Fall/Winter Issue Coming Soon!

With winter settling in quickly in the Pacific Northwest, we are all eyes on our Fall/Winter Issue. This issue will be our biggest yet and feature creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. You'll also get a chance to read the winner and finalists of 2024 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize! 

Keep an eye on our socials for when the next issue will launch, or order your annual subscription today through our website or Submittable.

Spring Issue Available

Creative Nonfiction
Fast Lane
Our Spring/Summer Issue is still available!

​This issue features works from some familiar voices and new favorites. Join us for an adventure through European cities, personal histories, swamps, all the way to our own backyards. It is an issue grounded the present moment even as it calls back to historic touchstones, private and shared. 

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We are hosting a Creative Nonfiction-only Fast Lane reading period from November 18–November 22.

What we're looking for:
Essays of up to 1,500 words.
Essays in narrative, lyric, and hybrid forms, including experimental works.
Essays that go beyond the retelling of a memory or past event.
Essays that explore, examine, and question what it means to be human.
Essays that interweave inquiry and research with engaging creative analysis to serve a larger purpose.
Essays that open at the close; rather than conclude, their endings are both surprising yet inevitable.

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​Crab Creek Review

Crab Creek Review is a print journal based out of the Pacific Northwest and dedicated publishing some of the best prose and poetry. Printing twice a year, and with an online summer issue, we are always looking for new voices to share with you. Subscribe today to find your next favorite read!

See Our Open Positions!

We are currently hiring for volunteer poetry reader roles. Learn more at Submittable!

Book Reviews

WHAT LASTS

From the Archives

In this series, Crab Creek brings back old favorites from past issues, republishing work and sharing interviews on where the contributors are now. 

Past Features:
Rachel Mehl
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Donna Miscolta
Anastacia-Renee
Christina Lloyd
José Angel Araguz
Olatunde Osinaike
Kait Heacock
Elisávet Makridis
Jax NTP
Erica Charis-Molling
David Greenspan
​Lois Rosen