The Essay Review is now accepting submissions for its 2016 issue. The Essay Review is a yearly online journal run out of the University of Iowa dedicated to providing lively criticism of the essay as an object of scholarly and aesthetic reflection. By approaching nonfiction with similar critical techniques as used in the analysis of fiction, poetry, and drama, we investigate the methods and poetics of the essay as well as explore the realities, confusions, and identities within this fluid genre. Welcoming innovative approaches to form and content, we encourage discussion that considers the definition of the essay and that addresses the nebulous divide between fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry.

Deadline: February 15th, 2016
Submit to submissions@theessayreview.org

Anya Ventura
Co-Editor
The Essay Review
castagna-ventura@uiowa.edu