Calling all artists! Porter House Review is now open for submissions as of October 1st! Offer us your most creative, original work. We can't wait to see it!
Use link to submit!
Porter House Review's ✨FREE SUBMISSION✨ period is OPEN!
Submission costs will be waived for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Nov. 1st - Nov. 8th.
All our submissions will close for the season November 8th, so be sure to get your work into us!!
Porter House Review will be open for submissions for all categories tomorrow, September 15th! We can't wait to read your work.
Get ready to send us your fiction, nonfiction or poetry.
Porter House Review is now open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Offer us your affecting, inventive, conversation starting work - we can't wait to read it.
Attention creators! As we enter our final week of open submissions, Porter House Review is offering a free period for you to send us your work. Submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are open now until November 15th, so act fast!
In case you missed it:
Porter House Review is currently open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Offer us your affecting, inventive, conversation starting work - we can't wait to read it.
Calling all creators! On Sunday, October 1st, Porter House Review will be open for submissions in all categories. We look forward to reading your fiction, poetry, and nonfiction work.
Porter House Review's ✨FREE SUBMISSION✨ period is OPEN!
Submission costs will be waived for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Nov. 1st - Nov. 8th.
All our submissions will close for the season November 8th, so be sure to get your work into us!!
Submissions are open for our 2022 – 2023 Editor’s Prizes in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry, judged this year by Edgar Gomez, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, and Shayla Lawson. Submission window 11/15/22-12/31/22.
@otroedgargomez
Just another reminder that we're open for submissions for our 2022-2023 Editor's Prize, and that during the week of December 4th through December 11th, submission fees will be waived.
Find out more about this year's judges and how to submit here:
Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your surprising poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all!
P.S. Our genre editors will each be closing submissions individually in the next few weeks/months as they reach their limits.
Porter House Review is now open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions!
Send, send, send us your work. We want to read it!
P.S. We pay up to $200 depending on genre and length.
Porter House Review is open for FICTION submissions until further notice!
We welcome traditional short stories, flash fiction, and other hybrid forms up to 6,000 words.
And ICYDK, we are dedicated to paying all of our featured writers :-)
"I always say Mother Nature is the greatest poet—I’m just trying to take notes."
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil
@aimeenez
in her interview w/ Melissa Huckabay
@melpsoul
Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your surprising poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all!
P.S. Our genre editors will each be closing submissions individually in the next few weeks/months as they reach their limits.
Yiyun Li has selected "World Without End" by
@pmpatters
as this year's PHR Editor's Prize Winner in Fiction!
She also chose "Kun" by
@stars_su
and "Get Ready" by Astha Gupta as Finalists. Li wrote that she enjoyed all three stories tremendously.
We're opening for submissions next week—and our reading period begins with a week of waived fees! Since we can't have summer out in the real world, let's have it in our Submittable queues.🍦
Porter House Review's ✨FREE SUBMISSION✨ period is OPEN!
Submission costs will be waived for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Nov. 1st - Nov. 8th.
All our submissions will close for the season November 8th, so be sure to get your work into us!!
🎄 CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY 🎄: We're giving away three FREE broadsides signed by
@carmenmmachado
! Retweet this post to put your name in the running (and follow our account so we can DM you if you win). We'll use a random generator to select winners at 5 p.m. on December 26.
We just want to thank EVERYONE who submitted to us this past season. It means a lot that you trust us with reading your work.
Our submissions have officially closed for the season, but don't worry, we've still got some special tricks up our sleeves! STAY TUNED!
GIVEAWAY: broadsides signed by Morgan Parker (
@morganapple
) & Tommy Pico. We're sending these out as sets—it would be wrong to separate Morgan and Tommy. For a chance to win, just make sure you're following us and retweet this tweet by September 4.
We're so, so honored to announce that we've won
@CLMPorg
's 2020 Firecracker Award in Magazines (Best Debut)! Thank you to everyone who made this possible, especially our hardworking staff and our talented contributors. We're excited for the year ahead!
The results of our 2019 Editor's Prize are in, and looking at this list, we are overwhelmed with gratitude for the community of artists who have trusted is with their work. Please help us celebrate our winners and finalists.
Congratulations to the winners of PHR's 2021 Poetry Contest judged by
@aimeenez
!
1ST: "Still Life with Bouquet, Golden Spade" by
@literari_ana
2ND: "February 23, 2020" by
@Aswagaawy
3RD: "Ni hao" by
@mspicone
All three poems will be published in PHR in the coming months!
Like many journals, we charge submission fees in order to pay the annual cost of Submittable and compensate our contributors. However, we don't want to exclude anyone who can't afford the fee—which is why we'll now be open for free subs at the beginning of every reading period.
Congratulations Mackenzie McGee (
@mackenziepmcgee
) whose debut short story "Re: Frankie" has won
@PENamerica
's PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, judged by Nana Kwame Adjel-Brenyah (
@NK_Adjei
), Beth Piatote, & Kali-Fajardo Anstine
Read the story here:
Our beloved managing editor emeritus
@taykir
’s essay “The Scopophiliac’s Gift Shop” (pub’d by
@creamcityreview
) was listed as a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2021! Congratulations, Taylor!
ICYMI: we're open for nonfiction, poetry, and fiction submissions (though fiction will close again next week)! We pay all of our writers up to $200 depending on length, and we'd love to see your name—yes, you—in the queue.
WE ARE LIVE! Our inaugural issue features Lauren K. Alleyne, Cindy Bradley (
@cindysea429
), Fernando A. Flores, Jeremy Griffin, Tyehimba Jess (
@TyehimbaJess
), Mũthoni Kiarie (
@AfroSparrow
), Nida Sophasarun, Lisa Russ Spaar, Jillian Weise, and more!
Hello hello hello, did you know we have opened up for our fall submissions? Fiction will be open until October 21, and poetry will be open until November 15.
Additionally, don't forget about our contest! The juicy details are available below.
Porter House Review is excited to announce our 2019 Editor’s Prize is now open for submissions! Our amazing genre judges are Carmen Maria Machado (
@carmenmmachado
), Leslie Jamison (
@lsjamison
), Ada Limón (
@adalimon
), & Meg Lionel Murphy (
@cloudcarvings
).
Yes, we're Porter House, but let us also be your piece's home. This is a small reminder that our fiction, creative nonfiction, and flash submissions will be closing on July 31st.
We are looking forward to reading your work!
Happy birthday to Pulitzer prize and National Book Award winner Katherine Anne Porter—our namesake. Best known for her novel SHIP OF FOOLS, and short story collections like FLOWERING JUDAS and PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER, Porter was born in Indian Creek, TX on May 15, 1890.
We noticed a lot of deadlines were stacking up at the end of April, so we wanted to give you all a few more weeks to submit work. Our deadline has been EXTENDED until May 15.
@submittable
Summertime, and the submittin's easy. 🍦
Starting July 1st, you can submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to us for FREE until July 7th!
As always, we pay competitive rates for these categories. We look forward to reading your work.
"They danced on my molars and hid in my gums. They echoed my thoughts as I had them, especially the soft ones, forming like cotton between the teeth, and the violent ones, burning at those I hated."
—from
@kaitayates
"Bite" (her debut short story! 👏)
In addition to launching our nonfiction contest, we opened submissions for poetry and fiction today! Submit to these two categories with no fee until end of day tomorrow.
Now accepting submissions for interviews and reviews until February 28! This is our first time having a public call for interviews, and we want it all—interviews with brand new writers, with small magazine editors, with visual artists, and more.
It's getting awfully cold outside, so why not snuggle up inside with us and listen to some talented writers? We will be featuring readers from both PHR and Texas State's MFA program.
Make sure you pencil down December 5th, 7:00-8:30 pm (CST as usual).
@RAICESTEXAS
DEADLINE EXTENDED: PHR's 2020 creative nonfiction contest is accepting submissions until December 15, and we're thrilled to announce Hanif Abdurraqib will judge our finalists. To celebrate, submit TODAY for the reduced fee of $7:
In her essay, "Thirteen Ways of Looking," Lena Crown,
@which_is_to_say
, writes a love letter to St. Louis—and says goodbye to a person she loved there. Don't miss this innovative work from a finalist in our 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest! 🙌🏻
Congratulations to Porter House Review fiction contributor
@vanjchan
! We’re looking forward to reading her short story collection and debut novel!
In the meantime, peep her short story “Coronation” which we loved immediately and published in March 2020:
A few weeks ago, on the first day of the lunar new year - the Year of the Tiger, MY YEAR, while I was home in Malaysia with my family - my dreams came true 😭🐯⚡️
"From
@PaperDarts
to
@pidgeonholes
to
@WaxwingMag
, these are the pieces that guide our editorial sightlines—the writing that drives us to cultivate a unified publication"
See our latest Porter House Reads: Selections from Recent Literary Magazines here—
Conjuring the dead, but make it poetry...
Read
@beyyoncaa
's review of
@ellomelissa
's DREAMING OF YOU, a novel in verse about a young poet's decision to bring Tejano popstar, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, back from the dead.
Out today from
@astrahousebooks
"Dancyger doesn’t shy away...she has nothing to hide. [NEGATIVE SPACE is] a dialogue between family members across time and death—old friends catching up."
—from Alain-Jules Hirwa's review of
@lillydancyger
's memoir NEGATIVE SPACE
Out from
@SFWP
5/1/21
We started a podcast!
Introducing Porter House Pod, a podcast that allows us to connect with our audience in a conversational way as we talk craft, discuss literary topics, and read works we've published in the journal.
Available on Spotify & on Anchor:
✨This Week on Porter House Review✨
Fiction: "Sillage" by Tanya Žilinskas (
@TanyaZilinskas
)
Poetry: "Totem" by Kryston Lopez (
@kalamityKryston
)
Nonfiction: "Is the Narrator Nothing or Everything?" by Véronique Darwin (
@veroniquedarwin
)
"Askaripour excels in his debut, balancing identity, an adrenaline-pumped plot, and societal critique..."
—From Rooting for Buck: Mateo Askaripour’s Adventure into Race, Capitalism, and Family in America, a review by Chris Kubik
@HMHbooks
"In the woods behind our first house, that picketless patch
of silence where we buried a precious yipper named Pinka,
seven years of christmas trees laid to RIP in the grip of kudzu"
—From "Akhmatova's Gun," a poem by Alina Stefanescu (
@aliner
)
Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your surprising poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all!
P.S. Our genre editors will each be closing submissions individually in the next few weeks/months as they reach their limits.
Calling all boundary-pushing artists! Did you know Porter House Review accepts submissions for original art?
Check back on February 1st for more information regarding how you can submit your original art for publication!
Join us 6/18 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM CST in celebration of five featured fiction writers who were published in Porter House Review this past year!
Featuring:
@mackenziepmcgee
, Claire Robbins,
@anqiekanq
,
@mayallegedly
, & Caroline Kim
Find Zoom info here:
"The Cartography of Sleep is a visionary, cerebral chapbook. . . . Villareal is a master of making the strange seem beautiful with rich language and a hypnotic style."
@JoseHernandezDz
reviews Laura Villareal's (
@earthandstars
) chapbook here:
Join us on March 29 at Blackfish Gallery for readings by
@PoetLKA
,
@M_Dithyrambic
, Cheston Knapp, Tomás Q. Morín,
@LuisaMuradyan
, and Karen Russell. Cecily will emcee, and we'll be giving away books and broadsides signed by our contributors and advisory board members.
#AWP2019
We’re SO lucky and excited to publish TWO spooky flashes from Kevin Brockmeier’s upcoming collection of one hundred ghost stories, THE GHOST VARIATIONS (out from
@PantheonBooks
in 2021). Stay tuned. They'll be "appearing" next week...
“The novel sizzles and cracks like a campfire tale, leaving its listeners breathless . . .”
- From Bryce Jeter’s review of THE SMOKE IS ME, BURNING by C.A. Blintzios (
@CABlintzios
), available now from KERNPUNKT Press (
@KERNPUNKTPress
)
✨This Week on Porter House Review✨
Poetry: "Letting" by Nancy White
@nancywhitepoet
Non-Fiction: "pink balloon" by Raina K. Puels
@rainakpuels
Fiction: "Calf" by Matthew Goldberg
@mattmgoldberg
Again, our own recent graduate Chisom Ogoke recently won a
@FulbrightPrgrm
Award for Barbados where she will research materials for her novel, MFA thesis! Congratulations Chisom! ✨✨✨
"Cardona writes about 'words too hard to pull from your throat,' yet she pulls the words out over and over again in this astounding collection of poems."
—From
@sg_poetry
's review of Claudia Delfina Cardona's WHAT REMAINS, published by
@hostpublication
Submit to PHR's 2021 Editor's Prize in Fiction! Finalists will be judged by Yiyun Li, and the winner will receive a $1,000 prize.
The first 30 people to submit can do so for the reduced early bird submission fee of $5:
ZOOM READING: Friday, 9/24, 6:00 pm CST
@pmpatters
,
@stars_su
, & Astha Gupta will be reading from their stories that were recognized by our 2021 Editor's Prize in Fiction judge Yiyun Li!
This event will support the San Marcos River Foundation
More info:
Yiyun Li has selected "World Without End" by
@pmpatters
as this year's PHR Editor's Prize Winner in Fiction!
She also chose "Kun" by
@stars_su
and "Get Ready" by Astha Gupta as Finalists. Li wrote that she enjoyed all three stories tremendously.
“Every corner of the home comforted her with little implicit messages; you are tasteful. You are smart. You are depressed, but it’s glamorous.”
—From “When She Got Happy” by Carly Rae Zent (
@_seeray
), a finalist for the our 2019 Editor’s Prize!
Check out our interview with Mackenzie McGee (
@mackenziepmcgee
), winner of
@PENamerica
's PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, on her winning story "Re: Frankie," entertainment, absurdity, and enjoying a punch in the gut.
"One night, he killed a tiger. After, he wore the dead tiger’s claw around his neck in a golden chain. Before he died, he willed it to me. A week later, the tiger girl appeared."
—From "We Are the Only Animals in the House" flash fiction by
@theinnerzone
Today is the FINAL DAY to submit to our 2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize. Finalists will be judged by
@NifMuhammad
, and while all entrants will receive our abiding adoration, the winner will additionally receive $500. All entries considered for regular (& paid!) publication.
In the name of productivity during social distancing, we've reprinted Matt Bell’s (
@mdbell79
) first exercise from his Writing Exercise Newsletter, which is based on a sentence from Carmen Maria Machado’s (
@carmenmmachado
) story, “The Husband Stitch.”
"For centuries, a select group of 'Sea Women' were plucked from their families to become deep sea divers of octopus, conch, and abalone."
—from "The Omari and the Pango" by
@carolinewriting
from our archives
🌟THIS WEEK🌟- Porter House Review
Poetry: "Woman, Life, Liberty" by Siavash Saadlou
Non Fiction: "Black Hard Palate" by Esinam Bediako
Fiction: "Twenty Dollar Bill" by Sarah Damoff
This week we're highlighting our Editor's Prize Winners.
Check out what judge Sterling Holywhitemountain says about our Fiction winner Jordan Hagedon's piece Mold.
Read the full piece:
@jeimask
Live now: PHR's 2021 Poetry Contest
$750 Prize
Submit by May 15
Judged by
@aimeenez
, the first 30 people to submit can do so for the reduced early bird fee of $5. After that cap is reached, submissions will be $8.
We can't wait to spend time with your poems!
“Holding this book in my hands, I can feel it pulsating like a beating heart. . .”
– from
@tiramisruu
’s review of MY GRIEF, THE SUN by Sanna Wani (
@sannareya
), up now on
@PorterHouseLit
in both English and Spanish.