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Volume 7, Issue 2 is here!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

The issue is available here.

The theme is How to Be Antiracist.

The Magnolia Review, Volume 7, Issue 2, published September 2023 with the work of 9 writers and artists. Contributors: Alan Altany, Syeda Eishal, Erica Michaels Hollander, Adam Kotlarczyk, Ann Pedone, Zachary A. Philips, Tom Proverbs-Garbett, David Anthony Sam, and Bill Wolak.

Review: the luxury: 59 untitled nature catastrophe poems by Darren C. Demaree.

For more information on antiracism, please check out The Magnolia Review recommendations below:

How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Volume 8 Issue 1 Theme Announced

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

The issue will be available January 2023.

The optional theme is Where Am I? See the Submit tab for details on how to submit. We accept photography, art, comics, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash fiction, experimental work, hybrid work, and poetry.

Announcing The Magnolia Review Ink Award for Volume 7, Issue 1

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

The current winner for The Magnolia Review Ink Award for Volume 7, Issue 1, is Yessica Klein, with (Another) Love Letter To Jules, poetry. Suzanna selected this work because the poem captures the experience of the pandemic with faith, love, and hope. There is light in the darkness.

Check out Volume 7, Issue 1 here.

Volume 7, Issue 1 is here!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

The issue is available here on Kindle.

Contributors: Olive Ann, Susan P. Blevins, Doug Bolling, Daun Daemon, Syeda Eishal, Amelia Golia, Lilliana Grace,Carol Hamilton, FC Hughes, Lucia Josyl, Yessica Klein, Mari-Carmen Marín, Joan Marley, Emily Patterson, Zachary A. Philips, Michael C. Seeger, Theresa Corbley Siller, Brad Shurmantine, Maximilian Speicher, and Christine Wishnoff.

The Magnolia Review Ink Award: Yessica Klein, (Another) Love Letter To Jules, poetry.

Michael Hogan

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Michael Hogan is the author of twenty-six books including the Irish Soldiers of Mexico which was the basis for an MGM film starring Tom Berenger and three documentaries. His work has appeared in numerous journals including the Paris Review, the Harvard Review, the Ohio Review, American Poetry Review, the Agni Review, New Letters, and others. He currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico, with the textile artist Lucinda Mayo and their Dutch Shepherd, Lola.

You Know Who You Are, Morning Walk, The River Beneath Us, After the Argument, and Aftermath, Volume 6, Issue 2

Volume 6, Issue 2 is Here!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

The issue is available as a PDF here.

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The optional theme is A Defining Moment.

Contributors: Serena Agusto-Cox, Charles Joseph Albert, Madison Barlow, Gary Beck, Isaac Black, Robyn Blocker, Madelon Bolling, Nichole Brazelton, Charles Brice, Heather M. Browne, Ankita Chatterjee, Jennifer Christgau-Aquino, Joan Colby, Holly Day, Megan Duffy, Charlotte Edwards, Donna Emerson, Robert Fern, Mary Sophie Filicetti, Vanessa Frank, Robert Granader, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas, Ed Hack, David Hargreaves, Angela B. Harris, Alison Hicks, Michael Hogan, Margot Hughes, Mark Jackley, James Croal Jackson, Finn Janning, Marc Janssen, Christina Kapp, Hanna Komar, Kristin LaFollette, Paul Lamb, Naomi Lowinsky, Lisa L. Lynn, Shwetha Mahendran, Ivy Marie, Carolyn Martin, Barbara McHugh, Meg, Juliana Mei, Pete Mladinic, Marlene Molinoff, Daniel Edward Moore, David Morris, Mark Murphy, Martina Nicholson, Kevin Norwood, Caroline O’Connell, Ada Pelonia, Barry Peters, Maria S. Picone, Fabrice B. Poussin, Dana Robbins, Sam Rose, Christopher Ryan, Susan Chock Salgy, Carmelinda Scian, Ashley Scott, Kevin M. Scott, Juliette Sebock, Shruthi Shivkumar, Leela Srinivasan, Emma Staffaroni, John L. Stanizzi, Lisa Stice, Adriana Stimola, Ryan Thorpe, Phelan Tinsley, J.T. Townley, Mark Tulin, Cathy Ulrich, Emily Unwin, Doug Van Hooser, Richard Weaver, Angelica Whitehorne, Nancy Wick, Casey Woods, Orit Yeret, and Cyndie Zikmund.

Reviews: Dark Fathers and other poems by David Anthony Sam and (My Life and Other…) Famous Train Wrecks of Ohio Bill Abbott.

The Magnolia Review Ink Award: To Be Announced!

Serena Agusto-Cox

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Serena Agusto-Cox, Suffolk University alum, writes more vigorously than she did in her college poetry seminars. Her day job feeds the starving artist, and her poems can be read in Broadkill Review, Dime Show Review, Baseball Bard, Mothers Always Write, Bourgeon, Beginnings Magazine, LYNX, Muse Apprentice Guild, The Harrow, Poems Niederngasse, Avocet, Pedestal, and more. An essay also appears in H.L. Hix’s Made Priceless, three poems in the Love_Is_Love: An Anthology for LGBTQIA+ Teens (2019), and a Q&A in Midge Raymond’s Everyday Book Marketing. Serena also runs book review blog Savvy Verse & Wit and founded Poetic Book Tours.

Is this the worth of us?, Gun Safety, and Hide-and-Seek 2.0, Volume 6, Issue 2

Martina Nicholson

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

As a retired Ob-Gyn,  Dr. Martina Nicholson has been most interested in the interior landscapes of women. She has published six poetry books through Old Mountain Press. She is fascinated by cross-cultural issues and language, as well as growth and healing. 

Brain Waves, Fabergé Egg, Fossil Fish, and Moons of Jupiter, Rings of Saturn, Volume 6, Issue 2

Interview

Barry Peters

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Barry Peters lives in Durham and teaches in Raleigh, NC. Print and online publications, some forthcoming, include The American Journal of Poetry, Best New Poets 2018, New Ohio Review, Poetry East, Rattle, and South Florida Poetry Journal.

Slice of Life, Crucifixion, Long Shot, and Road Trip, Volume 6, Issue 2

Interview

Juliana Mei

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Juliana Mei is currently a sophomore in English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, whose interests include playing the violin and engaging in personal projects usually tied to photography and design. She participates actively in her institution’s creative writing competitions, otherwise reading and writing conscientiously as often as she can.

In the Sickroom, Again, A Prescription for Madness, Lessons for a Young Witch, A Much Better Mistake, Christmas with the Devil, and Growing Pains, Volume 6, Issue 2

Interview