More Pandemic Writing?

More Pandemic Writing? By Associate Editor Mike Moening   Last fall, I taught an intro creative writing class that spanned three genres in fifteen weeks—leaving not enough time for any genre. But as a primarily creative nonfiction writer, I was especially saddened by the short five weeks that I had to cram in CNF. In […]

January 2022 Podcast: In Conversation With Lauren Haldeman

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Stephanie G’Schwind interviews Lauren Haldeman about her work “Field #1,” from the graphic memoir Team Photograph. With this being Colorado Review’s first piece of graphic memoir, Stephanie and Lauren discuss the intricacies of the genre. Lauren Haldeman was also the recipient of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry with her collection Instead of […]

December 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Matthew Gavin Frank

This month’s episode features Matthew Gavin Frank, creative nonfiction writer, poet, and Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Michigan University. Host Lilia Shrayfer talks with Matthew about his latest book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa. Listen in to hear this brilliant writer talk in […]

An Interview With Megan Baxter

An Interview With Megan Baxter By Editorial Assistant Sunset Combs   Megan Baxter writes about familial and natural connections through contemplations on cultivation, the body, and home. She is the author of The Coolest Monsters: Essays (Texas Review Press, 2018), Farm Girl: A Memoir (Green Writers Press, 2021), and her forthcoming essay collection, Twenty Square Feet of Skin (Ohio State […]

Eating Popcorn in Bed

Eating Popcorn in Bed A Collaborative Reflection on a DIY Writer’s Retreat By associate editors JV Genova and Nicole Piasecki   We steered our cars separately through the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, on Wyoming Highway 130—also known as Snowy Range Road—toward the historic town of Saratoga to converge for a DIY writing retreat. We, three […]

October 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Danny Thiemann

  In this episode of the Colorado Review Podcast, host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Danny Thiemann to discuss his story “One Bad Night in San José, Costa Rica,” forthcoming in the Colorado Review‘s Fall/Winter 2021 issue. This story was awarded the 2021 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction by final judge T. Geronimo Johnson. Thiemann […]

Latinx Reading Series: Leonora Simonovis | two poems from Study of the Raft

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited three recent Latinx contributors to read the recent or forthcoming work published at the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan poet living in San Diego, California. Her poetry collection, Study of the Raft, is available from the Center for […]

Latinx Reading Series: Gabriella Balza | “The Student I Am Tutoring in Spanish Asks the Difference Between Pez y Pescado”

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited three recent Latinx contributors to read the recent or forthcoming work published at the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. Gabriella Balza is originally from Venezuela and South Florida but is located in the Midwest after recently completing her MFA at the University of […]