Yalobusha Review A Journal of New Writing

Our newest issue, YR: 17, is finished and available for purchase! If you like octopus wrestling, Swedish cinema, the stuff of nightmares, or just exciting new fiction and poetry, you’re in for a treat. Featuring:

Fiction by: Stephanie Dickinson, J.S. Khan, Kristine Ong Muslim, Kevin O’Cuinn, Meg Pokrass, Christine Sneed, and Barry Hannah Prize-Winner Marylee MacDonald.

Poetry by: Tory Adkisson, Melissa Barrett, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Jesse Damiani, Michael Mlekoday, James Norcliffe, Geoffrey Nutter, Shelley Puhak, Mike White, and Yellowwood Prize-Winner Billie R. Tadros.

Plus non-fiction by Diane Lefer and Jacob Oet and interviews with Michael Chabon, Lynn Emanuel, and Mary Miller.

If you would like to order a copy of the magazine, email us at yreditors@gmail.com and we will hook you up.

Congratulations to Marylee MacDonald and Billie R. Tadros, winners of the 2012 Yalobusha Review contests! Marylee’s story, “The Pancho Villa Coin,” was selected by William Gay for the Barry Hannah Fiction Prize, while Sandra Beasley chose Billie’s poem, “Reactor,” for the Yellowwood Poetry Prize. Their pieces will appear in YR: 17, which will arrive this spring. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who submitted!

Yalobusha Review is pleased to announced that this summer, we will be officially making the jump online by releasing our first web-issue. YR: 17.2 will ring in a new era of Yalobusha Review and we’re excited to be able to share that with you, the reader.

Look for submissions to open shortly, and check back in the summer to see what we have in store!