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