"The world will work to twirl girls into witches, or they will twirl themselves into witches, or they will twirl and turn away from the witch they could be . . ."--"Angling" by Matt Miller. Art by Alex Brice newohioreview.org/2025/11/16/e...

"One night twenty years later, among cardboard boxes fuzzy with dust in the basement of my mom’s final house, I find a tennis racket. I’m puzzled."--"Trick of the Light" by Jessica Jo Staricka, Winter Online Exclusive. Artwork by Alex Brice. newohioreview.org/2025/11/17/t...

"But Mark had a hoop / with a chain net, the post planted right in his backyard, its slick metal / gleaming among his mother’s azaleas / and lilyturfs."--"Basketball" by Christopher Shipman, Winter Online Exclusive. newohioreview.org/2025/11/18/b...

"If she wasn’t so afraid, it would have been funny, spying on this creature demolishing their yard as if it were an inconsiderate neighbor."--"Animal Control" by @annasheffer.bsky.social, Winter Online Exclusive. Featured Art: "The Bride" by Alex Brice. newohioreview.org/2025/11/19/a...

"If you swear you are / his last last drink, then I will pay a cantor / and a priest. Father you, as I have failed / to father him."--"A Toast to My Son's Last Drink" by @roddwhelpley.bsky.social, Winter Online Exclusive. newohioreview.org/2025/11/20/a...

"There are questions—  / painful—for which no one seeks an answer,  / only theories"--"The Uncertainty Principle" by Rodd Whelpley, Winter Online Exclusive. newohioreview.org/2025/11/21/t...

NOR contributor Kimberly Johnson is reading on the campus of Ohio University tonight at 7:30p in Galbreath Chapel! calendar.ohio.edu/event/2025-2...

It is a Wednesday when I ask for help in the kitchen, a Tuesday night for my mother.--"Far From a Mother" by Madeline Simms, Winter Online Exclusive Featured art: “Eye of Horus” by Ryan Davis newohioreview.org/2025/11/22/e...

"We’re three bites into not-quite-Christmas pie when my mother breaks into the epic tale of Dad leaving her for another woman."--"The News from North Korea" by @jamesjmarino.bsky.social, Winter Online Exclusive. newohioreview.org/2025/11/23/t...

"…oh daughter are you  in darkness or light he says this is it  i am done after dialysis & within days   his head wilts cold into your palms…"--"The Knot" by Sarah Suhr, Winter Online Exclusive. Featured Art by Mallory Stowe. newohioreview.org/2025/11/25/t...

"No matter how great the devastation,   it requires a small act of resistance for scale."--"Grief in the Potting Shed" by Allisa Cherry. Featured art: "Lily, Out of Breath" by Mallory Stowe. newohioreview.org/2025/11/26/g...

“I shrink the size of the image. Now I feel that it reveals too much, even though that was precisely my intention when I photographed my grandmother.”—“The Lines, The Borders” by Julia Ferry. newohioreview.org/2025/11/27/e...

My 98-year-old father steals cars / every day. It’s not uncommon / for him to take another at night, too. —“Joy Riders” by Michael Mark, Winter Online Exclusive. Artwork by Mallory Stowe. newohioreview.org/2025/11/28/j...

. . . to fight / against the expectations of pale neighbors, / against the recklessness of their youth, / against driving I-80 ninety miles an hour / and the dour white face that sounds the siren.--"Dedication for a Plot of Ground" by Matthew Williams, Winter Online Exclusive

"My students wear the name Nirvana and don’t know the band."--"Samsara" by Matthew Williams, Winter Online issue. newohioreview.org/2025/11/30/s...

We invite you to submit your best work to our 2026 contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Three prizes of $1,500 each and publication in New Ohio Review will be awarded for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay. Submit at newohiorewiew.org

“Afraid that her husband Clint would find out, Debra began withdrawing cash out of their savings account and hiding the money in a wool sock in her underwear drawer.” —“Prognosis” by Richie Zaborowske, Winter Online issue. Artwork: “Frills” by Alex Brice newohioreview.org/2025/12/01/pro…

“Pleasure never lasts, you know, but pleasure does. And how / embarrassing, to be unloved. I hum every longing home.” —“Ecstacy Facsimile” by Mark Anthony Cayanan, Winter online edition. Artwork: “Event Horizon” by Mallory Stowe. newohioreview.org/2025/12/02/e...

"It’s a new year and it’s not like we thought it wasn’t going to hurt."-- @jayekranz.bsky.social, "Infinity Net," Winter Online Issue. newohioreview.org/2025/12/03/i...

Just 5 days left to submit to our Ellis Prizes! Visit us at newohioreview.org

"my finger remembers better the feel of a door slamming / on its eight-year-old marrow than it does its first engagement ring." --Amanda Nicole Corbin, Winter Online Issue newohioreview.org/2025/12/04/i...

Better late than never: Congratulations to our former Editor J. Allyn Rosser on the recent publication!

Just a reminder: The deadline for the Ellis Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry is in less than a month. Get your submission in today!

Two new poems in @newohioreview.bsky.social! newohioreview.org/2025/11/07/t... newohioreview.org/2025/11/08/r...

One of two poems I wrote up in the @newohioreview.bsky.social Winter Online Edition. Much gratitude to the editors for including me in this beautiful issue.

"Hollands’s poetry also teems with references to the famous faces of his youth, all while he explores those personal memories...Mangrove is a moving reflection on a queer life lived to the fullest." @newohioreview.bsky.social on @billhollands.bsky.social's exception new collection!

So excited to be in the latest issue of @newohioreview.bsky.social alongside so many great writers!! newohioreview.org/2025/11/05/n...

Our newest online issue is now available to read at newohiorevew.org!

Thrilled to be in the latest @newohioreview.bsky.social alongside so much powerful, thoughtful work. Really honored to appear alongside these artists. Anyway, here’s a holiday story. Hope your holidays go better than this one. newohioreview.org/2025/11/23/t...

Beautiful online issue by @newohioreview.bsky.social with art everywhere newohioreview.org

Ohio University Press is currently accepting submissions for the 2026 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize through December 31, 2025. Finalists and the winning manuscript will be announced in April 2026. The 2026 final judge will be Michael Prior.

I think this comment for @newohioreview.bsky.social speaks for itself 🖤 Show your favorite lit mags + editors some love before our Best Lit Mag Awards voting closes next month! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

NOR is now accepting artwork to be featured on our website and cover! Submit today at newohioreview.submittable.com/submit

Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction contest submissions are now open at newohioreview.org This contest is judged by Ohio University grads who once called Ellis Hall their home!

All 3 of these pieces can be read in our newly published issue 36, available at newohioreview.org

On this, the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, we share this quote from issue 36.

We're proud to announce our nominees for the Pushcart Prize this year!

Issue 36 is here!

Guidelines can be found at newohioreview.org/submit/