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One Hour Left for Our Online Auction

One Hour Left for Our Online Auction

A lot of you showed up with bids for yesterday’s 24-hour reminder… Don’t quit now! Our Annual Silent Auction ends in ONE HOUR. Our offers: Work with an MR Editor Three of our editors are offering one-on-one Zoom manuscript consultations: Poetry editor Nathan McClain (up to 15 pages of poetry, for 3 hours total); . . .

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Mass Rev Winter BOGO

Mass Rev Winter BOGO

As 2026 approaches, we want to thank you all for the support you’ve shown not only in the past two months—between fall donations, Giving Tuesday, and our silent auction—but also this whole year, as our constant readers and community members. From now through the end of January, we’re offering a buy-one-get-one sale . . .

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24 Hours Left in Our Online Auction

24 Hours Left in Our Online Auction

Reminder that our Annual Silent Auction ends in exactly 12 hours—get your bids in now! Our offers: Work with an MR Editor Three of our editors are offering one-on-one Zoom manuscript consultations: Poetry editor Nathan McClain (up to 15 pages of poetry, for 3 hours total); Public Affairs editor Shailja Patel (nonfiction up to 7,000 words, . . .

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Celebrating Our Contributors

with a huge congratulations, and a holiday deal! Congratulations to Laura Glen Louis for her essay “Man Crossing an Ice Field” from Volume 65, issue 2 (Summer 2024), which has been chosen for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2025! And, to last year’s contributors who were recognized for their “Notable Essays . . .

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Auction Spotlight: Attend a Five-Day Poetry Retreat in the Berkshires

Auction Spotlight: Attend a Five-Day Poetry Retreat in the Berkshires

In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a five-day poetry retreat hosted at MASS MoCA: The expansive five-day writing retreat culminates in a poetry reading in North Adams, Massachusetts. Through daily prompts, exercises, readings, and . . .

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Auction Spotlight: Join a FAWC Workshop of Your Choice

In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a virtual Fine Arts Work Center workshop of your choice: The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, is justly known for helping new and experienced writers take their work . . .

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Auction Spotlight: Work With MR Editors on Your Manuscript

In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! Every day, we’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail. Today’s spotlight is on our editors: Nathan McClain (Poetry): up to 15 pages, for 3 hours total McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, . . .

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2025 Winter Silent Auction

2025 Winter Silent Auction

We are so excited to once again offer our curated gifts for serious writers. Through next Friday (December 19th), 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 . . .

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