Crab Creek Review: Independent Poetry and Short Fiction

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, 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 Mail Submissions to: Crab Creek Review
c/o 7315 34th Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98117

What's New
Crab Creek Fiction Contest: July 1, 2008 - November 30, 2008. Purchase the Spring/Summer 2008 Issue here. Crab Creek Review Reading: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Contributors from the Spring/Summer '08 Issue read their work Oct. 22, 2008 at 7 pm Richard Hugo House 1634 11th Avenue Seattle, WA Please join us for an evening of poetry and fiction. Writers James Bertolino, Kathleen Flenniken, Kathleen Alcala, Marjorie Manwaring, Kay Mullen, Ronda Broatch, Brendan McBreen and Monica Schley will read from their work. The celebration will include musical selections from poet and harpist Monica Schley and drawings for signed, first edition books. So far (check back for more updates), our raffle will include: 6 signed novels by Jennie Shortridge including Riding with the Queen, Eating Heaven, Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe Books from Tom Hunley of Steel Toe Books Jenifer Lawrence's first edition One Hundred Steps From Shore Holly Hughes' broadside & signed chapbook, Boxing the Compass, winner of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award Signed book of poems from Barbara Crooker Signed books from Nin Andrews Editors' Bundle featuring In the Convent We Become Clouds by Annette Spaulding-Convy and Small Knots by Kelli Russell Agodon And of course, with Hugo House there is always wine and coffee available, so please mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 22nd so you can join in the literary festivities with us.

What's New

Crab Creek Fiction Contest: July 1, 2008 - November 30, 2008.

Purchase the Spring/Summer 2008 Issue here.

Crab Creek Review Reading: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Contributors from the Spring/Summer '08 Issue
read their work Oct. 22, 2008 at 7 pm
Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA

Please join us for an evening of poetry and fiction. Writers James Bertolino, Kathleen Flenniken, Kathleen Alcala, Marjorie Manwaring, Kay Mullen, Ronda Broatch, Brendan McBreen and Monica Schley will read from their work. The celebration will include musical selections from poet and harpist Monica Schley and drawings for signed, first edition books. So far (check back for more updates), our raffle will include:

6 signed novels by Jennie Shortridge including Riding with the Queen, Eating Heaven, Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe
Books from Tom Hunley of Steel Toe Books
Jenifer Lawrence's first edition One Hundred Steps From Shore
Holly Hughes' broadside & signed chapbook, Boxing the Compass, winner of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award
Signed book of poems from Barbara Crooker
Signed books from Nin Andrews
Editors' Bundle featuring In the Convent We Become Clouds by Annette Spaulding-Convy and Small Knots by Kelli Russell Agodon

And of course, with Hugo House there is always wine and coffee available, so please mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 22nd so you can join in the literary festivities with us.