🎉Congratulations to Michelle Lerner on her new publication, Ring! Ring is available now! Check it out!🎉

Attention Fiction writers! Reminder that we’ll be open for submissions starting January 15 🤩 Swipe to read the call from our Fall 2025 Editorial Fellow in Fiction, Anes Ahmed!

Happy Wednesday!!! Enjoy this quote from Lucy Zhang's fiction piece, “We Were Buried Before We Were Drowned”.

Happy Wednesday!!! Enjoy this quote from Shedrack Opeyemi Akanbi's fiction piece, “The Lance Corporal's Door”. “Sometimes, it may take time for us to dawn on the truth, but, as light, we will surely see the end of darkness." —Shedrack Opeyemi Akanbi, “The Lance Corporal's Door”

GET READY TO SUBMIT! We’ll be open for Fiction submissions starting January 15! POETRY submissions will open again on April 15, 2024! General CREATIVE NONFICTION submissions will open on May 1! For more information check out our website! Link in bio!

Happy Thursday!! Here is a quote from Hannah Grieco's nonfiction piece, “Thin Dreams”. “This was everything, exactly what I had imagined, exactly what I needed, and I was allowed to need things, it turned out. I was allowed to choose." -Hannah Grieco, “Thin Dreams”

Happening Today!! Mita Mahato will be speaking about her new book Arctic Play at Washington and Lee University in the Northern Auditorium today at 7 p.m. Can't wait to see you all there!🎉

Happy Wednesday!! Enjoy this quote from Robert Cording's poem, “Hydrangea”.

Happy Thursday!! Enjoy this quote from Desiree Santana's poem “The Starving Time”. “I went to school on a battleground. I cut my teeth on the new world." —Desiree Santana, “The Starving Time”

OPEN NOW! We are officially open for The Graybeal-Gowen Prize For Virginia Poets!! This year we will be open for submissions from October 15 to October 31 (or until we reach 500 submissions) so submit NOW! Good luck! More info can be found on our website. Link in bio!

Happy Friday! Here is another reminder about The Graybeal-Gowen Prize For Virginia Poets. Submissions will be open starting this TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15!!!

Happy Wednesday!! Enjoy this quote from Nick Mullins comic “Hands”. “I'm not sure this is who I am. But it seems like something I should be doing". —Nick Mullins, “Hands”

Congratulations to Mubanga Kalimamukwento on her new publication, Obligations to the Wounded! Check it out now!

Happy Wednesday!! Enjoy this quote from Daniel Garcia's nonfiction piece “The Other Side”.

REMINDER we will be open for The Graybeal-Gowen Prize For Virginia Poets starting TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15!!! To submit or for more info, check out the link in our bio!

ANNOUNCING our Spring 2026 Editorial Fellow, SAMYAK SHERTOK! Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.

ANNOUNCING Our Spring 2026 Issue Editorial Fellow In ComicsRobert James Russell! Robert James Russell is the author of the forthcoming graphic memoir Hard Body: A Personal History of My Form on Display (Simon & Schuster) and much more!

ANNOUNCING Our Fall 2025 Issue Editorial Fellow In Fiction N.S. AHMED! N.S. Ahmed is a first-generation Egyptian-American fiction writer based in New York City. His writings have been featured or are forthcoming in publications such as Joyland, The Margins (AAWW), and more!

INTRODUCING Our Poetry Fellow! Tran Tran (she/her) writes in the muddle between English and Vietnamese. Her poetry has been featured on Salamander Magazine, The Seventh Wave, Threads Lit Mag and more. She currently serves in the reading staff of ONLY POEMS and Frontier Poetry.

A little bit of poetry from our latest edition of Shenandoah, Issue 73.2 Spring 2024!😊 "On the pastured hillside are the bones of my greats and I wonder if they could imagine me here. Well, not me, but the idea of me.” -Rachel Morgan, "Hoping"