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!!

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!!

"What joys, what celebrations, and what tributes await the reader" open.substack.com/pub/redhenpr...

Rest in peace, dear poet. We published Martha Silano's work several times and she will be missed.

What does living with someone teach you about yourself? Find out Derek Maiolo's answer in "Impressionable" from #TLR28 tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/i...

Could be fun: Join The Writer's Workout for Writer's Games: 6 weeks of surprise challenges, quick deadlines, feedback for everything you submit, and published winners! FREE, open globally, and designed to help you build a strong creative writing foundation. www.writersworkout.net/games

Contributor @kimmagowan.bsky.social has a knack for getting to the core of modern relationships. Check out the emotional cross-currents in "The Rules of the Arrangement" from our latest issue #TLR28. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

We offer a fellowship for BIPOC writers to attend a two-week residency at Mineral Arts & Residencies. Applications due May 15. WelcomeToMars.submittable.com

We are sad to learn of the passing of one of our contributors, Karen Kao. internationalwriterscollective.com/in-memoriam.... A resilient and creative spirit, she shared a "beautifully ominous" short story with us tahomaliteraryreview.com/.../from-iss... in spring of 2022.

Felicitations to Kristen Stewart and her bride for their wedding this past weekend. Seems like the ideal time to spotlight the short story "Kristen Stewart Is a Lime Tree" by Jessica Poon in our most recent issue #TLR28:

We offer a fellowship for BIPOC writers to attend a two-week residency at Mineral Arts & Residencies. Applications due May 15. WelcomeToMars.submittable.com

"[This] poem is an ekphrastic of Hopper’s painting & part of a series of poems I’m writing where the world of paintings across various schools are made to confront the reality of climate change ..."--Jared Beloff in #TLR28 tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/e...

“A professor of mine once paused on the topic of empathy. She told the classroom that her dog was truly mortified by thunderstorms…” Read “Hyphenated Howl” by Stevie Chedid in @tahomareview.bsky.social this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth:

Welcome to Monday! Here's a reminder for any fellow procrastinators in the #WritingCommunity: today's the last day of our reading period. Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or translations of poetry. tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit

Shout out to the folks at @tahomareview.bsky.social who treat writing with love — send them your work!

Hello! Our complimentary submissions are open. We are reading until April 7, and we have a limited number of free subs for writers from marginalized groups. Details are in our guidelines: tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit