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Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.

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Our forthcoming Fall/Winter issue is now at the printer and sits at a whopping 392 pages, half of which is dedicated to emerging writers and translators. Featuring new work by Devon Walker-Figueroa, Bruce Snider, Cianga, & more.

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Our forthcoming Fall/Winter issue is now at the printer and sits at a whopping 392 pages, half of which is dedicated to emerging writers and translators. Featuring new work by Devon Walker-Figueroa, Bruce Snider, Cianga, & more.

Subscribe now: newenglandreviewsubscriptions.submittable.com/submit
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Today is the anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh - the shooter was targeting my congregation.
Here is my poem about the shooting and aftermath, published in @newenglandreview.bsky.social - I repost it every year. ❤️‍🩹 nereview.com/article/tree...
Tree of Life – New England Review
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October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This story by @loriostlund.bsky.social that appeared 1st in @newenglandreview.bsky.social and now in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2024 — holy jumping Jehoshophat 🙌🏻
October 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader Carolyn Orosz talks with NER 46.2 poet Bridget Lowe about the reflexive nature of meaning-making, brokering the relationship between form and content, and radical wonder.

Read their conversation here: nereview.com/bridget-lowe/
October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"Contradicting the flow of clock-time while also staying connected to some relative sense of realism is not easy . . ."

Introducing the second installment of our Staging Style series, "Shared Hallucinations & Chance Operations" by Lara Mimosa Montes.

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October 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The thirteenth installment of our Literature & Democracy series
features selections from Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet, & an interview with Mulzet, translator of the 2025 Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai.

nereview.com/hungarian-wo...
October 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader Carina Imbornone talks with NER 46.2 author Christopher Kempf about memory and the personal essay, corporate-backed country music, and his manuscript-in-progress.

Read their conversation here: nereview.com/christopher-...
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We are fastly approaching our submission caps in fiction and poetry. With this in mind, we will close submissions in these genres tomorrow, October 8 at midnight EST. Submissions in nonfiction and dramatic writing will remain open through November 1.

nereview.com/ner-submissi...
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Our September ‘25 roundup includes a
sexy historical novel set in 1600s Amsterdam, a sophomore poetry collection that's currently longlisted for the National Book Award, an "edifying" literary horror novel, & much more.

Browse & shop the list here: nereview.com/september-25...
October 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🎉 Congratulations to NER author Roy Kesey (@roykesey.bsky.social)! 🎉
Congratulations to Roy Kesey (@roykesey.bsky.social)
whose collection LORE was selected by Ed Park as the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction winner and is scheduled for publication in May 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Join us on Saturday, October 4, at 1 PM EST for a virtual reading in honor of the special folio "The Sharpened Will of Us All," guest edited by Alexandra Lytton Regalado, from New England Review issue 46.2.

Register for your private Zoom link here: middlebury.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Order your copy of “The Sharpened Will of Us All,” a folio of Salvadoran poetry in translation published in @newenglandreview.bsky.social!

Edited by Alexandra Lytton Regalado, it features the work of Lilliam Armijo, Lauri García Dueñas, and more. #TranslationMonth nereview.com/article/the-...
Contemporary Salvadoran Writing in Translation – New England Review
“estallaré en mil y más auroras y seguiré amaneciendo en la conciencia afilada de todos.”
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September 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In a new Behind the Byline interview, NER staff reader Dana Lynch talks with writer Lindsay Ahl about tracking place like a ghost, objective versus subjective reality, and rendering the 1970s in her story "Green Wall, Red China" from issue 46.2.

Read their exchange here: nereview.com/lindsay-ahl/
September 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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We love to see it: contributor @litmagreject.bsky.social is now a fiction editor with @newenglandreview.bsky.social! 👏
September 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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“My mother used to like reciting Sor Juana from memory. I’d listen to her from my room.”

—“The Interior Border” by Astrid López Méndez, translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones in @newenglandreview.bsky.social #NationalTranslationMonth nereview.com/article/the-...
The Interior Border – New England Review
translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones
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September 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New England Review is delighted to announce that @litmagreject.bsky.social has joined our staff as a fiction editor!

Maggie Su is a seasoned editor and the author of the novel BLOB: A LOVE STORY (Harper, 2025).

Learn more about Maggie & her new appointment here: nereview.com/maggie-su-jo...
September 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Writers, mark your calendars! New England Review reopens for submissions in all genres on September 1. We pay our contributors $20 per page, $50 minimum.

Learn more about our submissions guidelines here: nereview.com/ner-submissi...

We look forward to reading your work!
August 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In our latest Behind the Byline interview, staff reader C. Rees talks with poet Richard Siken about associative landings, the fractured intimacy of address, & his forthcoming collection I DO KNOW SOME THINGS, which features 3 poems published in NER 46.2.

nereview.com/richard-siken/
August 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Read Tania Pleitez Vela’s essay “Six incantations against loss,” translated from the Spanish by Jessica Rainey, in @newenglandreview.bsky.social this #WomenInTranslationMonth!

“Three small migrants. My brother, my sister, and me. Our first separation from home.”
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Six incantations against loss – New England Review
translated from the Spanish by Jessica Rainey
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August 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Last chance for 35% off all subscriptions!

Our "35 for 35" deal ends tonight at midnight EST:
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August 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Save big with our "35 for 35" deal!

From now through August 21 we're offering 35% off all print and e-book subscriptions, with prices starting at just $21.45!

Subscribe now at 35% off: newenglandreviewsubscriptions.submittable.com/submit/33396...
August 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Why do I confer so much weight on the past and insist on remembering, sometimes at the expense of the present, of possibility?"

In a new Writer's Notebook essay, Inkyoo Lee discusses the process of writing his two poems from NER 46.2.

nereview.com/inkyoo-lee/
August 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Let’s play, play a game of word chain.
What’s that thing, flapflailing behind the mountain?

—“A Game of Word Chain” by Hwang Geum-Nyeo, translated from the Jejueo by Helen Hwayeon, is published in @newenglandreview.bsky.social & on our #WomenInTranslationMonth list:
nereview.com/article/%EB%...
August 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social talks about counter-narratives, the ethics of documentary authority, and her book "Becoming Ghost." nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...
Cathy Linh Che – New England Review
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July 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
NER Interns: Where Are They Now?

Editorial intern Ali Shuaib '25 talks with writer, editor, and former NER intern Chris Feeney '19.5 about asking for what you want, the future of AI language models, and his Middlebury memories.

Read their exchange here: nereview.com/chris-feeney/
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM