Tahoma Literary Review

Tahoma Literary Review Submission Manager We are open for submissions. Issue 30 will be out March 1, and we're reading for Issue 31 until April 30.  Check out our fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Plus, we are now considering graphic narrative...

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Issue 30, Spring 2026 - Tahoma Literary Review Here is our thirtieth issue, published at an in-between moment when winter has not yet loosened its grip and the promise of spring remains uncertain. The

New issue! It's TLR's 30th!!! Our spring collection of poetry and prose (including graphic narrative) is online. Please enjoy, starting with cover art by Emily Tironi.
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Tahoma Literary Review Submission Manager We are open for submissions. Issue 30 will be out March 1, and we're reading for Issue 31 until April 30.  Check out our fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Plus, we are now considering graphic narrative...

We're reading for our Issue 31. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, flash, poetry in translation, graphic narrative. tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit

The annual AWP Scavenger Hunt entices you to navigate the book fair with a quest.

Inheritance - Tahoma Literary Review In his hospital bed my father opens his mouth and readies himself to die. Before this movement of the mouth, fish-like, and this acceptance of his own

“In his hospital bed my father opens his mouth and readies himself to die.”

Read Kiana Govoni’s essay “Inheritance,” published in @tahomareview.bsky.social & featured in our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/i...

Bear - Tahoma Literary Review Some of my kids’ friends came over and stayed until dark the other night, which, in winter on the Olympic Peninsula, is still quite early. My partner and

“Some of my kids’ friends came over and stayed until dark the other night, which, in winter on the Olympic Peninsula, is still quite early.”

Read Melissa O’Neil’s essay “Bear,” featured in @tahomareview.bsky.social & our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/b...

Sloth - Tahoma Literary Review The sloth was never your spirit animal until it was. Once vibrant, once running to scale lake-mountain trails, once streaking down the soccer field, once

This week we're spotlighting poet Catherine Esposito Prescott's poignant "Sloth."
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The Dead - Tahoma Literary Review become very skinny over time.They can sleep between two coinsstacked neatly on a dresser.The little blade of light slicing underneath the door at nightis

Consider Michael Bazzett's beautiful poem "The Dead," which, he says, "arrived one morning after I set down Marie-Claire Bancquart’s astonishing collection, Every Minute Is First, to pause and look out the window. It’s that kind of book." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Year of the Pig - Tahoma Literary Review My mother, my father, and I were all born in the Year of the Pig. The three little pigs, my mother called us. Quietly, I resented our shared pigness.

Featuring poet Ally Ang! Ally is the author of Let the Moon Wobble, out from Alice James Books in November 2025. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/y...

The Ocean Floor - Tahoma Literary Review One of us is visiting the other. Each of us arrived at some point in time, undertipped or overtipped the cab driver, stepped onto the curb, walked through

"In an era when fact and fiction and space and time all clang together like a dime store windchime, the short story form feels particularly satisfying," says Nicole Callihan of her sliding doors-esque "The Ocean Floor" tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Photo by Sivani Bandaru on Unsplash Photo by Sivani Bandaru on Unsplash

Heather Butcher is interested in the idea of people as metaphorical ghosts, haunting us through memories and abstractions, and our will to exorcise these spirits.
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Waitings - Tahoma Literary Review 1. In a late-stage test of physical aptitude and mental fortitude, Navy SEAL candidates are thrown feet tied, hands bound, into a nine-foot-deep body of

2026 coming in hot. Meanwhile, spotlight's on "Waitings" by Sean Bernard.
"We don’t while away the time; we whittle it (as it whittles us, in wiley ways). We are all, the sheepherder knows, waiting together, across space, across time."

Belated congratulations to TLR contributor Summer Hammond for her "A Little Slice of the Moon" being selected and published in Best American Essays 2025. www.newletters.org/a-little-sli...

Preserves - Tahoma Literary Review In winter, Lara eats root vegetables from the cellar—crisp carrots and sugar beets that snap between her calcified teeth. Outside, the snow is like

Spotlight on "Preserves" by @kellypedro.bsky.social who chose to structure the story around the seasons, "and soon after, the idea of how we feed or starve ourselves emerged"
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What a perfect, heartbreaking and beautiful story. The loss of memory is shown with great skill through the perspective of a once-successful field biologist who is watching her world disappear in a literal and metaphorical inferno.

#shortstory

Show up Late, Show up Early, Show up Uninvited - Tahoma Literary Review Advocacy: Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby! And welcome to a world of families who are not invited, included, or accounted for. If

Spotlight on this abecederian essay wherein @kristaleehanson.bsky.social writes a letter to her younger self, "to the self in the beginning of parenthood who was both terrified and deeply committed to learning how to parent our incredible child."
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"Often associated with the so-called Generación del ’60–a group of Argentine poets that also includes Juana Bignozzi and the more well known Alejandra Pizarnik and Juan Gelman–Thénon is one of the most original poetic voices writing in the Southern Cone in the second-half of the twentieth century."

Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop - Tahoma Literary Review from Unrelenting Age (1958) | from Edad sin tregua (1958) Advent Why does it never get to beour handsthe ones that rise up,the ones that proclaim the

Spotlight on Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop. "Advent" and "She"
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Show up Late, Show up Early, Show up Uninvited - Tahoma Literary Review Advocacy: Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby! And welcome to a world of families who are not invited, included, or accounted for. If

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We're Krista Lee Hanson fans, enjoying her original flashes as well as her long-form work (see comment below)
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... As South Korea reckons with its complicated history of international adoption, I hope my story adds to the conversation."

Schrödinger’s Father - Tahoma Literary Review My father has been dead for almost a decade. For most people, this wouldn’t come as a shock. Ten years is a long time, after all. I would’ve been

Spotlight on Tiffanie Kim, an artist and emerging writer based in Hudson, NY. About her essay "Shrödinger's Father," she says:
"When I found out my birth father died, I didn’t talk about it for weeks. I was surprised by the depth of grief I felt for someone I’d never known ...

She was a professor at Vermont College of Fine Arts while I was studying there for my MFA in Writing. The last line in “Poem Ending with a Line by Deborah Digges” is from her poem, “Lilacs” in her posthumously published collection Trapeze.

Poem Ending with a Line by Deborah Digges - Tahoma Literary Review Sometimes when I cannot write I remember my professor’s astonishing beauty, how we fell before the heft of her hair, lay down on her creased pages &

Spotlight on Katharine Whitcomb's breathtaking "Poem Ending with a Line by Deborah Digges." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

Poet’s Note:
[This poem] is an elegy and an homage. I have been greatly inspired as a writer by the work of Deborah Digges, who died by apparent suicide in 2009.

Tahoma Literary Review's nominations for Best of the Net 2025

Bear - Tahoma Literary Review Some of my kids’ friends came over and stayed until dark the other night, which, in winter on the Olympic Peninsula, is still quite early. My partner and

"'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.

Tahoma Literary Review Submission Manager We are reading!  We are open for submissions from August 15 to October 31. General guidelines are below.In addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry...

Two more days to send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, or poetry in translation.

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"inspired by the social currencies of adolescence and the pressures of girlhood; the desire to fit in without understanding why we should even want to; the wounds of friendships that have become something else in the name of these pressures; &, last but not least, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson"