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Author: Heavy Feather

Established in April 2011, Heavy Feather Review publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, and more. We nominate for national anthologies and writing awards. Writing from HFR has appeared in The New York Times, The Best Small Fictions 2021, The &NOW Awards 3, and The Best of the Net Anthology 2020.

MUSIC IS OVER!, a novella by Ben Arzate, reviewed by Carl Fuerst

In 2013, I visited my brother in NYC, where he’d moved to pursue a career as a chef. I was … More

Ben Arzate, Carl Fuerst, Malarkey Books, Music Is Over!

“Palmerland: BNA’s Ellis Island,” a short comic from The Future by Angus Woodward

Angus Woodward was raised by southerners in the Midwest and moved to Louisiana half a lifetime ago. His books of … More

Angus Woodward, comic, The Future

Bad Survivalist Short Story: “In the Afterlife Your Landlord Is a Witch” by Maggie Nye

In the Afterlife Your Landlord Is a Witch She does not wear a pointed hat around the property, except in … More

Bad Survivalist, Fiction, Maggie Nye

Haunted Passages: “The Lamp,” a flash fiction by Scott Daughtridge DeMer

The Lamp Echo’s kids asked what secrets the lamp told. She didn’t answer, just stared at the bulb, lit to … More

flash fiction, Haunted Passages, Scott Daughtridge DeMer

“Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Nobody Knows Anybody’s Name”: Dustin Holland on Steve Aylett’s HYPERTHICK #1

Picking up a piece of Steve Aylett’s work for the first time is always a confounding experience. His prose and … More

Dustin Holland, Floating World Comics, Hyperthick #1, Steve Aylett

I FAILED TO SWOON, a poetry collection by Nadia de Vries, reviewed by Fani Avramopoulou

Nadia de Vries’ I Failed to Swoon is a slim collection of poems that are by turns playful, brutal, and … More

Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Fani Avramopoulou, I Failed to Swoon, Nadia de Vries

Three Collaborative Poems by Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias for Flavor Town USA

Party Favors I pretend it’s the fast and vicious future with a slow sax and 1991 looming overblack sheer tights, … More

collaborative, Dionissios Kollias, Flavor Town USA, Lauren Hilger, Poetry

LA SERENISSIMA, a poetry collection by Wallace Barker, reviewed by Donald Ryan

Wallace Barker’s La Serenissima from Gob Pile Press. 19 chapters. 19 vacations. Each poem a single sentence, less than a … More

Donald Ryan, Gob Pile Press, La Serenissima, Wallace Barker

Bad Survivalist: “What Makes You Feral,” a short story by Julie Wernersbach

What Makes You Feral PIPE BURST. COME EARLY. She rushed. What did she expect? A pipe shattering in mid-air, hard … More

Bad Survivalist, Julie Wernersbach, short story

CONDEMNED TO CYMRU, a novel by M.J. Nicholls, reviewed by Eric Williams

M.J. Nicholls’ new novel Condemned to Cymru is Rabelaisian in every sense of the word: it’s gross, it’s droll, there’s … More

Condemned to Cymru, Eric Williams, M.J. Nicholls, Sagging Meniscus Press

BEGAT WHO BEGAT WHO BEGAT, short stories by Marcus Pactor, reviewed by Maxwell Malone

Marcus Pactor’s sophomore short story collection, Begat Who Begat Who Begat, explores the deceptively complex topics of mundanity and domesticity … More

Astrophil Press, Begat Who Begat Who Begat, Marcus Pactor, Maxwell Malone

Fiction for Side A: “Feast” by Andrea Marcusa

Feast The double-wide steel door clanks shut. I stand next to the man who collected me from the waiting room. … More

Andrea Marcusa, Fiction, Side A

Side A Short Story: “Adults Told Me” by Mark Benedict

Adults Told Me 1. My science teacher told me that life was slapdash. I talked to him after class sometimes; … More

Mark Benedict, short story, Side A

Poetry for Side A: “Dear Cut-Glass” by William Erickson

Dear Cut-Glass, It’s been longerthan I thoughtthis trail of bloodwould go, butthe mountain isso much smallerat its peak thanwhen we … More

Poetry, Side A, William Erickson

“My Dog Is That One”: Angelo Maneage Interviewed by Zach Savich

“It felt right to be coughing on the ground,” Angelo Maneage tells us in The Improper Use of Plates, his remarkable … More

Angelo Maneage, Ghost City Press, The Improper Use of Plates, Zach Savich

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