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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.

Fiction for Side A: “Thirty-Nine Bye-Byes” by Martin Kleinman

Thirty-Nine Bye-Byes 39. “You should see him.” 2. The phone call came while I was stuck in traffic on the Central … More

Fiction, Martin Kleinman, short story, Side A

“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

Choreographed for Camera, Mark Alice Durant, Maya Deren, Saint Lucy Books

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

Adnan Bayyat, Ansgar Allen, Anti-Oedipus Press, The Wake and the Manuscript

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

Fiction, Perry Genovesi, The Future

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

Allison Thung, collage, erasure, Side A, visual poetry

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

Deirdre Danklin, How to Start a Coven, Stephanie Bohland, Variant Literature

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

COWARD, Meghan Lamb, Shannon Hozinec, Spuyten Duyvil

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

Have Mercy on Us, Jody Hobbs Hesler, Lisa Cupolo, Regal House Publishing

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

Elise Houcek, Maxwell Rabb, Spuyten Duyvil, Tractatus

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

John Leo, Poetry, Side A

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

Flavor Town USA, Poetry, Rachel Becker

“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

Graywolf Press, Men in My Situation, Per Petterson, Robert Crooke

“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

Allison Wyss, Fiction, interview, Mary Lynn Reed, Phantom Advances, Split Lip Press

“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

Always Crashing in the Same Car, FC2, Fiction, interview, Lance Olsen, Marcus Pactor

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

Caw Caw Phony, Michael Sikkema, Trembling Pillow Press, William Lessard

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