Who’s Speaking? Italics In Bilingual Poetry, by Steven Sanchez
I’m not bilingual but sometimes Spanish enters my poems. Since most people are (probably) familiar with the arguments for and against using italics, I’ll just give a basic description of them: some...
View ArticleTahoma Literary Review Reading at Elliott Bay Books on Thursday
Just a brief reminder that Tahoma Literary Review will hold a reading by some of its contributors from the local area at Seattle’s favorite bookstore, Elliott Bay Books, on Thursday, July 23, at 7:00...
View ArticleOn Writing about Race in Fiction, by Miles White
“Race” is a euphemism Americans use to describe a very ugly aspect of the American character—we tend to not like each other because of differences in skin color. It’s more complex than that of course....
View ArticleTLR Volume 2, Number 2 is Live!
Tahoma Literary Review issue 4 (Volume 2, Number 2) is now live. We’ve come out a few days earlier than anticipated in order to coincide with our reading tonight (July 23, 7 pm) at Seattle’s Elliott...
View ArticleEkphrasis: How a Response to Art Can Inspire Writing, by Stacey Balkun
Loosely defined, ekphrasis is “art in response to art.” The word “ekphrasis” comes from the Greek: “Ek” meaning “out” and “phrazein” meaning “to speak.” For me, surrealist paintings work as a trigger...
View ArticleA Few Tips for Writing on a Common Theme
As any journal editor or creative writing teacher will tell you, there are certain short story themes that have become so popular with writers that the sheer number of them makes it difficult for any...
View ArticleFlash v Short Story: Length is Not the Only Difference
Most fiction writers understand that the major difference between a short story and flash fiction is the length of the piece. Some publishers make the distinction at 500 words, others at 1,000 or...
View ArticleA Feathered Metaphor, by Karen Skolfield
Walking the sanctuary at sundown, on Whidbey Island, I spot a man quietly standing, watching the estuary. Binoculars, long-lensed camera. I whisper my way to him: “Otters?” I ask hopefully. “No, bald...
View ArticleA Title Worthy of the Poem Itself
As an editor, I read a lot of poems. I mean a lot. On a typical day, I vet about 30 poems for TLR. On a day near the end of a submission cycle, I may read about 100 at a time. Reading at this volume...
View ArticleNo More Hot Potatoes: A New Approach to Writing Contests by Kathy Anderson
I used to treat writing contests like I was holding a hot potato. QUICK—fling the manuscript at them before I lost my nerve. Entering writing contests was a challenge I gave myself as a writer, but the...
View ArticleTLR’s Feedback Option: Bridging the Writer / Editor Divide
We’re three months into TLR’s free Feedback Option for fiction and flash fiction, where if a submitter chooses, I offer my editorial opinion about the story. I’m happy to report I’ve received no hate...
View ArticleFeedback Option Expanded to Include Nonfiction; and There’s More…
The Feedback Option We editors at TLR like to think we do a lot for the writers who submit their work to us. But we’re always looking to do a little bit more. We’ve been following the progress of our...
View ArticleUsing the Epistolary Form in Nonfiction
I’ve just come off teaching a workshop for the wonderful Inlandia Institute. One of the things we covered over our three sessions together is the use of the epistolary form in nonfiction. It’s a sticky...
View ArticleThe Beautiful Art of Synesthesia, by John Brantingham
Imagine two shapes drawn on paper. One is sharp, made of spikes coming out of a central core, and none of those spikes are the same length as any of the others, so there is no uniformity of shape. The...
View ArticleSlush: What Reading It is Like on the Other Side of the Editorial Wall, by...
A few years back, I worked at a magazine, a literary magazine, a major literary magazine, reading the slush. People the world over submitted their short stories, and it was my job to read them. I...
View ArticleForming a writing squad: How can DIY & low-residency MFAs build writing...
Writers need friends for lots of reasons: to cheer against rejections and celebrate soft declines (very hard to explain to non-writers!); to hoot and holler over acceptances; to help keep focused on...
View ArticleNature Writing, Undefined, by Allison Linville
I really started writing poetry at a fire lookout. I’d written before, but it was there that I learned the working aspect of writing; setting a time, adding free writes, reading more, editing better....
View ArticleThe Egg in the Locker: A Flash Manifesto on Revision, by Michael Schmeltzer
In middle school we were told to carry an egg with us everywhere we went as if it were our baby. We were to keep a journal, to tally the times we fed it, bathed it. We were meant to set our alarms in...
View ArticleOn ‘Spiderman Hitches a Ride’ by José Angel Araguz
Publisher’s note: José Angel Araguz’s ‘Spiderman Hitches a Ride’ will appear in TLR issue 5, due out December 1. This piece is part of a forthcoming collection, Everything We Think We Hear (Floricanto...
View ArticleTasha Cotter Interviews Kimberly Miller, President of the Kentucky Women...
At TLR, we love the fact that our writers are also active participants in building literary community. This week, we bring you a conversation between Issue 4’s Tasha Cotter and Kimberly Miller, the new...
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