Tahoma Literary Review
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We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
All online since 2024!
Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com
All online since 2024!
Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com
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Our new issue is here and it's a stunner! Cover art by Vivienne Strauss.
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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...
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.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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...
"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...
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
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January 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM
"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...
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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Photo by Sivani Bandaru on Unsplash
Photo by Sivani Bandaru on Unsplash
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January 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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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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."
"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."
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
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December 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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."
"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...
“A Little Slice of the Moon” by Summer Hammond – New Letters
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December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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...
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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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
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December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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
#shortstory
Spotlight this week on Betty J. Cotter, writing what she initially thought of as the “field trip story,” which then evolved into a greater examination of aging, memory, and our threatened environment.
The Memory Root - Tahoma Literary Review
For a while, Doris remembered when it started. A January day. Mild: 65 degrees, gentle breeze blowing in from the Gulf. She had brought her biology
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December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
#shortstory
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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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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December 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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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Spotlight on Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop. "Advent" and "She"
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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
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December 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Spotlight on Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop. "Advent" and "She"
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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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December 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We're Krista Lee Hanson fans, enjoying her original flashes as well as her long-form work (see comment below)
www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...
www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...
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 ...
"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 ...
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
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December 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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 ...
"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 ...
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.
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.
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 &
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November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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.
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.
"'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
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
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November 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"'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
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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.
Two more days to send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, or poetry in translation.
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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...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Two more days to send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, or poetry in translation.
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A coming-of-age story meets A Walk in the Woods in this flash fiction piece by Kyra Kondis. From Issue 29:
What to Do in a Bear Attack - Tahoma Literary Review
Wyatt Stephen has been reading a book about bear attacks in the United States. I learn about this in great detail in Stacy Miller’s backyard. Stacy’s
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October 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A coming-of-age story meets A Walk in the Woods in this flash fiction piece by Kyra Kondis. From Issue 29:
One more week 🎃 to send work for our current reading period, open through October 31.
Remember that we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry in translation, in addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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Remember that we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry in translation, in addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit
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...
tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One more week 🎃 to send work for our current reading period, open through October 31.
Remember that we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry in translation, in addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit
Remember that we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry in translation, in addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit
👀 Jackie K. White and Simone Muench's poem "teeth-grinder, lace-cutter," part of a collaborative project, "The Alchemy of Ghosts,” wherein they "engage with the voices of the women associated with both the artistic and literary Surrealist movement, who have often been historically marginalized"
teeth-grinder, lace-cutter - Tahoma Literary Review
a Mansour and Tanning assemblage From cheap coffins, the dead blaze like stained glass in the gloom. Their airbrushed eyes of storms and logics, say Don’t
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October 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
👀 Jackie K. White and Simone Muench's poem "teeth-grinder, lace-cutter," part of a collaborative project, "The Alchemy of Ghosts,” wherein they "engage with the voices of the women associated with both the artistic and literary Surrealist movement, who have often been historically marginalized"
Today’s Poem Per Diem is “Jackson Pollack” by Jenny Molberg from our most recent issue.
Sunday, October 12
JACKSON POLLOCK I do not believe in forgiveness.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today’s Poem Per Diem is “Jackson Pollack” by Jenny Molberg from our most recent issue.
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Today's listing of the day is: Tahoma Literary Review (TLR) @tahomareview.bsky.social (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Tahoma Literary Review (TLR) @tahomareview.bsky.social (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
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October 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Spotlight this week on Betty J. Cotter, writing what she initially thought of as the “field trip story,” which then evolved into a greater examination of aging, memory, and our threatened environment.
The Memory Root - Tahoma Literary Review
For a while, Doris remembered when it started. A January day. Mild: 65 degrees, gentle breeze blowing in from the Gulf. She had brought her biology
tahomaliteraryreview.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Spotlight this week on Betty J. Cotter, writing what she initially thought of as the “field trip story,” which then evolved into a greater examination of aging, memory, and our threatened environment.
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Embark contributor Jillian Schedneck has had a story called “#lasteuropeansummer” published in the @tahomareview.bsky.social! Check it out here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/l...
#lasteuropeansummer - Tahoma Literary Review
The day the EU announced its impending border closure, we let the news and its implications settle among us, casting a long, dark shadow over our imagined
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October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Embark contributor Jillian Schedneck has had a story called “#lasteuropeansummer” published in the @tahomareview.bsky.social! Check it out here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/l...
Spotlight this week on poet Ellen Kombiyil, whose gorgeous erasures can be seen on our website.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Spotlight this week on poet Ellen Kombiyil, whose gorgeous erasures can be seen on our website.
tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...
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