The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose
The Lindenwood Review literary journal publishes fiction (short fiction and flash fiction), creative nonfiction (personal essays, lyric essays, and flash nonfiction), and prose poems (block format). The journal is published annually, and students in the university's MFA in Writing program serve as editorial assistants as part of their MFA coursework.
Original, unpublished work may be submitted from June 1 through October 1 via Submittable (no fee). Submissions are welcome from both emerging and established writers. We are looking for fiction with believable characters and a vivid story; creative nonfiction that is well-crafted and fiercely honest; prose poems with a distinctive atmosphere and interesting use of language; and mostly, work that moves us as readers and inspires us as writers. We look forward to reading your work! .
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Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 15 (2025)
Creative Nonfiction
Slow Down, Breathe In, Hit Hard.
Jo Underwood
Live in Fragments
Matthew Frye-Castillo
To My Unborn
S.E. White
The Man Behind the Dumpster
Kyle Cochrun
Memoir in Transient Moments
Adrian S. Potter
First Who Knew
A. M. Gray
What Remains
Thelma Zirkelbach
Up the Ladder, Down the Snake
Ray Kruger
Prose Poems
parsley and dill
Brook Jaffe
Almost Home
Daniel Beer
Every Flower Into Memory
Angela Sucich
Girlhood as Goliath
Madison Frazier
Keeping Up
Holly Karapetkova
Milk Shute
André F. Peltier
If we win the lottery…
Richard Collins
Night Vision
Christy Prahl
Panic attack at the kitchen table
Hallie Fogarty
Weekday Morning, Running Late
Tamara Kreutz
Field Notes from a Sleepwalk
Taylor Hamann Los
Fiction
The River Boys
Matt Perry
The Sea Pony
Pia Quintano
The Toll Road
Caitlin E. Timmins
Found Stones
CJ Mathis
The Flicker and Hum
Mathea Tanner
Singing at Clocks
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
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Contributors
Editor
- Beth Mead
Editorial Assistants
Keeley Ahart, Kat Alfieri, Jodi Anderson, Sarah L. Blumert, Amy M. Denton, JoJo Dunlap, Ariel Fitts, Craig Furtick, Grant Gordon, Joan B. Hagy, Kam Hemaidan, Dianne Killebrew, Mark E. Landry, Juno Lohmann, Andy Malinski, Carolyn McBride, Kristen Moeller, Madeline Salzman, Amber Terranova, Brandon Tezzano, Annie Ulses, Lauren Vargas, Nathan Wallace, Destiny M. Wertz, Joel Wilson, Grant Woodhams