Crab Creek Review: Independent Poetry and Short Fiction

Celebrating our twenty-fifth year, Crab Creek Review is dedicated
to introducing you to the best writing from the Northwest and beyond.

Spring/Summer 2008 Issue Now Available

Crab Creek Review is a perfect-bound print literary journal dedicated to publishing the best poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. While we are a literary journal with our roots in the Northwest for the last 25 years, we aim to expand our publication.

We are interested in publishing both emerging and established poets and writers. Over the years we have published Naomi Shihab Nye, Rebecca Wells, William Stafford, Dorianne Laux, Marvin Bell, Peter Pereira, Ilya Kaminsky, Kathleen Alcala, Oliver de la Paz, Martha Silano, Ciaran Berry, Kathleen Flenniken, Patricia Fargnoli, Sam Hamill, Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Molly Tenenbaum, Kary Wayson, Nancy Pagh, John Davis, Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Janet Norman Knox, Mary Biddinger, and others.

Read selections from our current issue.

Crab Creek Review publishes two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer

What's New
Crab Creek Review Announces New Literary Advisory Board The following poets have graciously accepted our invitation to serve on our new Crab Creek Review Board: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Nancy Pagh Peter Pereira Susan Rich Peggy Shumaker We are delighted that these talented writers will be working with us in an advisory role. Our upcoming Fall/Winter 2008 issue will feature their poetry. Click here for photos of our Hugo House Reading on Oct. 22nd. We enjoyed an evening of poetry, short story, and harp music, celebrating Crab Creek Review's Spring/Summer '08 issue. Many thanks to the contributors who read and the writers who donated books for our raffle. Crab Creek Fiction Contest: July 1, 2008 - November 30, 2008. Contest Judge: Joanna Manning, MFA, Rainier Writing Workshop. We encourage both established and new fiction writers to submit. Crab Creek Review Editors' Prize We are happy to announce that we will begin awarding an annual *Crab Creek Review Editors' Prize* starting in 2009. The award will be given for the best poem, short story, or essay published in the previous year's issues. All poems, short stories, and essays that have appeared in the previous year's issues are eligible for this prize. The winning piece will be published online and the author of the work will receive $100. The prize is chosen by the co-editors of Crab Creek Review. There is no entry fee or nomination process for this award. Purchase the Spring/Summer 2008 Issue here.

What's New

Crab Creek Review Announces New Literary Advisory Board
The following poets have graciously accepted our invitation to serve on our new Crab Creek Review Board:

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Nancy Pagh
Peter Pereira
Susan Rich
Peggy Shumaker

We are delighted that these talented writers will be working with us in an advisory role. Our upcoming Fall/Winter 2008 issue will feature their poetry.

Click here for photos of our Hugo House Reading on Oct. 22nd.
We enjoyed an evening of poetry, short story, and harp music, celebrating Crab Creek Review's Spring/Summer '08 issue. Many thanks to the contributors who read and the writers who donated books for our raffle.

Crab Creek Fiction Contest: July 1, 2008 - November 30, 2008.
Contest Judge: Joanna Manning, MFA, Rainier Writing Workshop.
We encourage both established and new fiction writers to submit.

Crab Creek Review Editors' Prize
We are happy to announce that we will begin awarding an annual Crab Creek Review Editors' Prize starting in 2009. The award will be given for the best poem, short story, or essay published in the previous year's issues. All poems, short stories, and essays that have appeared in the previous year's issues are eligible for this prize. The winning piece will be published online and the author of the work will receive $100. The prize is chosen by the co-editors of Crab Creek Review. There is no entry fee or nomination process for this award.

Purchase the Spring/Summer 2008 Issue here.

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