The Working Writer: How Interning at the Center for Literary Publishing Has Affected My Craft

By Abigail Kerstetter, Colorado Review Associate Editor As a poet, one of the things I find myself agonizing over most in my own work is the physical arrangement of the words on the page—the need to insert silence, or to hurry the reader along; to make connections, or to instruct the reader how the poem […]

A Tale of Two Queues

By John McDonough, Colorado Review Associate Editor The queue. The slush pile. The drawer. I’m sure there are other names out there (many unpublishable), all of which speak to dreaded way journal editors and editorial assistants think about the submissions that both give them life and (seem to) threaten to take it away. So many […]

Small Press Books for the Obscure and Difficult People on Your Holiday Shopping List

By Sarah Hansen, Colorado Review editorial assistant Holiday gift-giving is tricky even for people you know well, but what about the extremely difficult/wildcard people on your list? Sometimes you draw a weird name in Secret Santa or realize at the last minute that you don’t have a gift for someone who will be at dinner. […]

Five Questions for Mike Meginnis: An interview by Malissa Stark

Reviewer Malissa Stark recently spoke with author Mike Meginnis about his powerful new novel, Fat Boy and Little Man. In this unusual book, Meginnis brings to life the bombs that fell on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, reimagining them as human characters. In the interview, Meginnis explains his creative process and how this book came into existence. […]

Kent Haruf, 1943-2014

With great sadness, we learned of Kent Haruf’s passing on Sunday, November 30. Author of the novels The Tie that Binds, Where You Once Belonged, Plainsong, Eventide, Benediction, and Our Souls at Night, he has long been a prominent voice in Colorado literature, specifically of Colorado’s northeastern plains, which don’t get much attention but whose […]