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Spring comes slowly, teasing longer and warmer days. This issue comes too, taking us from soccer fields to the Bering Strait, from Amsterdam to the Midwest.  It meanders neighborhoods and black holes, always reminding us to hold our loved ones (and ourselves) that much closer.  This issue includes selections from our fall fiction call, “The Embodied Life” as well as poems and essays by new and familiar favorites. We are so excited to share each essay, poem and story with you. 

Writers featured include Diane K. Martin, Sheila Black, Cathy Cochrane, Celia Lawren, Freesia McKee, Claire Cella, a translation by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess, Amanda K Horn, Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, Garnet Juniper Bennet and so, so many more. ​
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The Spring Crab is Open

For this special issue,  we are heading close to home—the kitchen.  We invite both traditional and experimental writing that explores the physical, imaginary, sensory, and symbolic aspects of a space familiar to all: the kitchen. Kitchens are often the heart of our homes and communities. They contain contradictions: both conflict and comfort, the mundane and celebratory, necessity and desire.

The Spring Crab welcomes genre hybridity and celebrates the unexpected. Show us the kitchen in surprising, unfamiliar ways.

Submissions will be accepted through Submittable until midnight July 18, 2025.
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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!

Book Reviews

WHAT LASTS
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FLYING: Trapeze Poems

Contributor Spotlights

Jory Mickelson
Satya Dash
​Molly Bashaw
​Nick Stanovick
​Abi Pollokoff

From the Archives

Rachel Mehl
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Donna Miscolta
Anastacia-Renée
Christina Lloyd
José Angel Araguz
Olatunde Osinaike
Kait Heacock

Elisávet Makridis
Jax NTP
Erica Charis-Molling
David Greenspan
​Lois Rosen
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