Thirty-Nine Bye-Byes 39. “You should see him.” 2. The phone call came while I was stuck in traffic on the Central … 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.
“The Creative Use of Reality”: Peter Valente on Mark Alice Durant’s Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera
While reading Mark Alice Durant’s loving portrait of Maya Deren, I was reminded of all the days and nights I … More
The Wake and the Manuscript, a novel by Ansgar Allen, reviewed by Adnan Bayyat
The Wake and the Manuscript is a literary artifact pronouncing and protesting the inherent toxicity of education from cradle to … More
Fiction from The Future: “The Freewheeling Bicycle Coast” by Perry Genovesi
The Freewheeling Bicycle Coast In which the people of the Coast realize that the new way of walking was so … More
Side A Visual Poetry: “Autoimmunity” by Allison Thung
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes.[1] Mini-interview with Allison Thung HFR: Can you share a moment that has … More
How to Start a Coven, a surrealist chapbook by Deirdre Danklin, reviewed by Stephanie Bohland
Deirdre Danklin’s How to Start a Coven is a collection of haunting flash fiction that takes us through a fever … More
Shannon Hozinec Reviews Meghan Lamb’s COWARD
Meghan Lamb’s COWARD opens with a burning sky that smells of blood. This is no harbinger of the apocalypse, however, as … More
Review: Jody Hobbs Hesler on Lisa Cupolo’s story collection Have Mercy on Us
The ten keenly observed stories in Lisa Cupolo’s award-winning debut collection Have Mercy On Us usher us into a world of strained … More
On Joke Architecture in Elise Houcek’s Tractatus: “FINAL PROOF OF THE ETERNAL SUBJECTIVITY OF LANGUAGE!” by Maxwell Rabb
Words are playthings, and by no means is this trivial. There is an unadulterated joy to constructing language—to cutting up … More
Side A Poem: “Every Minute Is a Minute” by John Leo
Every Minute Is a Minute The invoice is ready for review.Download and attach the backup documents.Add the 14% fuel charge, … More
Flavor Town USA: Three Poems by Rachel Becker
morning sickness the world hasan atmospheric stenchthat turns yourstomach cyclonicfor the fullnine months. other mothers-to-beoffer advice,but there’s no wayto white … More
“All Was Lost”: Robert Crooke Reviews Men in My Situation, a novel by Per Petterson
A real-life tragedy haunts this beautiful, touchingly honest novel by celebrated Norwegian author Per Petterson. The event in question is … More
“If There’s a Window—a New Possibility”: Allison Wyss Talks to Mary Lynn Reed
Mary Lynn Reed is a fiction writer and mathematician—but I’ve learned she’s also a photographer, shark-level pool player, and ace … More
“I Cherish the Act of Sentencing”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen is one of America’s most formally inventive and intellectually stimulating novelists. Few writers have been as consistently excellent … More
Caw Caw Phony, 21st-century nature poems by Michael Sikkema, reviewed by William Lessard
Saxophonist and composer Marion Brown mapped the pastoral for avant-garde jazz. “Afternoon of a Georgia Faun,” the title piece of … More
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