"'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...

I'm heartbroken that poet Jennifer Martelli has died. Her poem "Teeth" appeared in Issue 21 of @tahomareview.bsky.social - one of my first issues as editor. I fell in love with her poems and was lucky to become her friend. She was funny, brilliant, deeply generous, & kind. She will be very missed 🐈‍⬛💔

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...

"Meanwhile, we curl one into the other like foxes in a den in a moment of forgetting º that we will join them." from "The Dead" in the new TLR I love the strange beauty in this poem and we are so lucky to publish it @tahomareview.bsky.social You are brilliant @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social

tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p... Happy to share my elegy for the poet Deborah Digges in the Summer Issue of @tahomareview.bsky.social! Many heartfelt thanks to Jessica Cuello and all the great people at Tahoma Literary Review. The whole issue is wonderful. 💚

We're reading "Preserves," a terrific flash fiction by @kellypedro.bsky.social at @tahomareview.bsky.social

Thanks to @tahomareview.bsky.social for publishing my flash, "Preserves." Written in a 2023 @smokelong.bsky.social workshop, it's since gone through many changes. Thanks to workshop mates, and Steve Himmer @necessaryfiction.com who offered such kind feedback. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

Our new issue is here and it's a stunner! Cover art by Vivienne Strauss. Check it out here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...

This week, we're reading: Chloé Caldwell's tell-all about selling her book WOMEN on dating apps; @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social's flash piece on the bane of existence that is 3:27pm; & Megan Marshall's essay on the left-handed women in her family, drawn from her book AFTER LIVES. Read: buff.ly/6J14g1M

"Hope and myth tell of a human body in transformation, flying in a soar, weightless & free in the end. But only in my father’s hands do I see a hint of broken flight, his hands waving like a bird in a sinking tumble." --creative nonfiction by Kiana Govoni tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/i...

Our featured writer this week is Jenny Irish. Jenny Irish is the author of the hybrid collections Common Ancestor and Tooth Box, the short-story collection I Am Faithful, the chapbook Lupine, and most recently Hatch. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/l...

As a reader of graphic narrative, what would you like to see more of in literary journals? Asking for a friend

“This guide provides the necessary procedures to effectively parent your child who: a) Is a chronic stutterer, b) Possesses an overactive imagination…” Read Justin Ancheta’s essay in @tahomareview.bsky.social today! #Pride tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

This essay on art, a teacher of art, and his students of art moved me immensely.

"I wanted them, in this sound, to imagine a world in which men raised their voices for good" tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/d... Mark Mazullo is Professor of Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he has been teaching piano and courses in the history of music since 1999.

New to @bsky.app & excited to share "Grandfather Clause" published @tahomareview.bsky.social last year. An #essay on the precision of #privilege that tells the story of my great-grandfather, the man he killed, and a 1921 manslaughter trial. bit.ly/3Y0Iq3D

"I create little rituals to get me through life relatively unscathed. And then something unfathomable happens anyway, and we must find new ways to cope." --Dean Hel re: "Gum Surgery" in #TLR28 tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/g...

"'That makes Karen laugh, and her surge of resentment—screw you for divorcing me when I was thirty-two—dissolves." Contributor @kimmagowan.bsky.social's new story in @tahomareview.bsky.social is a fantastic read about sex, exes, and exhilaration. Check it out here: buff.ly/w3h3rOW

We're late to congratulate Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba, whose "Watch Us Drift, Watch Us Fly" from #TLR27 was named to Afrocritik’s 50 Notable Essays from Africa in 2024 afrocritik.com/afrocritik-5...

For anyone who's ever felt as if they didn't measure up to everyone’s standard of beauty, peep "Bound" by bsky.app/profile/kris... in #TLR28 tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/b...

MARS provides 1- and 2-week residencies, meals & accommodation provided. Two of our editors attended residencies and loved them. TLR is again offering a fellowship for a BIPOC writer to attend. More information on the TLR Fellowship: welcometomars.submittable.com/submit Deadline is May 15!!