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Spring comes slowly, teasing longer and warmer days. This issue comes too, taking us from soccer fields to the Bering Strait, from Amsterdam to the Midwest. It meanders neighborhoods and black holes, always reminding us to hold our loved ones (and ourselves) that much closer. This issue includes selections from our fall fiction call, “The Embodied Life” as well as poems and essays by new and familiar favorites. We are so excited to share each essay, poem and story with you.
Writers featured include Diane K. Martin, Sheila Black, Cathy Cochrane, Celia Lawren, Freesia McKee, Claire Cella, a translation by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess, Amanda K Horn, Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, Garnet Juniper Bennet and so, so many more.
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Writers featured include Diane K. Martin, Sheila Black, Cathy Cochrane, Celia Lawren, Freesia McKee, Claire Cella, a translation by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess, Amanda K Horn, Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, Garnet Juniper Bennet and so, so many more.
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Back issues are still available! For $6, you can spend a little more time with some of your favorite pieces from Crab Creek past. For future contributors, it’s a great way to know what we publish. For future subscribers, it’s a great way to get a sample of the notable, new, and award-winning writers we have had the honor to publish over the years.
This issue is available on our website and through Submittable.
This issue is available on our website and through Submittable.
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Back Issues
2021 V1
“To whatever mongrel dog in hunger is hounding down the day—we ought to bend gently, love,—and offer up the harvest” —Nathan Manley, “Happening" Featuring poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction by Flower Conroy, AE Hines, SM Stubbs, Elizabeth Sylvia, Jill McCabe Johnson, Matthew Tuckner, Nathan Manley, Marne Jensen, and many more. 
2020 v2
“When the air clears, when the particles have spun away, how will we proceed into the world?” —Nicole Graev Lipson. Featuring poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction by Anastacia–Reneé, Kaitlyn Airy, Tori Grant Welhouse, Rebecca Givens Rolland, Darius Simpson, Eugenia Leigh, and many more. Also featuring the 2020 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize Winner, Frederick Speers, selected by judge Keetje Kuipers. 
2020 v1
2018 v2
"customs says my family is shipwrecked / by sadness i feel american as the moon stolen from the sky’s lap" - Yujane Chen, tetraphobia Featuring the 2018 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize winner, an interview with Maggie Smith (Good Bones, Tupelo Press), and new work by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Olatunde Osinaike, Yujane Chen, Julia Rox, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Todd Dillard, Maggie Smith, and others. |
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2018 v1
"Who doesn't want to say what can't be said? / This body is mine. This body, uncocked. " -- from "It's Possible Sex is Elegy" by Chelsea Dingman. Featuring an interview with Donna Miscolta (Hola, Goodbye), work by Allison Adair, Derek Annis, Andrew Cox, Dhelsea Dingman, Jessica Goodfellow, Jordan Hartt, Sean Kelbley, Tina Kelley, Erin Malone, Gail Martin, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, and more! |
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2017 v2
"Look at the general, he's nothing / but bones in a moth-eaten uniform, / the angel, an adornment on his tombstone. // His story is snapped up by the tongue / of a frog." -- from "The Heroic Penetrates the Quotidian" by Diane Seuss. Featuring the 2017 contest winner Hannah Craig, plus work by Diane Seuss, Sonia Greenfield, Henry Israeli, Keetje Kuipers, Leyna Krow, and more! Interview with Rheea Mukherjee. |
2017 v1
"The artists were stolen / here, the painters, poets, the musicians / scribbling librettos in the dark."
from "The Pear Trees at Terezin" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
The spring 2017 issue includes work by Lola Haskins, Tom C. Hunley, Eve Kenneally, Sanam Mahloudji, Brooke Matson, Shankar Narayan, Lisa Richter, Michael Schmeltzer, Nate Stein, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Lynne Thompson, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and many more.
"The artists were stolen / here, the painters, poets, the musicians / scribbling librettos in the dark."
from "The Pear Trees at Terezin" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
The spring 2017 issue includes work by Lola Haskins, Tom C. Hunley, Eve Kenneally, Sanam Mahloudji, Brooke Matson, Shankar Narayan, Lisa Richter, Michael Schmeltzer, Nate Stein, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Lynne Thompson, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and many more.
2016 v2
The fall issue includes Connie Post's winning entry in the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Also featured in this issue are the three Poetry Prize finalists' entries and our favorites from this issue's reading period of submissions.
The fall issue includes Connie Post's winning entry in the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Also featured in this issue are the three Poetry Prize finalists' entries and our favorites from this issue's reading period of submissions.
2016 v1
2016 v1 includes works by Stacey Balkun, Robert Feins, Matthew B. Harrison, Sharma Shields, and in total, 41 writers whose works shine throughout the pages of this issue.
2016 v1 includes works by Stacey Balkun, Robert Feins, Matthew B. Harrison, Sharma Shields, and in total, 41 writers whose works shine throughout the pages of this issue.
2015 v2
"Reader, you likely are apprehensive about what will happen next." From "At this juncture I will pick up some debris," by Toni Hanner. Other featured works are by Erika Brumett, Scott Kinder-Pyle, Tammy Robacker, Elizabeth Vignali, and many more fine writers.
"Reader, you likely are apprehensive about what will happen next." From "At this juncture I will pick up some debris," by Toni Hanner. Other featured works are by Erika Brumett, Scott Kinder-Pyle, Tammy Robacker, Elizabeth Vignali, and many more fine writers.
2015 v1
2015 v1 includes poems by Sylvia Pollack, Michael Lauchlan, Andrew Cox, Michael Walsh, Kathleen Boyle, and many other fine poets. Works of fiction by Erica Verillo, Timothy Schirmer and Greg November are also featured.
2015 v1 includes poems by Sylvia Pollack, Michael Lauchlan, Andrew Cox, Michael Walsh, Kathleen Boyle, and many other fine poets. Works of fiction by Erica Verillo, Timothy Schirmer and Greg November are also featured.
2014 v2
2014 v2, the "owl issue", features the 2014 Crab Creek Review Prize winner and finalists, with poems by Meg Scott Copses, Greg Jensen, Tammy Robacker, Linwood Rumney, Derek Sheffield, Joannie Stangeland, Molly Tenenbaum and more. It also includes an interview with National Poetry Series awardee Sarah Vap.
2014 v2, the "owl issue", features the 2014 Crab Creek Review Prize winner and finalists, with poems by Meg Scott Copses, Greg Jensen, Tammy Robacker, Linwood Rumney, Derek Sheffield, Joannie Stangeland, Molly Tenenbaum and more. It also includes an interview with National Poetry Series awardee Sarah Vap.
2014 v1
Poems by Francesca Bell, Wyn Cooper, Tom C. Hunley, Kasey Jued, Tina Kelley, Diane Seuss, Idrissa Simmonds, Cody Walker, and many others. Fiction by Helen Ellis & Corie Rosen, and nonfiction by Jessica Bryant Klagmann & Suzanne Farrell Smith. Wyn Cooper on poetry, music, and lyric collaboration with Madison Smartt Bell.
“... and I realize that each of us is just a little breath, / that this yellow school bus is a canary / sent deep into the mines.” --from “Otto Mann, Intrepid Bus Driver” by Tom C. Hunley
Poems by Francesca Bell, Wyn Cooper, Tom C. Hunley, Kasey Jued, Tina Kelley, Diane Seuss, Idrissa Simmonds, Cody Walker, and many others. Fiction by Helen Ellis & Corie Rosen, and nonfiction by Jessica Bryant Klagmann & Suzanne Farrell Smith. Wyn Cooper on poetry, music, and lyric collaboration with Madison Smartt Bell.
“... and I realize that each of us is just a little breath, / that this yellow school bus is a canary / sent deep into the mines.” --from “Otto Mann, Intrepid Bus Driver” by Tom C. Hunley
2013 v2
30th Anniversary issue featuring Pacific Northwest poets, including Elizabeth Austen, James Bertolino, Oliver de la Paz, Kate Lebo, Frances McCue, Nancy Pagh, Peter Pereira, Susan Rich, Megan Snyder-Camp, Molly Tennenbaum, and many others.
30th Anniversary issue featuring Pacific Northwest poets, including Elizabeth Austen, James Bertolino, Oliver de la Paz, Kate Lebo, Frances McCue, Nancy Pagh, Peter Pereira, Susan Rich, Megan Snyder-Camp, Molly Tennenbaum, and many others.
2013 v1
Poems by Judith Barrington, Matthew Guenette, Greg Nicholl, Anna Scotti, Judith Skillman, & others. Fiction by Landon Houle & Brandi Wells, and nonfiction by Sayantani Dasgupta. Interviews with Stephen Dunn and Natasha Sajé.
I believe the sun is out there on the other side / of this darkness. I believe it still burns. —from “Still” by Derek Annis
Poems by Judith Barrington, Matthew Guenette, Greg Nicholl, Anna Scotti, Judith Skillman, & others. Fiction by Landon Houle & Brandi Wells, and nonfiction by Sayantani Dasgupta. Interviews with Stephen Dunn and Natasha Sajé.
I believe the sun is out there on the other side / of this darkness. I believe it still burns. —from “Still” by Derek Annis
2012 v2
Poems by Jenna Le, Kim-An Lieberman, Al Maginnes, Rachel Mennies, David Ray, Doug Sutton-Ramspeck, & others. Fiction by Rita Hypnarowski & Jenny Smick, and nonfiction by Rochelle Spencer. Kathleen Flenniken on introducing children to poetry, the work of a poet laureate, and facing the blank page.
Ghosts, if you’re listening, get the hell out. / Go to the light. —from “Semi-Automatic Confessional” by Bruce Cain
Poems by Jenna Le, Kim-An Lieberman, Al Maginnes, Rachel Mennies, David Ray, Doug Sutton-Ramspeck, & others. Fiction by Rita Hypnarowski & Jenny Smick, and nonfiction by Rochelle Spencer. Kathleen Flenniken on introducing children to poetry, the work of a poet laureate, and facing the blank page.
Ghosts, if you’re listening, get the hell out. / Go to the light. —from “Semi-Automatic Confessional” by Bruce Cain
2012 v1
SOLD OUT
Poems by Rebecca Foust, Tina Kelley, Dana Levin, Kevin Miller, Megan Snyder-Camp, John Willson, Maya Zeller, & others. Fiction by Roger Sheffer & Dan Moreau, and nonfiction by Justin Wadland. Interview with Dana Levin.
Maybe it’s better there. Maybe the moon / isn’t sticking its nose into every other / sentence, reminding you what’s gone. —from “Divorce on Mars” by Francine Witte
SOLD OUT
Poems by Rebecca Foust, Tina Kelley, Dana Levin, Kevin Miller, Megan Snyder-Camp, John Willson, Maya Zeller, & others. Fiction by Roger Sheffer & Dan Moreau, and nonfiction by Justin Wadland. Interview with Dana Levin.
Maybe it’s better there. Maybe the moon / isn’t sticking its nose into every other / sentence, reminding you what’s gone. —from “Divorce on Mars” by Francine Witte
2011 v2
Poems by Nin Andrews, Karina Borowicz, Susan J. Erickson, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mark Wagenaar
Fiction by Lauren Fink & Mary Elizabeth Pope. Interview with Nin Andrews on humor and mystery, and emailing the muse.
Did you see the full moon last week, orange-blooded / & beautiful? Did you wonder what hour it begins to lose / slivers of itself to shadow? --from "A Letter Home" by Mark Wagenaar
Poems by Nin Andrews, Karina Borowicz, Susan J. Erickson, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mark Wagenaar
Fiction by Lauren Fink & Mary Elizabeth Pope. Interview with Nin Andrews on humor and mystery, and emailing the muse.
Did you see the full moon last week, orange-blooded / & beautiful? Did you wonder what hour it begins to lose / slivers of itself to shadow? --from "A Letter Home" by Mark Wagenaar
2011 v1
Featuring poems by Cameron Aveson, Dorianne Laux, Tina Schumann, Jeanne Wagner, & others. With fiction by Hal Ackerman, Mary Julia Klimenko & Mabel Yu. Mark Doty on inspiration, grief, writing, dogs, and being an "American" poet.
Tell me where is night now / and those dead stars that nursed us? —from “Email to Emily” by Mark DeCarteret
Featuring poems by Cameron Aveson, Dorianne Laux, Tina Schumann, Jeanne Wagner, & others. With fiction by Hal Ackerman, Mary Julia Klimenko & Mabel Yu. Mark Doty on inspiration, grief, writing, dogs, and being an "American" poet.
Tell me where is night now / and those dead stars that nursed us? —from “Email to Emily” by Mark DeCarteret
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