Welcome
Mid-American Review is an international literary journal dedicated to our mission of publishing the best contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations.
MAR is proud of its tradition of featuring the work of both new and established artists. Writers such as Carl Dennis, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Linda Gregg, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Mary Oliver, Richard Russo, William Stafford, James Tate, Melanie Rae Thon, David Foster Wallace, and C.K. Williams have all appeared in MAR. But MAR is also dedicated to introducing non-English speaking voices to our audience through our translation chapbook series.
Works that first appeared in MAR have been reprinted in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Essays, Pushcart: Best of the Small Presses, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, New Stories from the South, Poetry Daily, and Harper's Magazine.
MAR is published at Bowling Green State University through the cooperation of the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Latest News
Fineline Competition Deadline Extended
The postmark deadline for MAR's Fineline Competition for
Prose Poems, Short Shorts, and Anything in Between has been extended to July 1st. For more information on the 2010 Fineline Competition, please visit our contest page by clicking here
Congratulations Jill Haberkern!
Congratulations to Jill Haberkern, winner of Mid-American Review's Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Robert Olen Bulter, judge of this year's Sherwood Anderson contest and Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain and Hell, chose Jill Haberkern's "The Downstairs Family," which will appear alongside our other contest winners in the forthcoming MAR Volume XXX, Numbers 1 & 2. A full list of finalists is as follows.
Finalists:
Matthew Harrison, "The Paul Bunyan Club"
Dionne Irving, "Florida Lives"
Nick Kocz, "More of the Same"
Jeffrey Martin, "Steeled"
MAR's editors are also pleased to announce that Nick Kocz's "More of the Same" and Jeffrey Martin's "Steeled" will appear in the new issue as Editor's Choice stories. The editors would like to thank all who participated. Keep an eye out for an announcement of next year's guidelines and judge in the coming months.
Congratulations Kimberly Davis!
MAR's editors would like to congratulate Kimberly Davis, winner of the James Wright Poetry Award. Kimberly's poem "Alchemy" was chosen by Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Practical Gods and Unknown Friends, for its tonal quality and exploration of loss. "Alchemy" will appear in the upcoming MAR Volume XXX, Numbers 1 & 2, due out later this spring. MAR would also like to congratulate the finalists for the James Wright Award.
Finalists:
Lauren Moseley, "Symmetry"
Gretchen Steele Pratt, "Epithalamion"
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, "Length"
Casey Thayer, "Our Order of the Lonely-Hearted"
Additionally, the editors would like to congratulate Gretchen Steele Pratt and Casey Thayer, whose work has been chosen as Editor's Choice poems and will also appear in the coming issue. MAR would like to thank all those who participated in this year's contest. Stay tuned to this page and our contest page for announcements on next year's guidelines and judge.
Congratulations Alan Michael Parker!
The editors of Mid-American Review are happy to announce the winner and finalists of this year's Fineline Competition for Prose Poems, Short-Shorts, and Anything In-Between. Judge David Shumate, author of the collections High Water Mark and The Floating Bridge, chose Alan Michael Parker's entry "Fifteen Ways to Think About Italian Opera" as the winner from a group of eleven finalists.
Finalists:
Kelli Boyles, "Bio of You" and "A Fine Romance"
Jaime Brunton, "My Life as Roland Barthes: competence/expertise"
Ashley Davidson, "Unplug Your Heart Like a Toaster"
Cherie Hunter Day, "Postcard from a Natural Disaster"
Richard Garcia, "Former Lovers"
Ian Golding, "Extinct Birds of North America"
Nina Mamikunian, "The Dictionary Comes in Cake Boxes"
Alan Michael Parker, "Nineteen Baby Anteaters in a Japanese Zoo"
Jennie Thompson, "Blindfold"
"Fifteen Ways to Think About Italian Opera" will appear in MAR's upcoming Thirtieth Anniversary Edition. All ten finalists will also appear as Editors' Choices.
Over 1,000 individual pieces were received for this year's competition.
Next year's Fineline Competition will be judged by this year's winner, Alan Michael Parker. Entries should be postmarked by July 1, 2010. For more information, click here.