Congratulations to Douglas Cole, winner of the 2021 American Fiction Award and CLR contributor, on his forthcoming publication from Unsolicited Press (Sept. 2026), The White Field, a “strange, sharp, morally complicated literary crime novel about a man newly released from prison and the machinery waiting to drag him back in. It is part prison-release story, part industrial fever dream, and part social critique of the American systems that confuse survival with failure.”
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Recent contributor wins international poetry prize!
Congratulations to Maria McLeod, scholar, writer, and poet, on her poem, “A Destiny We Welcomed,” winning second place in the prestigious Fish Poetry Prize! The competition draws entries from around the world, and this year Maria’s poem was judged and selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins out of 1, 706 submissions—once more, congratulations, Maria!
Maria’s excellent interview with former contributor Evan Morgan Williams about his most recent collection, The Divide: Stories (Cornerstone Press), can be found in our 2026 issue—check it out!
CLACKAMAS LITERARY REVIEW 