Dive into our fall issue 🌊 Full table of contents and ordering info at iowareview.org 🎨: Katherine Bradford, Fear of Waves, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and CANADA gallery, New York.

Announcing our winners of the 2025 Iowa Review Awards, judged by Brandon Shimoda, Amy Hempel, and Julietta Singh—Leila Farjami (poetry), Maeve Barry (fiction), and Sophie Fetokaki (nonfiction). Runners-up are James Lowell Brunton (poetry), Haleigh Yaspan (fiction), Maia Elsner (nonfiction)! 🎉

Congratulations to our two 2026 Pushcart Prize recipients, Ryan Van Meter and Clint Bentley!

We’re open for submissions to the David Hamilton Prize, a biennial award in rotating genres for TIR masthead alumni. Visit iowareview.org/davidhamilton for more information and to ensure your eligibility!

From our latest issue 54/3, an utterly original essay by Georgie Fehringer 🪽🪽

Bringing light to a dreary Iowa day: poet Elizabeth Willis on the cover of our new issue. Painting by Red Danielson.

Announcing our judges for this year’s The Iowa Review Awards! Winners and runners-up in each genre receive $1500 and $750, respectively. Submissions are open from January 1st-31st! All submissions will be considered for publication. Good luck! We look forward to reading your work! 💫

Our new cover by Amy Lee Scott will give you all the feels 🥹

new story in the new Iowa Review called "be the dog." 🐶

The Iowa Review will join @riverstyxmag.bsky.social for a special virtual event featuring a slate of literary magazine editors in conversation on the editorial process from acceptance to publication. Join us on December 5th at 7:00pm CST! www.eventbrite.com/e/river-styx...