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
Sherwood Anderson/James Wright Award Update
Finalists for the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and the James Wright Poetry Award have been chosen. MAR will post final results of the contest when they become available.
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 June 1, 2010. For more information, click here.