Crab Creek Review: Independent Poetry and Short 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.

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 Spring/Summer '08 Issue

Order our current issue, Fall/Winter '09, here
featuring new work from Denise Duhamel, Barbara Crooker, Susan Elbe, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Nancy Pagh, Peter Pereira, Susan Rich, and Peggy Shumaker.

Poetry Contest: March 15-May 31
Guest Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Please read our contest guidelines before submitting.

Crab Creek Review publishes two issues a year.

What's New
Crab Creek Review thanks Eagle Harbor Books and John Willson, Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Nancy Pagh, and Susan Rich for a wonderful reading yesterday (Sunday, April 19th) on Bainbridge Island as we celebrated our Fall/Winter '09 issue. Check back soon for photos of the event. 3 Poems from Crab Creek Review featured on Verse Daily Crab Creek Review congratulates 3 poets from our Fall/Winter '09 issue, whose poems appeared last week on Verse Daily: Elizabeth Austen: Humans Annie Lighthart: There Were Horses Tom Holmes: A Corpse of Vortices Crab Creek Review's Fall/Winter '09 Issue is here! Read new work from Denise Duhamel, Elizabeth Austen, Barbara Crooker, Jim Daniels, Susan Elbe, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Nancy Pagh, Peter Pereira, Susan Rich, Peggy Shumaker, and Martha Silano. Purchase your copy here. Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest--Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of At the Drive-In Volcano (2007) and Miracle Fruit (2003). Winner will receive $150. Postmark deadline: May 31, 2009. Please read our full guidelines here before submitting. Crab Creek Review is now accepting Creative Non-Fiction submissions. Submit now for our Summer '09 Issue. Please visit our Submissions page for details. Crab Creek Review is proud to welcome our new creative non-fiction editor, Jennifer Culkin, to our staff. Jennifer is the author of A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care, published by Beacon Press and available for purchase here. Crab Creek Review congratulates Shann Ray, the winner of the 2009 Fiction Contest for his short story, "Rodin's the Hand of God..." Congratulations to the following finalists: Jim Bainbridge, Zan Agzigian, Laura Gibson, Richard Fellinger, Debra Brenegan, and Gary Parks. Special thanks to Fiction Judge, Joanna Manning. Join Us For An Evening Of Art, Music, & Poetry In Kingston, WA, Saturday, May 9th. Crab Creek Review will be at the Kingston Art Gallery's Second Saturday Gallery Night on May 9th from 5-8 pm. CCR staff Lana Hechtman Ayers, Jennifer Culkin, Ronda Broatch, and Annette Spaulding-Convy will be reading from the Fall/Winter '09 Issue (from 5:30-6:00 pm), which proudly features Marilyn Liden Bode's linocut, We Are The Reason Our Ancestors Existed, on the cover. The Kingston Art Gallery will be featuring Marilyn's art in May. Join us for an evening of art, music, poetry, and refreshments! Kingston Art Gallery Corner of Highway 104 and West Kingston Rd at Cleo's Landing Kingston, WA 360-297-5133 www.kingstonartgallery.com Our Fall/Winter '09 Issue is available for purchase at the Kingston Art Gallery. We are now on Facebook! Become a member of our Crab Creek Review Group and receive the latest news and updates. Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2008 Crab Creek Review has nominated the following writers (from our Spring/Summer 2008 issue) for the Pushcart Prize: Kathleen Alcala, The Accidental Zoo Patricia Fargnoli, Lovers Sidney Hall, Jr., What the Loon Must Have Known Marjorie Manwaring, You Ask About the Letting Go Kay Mullen, The Tent Peter Munro, The Fatman Can’t Get a Country and Western Tune Out of His Head: ‘Mamas, Don’t Let Your Sons Grow Up (To Be Intertidal Ecologists)’ Congratulations! 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 2009 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 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. You can still purchase our Spring/Summer 2008 Issue, which includes new work from Marvin Bell, Patricia Fargnoli, Kathleen Flenniken, and Mary Biddinger. To purchase this back issue at a reduced price, please visit our subscription page.

What's New

Crab Creek Review thanks Eagle Harbor Books and John Willson, Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Nancy Pagh, and Susan Rich for a wonderful reading yesterday (Sunday, April 19th) on Bainbridge Island as we celebrated our Fall/Winter '09 issue. Check back soon for photos of the event.

3 Poems from Crab Creek Review featured on Verse Daily
Crab Creek Review congratulates 3 poets from our Fall/Winter '09 issue, whose poems appeared last week on Verse Daily:
Elizabeth Austen: Humans
Annie Lighthart: There Were Horses
Tom Holmes: A Corpse of Vortices

Crab Creek Review's Fall/Winter '09 Issue is here!
Read new work from Denise Duhamel, Elizabeth Austen, Barbara Crooker, Jim Daniels, Susan Elbe, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Nancy Pagh, Peter Pereira, Susan Rich, Peggy Shumaker, and Martha Silano.
Purchase your copy here.

Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest--Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of At the Drive-In Volcano (2007) and Miracle Fruit (2003).
Winner will receive $150.
Postmark deadline: May 31, 2009.
Please read our full guidelines here before submitting.

Crab Creek Review is now accepting Creative Non-Fiction submissions. Submit now for our Summer '09 Issue. Please visit our Submissions page for details. Crab Creek Review is proud to welcome our new creative non-fiction editor, Jennifer Culkin, to our staff. Jennifer is the author of A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care, published by Beacon Press and available for purchase here.

Crab Creek Review congratulates Shann Ray, the winner of the 2009 Fiction Contest for his short story, "Rodin's the Hand of God..."
Congratulations to the following finalists: Jim Bainbridge, Zan Agzigian, Laura Gibson, Richard Fellinger, Debra Brenegan, and Gary Parks.
Special thanks to Fiction Judge, Joanna Manning.

Join Us For An Evening Of Art, Music, & Poetry In Kingston, WA, Saturday, May 9th.
Crab Creek Review will be at the Kingston Art Gallery's Second Saturday Gallery Night on May 9th from 5-8 pm. CCR staff Lana Hechtman Ayers, Jennifer Culkin, Ronda Broatch, and Annette Spaulding-Convy will be reading from the Fall/Winter '09 Issue (from 5:30-6:00 pm), which proudly features Marilyn Liden Bode's linocut, We Are The Reason Our Ancestors Existed, on the cover. The Kingston Art Gallery will be featuring Marilyn's art in May.
Join us for an evening of art, music, poetry, and refreshments!
Kingston Art Gallery
Corner of Highway 104 and West Kingston Rd at Cleo's Landing
Kingston, WA
360-297-5133
www.kingstonartgallery.com
Our Fall/Winter '09 Issue is available for purchase at the Kingston Art Gallery.

We are now on Facebook! Become a member of our Crab Creek Review Group and receive the latest news and updates.

Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2008
Crab Creek Review has nominated the following writers (from our Spring/Summer 2008 issue) for the Pushcart Prize:

Kathleen Alcala, The Accidental Zoo
Patricia Fargnoli, Lovers
Sidney Hall, Jr., What the Loon Must Have Known
Marjorie Manwaring, You Ask About the Letting Go
Kay Mullen, The Tent
Peter Munro, The Fatman Can’t Get a Country and Western Tune Out of His Head: ‘Mamas, Don’t Let Your Sons Grow Up (To Be Intertidal Ecologists)’
Congratulations!

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 2009 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 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.

You can still purchase our Spring/Summer 2008 Issue, which includes new work from Marvin Bell, Patricia Fargnoli, Kathleen Flenniken, and Mary Biddinger.
To purchase this back issue at a reduced price, please visit our subscription page.

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