Want to get to know our taste for general poetry, fiction, & nonfiction submissions? Check out our “What We’re Reading/Watching” series... TV/Movies We’re Watching, Watching Next, & Re-Watching 🍿 Widow’s Bay House of the Dragon Slow Horses Mona Lisa Smile The Odyssey #literarymagazine #writing

Welcome Back to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series! This week’s feature is Elizabeth Branstetter, an incredible artist whose work is the basis of our logo! #literarymagazine #art #artist

Nonfiction We’re Reading, Reading Next, and Re-Reading ✨ How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li Communion by bell hooks Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz On Witness and Respair by Jesmyn Ward #creativenonfiction #essay #literarymagazine #writing

Welcome back to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series! This week we’re featuring Jo Eriom, who contributed this wonderful artwork of the Independence pillars.

Fiction We’re Reading, Reading Next, and Re-Reading 🌿 Outline by Rachel Cusk The Antidote by Karen Russell Bestiary by K-Ming Chang No One Belongs Here More than You: Stories by Miranda July Deacon King Kong by James McBride #fiction #shortstory #literarymagazine #writing

Welcome back to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series! This week we’re featuring Randy Clute, an incredible artist and contributor to our website. You can check out his Linktree here: linktr.ee/randyclute #literarymagazine #art #artists

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Poetry We’re Reading, Reading Next, and Re-Reading 🤗 Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing Then Winter by Chloe Honum Chord: Poems by Rick Barot All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg #poetry #poem #literarymagazine #writing

Welcome to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series. This week we’re featuring Piya Patel, designer of our amazing logo.

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Interested in learning more about our Healthcare and Healing folio? Here’s some of the works that inspired our theme.

A little story about our columns...

Q: What does your name mean? A: We’re named after Independence, TX, where Baylor was first founded in 1845. We also like how “independence” is an essential part of creativity, artistry, inquiry, and exploration. Our magazine’s goal is to foster exactly this.

Hello. We’re Independence Literary Review, a new literary magazine of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art housed in the English Department at Baylor University.