Submissions for Blue Heron Review Now Temporarily Closed Until Our Next Reading Period

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(Artwork, “Great Blue Heron,” by Daniel Adams)

Our forthcoming BHR issue #18 on the theme of TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE will be published in late spring 2024 (date TBD). Thank you to everyone who submitted work for this issue. All submissions will be read with great care. Responses will be sent out approximately 8-10 weeks after receiving a submission.

Call for Submissions NOW OPEN for Blue Heron Review January 15-30, 2024!

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(*Artist credit: Photo by Andra C Taylor Jr on Unsplash)

Open call for submissions for our spring 2024 issue of
BLUE HERON REVIEW (BHR #18)

January 15th—30th, 2024 (until 11:59pm / Central)

THEME: THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE

Feel free to interpret this theme in any way that speaks to you.  This could be about personal transformation and inner change, transforming your local community, transforming your relationships with loved ones, or making a positive change in our world today.  See where this theme takes you, and then send us your best poems.

*NOTE: Please see our updated SUBMISSION GUIDELINES page.  There have been some changes. 

I look forward to reading your poems!  Sharpen your pencils and limber up.  It’s time to transform our lives through the written word.

Cristina M. R. Norcross, Founding Editor
Blue Heron Review