Issue 16 reading period opens on December 2nd, 2022 & ends on February 1, 2023. Details here.
Our Elven Fiction category is closed but may be re-opened. Stay tuned!
Eastern Iowa Review's 2019 Best Lyric Prose Plus print anthology is available for purchase. Choice selections from Issues 1-6 & 8. You can find it on Amazon.
One reader said this: "I love the format, the layout, and just the feel of it. It's a beautiful book. But more than that, I've loved the content! It's really full of great writing. I find the landscapes, the people, and the words of the different pieces to be so powerful. I can't think of another anthology that I liked this much. I consistently enjoyed all of the pieces, which, considering how varied they are, is really something."
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ISSUE 16
("COME, WANDER")
January/February selections
Meredith MacLeod Davidson - "Mother's Day" (free verse poem)
Terri Glass - untitled haiku (poem)
Mary Crockett Hill - "Dear Left Hand" (free verse poem)
Tom C. Hunley - "Love Me Gentlefirm the Way Firemen Love a Treed Cat" (love poem)
Ellene Glenn Moore - "The Dawson's Creek Essay" (lyric essay / memoir)
Zach Murphy - "I Traveled This Far Because I Love You" (fiction)
Jamie Tews - "Hunter's Moon" (blank verse poem)
Dorothy Wall - "Haiku" (prose poem)
December/January selections
Alice Duggan - "I Poured Coffee for Jesus This Morning" (poem)
R.F. Gonzalez - "Quarantine Clock" (contemporary fiction)
John Grey - "She Keeps Coming Back for More" & "Say Goodbye to the Tree" (free verse poem)
Michael Lauchlan - "Unfinished Ars" (free verse poem)
James B. Nicola - "A stranger looked at me" (villanelle, poem)
Thomas Piekarski - "Asleep Inside a Crystal Ball" (free verse poem)
Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison - "Red Owl" (long creative nonfiction)
Kathleen Serley - "Hey Neighbor" (a contrapuntal poem)
Robin Turner - "At the Lindale, Texas Post Office I Ask for a Book of Stamps" (free verse poem)
Sascha Udagawa - "The Almond Orchard" (fiction, novel excerpt)
From readers:
--"...The journal is a lovely read. Wonderful writing." (from a contributor, July 2022, Issue 15)
--"I was truly inspired by the writing I saw in the Eastern Iowa Review...." (February 2021)
--"Wow! I love ... your lyrical, linguistically unique aesthetic. I loved 'White Out' by Adam Berlin and ‘Bethlehem, Baby, Bethlehem’, by Daniel Edward Moore...." (February 2021, Issue 13)
--"It's an honor to have my work appear alongside the other pieces too. They're rich, of very high calibre." (from a contributor, February 2021, Issue 13)
--"... in these ongoing uncertain times, I find your thoughtful review a welcoming destination."(October 2020)
--"I love EIR's attention to lyric language. (If only there were more editors like you in the publishing world.)" (October 2020)
--"Eastern Iowa Review is such a fantastic magazine. It offers whimsy, music, and reassurance that somehow the luminous will prevail. As such, it brings solace. Thank you for bringing it to life, Chila." (July 2020)
--"...The journal is a lovely read. Wonderful writing." (from a contributor, July 2022, Issue 15)
--"I was truly inspired by the writing I saw in the Eastern Iowa Review...." (February 2021)
--"Wow! I love ... your lyrical, linguistically unique aesthetic. I loved 'White Out' by Adam Berlin and ‘Bethlehem, Baby, Bethlehem’, by Daniel Edward Moore...." (February 2021, Issue 13)
--"It's an honor to have my work appear alongside the other pieces too. They're rich, of very high calibre." (from a contributor, February 2021, Issue 13)
--"... in these ongoing uncertain times, I find your thoughtful review a welcoming destination."(October 2020)
--"I love EIR's attention to lyric language. (If only there were more editors like you in the publishing world.)" (October 2020)
--"Eastern Iowa Review is such a fantastic magazine. It offers whimsy, music, and reassurance that somehow the luminous will prevail. As such, it brings solace. Thank you for bringing it to life, Chila." (July 2020)
