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We’re headed to #AWP26! Join GR staff and contributors for a special AWP offsite reading in Baltimore. Blair Publisher, Bull City Press, The Greensboro Review, and Thirdhand Books are teaming up for a tremendous evening of poetry and fiction. Come see us on Thursday, March 5, 7:00 – 9:00 PM at Checkerspot Brewing Company […]
Read More »Looking to meet some new short fiction? By Hana Ishige, Editorial Intern Name: “Goblin” by Robert Stone Birthplace: Greensboro Review Issue 114 Height: Short Story About me: Has an unbridled sense of feeling, flush with full-sensory details that immerse you further and further into the relationship between the father and the son. Inhabits a […]
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Happy Pub Day to former Greensboro Review fiction editor Maggie Cooper! We’re excited to celebrate Cooper’s new chapbook, The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies, out today from Bull City Press. “Intricate, unsettling parables of womanhood. These stories function like tiny jewel-bright dioramas, creating whole worlds and lives in miniature—down to the hum of the electricity, […]
Read More »By Justin Nash, Managing Editor I certainly don’t speak for all editors when I say this, but it’s rare that a long poem catches my interest. Seeing a submitted poem that’s three, four, five pages long among a sea of others the usual half to three-quarters of a page—I feel often like a writer is […]
Read More »By Caroline White, Poetry Editor The following featured poems appear in our new Spring 2024 Issue 115. Subscribe today to read more! “Prime Rib Resting” by Jacob Schepers caught our attention by being a small poem with a big scope and a concise, tangible series of images. The line breaks themselves create meaning in this […]
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Happy Pub Day to Greensboro Review contributor Stephen Hundley! We’re so excited that Hundley’s debut novel, Bomb Island, is out today from Hub City Press. From the publisher: “Part coming-of-age summer romance, part thriller, Bomb Island is a funny and fast-paced Southern novel exploring subculture communities, survival, and found family set on an island near an unexploded […]
Read More »By Sierra Stonebraker, Fiction Editor Sharp and exciting language is the most immediate way I engage with a story, and my favorite aspect of “You Can Never Come Back to Now” (issue 115) is the prose, which functions as a main engine of the narrative. The first few sentences conjure images of a world-ending […]
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By Katie Worden, Editorial Assistant Against the backdrop of Chicago, Leah Yacknin-Dawson unfolds a story of grief, pain, and love—probing the limits of each. “Interiors,” indeed, relishes the inner. It is defined by the introspective eye of its narrator, Anna, who renders her emotional landscape with as much detail and acuity as she does the […]
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By Calista Malone, Poetry Editor One of the things that connects me to poetry, or rather gets me writing, is music. Maybe it’s the melody that helps stir a rhythm in me that must be written down in stanzas. Maybe it’s one great lyric that sets me off down a road to create something completely […]
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By Nellie Hildebrandt, Fiction Editor Aries: “Men With Guns” by Ania Mroczek (Issue 114)—Hanging with hunters and aspiring climate change activists is something the bold, impulsive Aries would admire. They are bound to find the inherent danger of a glove box gun and repeated “NO TRESPASSING” signs appealing. Taurus: “The Phenomenal Funeral Formula” […]
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