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Tahoma Literary Review

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We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates. All online since 2024! Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Nine naked vacant eyes wild as almonds in a field of trees.” Read Bonnie Jill Emanuel’s poem, “Naked Night in the Cold Room,” published in the latest issue of @tahomareview.bsky.social & featured in our #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/_...

Naked Night in the Cold Room - Tahoma Literary Review

Naked Night in the Cold Room after Picasso’s “Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon” Nine naked vacant eyes wild as almonds in a field of trees. I swear their stare

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Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tomorrow is the final day to send us work for our Issue 31. What are we looking for? Check the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, and poetry in translation in our most recent issue. tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...

Issue 30, Spring 2026 - Tahoma Literary Review

Here is our thirtieth issue, published at an in-between moment when winter has not yet loosened its grip and the promise of spring remains uncertain. The

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Short Story Shoutout@short-story-shout.bsky.social · 3mo ago

From Adam Falik's "A Very Short Repine Regarding Me and My Father" in Tahoma Literary Review: "All I wanted was to tell my father that nothing was forgiven. I wanted to howl it like an animal, lean over his cowering face...and scream it into his every scream." @tahomareview.bsky.social

"A Very Short Repine Regarding Me and My Father" by Adam Falik / Tahoma Literary Review

"I've been carrying this scream all my life."

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“In his hospital bed my father opens his mouth and readies himself to die.” Read Kiana Govoni’s essay “Inheritance,” published in @tahomareview.bsky.social & featured in our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/i...

Inheritance - Tahoma Literary Review

In his hospital bed my father opens his mouth and readies himself to die. Before this movement of the mouth, fish-like, and this acceptance of his own

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Some of my kids’ friends came over and stayed until dark the other night, which, in winter on the Olympic Peninsula, is still quite early.” Read Melissa O’Neil’s essay “Bear,” featured in @tahomareview.bsky.social & our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/b...

Bear - Tahoma Literary Review

Some of my kids’ friends came over and stayed until dark the other night, which, in winter on the Olympic Peninsula, is still quite early. My partner and

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Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Consider Michael Bazzett's beautiful poem "The Dead," which, he says, "arrived one morning after I set down Marie-Claire Bancquart’s astonishing collection, Every Minute Is First, to pause and look out the window. It’s that kind of book." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

The Dead - Tahoma Literary Review

become very skinny over time.They can sleep between two coinsstacked neatly on a dresser.The little blade of light slicing underneath the door at nightis

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Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"In an era when fact and fiction and space and time all clang together like a dime store windchime, the short story form feels particularly satisfying," says Nicole Callihan of her sliding doors-esque "The Ocean Floor" tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

The Ocean Floor - Tahoma Literary Review

One of us is visiting the other. Each of us arrived at some point in time, undertipped or overtipped the cab driver, stepped onto the curb, walked through

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Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · 7mo ago

2026 coming in hot. Meanwhile, spotlight's on "Waitings" by Sean Bernard. "We don’t while away the time; we whittle it (as it whittles us, in wiley ways). We are all, the sheepherder knows, waiting together, across space, across time."

Waitings - Tahoma Literary Review

1. In a late-stage test of physical aptitude and mental fortitude, Navy SEAL candidates are thrown feet tied, hands bound, into a nine-foot-deep body of

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I Write Like@iwritelike.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What a perfect, heartbreaking and beautiful story. The loss of memory is shown with great skill through the perspective of a once-successful field biologist who is watching her world disappear in a literal and metaphorical inferno. #shortstory

Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Spotlight this week on Betty J. Cotter, writing what she initially thought of as the “field trip story,” which then evolved into a greater examination of aging, memory, and our threatened environment.

Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Spotlight on this abecederian essay wherein @kristaleehanson.bsky.social writes a letter to her younger self, "to the self in the beginning of parenthood who was both terrified and deeply committed to learning how to parent our incredible child." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

Show up Late, Show up Early, Show up Uninvited - Tahoma Literary Review

Advocacy: Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby! And welcome to a world of families who are not invited, included, or accounted for. If

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Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Spotlight on Tiffanie Kim, an artist and emerging writer based in Hudson, NY. About her essay "Shrödinger's Father," she says: "When I found out my birth father died, I didn’t talk about it for weeks. I was surprised by the depth of grief I felt for someone I’d never known ...

Schrödinger’s Father - Tahoma Literary Review

My father has been dead for almost a decade. For most people, this wouldn’t come as a shock. Ten years is a long time, after all. I would’ve been

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