Mark your calendars! Our #virtualreading to celebrate our Halley Prize winner Caroline Harper New is happening Wednesday May 6th at 7pm EST. Register for the event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-virtual-...
Less than two weeks to send us work before we close for the summer! massreview.org/new-submissi...
#WesternMass friends! Join UMass' Comp Lit Program and @interlinkbooks.bsky.social tomorrow for their "Lebanon in Words & Music" reading and concert. The event takes place tomorrow April 15th at 7:00 pm in the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Hall, UMass.
Congrats to MR contributors Demetrius "Meech" Buckley, Mahogany L. Browne, Benjamin Frandsen, Sheree L. Greer, and Bernardo Wade, and to the other amazing writers selected as 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows from @haymarketbooks.org & @mellon.org: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/545-me...
"Ramadan is no longer defined by the call to prayer or the gathering around iftar tables, but by displacement, scarcity, and uncertainty. Parents struggle to secure basic meals."
Khaled Al-Qershali's latest article, RAMADAN IN GAZA:
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Read our full call for submissions for our forthcoming issue on Documentation here: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...
Congratulations to Caroline Harper New, winner of the 2026 Anne Halley Prize for her poem MY LOVE FOR GEOGRAPHY IS AN ACT OF MOURNING!
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"To understand Gaza’s future, one must study both the past and the present. The equation today is unmistakable: Gaza is not being allowed to recover—it is being managed to remain on the edge of collapse."
Jumana Maghari on Palestine's future:
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"Far from to forgive all, in this book, to understand all is precisely to entertain the loving and revolutionary imperative of non-forgiveness."
Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) looks at Jordy Rosenberg's latest, NIGHT NIGHT FAWN, for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2026/03/24/n...
"One can imagine a lonely poet facing the beautiful sights of a ‘golden island’ or willow-reeds in a lush field, at once feeling free through nature, but also trapped terrestrially due to his mortal conscience."
Bijaan Noormohamed on translation for our #10questions: massreview.org/2026/03/23/1...
"From this present, THE OFFICIAL HISTORY continues to offer a meditation on the ways in which authoritarianism settles into daily life before it’s named and confronted."
Manuela Borzone on watching LA HISTORIA OFICIAL now, 40 years after its release: substack.com/@themassachu...
"Write about the thing you’re ashamed of; the thing you’re afraid to say aloud. That’s where you’ll find your liberation."
JODI M. SAVAGE in our latest interview:
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Our spring issues is finally here! Featuring work from Stella Wong and Tyler Patton, Jess Row and Hassan Herzallah, plus translations of prose and poetry, with art from Jennifer Strings, you'll surely find the literary warmth in these late winter days: massreview.org/issue/volume...
"In this moment of growing global authoritarianism, building international networks of solidarity is key."
Dany Díaz Mejía's LESSONS FROM HONDURAS: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...
"I get so tired of living up to some imagined expectation of what makes sense for me to write. I just want to write. I’m getting there."
Eric Boyd in our newest interview:
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"The Iran war is enabled by the military, financial, and diplomatic support of Western governments for the apartheid state of Israel and its right-wing extremist government."
MICHEL MOUSHABECK for our Public Affairs:
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Check out our Executive Editor Britt Rusert on WHMP's Talk The Talk, talking about our current issue featuring writers and families on incarceration: soundcloud.com/whmp/mass-re...
"El Guabli insists that Saharanism is an ideological deafness, a learned incapacity to hear or register the voices, stories, and intricate relationships that make up desert life, so that only fantasies of absence, danger, or utility are recognized"
by IBRAHIM FAWZY open.substack.com/pub/themassa...
"I love the feeling of knowing that communication has been achieved, the transfer of an idea from one mind to another."
Carl "Taqwaa" Moore in our newest interview: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...
"Having read SCREAM WITH ME first, I more than once mentally thanked Lisowski in UNCANNY VALLEY GIRLS for the respect she affords [horror films] merely by refraining from jamming the square peg of horror into liberal feminism’s round hole."
Sophie Lewis:
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"If I am insistent and lucky, I might stumble upon something surprising but that which seems to be already waiting in the language of arrival."
Dong Li on the uncovering found within translation, plus his admiration of en plein air painting, for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2026/02/24/1...
Congrats to past MR contributor Robin Myers and her translation of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING on making the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026
"I loved writing. It has always felt like something no one could take away from me."
Sheree L. Greer's interview, plus a short reading: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...
So excited and honored to be a part of this roundup! We look forward to seeing you all and the other finalists at AWP.
The Writer's Center Book Club: Register at writer.org/book-club
Poetry Online on 2nd Wednesdays, starting March 11th. Fiction in person on 3rd Sundays, starting April 19th.
TWC book club is no run-of-the-mill book club. Visiting writers will read excerpts and join the discussion, and answer your questions about craft, process, the publishing industry
Want to read amazing books, build community, and meet small press writers? Join the book club!
I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
"Israel’s color-zoning of Gaza is an aggressive policy of grabbing land and redrawing borders, making the return of Gazans to their homes almost impossible."
Amna Dmeida for our Public Affairs: substack.com/@themassachu...
Watch Jakyra Green and Carl "Taqwaa" Moore from our INCARCERATION & FAMILY special issue read and discuss each other's poems:
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"I had witnessed the miracle: my inspired thought had been conveyed and then experienced by my audience. I had created a moment."
Benjamin Frandsen's new creative nonfiction piece on the craft of his essay from 66.4: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...
