On May 8th, MR and Amherst Books hosted our 2025 Anne Halley Poetry Prize winner Chard deNiord for a reading.
IN 1964, A SHORT STORY titled “Mississippi Ham Rider” appeared in the summer issue of the Massachusetts Review. Authored by a young writer named Toni Cade, the story follows Inez Williams, a copywriter who has traveled south to interview an old blues singer named Ham Rider. She has also been charged with . . .
Leila Chatti, Jan Clausen, Susan Li, Meghana Mysore, Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico! We are beyond proud to have published these works this past year, and wish the best to our nominees in the future. Congratulations, and thank you all—your brilliant work makes our own that much brighter!! From . . .
We are so excited to once again offer our curated gifts for serious writers. For the next week, the Massachusetts Review’s annual online auction is live, with opportunities to work with our editors one-on-one; a chance to attend an online writing workshop from Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center; and a spectacular five-day . . .
Not just one death,one victim tells another:they killed me by the roadside. —from Ibrahim Fawzy’s translation of Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s “Not Just One Death” (Volume 65, issue 4) What role does language play in resisting colonialism and precipitating liberation? How does your piece engage with this question?Language is not merely a medium . . .
ALAN GROSTEPHAN is the author of The Banana Wars and Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is also the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers.
