Massachusetts Review

A 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art by emerging and established authors since 1959. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.

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Fall is upon us, and with it comes our latest issue!! 🎃🍁

Featuring debut author Jahanara Ahmad, previous contributors Shams Mazen Rajab, Robert Pastore, & Nicholas Wong, art from Camille Turner, & two new performance pieces!

Buy your copy today: https://t.co/1yJGY9gaI4

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"Raise your glasses to veterans near/ And far-flung!"

Celebrating Veteran's Day with some brew reviews from Marsha Bryant: https://t.co/L5Z6Mpekpp

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"Earthscape can thus be understood as a curated shoal: a shifting zone of contact and friction between AfroNordic artists, materials, and histories."

ARIANA COLLAZO looks at an art exhibit of Black experiences in the Nordic region for #MassReviews: https://t.co/AQf6a6B4YT

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Dolores Huerta Left Us Homework - a piercing reflection from Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, with a mesmerising
portrait by @rafaelshimunov, for @MassReview
https://t.co/J8GGsY7Q2m

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"[Dolores] opened a window for numerous survivors to share in her courage and reclaim their voices by telling their stories."

A tribute to Dolores Huerta, the activist and truth-teller, from Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo for today's #PublicAffairs: https://t.co/F7XLyixKYX

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"I was really caught with this shorthand for ghostliness, the problem of survival, this persistent problem for parapsychologists, as well as this description of the afterlife."

Patrick Kindig on the origination of his poem in MR: https://t.co/WLuy9fm9HM

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Please join us, M.E. O’Brien, Jina B. Kim, and Eman Abdelhadi tomorrow night at Smith College to discuss EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!

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And check out our supplementary website that features more from our contributors as well as links to Indigenous resources: https://t.co/8OuWp5PzrB

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Celebrating #IndigenousPeoplesDay with a look back at our 2020 issue, "A Gathering of Native Voices." MR remains as committed to seeing more Indigenous voices in literature as ever. Check out the introduction here and order a copy here: https://t.co/okuyWBUZ4j

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"I wanted the speculative aspect to be a vehicle for the story, but not be what mattered about the story."

KEVIN D. JORDAN for our latest interview--available to read or listen to!
https://t.co/xLXAHDMFzj

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"Before October 7, the oppression of Palestinians under Israel’s illegal occupation was the extent of my knowledge. Now I understand that knowledge without action is complicity." - @willathewisp for @MassReview
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Congrats to all the longlist winners, including MR contributors Batool Abu Akleen and Robin Myers!

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Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026!

The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir.

For the full list and announcement: https://t.co/0ERxB0O7Aa

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And, read our former Executive Editor Jim Hicks's piece about the book and the politics of translation:
https://t.co/SJlHhws97Z

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Join us and @InterlinkBooks on October 20th at UMass to launch and discuss Sami al-Ajrami and Anna Lombardi's new book, THE KEYS TO MY HOUSE: A GAZA DIARY, translated by Jim Hicks and Anna Botta.

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October means our reading period is open for the year! Check out our category-specific guidelines and submit online. We can't wait to read your work!!
https://t.co/rhalKIMQtt

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Bacana ver esta matéria no @publishnews 👇🏼
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"The images in the poem are raw and dark, almost like a nightmare or a suspense film."

#Poet and #translator Anna Yin on the work of Yen Ai-Lin, starting a literary magazine that featured both Chinese and Canadian writers, and more! https://t.co/z46kW2VB7W

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@ByFanGao @seancarlson @brecht_dp We're thrilled to be able to share this essay! 🙌

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@bullmurph @vurnt22 @PaulSimonMusic @LivingColour Honored to share your fiction! 🥳

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New story in @MassReview that invokes a song I had forgotten turns 40 this year. Yo @vurnt22
"I got a reason to believe we all won't be received..."
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"We memorize the names of villages we have never seen as though they are part of our bloodstream. We love homes we never lived in, but inhabit through the portal of our grandparents’ love for them." - Asma Abu Hasanein, 'Portal of Return' @MassReview

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