Crab Creek Review: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction

Celebrating over twenty-five years of publishing, Crab Creek Review is dedicated
to introducing you to the best writing from the Northwest and beyond.

Summer 2010 Issue Now Available

Crab Creek Review is a perfect-bound print literary journal dedicated to publishing the best poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

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, Madeline DeFrees, David Guterson, Lyn Lifshin, Dorianne Laux, Marvin Bell, Peter Pereira, Ilya Kaminsky, David Wagoner, Kathleen Alcala, Denise Duhamel, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Peggy Shumaker, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Susan Rich, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Nin Andrews, Alison Pelegrin, Mary Biddinger, Frances McCue, Virgil Suarez, Nancy Pagh, Oliver de la Paz, Martha Silano, Jim Daniels, James Bertolino, Ciaran Berry, Kathleen Flenniken, Patricia Fargnoli, Sam Hamill, Tod Marshall, Joseph Powell, Marjorie Manwaring, Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Molly Tenenbaum, and Kary Wayson.

Order our current issue, 2012 Vol.2, here
(see below for list of poets and writers appearing in this issue)

Cover Art: Two Sylvias (Sylvia Beach & Sylvia Plath) by Nancy Canyon

Crab Creek Review publishes two issues a year.

What's New
--- Crab Creek Review's 2013 Poetry Contest: Feb. 15 - May 15 Judge: Natasha Sajé Submit up to 3 unpublished poems $10 Submission Fee Email Submissions Only Winner receives $200 and publication in Crab Creek Review All entries considered for publication Please read our complete guidelines: http://www.crabcreekreview.org/contest.htm Natasha Sajé’s* first book of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), was chosen from over 900 manuscripts to win the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize, and was later awarded the Towson State Prize in Literature. Her second collection of poems, Bend, was published by Tupelo Press in 2004 and awarded the Utah Book Award in Poetry. Her third book of poems, Vivarium, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She has recently completed a critical book about poetry, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory. --- Crab Creek Review 2012 v2 is released! Featuring: Marci Ameluxen, Emily Banks, Michelle Skupski Bissell, Bill Brown, Bruce Cain, Michael Campagnoli, Amy Katherine Cannon, Gloria Chun, John Davis, Jenny Dolan, Linda Dove, Clara Changxin Fang, Rebecca Ellis, Ruth Foley, Rebecca Foust, Casey Fuller, Eva Hooker, Rita Hypnarowski, Jenna Le, Kim-An Lieberman, Stephanie Lovegrove, Al Maginnes, Diane Kirsten Martin, Tim Mayo, Paul McMahon, Rachel Mennies, Michelle Menting, Tara Mae Mulroy, Cynthia Neely, Greg Nicholl, Shawnte Orion, Fernando Perez, Rose Postma, Amanda Powell, David Ray, Rebecca Givens Rolland, Carol Smallwood, Jenny Smick, Rochelle Spencer, David Starkey, Douglas Sutton-Ramspeck, Ann Teplick, Anastacia Tolbert, Sara Tracey, Craig van Rooyen, Marc Vincenz, Adam Walsh, Jessica L. Walsh. Also featuring an interview with WA State Poet Laureate, Kathleen Flenniken. Order your issue and subscribe here. --- Crab Creek Review Announces 2012 Pushcart Nominations and Editors' Prize Congratulations to the following poets and writers nominated for a Pushcart Prize: The Less Contained, Prayer by Linda Dove Jesus and Black Olives by Monic Ductan For the Life of Me by Tina Kelley Summer Shadow Lamina by Samuel Mock Seamus-Luigi Makes Three by Jenny Smick Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman by Rochelle Spencer Congratulations to the winner of the Crab Creek Review Editors' Prize, Rochelle Spencer for her nonfiction piece, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman, published in CCR 2012 v.2. Rochelle Spencer has an MFA from New York University and is the author of the e-novella, Ella Jones and Her Magical Vagina. About Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman, Rochelle writes: "This was the hardest essay I've ever had to write, but I am grateful for having written it; researching it made me rethink how I saw other black women's bodies, and by extension, my own." --- Crab Creek Review is a Media Sponsor for the 2012-2013 Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series Crab Creek Review is pleased to announce that we are a Media Sponsor for the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. We encourage our Seattle area subscribers and contributors to support SAL’s mission of presenting programs that further the arts and invite cultural dialogue. To learn more about SAL and to purchase tickets to the Poetry Series and other events, please visit their website: http://www.lectures.org. If you attend the Poetry Series, please stop by the Crab Creek Review table, browse our current issue, and chat with us. We have subscription and submission information available, as well as back issues for sale at a reduced price. The 2012-2013 SAL Poetry Series: Oct. 2nd: Dean Young Nov. 15th: Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles Jan. 16th: David Wagoner Feb. 13th: Nick Flynn Mar. 19th: Stanley Plumly Apr. 25th: Nikky Finney May 15th: Jorie Graham Hope to see you there! --- Crab Creek Review Announces 2012 Poetry Contest Results, Judged by Susan Rich Poetry Contest Judge, Susan Rich, has chosen the following poems as the winner, honorable mentions, and finalists of our annual poetry contest: Winner: Leia Penina Wilson-- And we lost the city we woke up in Honorable Mentions: Dave Jarecki-- Nona Says As I’m Leaving for College Greg Nicholl-- Later I Dreamt the Black Rabbit Matthew Guenette-- A Failure of Spring Rain Jessica Walsh-- The Balloon Artist Falls in Love Finalists (in alphabetical order): Judith Barrington-- Lake Patzcuaro Judith Barrington-- Not a Credo Dave Byrd-- Spring Cleaning Katie Eberhart-- Efficiency Is A Force of Nature As Well As Economics Katharine Ogle-- Riddle For Hunger Anna Scotti-- Philadelphia Anna Scotti-- Save Me a Slice of Raisin Toast Claire Skinner-- What’s New Maya Jewell Zeller-- The Big Quiet --- Crab Creek Review Announces Fiction Contest Winner Contest judge, Kim Barnes has chosen "The Tenant" by Roger Sheffer as the winner of Crab Creek Review's 2011 Fiction Contest. About her decision to choose "The Tenant", Kim Barnes writes, "The best fiction takes us to that strange place where we have never been but instantly recognize as familiar, and Roger Sheffer's "The Tenant" is just that kind of story: peculiar, fascinating, and, finally, heartbreaking in its portrayal of our need to control the chaos of emotion and vulnerability when what we desire most of all is the courage to belong." Roger Sheffer has been teaching writing at Minnesota State Mankato since 1980. His most recent book publication is the story collection Music of the Inner Lakes (New Rivers). His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, Third Coast, Fugue, Harpur Palate, and many other magazines. His interests, beyond writing, include hiking, rowboats, composing music, and choir singing. About his winning fiction piece, Roger writes, "I was interested in how the power differential between two characters could change, during the course of a story. That it began with a cough and ended with an eviction seemed predestined; hopefully, not too predictable." --- Please like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crabcreekreview! We also blog! Check out our Crab Creek Review Blog for more news, events, and read our Writers' Notebook Series, where you will learn more about the poets/writers who have been published in our journal (in their own words). --- Crab Creek Review's Literary Advisory Board The following poets have graciously accepted our invitation to serve on our Crab Creek Review Board: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Nancy Pagh Peter Periera Susan Rich Peggy Shumaker We are delighted that these talented writers will be working with us in an advisory role. Our Fall/Winter 2009 issue features their poetry. ---

What's New

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Crab Creek Review's 2013 Poetry Contest: Feb. 15 - May 15 Judge: Natasha Sajé

*Submit up to 3 unpublished poems
*$10 Submission Fee
*Email Submissions Only
*Winner receives $200 and publication in Crab Creek Review
*All entries considered for publication

Please read our complete guidelines: http://www.crabcreekreview.org/contest.htm

Natasha Sajé’s first book of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), was chosen from over 900 manuscripts to win the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize, and was later awarded the Towson State Prize in Literature. Her second collection of poems, Bend, was published by Tupelo Press in 2004 and awarded the Utah Book Award in Poetry. Her third book of poems, Vivarium, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She has recently completed a critical book about poetry, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory.

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Crab Creek Review 2012 v2 is released!

Featuring: Marci Ameluxen, Emily Banks, Michelle Skupski Bissell, Bill Brown, Bruce Cain, Michael Campagnoli, Amy Katherine Cannon, Gloria Chun, John Davis, Jenny Dolan, Linda Dove, Clara Changxin Fang, Rebecca Ellis, Ruth Foley, Rebecca Foust, Casey Fuller, Eva Hooker, Rita Hypnarowski, Jenna Le, Kim-An Lieberman, Stephanie Lovegrove, Al Maginnes, Diane Kirsten Martin, Tim Mayo, Paul McMahon, Rachel Mennies, Michelle Menting, Tara Mae Mulroy, Cynthia Neely, Greg Nicholl, Shawnte Orion, Fernando Perez, Rose Postma, Amanda Powell, David Ray, Rebecca Givens Rolland, Carol Smallwood, Jenny Smick, Rochelle Spencer, David Starkey, Douglas Sutton-Ramspeck, Ann Teplick, Anastacia Tolbert, Sara Tracey, Craig van Rooyen, Marc Vincenz, Adam Walsh, Jessica L. Walsh. Also featuring an interview with WA State Poet Laureate, Kathleen Flenniken.

Order your issue and subscribe here.

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Crab Creek Review Announces 2012 Pushcart Nominations and Editors' Prize

Congratulations to the following poets and writers nominated for a Pushcart Prize:

The Less Contained, Prayer by Linda Dove

Jesus and Black Olives by Monic Ductan

For the Life of Me by Tina Kelley

Summer Shadow Lamina by Samuel Mock

Seamus-Luigi Makes Three by Jenny Smick

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman by Rochelle Spencer

Congratulations to the winner of the Crab Creek Review Editors' Prize, Rochelle Spencer for her nonfiction piece, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman, published in CCR 2012 v.2. Rochelle Spencer has an MFA from New York University and is the author of the e-novella, Ella Jones and Her Magical Vagina. About Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman, Rochelle writes: "This was the hardest essay I've ever had to write, but I am grateful for having written it; researching it made me rethink how I saw other black women's bodies, and by extension, my own."

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Crab Creek Review is a Media Sponsor for the 2012-2013 Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
Crab Creek Review is pleased to announce that we are a Media Sponsor for the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. We encourage our Seattle area subscribers and contributors to support SAL’s mission of presenting programs that further the arts and invite cultural dialogue. To learn more about SAL and to purchase tickets to the Poetry Series and other events, please visit their website: http://www.lectures.org. If you attend the Poetry Series, please stop by the Crab Creek Review table, browse our current issue, and chat with us. We have subscription and submission information available, as well as back issues for sale at a reduced price.
The 2012-2013 SAL Poetry Series:
Oct. 2nd: Dean Young
Nov. 15th: Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles
Jan. 16th: David Wagoner
Feb. 13th: Nick Flynn
Mar. 19th: Stanley Plumly
Apr. 25th: Nikky Finney
May 15th: Jorie Graham
Hope to see you there!

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Crab Creek Review Announces 2012 Poetry Contest Results, Judged by Susan Rich
Poetry Contest Judge, Susan Rich, has chosen the following poems as the winner, honorable mentions, and finalists of our annual poetry contest:

Winner:
Leia Penina Wilson-- And we lost the city we woke up in
Honorable Mentions:
Dave Jarecki-- Nona Says As I’m Leaving for College
Greg Nicholl-- Later I Dreamt the Black Rabbit
Matthew Guenette-- A Failure of Spring Rain
Jessica Walsh-- The Balloon Artist Falls in Love
Finalists (in alphabetical order):
Judith Barrington-- Lake Patzcuaro
Judith Barrington-- Not a Credo
Dave Byrd-- Spring Cleaning
Katie Eberhart-- Efficiency Is A Force of Nature As Well As Economics
Katharine Ogle-- Riddle For Hunger
Anna Scotti-- Philadelphia
Anna Scotti-- Save Me a Slice of Raisin Toast
Claire Skinner-- What’s New
Maya Jewell Zeller-- The Big Quiet

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Crab Creek Review Announces Fiction Contest Winner
Contest judge, Kim Barnes has chosen "The Tenant" by Roger Sheffer as the winner of Crab Creek Review's 2011 Fiction Contest. About her decision to choose "The Tenant", Kim Barnes writes, "The best fiction takes us to that strange place where we have never been but instantly recognize as familiar, and Roger Sheffer's "The Tenant" is just that kind of story: peculiar, fascinating, and, finally, heartbreaking in its portrayal of our need to control the chaos of emotion and vulnerability when what we desire most of all is the courage to belong."

Roger Sheffer has been teaching writing at Minnesota State Mankato since 1980. His most recent book publication is the story collection Music of the Inner Lakes (New Rivers). His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, Third Coast, Fugue, Harpur Palate, and many other magazines. His interests, beyond writing, include hiking, rowboats, composing music, and choir singing. About his winning fiction piece, Roger writes, "I was interested in how the power differential between two characters could change, during the course of a story. That it began with a cough and ended with an eviction seemed predestined; hopefully, not too predictable."

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Please like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crabcreekreview!

We also blog! Check out our Crab Creek Review Blog for more news, events, and read our Writers' Notebook Series, where you will learn more about the poets/writers who have been published in our journal (in their own words).

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Crab Creek Review's Literary Advisory Board
The following poets have graciously accepted our invitation to serve on our Crab Creek Review Board:
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Nancy Pagh
Peter Periera
Susan Rich
Peggy Shumaker
We are delighted that these talented writers will be working with us in an advisory role. Our Fall/Winter 2009 issue features their poetry.

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