by Sofía Aguilar Hybrid Nonfiction My father tried to teach me to love. In Mexico, cooking a meal is the same as offering yourself, the kitchen a woman’s first home, an apron tied into a knot at the neck and then at the waist as though her second skin. But I’m not the kind… Continue reading to the brown nippled girls and the daughters of immigrant fathers
Vol. VI: “Hunger” confronts the question of what is essential and explores the core idea of need driven by a deep and unrelenting desire. An ache to satiate or itch to scratch — something that we often give ourselves to. These works show how hunger often defines our narratives, cropping up between the lines of… Continue reading Vol. VI: “Hunger”
If there’s a silver lining to the pandemic that has kept Exposition Review from gathering in person as a staff and for events, it’s that we’ve found new ways to connect that have expanded our community like never before. For the second year in a row, our “Share Your Voice!” publishing workshop was held online,… Continue reading Recap: ‘Share Your Voice!’ Workshop Goes Bicoastal
2020 was the Year of Online Expansion for Exposition Review. When faced with a global pandemic, we took our WriteGirl workshop online, launched our Act/Break issue online, and kicked off our own literary podcast, Transposition. Host and Stage & Screen editor Laura Rensing brought us six episodes of readings, conversation, and craft. We’re already hard at work on Season… Continue reading Transposition: A Very Special Episode on Literary Identity and Responsibility
At Exposition Review, our mission is to create more opportunities for our ever-growing community of talented, diverse writers and artists to share their voices and grow their platform. This is why, every year, we submit some of our strongest published work for a variety of prestigious literary awards and anthologies. To kick off the holiday season,… Continue reading It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like… “Act/Break” Literary Nominations
Writing might seem like a solitary activity, but there is a vibrant community behind it all. From providing a platform for new voices to supporting food scarcity, these organizations specifically help writers and art-makers of all ages, experiences, and incomes. In honor of #GivingTuesday, we’re waiving our submissions fees so you can donate your money… Continue reading Help These Orgs During #GivingTuesday 2020!
Exposition Review is ecstatic to announce our latest issue has launched, Vol. V: “Act/Break”! With this new issue, we celebrate works across genres and hybrid forms, featuring writers new, established, and emerging from WriteGirl and the PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship. After months of reading, editing, and design, it’s time to share it with the world.… Continue reading Exposition Review, Vol V: “Act/Break” Launch (and New Podcast Alert!)
Three years ago, Exposition Review had its first editor retreat. We had broken away from our previous print iteration in favor of an online platform, and had published issues we were proud of—but we realized that there was more. We sat around a table and asked ourselves a question that, in some ways, we’re… Continue reading Vol. V: Letter from the Editors
by Lucy Verlaque Fiction Until I was eleven years old, I lived in a small town called New Canterbury, Massachusetts. It was four miles south of Salem, and anyone who lived there would tell you it was just as haunted. The first time I actually went back was nearly twenty years after we moved… Continue reading 318 Boulevard
Vol. V: “Act/Break” challenges new entry points into storytelling, with pieces meticulously put together to create a whole from many parts. They dip into a moment, a day, or even years, and form an experience that leaves their characters changed. We feel them build, break, splinter, and reconnect. The beginning, the end, and the space in between—that… Continue reading Vol. V: “Act/Break”