The Lindenwood Review
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Original, unpublished work may be submitted from July 1 through October 1 via Submittable (no fee).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! .
Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 11 (2021)
Issue 11, our first fully online issue of The Lindenwood Review, arrives in the middle of a pandemic, at a time when hope is needed to balance the despair, when we want literature to do its magic—to both lift us away from the challenges in our lives and to help us feel grounded and make sense of the spinning world around us. We hope TLR11 will give a bit of that balance to you, our readers, as you allow yourselves some time to fall into the worlds of these wonderful stories, prose poems, and essays.
Editor: Beth Mead
Fiction
Crash Corner
Kelsey Askwith
A Dukedom Large Enough
Fletcher Bonin
Three Months
Dorothy Barnhouse
The Danger of Landing
Johanna Bond
Prose Poetry
Perhaps Then
Stephanie Lamb
Recipe for the Girl Who Never Learned to Cook
Claire Caron
Washing Day
Annika Cleland-Hura
A Beleaguered Wife Pleads With Her Husband About Icarus
Matthew J. Andrews
What Death Is
Laura Ohlmann
Elegy for the Worst
Daniel Edward Moore
Creative Non-Fiction
The Little House
Tracy Mann
The Season of the Itch
Christopher Duggan
How to Make a Cup of Tea
Rachel B. Moore
Collecting Seashells
Caitlin Upshall
Becoming Lovely
Marijean Oldham
Editor
- Beth Mead
Editorial Assistants
Sally A. Aldridge, Aanssy C. Allicock, F.E. Armitstead, Sheila Bitts, Jennifer M. Blanke, Eric Bronson, Joanna Byrne, Tyler J. Carroll, James Casada, Joan Connor, Katherine E. Cordes, Madi DiMercurio, Abbie Doll, Stephanie Dunlap-Holloman, Jenna Faulkner, Cassondra Feltus, Jennifer Fox, Carol Y. Godsave, Emily Jane Golden, Nathan Greenberg, Elizabeth Hereford-Hudson, Celeste M. Hurst, Nicole Jarrell, Mia Judson, Libby Kiszner, Naz B. Knudsen, Dean A. Kunchynski, Lisa A. LeFrois-Heath, Leah MacKenzie, Sarah Marquez, LeAnna McEuen, R.H. McMahan, Chloé McMurray, Alison Mehrman, Richard Mendoza III, Pamela Morton, Colleen Myers, Joseph P. O’Malley, Simoné R. Page, Danielle Popovits, Troy Pottgen, Marilyn Alyse Pruett, Tiffany Ritchie, CheLinda C. Rivas, Mark Robinson, Tiffany Rodriguez-Lee, Roxanne S. Rose, Katherine Rosenhammer, Kimberly Michelle Scott, Austin Shirey, Karen L. Sleeth, Heather Still, Jessie Story, Brittany Strong, Jazmyn Tyree, K. R. Vega, Alyssa Welch Minaker, Sara Wetmore, Mitchell L. Whitson, Janell R. Wight, Paula A. Zwicke.