Author: Rhys Petit

Announcing the Longlist for the 15th Annual Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award

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From 183 entries, the editors of The Florida Review have chosen 10 titles as semifinalists for the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to The Florida Review. The 2026 longlisted titles are:

Vesuvio, Patricia Q. Bidar

Red Light in the Small Hours, Angela Edward

The Oboe is a Duck, Elizabeth Erbeznik

Hum, Lucas Flatt

The Whispers of Water, Fabián González González

Everything in My Life Up Till Now, Andrea Lewis

Trés Fronteras, Chip Livingston

Holiest, Crystal Odelle

Suburban Variations, Heather Sellers

Health Care Hopscotch: 2012-2022, Julie Marie Wade

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The Florida Review Will Be at AWP!

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If you are also going to Baltimore this week for AWP, be sure to stop by The Florida Review table (T877).

Mary Kate Coleman, author of Wednesday Trash Day and winner of our Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook contest, will be doing a signing Thursday (March 5th) from 2pm-3pm.

Also at our table, The Florida Review is running special AWP rates on our chapbooks, single issues, and magazine subscriptions:

– All chapbooks will be $5.
– All single issues will be $10.
– One-year subscriptions will be $20 and two-year subscriptions will be $40.

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Wednesday Trash Day Available for Purchase!

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The Florida Review is happy to announce our winner for the 2025 Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award, Wednesday Trash Day by Mary Kate Coleman is available for purchase here!

 

Mary Kate Coleman is a recent Fulbright scholar and investigator on the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation. She’s currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron, Glimmer Train, Redivider, Carve Magazine, and others. Her story “HayDay” was a finalist in the 2025 Puerto Del Sol Prose Contest. She and her husband are working on renovating an 1830s log cabin on the White River in Indianapolis. They have two kids, Ruthie and Woody.

 

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2026 Editor’s Prizes Open for Submission!

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Submissions for our annual Editor’s Prizes in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry are open from now until April 15th! Each winner receives publication in The Florida Review and $1,000 upon publication. Entry fee of $25 includes a one-year subscription to The Florida Review.

You can find further guidelines and submit your work on our Submittable page.

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2026 Best Small Fictions Nominees

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The Florida Review is thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2026 Best Small Fictions anthology!

 

“Ontkommer,” Kim Magowan

“My Account,” Glen Pourciau

“A Gun is a Cowardly Thing,” Siamak Vossoughi (published in Issue 49.1)

“Water Babies,” Mary Grimm (published in Issue 49.1)

“Happy Birthday, America,” Michael Czyzniejewski (published in Issue 48.2)

 

Congrats and good luck to all of our nominees!

 

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2026 Pushcart Prize Special Mentions

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The Florida Review would like to give a shoutout to our contributors who were recently listed as “Special Mentions” in the 2026 Pushcart Prize Anthology:

 

Poetry

Bertha Crombet, “Tongue Mother”

 

Nonfiction

Naomi Gordon-Loebl, “Lost Uncle”

 

Fiction

Matthew Neill Null, “In the 301”

 

Way to go everyone and keep up the good work!

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2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations

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Announcement of The Florida Review's 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations.



The Florida Review is excited to announce our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations:

 

Fiction

“In the Afterwards,” by Devon Halliday

“Paper Dolls of the Homestead Era,” by Jessica Hollander

“Life Cycle of the Common Goldfish,” by Michael Knight

 

Nonfiction

“A Cow Funeral,” by Sarah Beth Childers

 

Poetry

“Inflatable Boys,” by A. E. Wynter

“Thinning the Peaches,” by Kate Partridge

 

Congrats and good luck to all our nominees!
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