We're reading for our Issue 31. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, flash, poetry in translation, graphic narrative. tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit

The annual AWP Scavenger Hunt entices you to navigate the book fair with a quest.

“In his hospital bed my father opens his mouth and readies himself to die.” Read Kiana Govoni’s essay “Inheritance,” published in @tahomareview.bsky.social & featured in our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/i...

“Some of my kids’ friends came over and stayed until dark the other night, which, in winter on the Olympic Peninsula, is still quite early.” Read Melissa O’Neil’s essay “Bear,” featured in @tahomareview.bsky.social & our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/b...

This week we're spotlighting poet Catherine Esposito Prescott's poignant "Sloth." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

Consider Michael Bazzett's beautiful poem "The Dead," which, he says, "arrived one morning after I set down Marie-Claire Bancquart’s astonishing collection, Every Minute Is First, to pause and look out the window. It’s that kind of book." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Featuring poet Ally Ang! Ally is the author of Let the Moon Wobble, out from Alice James Books in November 2025. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/y...

"In an era when fact and fiction and space and time all clang together like a dime store windchime, the short story form feels particularly satisfying," says Nicole Callihan of her sliding doors-esque "The Ocean Floor" tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Heather Butcher is interested in the idea of people as metaphorical ghosts, haunting us through memories and abstractions, and our will to exorcise these spirits. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/e...

2026 coming in hot. Meanwhile, spotlight's on "Waitings" by Sean Bernard. "We don’t while away the time; we whittle it (as it whittles us, in wiley ways). We are all, the sheepherder knows, waiting together, across space, across time."

Belated congratulations to TLR contributor Summer Hammond for her "A Little Slice of the Moon" being selected and published in Best American Essays 2025. www.newletters.org/a-little-sli...

Spotlight on "Preserves" by @kellypedro.bsky.social who chose to structure the story around the seasons, "and soon after, the idea of how we feed or starve ourselves emerged" tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

What a perfect, heartbreaking and beautiful story. The loss of memory is shown with great skill through the perspective of a once-successful field biologist who is watching her world disappear in a literal and metaphorical inferno. #shortstory

Spotlight on this abecederian essay wherein @kristaleehanson.bsky.social writes a letter to her younger self, "to the self in the beginning of parenthood who was both terrified and deeply committed to learning how to parent our incredible child." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

Spotlight on Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop. "Advent" and "She" tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

We're Krista Lee Hanson fans, enjoying her original flashes as well as her long-form work (see comment below) www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...

Spotlight on Tiffanie Kim, an artist and emerging writer based in Hudson, NY. About her essay "Shrödinger's Father," she says: "When I found out my birth father died, I didn’t talk about it for weeks. I was surprised by the depth of grief I felt for someone I’d never known ...

Spotlight on Katharine Whitcomb's breathtaking "Poem Ending with a Line by Deborah Digges." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p... Poet’s Note: [This poem] is an elegy and an homage. I have been greatly inspired as a writer by the work of Deborah Digges, who died by apparent suicide in 2009.

"'Bear' is a short, nonfiction piece that came from me and my family making it through the winter of 2025. By any means possible, that’s what we were doing to get through these both literal and figurative dark times."--poet & writer Melissa O'Neil

Thank you @tahomareview.bsky.social for nominating "Plague" for Best of the Net for 2026, alongside other great #artworks and online literary #writing! Read Issue 28 / Spring 2025 below.

Two more days to send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, or poetry in translation. tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit

A coming-of-age story meets A Walk in the Woods in this flash fiction piece by Kyra Kondis. From Issue 29:

One more week 🎃 to send work for our current reading period, open through October 31. Remember that we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry in translation, in addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit

👀 Jackie K. White and Simone Muench's poem "teeth-grinder, lace-cutter," part of a collaborative project, "The Alchemy of Ghosts,” wherein they "engage with the voices of the women associated with both the artistic and literary Surrealist movement, who have often been historically marginalized"

Today’s Poem Per Diem is “Jackson Pollack” by Jenny Molberg from our most recent issue.

Thank you, @duotrope.com!

Spotlight this week on Betty J. Cotter, writing what she initially thought of as the “field trip story,” which then evolved into a greater examination of aging, memory, and our threatened environment.

Embark contributor Jillian Schedneck has had a story called “#lasteuropeansummer” published in the @tahomareview.bsky.social! Check it out here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/l...

Spotlight this week on poet Ellen Kombiyil, whose gorgeous erasures can be seen on our website. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

"Lara eats chocolate cake again when the man she loves brings it to her after his wife has gone into town to run errands." @kellypedro.bsky.social in @tahomareview.bsky.social tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

Why does it never get to be our hands the ones that rise up, the ones that proclaim the voice of disgust… Read Susana Thénon’s “Advent,” translated by Karen Elizabeth Bishop in @tahomareview.bsky.social this #NationalTranslationMonth: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

What archival traces do our intimate relationships leave behind? What happens to intimate relationships when forced to produce proof of their legitimacy, or "good faith," to the bureaucratic immigration system? What is lost, diminished, or silenced in the process? Read this essay by Vanessa Freije

Featuring this week: flash nonfiction from AR Manu, a Samoan-American graduate student attending Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Peep this short reads by associate fiction editor Isaac Yuen www.short-reads.org/rhythm/

Featuring Oliver Sedano Jones' poem "Choose Your Own Adventure: Pools" in #TLR29. With an interactive format! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/c...

Includes Two Poems by Susana Thénon Translated from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop Tahoma Literary Review | 2025

Featuring poet Vincent Antonio Rendoni in our summer issue tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/a... Vincent is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife ( @catamaranlit.bsky.social‬, 2022) and the forthcoming poetry collection Dead Chicano Mixtape @redhenpress.bsky.social, 2027).

Tahoma Literary Review (TLR) @tahomareview.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to fee-based submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Read selections from Issue 29 with your ears at our SoundCloud channel.

We’re ready to read! Reading period for #TLR30 opens via #submittable on Friday, August 15. We publish poetry, poetry in translation, fiction, nonfiction, flash prose, and new for us, #graphicnarrative. Peep our latest issue to see what we like to read and feature. #litmags

We’re ready to read! Reading period for #TLR30 opens via #submittable on Friday, August 15. We publish poetry, poetry in translation, fiction, nonfiction, flash prose, and new for us, #graphicnarrative. Peep our latest issue to see what we like to read and feature. #litmags

Absolute stunner of an essay by Tiffanie Kim weaving quantum physics with adoption in @tahomareview.bsky.social: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

Especially exciting about this piece by Abhinav, it's after a piece by Ryan Brod that we published in Issue 20: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/f...

Lara shakes her head slightly, and the woman’s hair becomes wild, electrified. “Then I need you to leave,” the woman says. “I can’t. My life is here.” The woman laughs, crests a hand over her eyes. “What life?” @kellypedro.bsky.social in @tahomareview.bsky.social !!

Congratulations, @lisetteaustin.bsky.social !! tahomaliteraryreview.com/introducing-...

Especially exciting about this piece by Abhinav, it's after a piece by Ryan Brod that we published in Issue 20: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/f...

I'm delighted to have a poem in the new issue of The Tahoma Literary Review, (@tahomareview.bsky.social) and cordially invite you to a lovely respite from doomscrolling, should you so desire... 💜 Big thanks to @jessicacuello.bsky.social & the whole team! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...