In this month’s episode, podcast host Evan Senie interviews fiction editor Steven Schwartz and associate editor Esther Hayes. They discuss the components of compelling fiction, things that stand out to them when they read the submission queue, and the process by which a piece moves all the way to being accepted at Colorado Review. The […]
By Colorado Review Managing Editor Jess Turner 1. Winner of the 2018 Chapbook Prize, American Zero is forthcoming from Two Sylvias Press. What was it like for you to curate your poems into a bodied manuscript? How long did it take? What are the concerns at work in your chapbook? You never want to alienate […]
With Matthew Cooperman, Jess Turner, Margaret Browne, Jordan Osborne, Sarah Green & Susannah Lodge-Rigal Matthew Cooperman: What tendons us to language? What animal logic resides behind the alphabet? In our breathing respirations and guttural clearings, there’s a ghost language of pure sound. Pure sound, and the animal that makes it. Or pure sound and the […]
In this month’s episode, podcast editors Daniel Schonning and Evan Senie look ahead to two prize-winning pieces of writing forthcoming from the Center for Literary Publishing: Brandon Krieg’s Magnifier, winner of the 2019 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and Bryna Cofrin-Shaw’s Loss and Damage, winner of the 2019 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. Listen here!
In this month’s episode, podcast editors Daniel Schonning and Evan Senie take a deep dive into the Summer 2019 edition of Colorado Review. Join us as we discuss work by Tali Perch, Melanie Ritzenthaler, Cedar Brant, Maggie Smith, and Chelsea Dingman. Listen here.
Colorado Review is pleased to publish Jhilam Chattaraj’s interview of poet, writer, and translator Kiriti Sengupta, winner of the 2018 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize. In this conversation, Sengupta refers specifically to his most recent poetry collection, Rituals. For more on Rituals, check out Colorado Review’s book review by Devika Basu. 1. Rituals is your tenth […]
In this month’s episode, podcast editors Daniel Schonning and Evan Senie take a deep dive into past editions of Colorado Review. Features include prose by Melanie Rae Thon, poems by C.D. Wright, Jean Valentine, and Charles Wright–and more! Listen here: Episode 47.
In the May episode of the CR Podcast, editors Evan Senie and Daniel Schonning sit down with MFA candidate Ryan Lanham to talk about his involvement in workshops for veterans and confined populations. Lanham expands on the joys and trials of the process, while touching on the important work that art can do in the world. The […]
By Colorado Review Associate Editor Michelle LaCrosse We’re finally into spring and summer is right around the bend—it’ll be here before you know it! Travel can happen at any time, but I know many, even most, people choose summer to get away from their routines and see something new. Ahead of these vacations and staycations, […]
By Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Elena Brousard-Norcross As a reader at Colorado Review, I often encounter work that I pass on to the editors with the hope that I will see it again—in print. “Ripped,” by Ashley Wurzbacher, from the Spring 2019 issue, is definitely one of those stories. When I first read it, I […]
