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.

W e a r e i n t e r e s t e d i n p u blishing 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, William Doreski, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Susan Rich, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Alison Pelegrin, Mary Biddinger, Frances McCue, Virgil Suarez, Nancy Pagh, Alice Fogel, Oliver de la Paz, Martha Silano, Jim Daniels, James Bertolino, Ciaran Berry, Kathleen Flenniken, Patricia Fargnoli, Sam Hamill, Tod Marshall, Joseph Powell, Alice Derry, Marjorie Manwaring, Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Molly Tenenbaum, and Kary Wayson.

Order our current issue, 2011 Vol.2, here--
featuring the poetry of Nin Andrews, Karina Borowicz, Sarah Cohen, Kathleen Kirk, Joseph O. Legaspi, Fernando Perez, Mark Wagenaar and fiction by Lauren Fink and Mary Elizabeth Pope. 2011 v.2 also features creative non-fiction by Maritess Zurbano and an interview with poet Nin Andrews.
Cover Art: Lullaby Moon VII (performance still) by Lucia Neare.

Crab Creek Review publishes two issues a year.

What's New
*Purchase Crab Creek Review 2011 v.2!* Featuring: Nin Andrews, Jose Angel Araguz, Anne Barngrover, Scott Blackwell, Karina Borowicz, Erin Byrne, Sarah Cohen, Susan J. Erickson, Lauren Fink, Marie Gauthier, Emily M. Green, Katrina Hays, Sonja James, Kathleen Kirk, Adrian Gibbons Koesters, Michael Lauchlan, Joseph O. Legaspi, Amelia Martens, Lucia Neare, Fernando Perez, Mary Elizabeth Pope, Jenna Rindo, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, Mark Wagenaar, James Valvis, and Maritess Zurbano. Order your copy (and subscribe!) here. ——— Crab Creek Review Announces 2011 Pushcart Nominations and 2011 Editors' Prize Crab Creek Review has nominated the following poets and writers for this year's Pushcart Prize: Fiction: Hal Ackerman: "The Dancer Horse" 2011 v.I Poetry: Sarah Cohen: "Summer Was Made of Clicks and Hisses" 2011 v.2 Katrina Hays: "Peaches" 2011 v.2 Kelley Henry: "Because I Might Need One, Twelve Definitions of Crown" 2011 v.I Sonja James: "Never Ask a Cloud to Marry You" 2011 v.2 Cindy Stewart-Rinier: "Pre-K Pollock" 2011 v.2 The Co-Editors of Crab Creek Review (Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy) are awarding the *Crab Creek Review 2011 Editors' Prize* to Portland, OR poet and MFA student, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, for her poem, "Pre-K Pollock" (2011 v.2). Our annual Editors' Prize is awarded for the best poem, short story, or creative non-fiction essay published by Crab Creek Review in a given year. We would like to thank all of our 2011 contributors for the fantastic work they submitted to us. ——— Crab Creek Review Now Accepting Email Submissions We are now accepting submissions via email. Please visit our Submissions Page for complete guidelines. And please note our submissions period this year is Sept. 15th - Mar. 31st. ——— Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest: The Winner is Announced! Thank you to all of the poets who entered Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest and special thanks to our wonderful judge, Dorianne Laux and to our poetry editor, Lana Hechtman Ayers. Winner: "Widowing" by Laura E. Davis. Honorable Mentions: "The Contours of the Lake Lost to Cloud" by Jill Osier "Boundaries" by Claire Zoghb "Seeing You" by Maya Jewell Zeller Finalists: "Gretel Remembers" by Brent Calderwood "Fairy Tale" by Rebecca Foust "Someday My Stomach Will Be a Museum" by Jill Osier "Love: Sun::" by Ben Purkett "Relative Identity" by Cindy Stewart-Rinier "Elegy/Elk River" by Michael Schmeltzer "Tautology" by Michael Schmeltzer "Departure" by John Willson "Divorce on Mars" by Francine Witt To read more about the contest results and what Dorianne Laux wrote about the winning poem, please visit Crab Creek Review's blog. Look for all of these poems in Crab Creek Review 2012 v.I. ——— Crab Creek Review is a Media Sponsor for the 2011-2012 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 2011-2012 SAL Poetry Series: Oct. 5th: Dorianne Laux Nov. 6th: Peter Cole, Bill Porter, and Nikolai Popov Dec. 8th: Terrance Hayes Feb. 9th: Albert Goldbarth Mar. 15th: Louise Gluck Apr. 4th: Troy Jollimore and John Koethe May 15th: Matthew and Michael Dickman Hope to see you there! ——— Crab Creek Review Announces Fiction Contest Winner: Hal Ackerman Western Washington University professor and author, Kathryn Trueblood, has chosen "The Dancer Horse" by Hal Ackerman as the winner of Crab Creek Review's Annual Fiction Contest. Hal Ackerman has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television since 1985 and is currently co-area head of the screenwriting program. His book, Write Screenplays That Sell…The Ackerman Way, is in its third printing, and is the text of choice in a growing number of screenwriting programs around the country. He has had numerous short stories published in literary journals over the past two years, including North Dakota Review, New Millennium Writings, Southeast Review, The Pinch, Storyglossia, Passages and The Yalobusha Review. His play, TESTOSTERONE: How Prostate Cancer Made A Man of Me, won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize for drama and enjoyed a successful run in Los Angeles and has been performed nationwide for Prostate support groups. Ackerman's first novel, STEIN, STONED (www.tyrusbooks.com) was published in July 2010. STEIN, STUNG is forthcoming in late spring of 2011. Special thanks to our judge, Kathryn Trueblood, Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and award winning author. For more information about Hal Ackerman and "The Dancer Horse", please visit our blog: http://crabcreekreview.blogspot.com/2011/03/crab-creek-review-announces-fiction.html ——— Crab Creek Review is now accepting Creative Non-Fiction submissions. Submit now for our 2011 Vol.2 issue. Please visit our submissions page for complete guidelines. Our new creative non-fiction editor is Star Rockers, who will also continue as our graphic designer/production manager. ——— Please like us on Facebook! 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

Purchase Crab Creek Review 2011 v.2!
Featuring: Nin Andrews, Jose Angel Araguz, Anne Barngrover, Scott Blackwell, Karina Borowicz, Erin Byrne, Sarah Cohen, Susan J. Erickson, Lauren Fink, Marie Gauthier, Emily M. Green, Katrina Hays, Sonja James, Kathleen Kirk, Adrian Gibbons Koesters, Michael Lauchlan, Joseph O. Legaspi, Amelia Martens, Lucia Neare, Fernando Perez, Mary Elizabeth Pope, Jenna Rindo, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, Mark Wagenaar, James Valvis, and Maritess Zurbano.

Order your copy (and subscribe!) here.

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Crab Creek Review Announces 2011 Pushcart Nominations and 2011 Editors' Prize
Crab Creek Review has nominated the following poets and writers for this year's Pushcart Prize:

Fiction:
Hal Ackerman: "The Dancer Horse" 2011 v.I
Poetry:
Sarah Cohen: "Summer Was Made of Clicks and Hisses" 2011 v.2
Katrina Hays: "Peaches" 2011 v.2
Kelley Henry: "Because I Might Need One, Twelve Definitions of Crown" 2011 v.I
Sonja James: "Never Ask a Cloud to Marry You" 2011 v.2
Cindy Stewart-Rinier: "Pre-K Pollock" 2011 v.2

The Co-Editors of Crab Creek Review (Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy) are awarding the Crab Creek Review 2011 Editors' Prize to Portland, OR poet and MFA student, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, for her poem, "Pre-K Pollock" (2011 v.2). Our annual Editors' Prize is awarded for the best poem, short story, or creative non-fiction essay published by Crab Creek Review in a given year. We would like to thank all of our 2011 contributors for the fantastic work they submitted to us.

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Crab Creek Review Now Accepting Email Submissions
We are now accepting submissions via email. Please visit our Submissions Page for complete guidelines. And please note our submissions period this year is Sept. 15th - Mar. 31st.

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Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest: The Winner is Announced!
Thank you to all of the poets who entered Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest and special thanks to our wonderful judge, Dorianne Laux and to our poetry editor, Lana Hechtman Ayers.

Winner:
"Widowing" by Laura E. Davis.
Honorable Mentions:
"The Contours of the Lake Lost to Cloud" by Jill Osier
"Boundaries" by Claire Zoghb
"Seeing You" by Maya Jewell Zeller
Finalists:
"Gretel Remembers" by Brent Calderwood
"Fairy Tale" by Rebecca Foust
"Someday My Stomach Will Be a Museum" by Jill Osier
"Love: Sun::" by Ben Purkett
"Relative Identity" by Cindy Stewart-Rinier
"Elegy/Elk River" by Michael Schmeltzer
"Tautology" by Michael Schmeltzer
"Departure" by John Willson
"Divorce on Mars" by Francine Witt

To read more about the contest results and what Dorianne Laux wrote about the winning poem, please visit Crab Creek Review's blog. Look for all of these poems in Crab Creek Review 2012 v.I.

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Crab Creek Review is a Media Sponsor for the 2011-2012 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 2011-2012 SAL Poetry Series:
Oct. 5th: Dorianne Laux
Nov. 6th: Peter Cole, Bill Porter, and Nikolai Popov
Dec. 8th: Terrance Hayes
Feb. 9th: Albert Goldbarth
Mar. 15th: Louise Gluck
Apr. 4th: Troy Jollimore and John Koethe
May 15th: Matthew and Michael Dickman
Hope to see you there!

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Crab Creek Review Announces Fiction Contest Winner: Hal Ackerman
Western Washington University professor and author, Kathryn Trueblood, has chosen "The Dancer Horse" by Hal Ackerman as the winner of Crab Creek Review's Annual Fiction Contest.
Hal Ackerman has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television since 1985 and is currently co-area head of the screenwriting program. His book, Write Screenplays That Sell…The Ackerman Way, is in its third printing, and is the text of choice in a growing number of screenwriting programs around the country. He has had numerous short stories published in literary journals over the past two years, including North Dakota Review, New Millennium Writings, Southeast Review, The Pinch, Storyglossia, Passages and The Yalobusha Review. His play, TESTOSTERONE: How Prostate Cancer Made A Man of Me, won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize for drama and enjoyed a successful run in Los Angeles and has been performed nationwide for Prostate support groups. Ackerman's first novel, STEIN, STONED (www.tyrusbooks.com) was published in July 2010. STEIN, STUNG is forthcoming in late spring of 2011.
Special thanks to our judge, Kathryn Trueblood, Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and award winning author.
For more information about Hal Ackerman and "The Dancer Horse", please visit our blog: http://crabcreekreview.blogspot.com/2011/03/crab-creek-review-announces-fiction.html

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Crab Creek Review is now accepting Creative Non-Fiction submissions. Submit now for our 2011 Vol.2 issue. Please visit our submissions page for complete guidelines. Our new creative non-fiction editor is Star Rockers, who will also continue as our graphic designer/production manager.

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Please like us on Facebook!

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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