We Want Your Writing.

Submit Today!
Current Issue

 

Issue 7.3 / September 2021

Letter from the Editor

Rosanna Gargiulo

and what is this quality of duration, this resolution,
or the way resolve turns itself over

September

Anna Zumbahlen
Poetry

“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived,” a poet said.
This may be our last chance, you said.

A matter of opinion

Anju Sharma
Nonfiction

We flew our babies high, worry-free, with ample cord wrapped around the trees. We flew them in the open skies, their sequined booties glinting the Sun, stars flashing at midday.

flyBaby

Chad Gusler
Fiction

The Maine Review’s author interview series

Radicle: The Roots of Writers

Discover the breakthrough moments of award-winning writer Kerri Arsenault, author of MILL TOWN: RECKONING WITH WHAT REMAINS, released September 2020 and now available in paperback. With Editor Rosanna Gargiulo, Arsenault discusses the ten-year writing project that became her first book, and the love (and hate) that spurred her on.

Following the interview, read Arsenault’s first published essay, which evolved into a chapter in her book.

Read More

Photograph by Erik Madigan Heck

Community Supported Literature

Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to making contemporary literature accessible to readers and writers of all incomes. Help support our mission and donate to our Community Supported Literature program.

We Want Your Writing.

Send us work that you’re excited about, that took courage to begin and tenacity to complete. Send us your proudest personal essay, your classic short story, your reboot of the villanelle, or your wildest experimental text. Send us your flash fiction or nonfiction. Send your epistle, erasure, hybrid, prose poem, or micro memoir.

Join us on Facebook and Twitter.

Embody

A year-long exploration of nonfiction prose about the grueling, exhilarating, essential business of finding peace (or not) with the bodies we inhabit, considering age, sexuality, race, ability, gender identity, size, athleticism, addiction, illness, and the experience of occupying unfamiliar, hostile, and wonderful spaces.

Read Now