Autumn, vol 16.4
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 are interested in local and regional perspectives on climate change and its impacts and intersections. We are interested in queer, and BIPOC voices. We are interested in reading translated work from around the globe. These days we prefer CNF, short dialogue-driven fiction. We enjoy speculative fiction. We enjoy the absurd.
We publish ten-minute plays. We publish one-act plays. We publish reviews. We publish micro-reviews. Query broadkillreview@gmail.com 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
"Nina Bennett reviews David Graham's latest collection"
"A review of Ricky Ray's Fealty, Eyewear Publishing" by James Bourey
"Alexandria Peary unzips America in "The Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak" by Cassandra Whitaker
Contact
The Broadkill Review Managing Office
email broadkillreview@gmail.com.
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 broadkillreview@gmail.com
The Broadkill Review is an imprint of the Broadkill River Press, which on occasion, such as in 2021, and 2022, 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. Anne Yarbrough, of New Castle, DE, is the 2021 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize winner for her manuscript, Refinery. Pre-order your copy from Broadkill River Press.
Poetry/Interview Editor: Kari Ann Ebert
Fiction/Managing Editor: Cassandra Whitaker (National Book Critics Circle)
Nina Bennett, Contributing Editor
James Bourey, Contributing Editor
Founding editor: Jamie Brown
Editors Emeriti: Jamie Brown, HA Maxson, Linda Blaskey
About the co-editors:
Poetry and Interview Editor, Kari Ann Ebert. Winner of the 2020 Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry and the 2018 Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest, Kari’s work has appeared in journals such as The Night Heron Barks, Mojave River Review, Philadelphia Stories, The Main Street Rag, The Ekphrastic Review, and Gargoyle as well as several anthologies. Her limited-edition chapbook Alphabet of Mo(u)rning is forthcoming in 2022 from Lily Press.
Prose and Managing Editor, Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and has work published in, or forthcoming in Little Patuxent Review, The Evergreen Review, Conjunctions, The Mississippi Review, Foglifter, Whale Road Review, and other places.