LAR 24 is out today!✨. Our newest anthology includes 2020’s “best of” poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews as well as 2020 LAR Awards winners. We’re so excited to finally share this with you!. Get your copy of LAR 24 here:.

“As long as he didn’t ask more questions, we might still be two friends or brothers, or even colleagues in town for a pharmaceutical convention.”. Miguel Camnitzer from “One King Bed and Two Keys”. #LARflash

"I think that’s the thing about trauma, sometimes feeling overtakes memory and all that’s left is the frantic acid”. “Home to Ohio” by Chelsie Bryant is now up on LAR! Read it here: . #LARnonfiction

Donna Vatnick reviews Mary Ruefle’s “The Book” on LAR today. Read Vatnick’s full review here: #LARreviews

“the little station wagon shape of it.the lilt of it.that set the meeting place.and set the hour”. “Glory Days” by Jesse Littlejohn is up on the site today. Read it here: #LARpoetry

The LAR Literary Awards are held annually and winners are announced by LAR & RHP. The 2025 submissions period closes JULY 31ST. We look forward to reading your work!.

The 2024 Award-winning pieces were chosen by our judges: @RedHenPress authors Kim Dower, Alyssa Graybeal, Juliana Lamy & C. Bain. This year’s winning pieces, as well as previous LAR Lit Award winning pieces, are now all available to read on our site! .

✏️✨Our 2024 LAR Literary Award Winners Week has come to an end!. Congratulations to. KAYLA CHANG. REBECCA PYLE. LEONARDO CHUNG. RIKHA SHARMA RANI. on their award-winning pieces!

✏️✨ Our 2024 LAR Award Winners Week is closing out with Rikha Sharma Rani’s “The Bargain,” chosen by #LARflash judge C. Bain. Read it here:

✏️✨ It’s #LARpoetry Day in our 2024 LAR Award Winners Week!. Leonardo Chung’s “Paper Boats” & “At Her Grave,” chosen by #LARpoetry judge Kim Dower, are up on LAR!. Read them here:

✏️✨ Rebecca Pyle’s 2024 LAR Award winning #LARnonfiction piece “Heuston Street and Oppenheimer’s Cottage,” chosen by judge Alyssa Graybeal, is up on the site today!. Read it here:

✏️✨This week, our 2024 LAR Award winning pieces go live!. Kicking off Winners Week, we have our short fiction winner: Kayla Chang’s “The Falling Year,” chosen by judge Juliana Lamy. Read it here:

✏️✨Kicking off Winners Week, we have our short fiction winner: Kayla Chang’s “The Falling Year,” chosen by judge Denise Frost. Read it here:

✏️✨Our 2024 LAR Award winning pieces go live throughout this week!. Kayla Chang’s “The Falling Year” (short fic). Rebecca Pyle’s “Heuston Street and Oppenheimer’s Cottage” (cnf). Leonardo Chung’s “Paper Boats” and “At Her Grave” (poetry). Rikha Rani’s “The Bargain” (flash)

“there appears a light. It is something trying to be born. Not a baby. Not an infection; the infection is already alive.”. Mary Katherine Carr from “A Golden Light”. #LARfiction

"The third day after returning to the world.I slept upon stone. My sister wasn’t living where she said. My parents had been dead all my life.”. Ian U Lockaby’s translations of poems by Sebastián Gómez Matus are on LAR today! . #LARintranslation

Shannon Vare Christine reviews “Father Elegies” by Stella Hayes today on LAR. Read the full review on our site: #LARreviews

“The lady at the table beside us cocks her head and I wonder if she’s now thinking about the arms wrapped around her when she goes to bed.”. A new poem by T. De Los Reyes is up on the site today! Read it here: #LARpoetry

“like something else beautiful that glitters. I told him I’d never seen anything like that, even though I really had. In another park, another time, looking at other stars. With one of the someone elses”. Nicole Sellew from “Bites/Being in Love”. #LARflash

"I feel stuck and caught—in my head and in the house on the jutting land. In the sea I find a mirror.”. Read “California Romantics” by Becky Peterson on the site today! Check it out here: #LARintranslation

"My heart races. I drink more water, massage my temples, and resolve to stay in the game.”. Siavash Saadlou’s translation of “Heatstroke” by Fereshteh Ahmadi is now up on LAR! Read it here: #LARintranslation