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A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social https://www.whaleroadreview.com/

The cover of Whale Road Review Issue 43 features a smoke trail in the sky over the ocean.
Whale Road Review Summer Celebration Reading... Jun 13, 2026 09:00 AM Pacific Time Register in advance: https://pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/register/8dCh_cJ3S-OEhOtazUQE9g
Best Microfiction Nominations Everyone Needs a Bit of Spiritual Devotion by Mary Biddinger Homecoming Queen or I Could’ve Been the King of France by Michael Harper Dad Called Her Gazelle by Jeff Harvey Celestial Navigation by Christy Tending After Moving 3,000 Miles to Chase Your Dreams by Melissent Zumwalt
The cover of Whale Road Review's Issue 41, winter 2025, which features an image of Tower 10 with ocean waves in the background at Mission Beach in San Diego.
Whale Road Review's Pushcart Prize nominations Once, We Were Under the Sea by Kelli Dianne Rule Swimming After You by Susanna Rich The Gar by Charlene Pierce Study Abroad by Lisa Dordal Genie by Doug Fritock Anniversary Trip—Year 3 by Taylor Franson-Thiel
"Icon/Graph" by Tristan Beiter "Pregnant at the Taos Gorge" by Julie Ebin "Glass Animal Collection" by Suzy Eynon "My High School Teacher Tells Me Men Would Line Up to Get Me Pregnant" by Kindall Fredricks "Moeritherium" by Bex Hainsworth "Anxiety said let’s disappear" by Rachel Pittman "Things my mother has forgotten" by Beth Sherman "Celestial Navigation" by Christy Tending "Writing What We Know" by Angela Townsend "Apples in Bieszczady" by Rachel Walker
"My Sister Comes Home After Graduation" by Heather Qin "Inheritance" by Michael Sun "Horns" by Jared Beloff "Dangling Over the Sea" by Nicole Brogdon "To Be Ten" by Katy Luxem "Shelved" by Rita Maria Martinez
Happy writers toast with little cups at the Whale Road review
The nominees for Best Microfiction from Whale Road Review listed over a background image that is looking out from a cave onto the ocean.
An image of an island in a bright blue ocean with the words "Whale Road Review's Pushcart Prize Nominations" and this list: “when asked what it's like being a poet” by Matthew E. Henry On My 47th Birthday by Melissa Joplin Higley I’m Afraid I Don’t Know How to Love by Christina Linsin Whales by Kathryn Petruccelli Keeping Time by Whitney Rio-Ross Bleed by Luci Shaw
Over a photo of misty forest trees, an excerpt from "Gunpowder Homestead" by Grant Clauser in Issue 33 of Whale Road Review: "Consider what centuries do to forests— a kind of strengthening of the muscles, a thickening of bones, but old homes— they crumble stone by ported stone."
Over a painting of the platform of a dark cathedral with a ray of sunlight shining through an upper window onto the right side of the stage and a person in a dark robe, back to the viewer, facing the platform from the middle of the open space in front of the platform, an excerpt from "First Imploration: Renewed Madness" by Duncan Campbell in Issue 33 of Whale Road Review: "I love the way a voice evaporates into a cathedral only to return, a fidgeting nerve, to its ghost."
Over a photo of a hand on a car steering wheel, an excerpt from "California, Driving Home After a Wedding" by Phillip Watts Brown in Issue 33 of Whale Road Review: "To shed armor, our tender selves underneath, naked and shy: a new husband contemplating his husband in the early light."
Over a photo of lots of colorful pottery pieces on a studio table, an excerpt from Molly Bolton's short prose piece "Cosmic Slip" in Issue 33 of Whale Road Review: I clutched her business card like a hall pass, a love note. I asked her if she could throw a piece big enough to cradle the cracks in the cosmos and small enough to rock wrens slipped out of their nest.
A "Where to find Katie at AWP" graphic that includes many little clipboards with info about evening readings and bookfair signings.
"The birds, surface swimmers, make sense of the river’s ravages, ride the rippled waves from flood waters that have rolled down hillsides and off fields, an old story carried by river waters flowing their history into these places." from "Year's End" by Emily Tee Whale Road Review, Iss. 33
Best Microfiction Nominations from Whale Road Review: We Could Fly to Mars by Abbie Barker out-of-bounds by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards I’ll Be Seeing You by Nicole Hart A Woman Named Shelagh Played Aunt Beru by Kevin Grauke Things the sun told me while waiting for your forgiveness by Melanie Maggard
The cover of Issue 33, the Winter 2023 issue of Whale Road Review, which is a photo of downtown San Diego at golden hour, when the sunset glows off of the tall buildings and reflects on the water of the bay.
Whale Road Review's Pushcart Prize nominations are listed out at the bottom of a square image. In the background are green mountainous islands with bright blue water in the foreground. The Pushcart nominees are Imagining Rembrant, 1633 by Robert Fillman, Supermassive Black Hole and Candidates by Marci Rae Johnson, A Neptune Year by Matthew Murrey, Fifteen Minutes by Curtis Pierce, A Celebration of Lichens by Luci Shaw, and I wish Aristotle had been right about birds (forthcoming) by Heather Truett.
Save the Date! Off site. On purpose. A Literary Reading. Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, 7-10 p.m. MER, Nelle, SWWIM, Whale Road Review. The Bauer, Kansas City.
We Could Fly to Mars by Abbie Barker Death of Translations by Jessica Berry poem on unceded land by Chiara Di Lello A Woman Named Shelagh Played Aunt Beru by Kevin Grauke After Uri by Sara Henning Heavy Duty by Elizabeth Taryn Mason 100% Mom by Jane Muschenetz Ode to Juliet by Dayna Patterson On Learning That Yale Scientists Restored the Brain Function of 32 Dead Pigs by Angela Sucich While Crickets Sang in the Tall Grass We Splashed by Brooke White
Still from the older movie version of "Annie" with the lyrics "I think I'm gonna like it here!" printed across the bottom of the image of the smiling red-headed girl.