🚨22.2 NOW LIVE 🚨 feat. Kate Brennan, Jackson Burgess, Rick Bursky, Sarah Carson, John Leh, Shem Lim, @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social, Peter Munro, Carl Page, Simone Reid & Isabela Sanderson Girlhood, Godhood, gossip, graveyards. Get thee hence

New issue drops on Friday. As the poet wrote, Hold on to ur butts

You now have officially just a smidge more than 1.5 hours to get your work in! Closing at midnight ET! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Selections for the May issue are in the can & seem to thematically diverge as follows: Prose: Girlhood Poetry: I HATE GOD Poets as usual not beating the allegations

Subs for the May issue close FRIDAY, & if u miss us this time around that is OK and we forgive u, but it will 100% impact our parasocial relationship w/u & landfills are not ready for the number of body pillows we're gonna throw out in our grief. Do it for Mother Earth 🌍🌎🌏

Hello, good morning, *enthusiastic hand gestures*. Subs for the May issue will close 4/24 so: if u have general POETRY + FICTION + CNF u want us to publish & pay for, become SPEED & get it in to us real real soon. Poetry Contest subs will remain open! Love y'all mwah 👍🫵🤌👏

Reminder to all u beautiful goblins that the sub deadline for our May ed. is coming up fast. What we want: ur best poems, fiction, & CNF. What we offer: publication, money, & glory. Link in the comments, holla at ya boys girls & none of the aboves

Love seeing everyone's pics from AWP, you're all rock stars & it warms our hearts seeing so many ppl who still believe in words

The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Fiction feat. @pacificalit.bsky.social @salvationsouth.com et al. https://duotrope.com...

Ope, just wanted to scooch by ya there, and oh hey, we're havin a poetry contest dontcha know. Judge Emily Van Kley, author of The Cold and the Rust + Arrhythmia, can you believe it? Winner gets five hundred smackers so keep ur stick on the ice and send us somethin nice whydontcha

Ahem OUR DONUTS ARE BETTER OUR COFFEE IS BETTER OUR OCEAN IS BETTER OUR LIT SCENE IS BETTER OUR FOOTBALL IS BETTER

2026 Poetry Contest, judged by Emily Van Kley, now live for subs! Winner gets $500, publication, & bragging rights forever over the teachers, lovers, & fam who doubted you. Know who never doubted you? Us. www.pacificareview.com

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💥Issue 22.1 is HERE💥 Fiction/CNF world tour: El Salvador, Gainesville, the Palouse, the betweens, & the past. Richard Breyer, Michael Fitzer, Jesse Jing, Yolanda Kwadey, Emily Lewandowski, Rho Weber Mack, & Jefferson Navicky will be ur captains speaking ✈️ www.pacificareview.com/issue-22-1/

News-type substance, delivered by orphan in pageboy cap: Issue 22.1 will be out this week, feat. our first ever OOPS! ALL PROSE collection. Killer fiction & CNF, 110% RDA protein Submissions are open again for 22.2 so if ur a big hoss biscuit eater who loves palindromes this is your moment

We'll be accepting subs til 11:59 PM Tupac Standard Time tonight, & then it's see y'all in 2026. Much love to everyone who grew as an artist this year, & everyone who became one for the first time. Keep the faith, hold the line, burn your local data center <3 <3 <3

Subs will close on 12/15 & believe it or not we really really wanna publish ur writing but Step 1 of that process is u gotta send us ur writing. Pretty please 🍒 on top mwah

Oh shit it's giving Tuesday? Why don't u give uhhhhh DEEZ NUTS lmao gottem

Announcing our noms for 2026 Pushcarts w/questionable graphic from our MS Paint dept. In no particular order, congratulations to: Edidiong Uzoma Essien David Borofka Tara Labovich Lillian Emerick Valentine J.P. Kemmick Aliza Haskal We remain proud & awed, & thank you for trusting us w/ur work ❤️🍾🔥🫅

Thankful for all your poems, stories, and CNF, especially now. It's awesome to be in possession of so much evidence that art and artists will lead us through this bullshit. Our gratitude is immeasurable, and our day is un-ruined

Timeline: fucked since 2016 Cause: Chicago Cubs winning World Series Theory: fight poison with poison Antidote: Seattle Mariners win World Series Do the right thing, America

It's true, we are! So, uh....send us stuff? 👉🥵👈

We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing. Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/

⏰ISSUE 21.3 IS LIVE⏰ feat. Jason Allen, David Borofka, Gary Duehr, Edidiong Uzoma Essien, @hggilham.bsky.social, Aliza Haskal, Joi Haskins, @taralabovich.bsky.social, Patrick Meeds, John A. Nieves, Joey Wańczyk, & @severinwiggenhorn.bsky.social. Behold & be held: www.pacificareview.com

Subs for January issue will open tomorrow. Subs we're after: poetry, cheese steaks, fiction, CNF, chicken parm, & those 6 foot party subs. Extra oil & vinegar b/c we don't fukk w/dry things over here

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

Currently working thru the subs for the September issue, if u sent work & haven't heard back from us yet it's either 1) a good sign, or 2) we're slacking. Stay tuned to find out which

Last day to send us ur writing for the Sept issue. So do it. That's it, end marketing

Subs for the Sept edition close in 5 days, so this is excellent timing

Resisting the urge to continually fill ur feed with marketing, but we're still here and still taking submissions for the September edition. Details & all that at www.pacificareview.com This concludes our contribution to ur advertising caloric intake

We'll be at the Chuckanut Writer's Conference in Bellingham this weekend, so if ur going stop by and say hi! If ur not going, WHY NOT? Don't u deserve some enjoyment, community, inspiration? Of course u do chuckanutwritersconference.com

Taking a shot every time Submittable adds another click to access the subs

New Folio today, feat. Josh Bettinger! "Oneirophobia" explores the confluence/collision of the intensely personal with the aggressively impersonal, memory told through water, and the struggle to preserve the quiet intimacies we create to defend ourselves: www.pacificareview.com/oneirophobia/

New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com

Issue 21.2 will drop in next couple days, feat. the full unmitigated power of: Jory Mickelson Eben Bein Megan Snyder-Camp JP Kemmick Miriam Akervall Daniel Brennan Dayna Bateman Karan Kapoor Virginia Watts Sarp Sozdinler Visual representation of everything in issue below

New issue drops this week & until then subs are OPEN once again. P/F/CNF is our A/S/L

Subs will reopen on 5/5, so if u missed us last time around: viola, ur opportunity re-presents itself, evergreen & seductive. If u did not miss us last time around, but instead withheld ur work of immense power & beauty: dick move, bro. Remedy this oversight & we'll let bygones begones

Happy #PubDay to Alina Stefanescu’s MY HERESIES!! In these poems, @alinaetc.bsky.social probes the boundaries the sacred and the profane—a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood. Get your copy at the link in our bio!

Currently making the calls for the new issue & gotta say y'all are making it real difficult. Shout out to all u rock stars out there, even if u don't make this one know that ur doing absolutely astonishing work <3

You have 6 hours You have 6 hours You have 6 hours Subs close at 9 PM Pacific Here is Denzel who will be helping us emphasize this point

3 days til subs close for May issue! Also: big shoutout to @abipollokoff.bsky.social's debut book of wonders out 2day: redhen.org/book/night-m... We bought like 3 copies lol

Subs close 4/25, u have 10 days to send us something that is gonna kick our teeth right down our throats & yes we are comfortable w/that metaphor. Pls do not send our actual teeth down our actual throats tho, they are considered luxury bones & we need them

Subs for the May issue will close on 4/25, so u got about 2 weeks to send us ur absolute finest wordsmithing. We print it, u get paid, ur lonely exes google u late at night in a fit of melancholy & see one more byline indicating what a mistake they made. We live in Spite World, use it or lose it 🥰😎😈

Subs will close for the May issue on 4/25, so send us something good! That u personally wrote! If we see any AI slop we're gonna get fussy

Been made aware of an issue w/some of the work we've previously published on new pages. Seems to be the result of miscommunication w/our design guy & we're working to get everything shipshape. Thx for ur patience, here is a mighty ship

Submittable stopped describing themselves as "the social impact platform" real damn quick didn't they

Watching everyone having fun at AWP rn 😢

Fuck it we are now THE MILKSHAKE REVIEW and the yard is FULL

According to the internet, something called hot brown was invented in Louisville and the Reuben was invented in Omaha. No shock the Reuben is superior

Our regularly scheduled Severanceposting will experience some temporary interruptions in the coming weeks as we switch to Bracketposting. Please do not be alarmed. If for some reason you hate the NCAAs, see below for instructions