About
Send us beautiful language.
We’re looking for poetry that plumbs the strange and beautiful, surprises us with new perspectives of what language does, and overwhelms us with duende. Traditional form or wildly experimental, blank verse or free, we want you to woo us within an inch of our lives.
We aim to publish the best writing from the Delmarva Peninsula and beyond.
We publish ten-minute plays. We publish one-act plays. We publish reviews. We publish micro-reviews. Query or submit via our fiction portal on the submissions page.
For exemplars of what we like, please refer to the following.
Poetry
“solitaire boys follow me” by Michael Chang
“Moving from House to House” by Paul Jones
“My Huge Basketball IQ” by Jason Koo
“A Narrative Poet Lost in the Lyric Moment” by Irene Fick
"Passing Down" by Gayle Ledbetter Newby
“Letter to a Floating Piano” Adam D. Weeks
Creative Non-Fiction
Desperately Attentive to Life: An Interview with Jason Koo
Fiction
"The Cinderella of Sunset Park" by SC Martinez
"Universal Basic" by Matthew Cannelora
"Pretty Purple Lights" by Ace Boggess
"Kissing Lying Down" by Kate Tough
"My Cousin the Carytaid" by Bradley VanDeventer
"The Night of the Jubilee" by Franetta McMillian
Drama
"Water Rise" by Dana Kinsey. A one-act play
"The Tiki Villas" by Grace Cavalieri. A ten-minute play
"Thank You For Your Service" by Joseph S. Pete. A ten-minute play
Reviews
"Crafting the Primal: Danusha Laméris’s Bonfire Opera" by Dion O' Reily
"A look back at Molly Fisk's The More Difficult Beauty" by Jane C. Miller
"Review of Catechesis: a postpastoral, by Lindsay Lusby" by Srephen Scott Whitaker
"Nina Bennett reviews David Graham's latest collection"
"A review of Ricky Ray's Fealty, Eyewear Publishing" by James Bourey
Contact
The Broadkill Review Managing Office
(business only--no submissions)
25624 E Main Street
Onley, VA 23418
Visit our publisher's site: http://broadkillriverpress.com/
ISSN 1935-0538
The Broadkill Review is part of the Delaware State Library Digital Collection.
See submission page for submission info.
Contact the editor using the email client below, or email us at
The Broadkill Review an imprint of the Broadkill River Press, which on occasion, such as in 2019, and 2020, is the publisher of The Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. The Broadkill River Press does not always publish the winner of the prize. Staff members may not enter the Dog Fish Head Poetry Prize when the Broadkill River Press publishes the winning manuscript. The prize is organized by Dog Fish Head Breweries and Linda Blaskey, poet, editor, publisher.
Editorially, each editor has agency on curation.
Founding Editor, Publisher: James C. L. Brown (National Book Critics Circle)
Fiction/Managing Editor: Stephen Scott Whitaker (National Book Critics Circle)
Poetry/Interview Editor: Kari Ann Ebert
Digital Chapbook Editors: H.A. Maxson, James C.L. Brown
Contributing editors:
Nina Bennett, Contributing Editor
James Bourey, Contributing Editor