We’re gathering on Nov 24 to return to the source — to the stories that shaped us, the ones we inherited, the ones we’re ready to unmake. Inspired by Sylvia Wynter’s work, this generative workshop invites writers to rethink new modes of being human. — you’re invited. ✨ Link in the comment!

Every outfit holds a story: textures, colors, sounds, even the weight of a garment. In this virtual workshop, we’ll explore how clothing can deepen character and world-building through sensory detail. Join us on Nov 17, 6:30–7:45pm AZ! Registration link in the comment!

Behind every HFR issue is a devoted community lifting up our mission with heart. Because of their passion, we’re able to champion our writers and artists. We’d love for you to meet them — to see what they’re reading, what they love, and how they help shape every page with joy and creativity.

Behind every HFR issue is a devoted community lifting up our mission with heart. Because of their passion, we’re able to champion our writers and artists. We’d love for you to meet them — to see what they’re reading, what they love, and how they help shape every page with joy and creativity.

+ @haydensferryreview.bsky.social editor Chiara Kaufman will lead our monthlong reading of @olgaravn.bsky.social's futuristic workplace allegory, The Employees! On Nov 6 6PM ET, join our live communal close-reading of The Employees’ 1st pages & share your thoughts! Discussion starters on Thursdays

The mountains are calling — and so are we. Submit your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and translation Nov. 1–30 for Issue 78: Aftercare. Writers & artists, we’re ready for your brilliance. ✨ #literarymagazine #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #shortstory #callforsubmissions #submityourwork

General submissions for Issue 78 are open soon! Link in comment! We're accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation submissions for $3. Our Spring Web Issue explores "Aftercare" —Send us poetry, prose, art, or hybrid work that explores healing, aftermath, tenderness, and transformation!

We’re proud to announce Hayden’s Ferry Review’s 2025 Best of the Net nominations! ✨ Congratulations to all the incredible writers and artists whose work has been recognized this year. Read these incredible pieces at haydensferryreview.com

We’re proud to announce Hayden’s Ferry Review’s 2025 Best of the Net nominations! ✨ Congratulations to all the incredible writers and artists whose work has been recognized this year. Your voices continue to expand the boundaries of imagination! #poetry #fiction #nonfiction

Check out our conversation with Dennis James Sweeney on The Rolodex Happenings, a novella that blurs truth and fiction through fragmentary storytelling. haydensferryreview.com/blog/avani-s...

Our 2025 Contest Folio is here!Featuring stunning works by Mariah Gese, Hajjar Baban,Faye Wikner,and Mai-Linh Hong! Read the full folio here: linktr.ee/haydensferryre…#literarymagazinen#poetryr#fictiono#folioi#flashfictiono#onlinelitmagag

I was also lucky that anyone paid attention to this book! Reviewers at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, @necessaryfiction.com, @fullstopmag.bsky.social, & @haydensferryreview.bsky.social, as well as @alissahattman.bsky.social & @eyesonindie.bsky.social were generous with their time, attention, & care

Again! Meet the Genre Editors of HFR ! 🎉 From poets to filmmakers, our editorial team is powered by passionate MFA writers at ASU. They bring bold voices, fresh perspectives, and fierce creative energy to Hayden’s Ferry Review. 📍 More at: haydensferryreview.com/about #MFAwriter

Meet the Genre Editors of HFR! 🎉 From poets to filmmakers, our editorial team is powered by passionate MFA writers at ASU. They bring bold voices, fresh perspectives, and fierce creative energy to Hayden’s Ferry Review. 📍 More @ haydensferryreview.com/about #haydensferryreview #literarymagazine

Huge congratulations to Hajjar Baban, winner of the HFR Poetry Contest, who’s just been selected for the National Poetry Series! Check our previous post for more details!

Announcing our fiction winner, Mariah Gese! Their story "Choose Your Own Sorrow" was selected by fiction judge Gwen Kirby and will be published in an online folio later this year and in our fall/winter print issue. Congrats Mariah! 👏

Congrats to our 2025 poetry winner, Hajjar Baban! Poetry judge Hieu Minh Nguyen selected 3 poems by Hajjar, which will be published in an online folio later this year and in our fall/winter print issue✨✨✨

Announcing the runners-up for our 2025 fiction and poetry contest: Faye Wikner and Mai-Linh Hong! Their work will be published in an online folio later this year and in the our fall/winter print issue 🌟🌟🌟

Surprise! We've decided to keep our submissions open for a little bit longer! ✨Poetry and nonfiction submissions will close on 7/31 ✨Fiction subs will close after 100 more subs or on 7/31 (whichever comes first) ✨Translation and arts subs will remain open all year! hfr.submittable.com/submit

🎉 Congrats to our Fiction & Poetry Contest Finalists! 📝🏆 Winners will be announced soon – stay tuned! Thanks to our judges @hieuminh.bsky.social and @gwenekirby.bsky.social #fiction #poetry #litmag #writingcontest @monicacure.bsky.social @fleursdumai.bsky.social

⏳ Just 2 weeks left to submit to Hayden’s Ferry Review! Send us your best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or translation for our Fall/Winter 2025 issue. $3 fee, art subs free. hfr.submittable.com/submit #litmag #amwriting #submissionsopen

HFR is open for submissions! ✏️📩🎨 Send us your poems, stories, flash, and creative nonfiction! hfr.submittable.com/submit

Friends, in time for pride, my story of defiant queer love and stinky food. Hope you’ll read it. Thank you @haydensferryreview.bsky.social 🙏🏾🧡🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam

HFR will be accepting submissions for our next print issue June 15-July 15. Mark your calendars! ✏️📅 No Theme, 50 free subs for underrepresented writers, all details here: haydensferryreview.com/submit

Grateful and blown away 🌬️ My very first time in Best Small Fictions! Thank you so much, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for accepting, publishing, and nominating my story, "Concrete Worm". Honoured to be included! Congratulations, everyone!

HFR presents our Spring/Summer 2025 Web Issue: Desire. Featuring prose by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, poetry by @michaelmontlack.bsky.social‪‬, art by Shaunté Glover (here, a photo from the series “Rojon Won”) and more. Read the issue in its entirety, for free: haydensferryreview.com/desire

Summer is here (100º in Phoenix today! 😅) and so is HFR’s Spring/Summer Issue! Featuring #fiction, #poetry, #translation, and #cnf by @joshuanguyen03.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @mnisinson.bsky.social and more, you can pick up a copy in our store now: haydensferryreview.com/purchase-iss...

🚀 🌙 🚀 Join us tonight for a Virtual Launch party to celebrate all the writers and artists who contributed to HFR Issue 76! Sign up here tinyurl.com/HFR76Launch and join us on Zoom 6pm-7pm PDT. Readings by Kaveh Bassiri @kbassiri.bsky.social, Amina Kayani, Joshua Nguyen, and Danielle Frandina!

In the latest interview in our 3 Questions series, hear from Matthew Nisinson, @mnisinson.bsky.social, whose translation of "Catullus 85" appears in HFR Issue 76, on why he felt compelled to translate a 2000-year-old poem 85 times: haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...

If You're Asking Questions Then You're on the Right Path: a conversation with Justin Rovillos Monson, author of "American Inmate: The Album," from @haymarketbooks.org haydensferryreview.com/blog/if-your...

Watch now: Chris Cleveland interviews Andrew Dana Hudson, author of the climate novel "Our Shared Storm" haydensferryreview.com/blog/chris-c...

New on the blog: Chloe Jensen @cljensen.bsky.social asks 3 questions of Sylvia Chan, author of "We Remain Traditional" and an essay in our latest issue haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...

Join HFR's editors online next week for a reading celebrating the launch of Issue 76! Featuring poetry by Joshua Nguyen @joshuanguyen03.bsky.social, fiction by Amina Kayani, nonfiction by Danielle Frandina, and translation by Kaveh Bassiri @kbassiri.bsky.social! RSVP at tinyurl.com/HFR76Launch

Selected work fromHFR Issue 76 is now available to read for FREE in our Web Preview! Link: haydensferryreview.com/hfr-76

Devotion & Womanhood: Marissa Miranda Interviews Kristen Holt-Browning haydensferryreview.com/blog/devotio...

Congrats to our nominees for the 2025 Best New Poets anthology: Alejandro Lucero and Daphne DiFazio! Read DiFazio's poem, "Reassignment Abecedarian," in our Spring 2024 Web Issue: haydensferryreview.com/inqueery

OBSESSED with the gorgeous cover of our new issue, with art by Phoenix artist Antoinette Cauley and incredible work by authors including @mhwack.bsky.social @mnisinson and so many more!

#AWP Merch Drop! Stop by table 337 at the #AWP25 bookfair to pick up one of these beauties and we'll throw in some HFR freebies! ✏️💜💫 Be the envy of your writer friends! Show off your support for small lit mags! Carry your books!

I'm flying out to L.A. today, looking forward to catching up with some of you and just barely missing some of you and waving to some of you from across the book fair. Come find me at the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table (550) Thursday

Are you going to LA next week for #AWP25? Come visit HFR at Table 337! We'll have brand-new merch, loads of freebies, and discounts on issues and subscriptions! And we'd ❤️ to meet you!

Tempe and Phoenix area poets, storytellers, and coffee lovers – join us for a FREE Open Mic Night at Cartel Roasting Co. in Tempe! 📅 Thursday March 20, 6:30-7:30 PM, Sign-ups start at 6:15 PM! 🎁 Free HFR copies for the first 30 participants! RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Submissions are open now for Flow Magazine’s inaugural issue! Accepting poetry, flash fiction, and hybrid work about or featuring beverages. ☕️🤎 www.flowlitmag.com/submit

Today on the blog: 3 Questions with Rashmitha Muniandi, author of “Mother to Mother" from our latest issue haydensferryreview.com/blog/2025/2/...

Good news everyone! 🥳 We’re extending the deadline for HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest by ONE WEEK! We will now be accepting submissions until March 7. Read full guidelines and submit here: https://haydensferryreview.com/haydens-ferry-review-contest

From H Mart to Holograms: Jenna Oldaker Interviews Christine Ma-Kellams, author of "The Band," today on the HFR blog: haydensferryreview.com/blog/from-h-...

Congratulations to our 2025 Best American Essays nominees, Sana Wazwaz, Anaya Marei, Jordan Walker, and Shalini Singh! 💗 💗 💗 Help us celebrate some of the amazing nonfiction writers we published this year.

Congratulations to our nominees for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology: Fatema Haque, Jesse Wallis, Marianne Kunkel, Noemi Scheiring-Olah, and Sebastien Luc Butler!

Congratulations to our nominees for the 2025 Best Literary Translations Anthology: Will Pewitt, Sharon Dolin, Susan K, Siavash Saadlou, Ali Asadollahi, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, and Kuo Zhang. Thanks to Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social for this opportunity to celebrate works in translation!

Kristen Therese Chua talks with Celia Cummiskey about “Hortus Conclusus,” an essay published in Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 75: haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...

Surprise! Today only, submit to HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest for FREE! 12 hours only! Up to 50 Free submissions will be accepted in each genre! See rules & length limits here, then send us your best work: haydensferryreview.com/haydens-ferr...