynon, Howie Good, Mitchell Grabois, Allison Grayhurst, Julie Graziano, John Grey, Sarah Grodzinski, Sarah Jane Hodge, Henry Hughes, Clinton Van Inman,  Mark Jackley, Caitlin Johnson, Patrick Kelling, Alexandra Kolker, Robert Krantz, Taidgh Lynch, Nathen Martin, Tom Montag, Anne Britting Oleson, Sergio A. Ortiz, Richard King Perkins II, Breanna Ridgeway, J.R. Solonche, Louis Staeble, Charles F. Thielman, Sarah Brown Weitzman, D.S. West, Ernest Williamson III, and Omer Zamir.