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ISSUE 21: NOW AVAILABLE!

From what Georgia could see, the teacher was beautiful. Georgia was beautiful too, and she felt a jolt of competitive kinship: I have better legs. She has better teeth. Being in Roman’s world had taught her to see women that way. She wondered if the teacher might be American because her teeth were so good, but her accent was hard to place.

“Who are you?” Georgia asked, and realized too late that that sounded rude.

She didn’t pause. “I’m the Angel of Death.”

—“Georgia O’Keeffe and the Angel of Death” by Nina Ellis, featured in Issue 21

 

 

NOW AVAILABLE!

ISSUE 20

Number 20 features a wide range of talents and styles, including fiction by Corinna Vallianatos, Gina Chung, Rebecca Saltzman, Morgan Talty, Siamak Vossoughi, Nat Wisehart, Ryan Eric Dull, Nicole Cullen, and John Keeble. The new issue also includes creative non-fiction by Susanna Childress and K. Zen ’obia, as well as poetry by Rage Hezekiah, Kelsey Kerin, Shane Seely, and Court Fund.

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ISSUE 19

This issue represents an exciting range of voices, from established writers to emerging talents. Featuring Pushcart winning stories, “Slut Days,” by Sanam Mahloudj and “Ambivalence” by Victoria Lancelotta, and Best Small Fictions “Apologetics,” by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy. Including creative non-fiction by Brandon Shimoda and fiction by, Amy Silverberg,, Nicole Cullen, Emma Pattee, Mike Jeffrey, Scott Broker, Amy Stuber, and Rick Bass, this issue also showcases poetry by Amy Roa, Tamiko Beyer, Sarah Gridley, Carey Salerno, Shira Dentz, Henry Goldkamp, and Elizabeth Robinson. Many of the writers in the issue have appeared in top national prize anthologies, and their work has earned honors including the PEN Open Book Award, The Story Prize, and the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize. The new cover art is by award-winning illustrator Bill Carman, a professor at Boise State.

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ISSUE 18

Our eighteenth issue includes “Aunt Job” by Nickalus Rupert, which was awarded a Pushcart Prize. This issue also features fiction from Andrea Barrett, Hester Kaplan, John Keeble, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, William Lychack, Kirk Wilson, Alejandro Puyana, and James Magruder, as well as nonfiction by Samantha Simpson and Mojgan Ghazirad. We are honored to be publishing the final story by the late Stephen Dixon. He wrote with unflinching honesty and this final story is no exception. This issue is full of work that touch on so many different topics and spaces and yet all have a deep sense of longing akin to that of Mr. Dixon’s work.

We dedicate this issue to Stephen Dixon.

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Features

 

Work from The Idaho Review has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, New Stories from the South, and Best of the West. Past contributors include Joy Williams, T.C. Boyle, Ann Beattie, Rick Moody, Jennifer Haigh, Anthony Doerr, Edith Pearlman, Rick Bass, Pam Houston, and Richard Bausch. 


"This issue of The Idaho Review is a gem; it begins in glory and the energy never sags. Strong characters, stories with satisfying endings, and beautiful writing make this collection eminently worth buying, keeping, and giving to your best reading friends."

-   The NewPages' review of our 2013 Issue

 
 
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The Girls

by Joy Williams

The girls were searching Arleen’s room and had just come upon her journal. 

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