Seeking the Third – New Nonfiction by Alison Luterman

“You don’t have to do everything together,” she said. “He can do music on his own, and you have your poetry, and then you can come together in the evening–“ “And, what, watch Netflix?” I interrupted her. “No, we can make this work, I know it. Because when it does work, it’s glorious.”  Winner of … Read more

The Marfa Deal – New Novel Extract by Stuart Ziarnik

And I had done it, I had created something genuine, something good, and I thought I’d succeeded and made something lasting and done something cool with my life: I owned a nightclub in Austin. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books The Marfa Deal I It was the spring of 2021 and already … Read more

Earthen Wares – New Poetry Collection Extract by Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal

Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books Earthen Wares Nondescript, earthen wares of our bones, red letterbox, a fakir’s tombstone.Pilgrim’s chakras swirl red to white grindstone. Faint footsteps, the echoes of lived homes.Faint scents of cloves, saffron, unpack new home. Gods of time march in hallways, stroke our skins.Will passage of time bare … Read more

Albert, The Last – New Novel Extract by Constantine Singer

“Are those…” Yes. They were. No doubt. Those were stars. A dusty scattering like a setting scene in Star Trek, shifting slowly, rotating to the right. New stars came into view. I sucked in a breath to tell Charon she needed to explain this when a new, brighter light illuminated the left side of the … Read more

┤ -TOTL – (pr: TAWT’L) – New Short Fiction by Geoff Copstick

Later conspiracies flourished saying that enthusiasm to see it and the experience of seeing the work was changing it gradually, was even recreating it – the work itself – making later viewings different from earlier ones. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction ┤ -TOTL – (pr: TAWT’L) “The cradle rocks above an … Read more