New Limestone Review

06/09/2021

Read the second place winner’s poems online now!

L. Renée’s three poems can be found here:

https://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2021/06/09/second-place-l-renee/

06/09/2021

Read Xan Xi’s first place poems, winner of the Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize hosted by NLR and Pluck!, online now at:

https://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2021/06/08/first-place-xan-xi/

06/09/2021

Read Halle Hill’s first place story, winner of the Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize hosted by NLR and Pluck!, now at:

https://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2021/06/08/first-place-halle-hill-the-truth-about-gators/

05/11/2021

We are *so* excited about this announcement!!!

We have winners for the first ever Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize for Emerging Black Writers hosted by Pluck! and NLR. Our judge for this contest was Dr. DaMaris Hill.

We have TWO first place winners: Halle Hill and Xan Xi.
Our second place winner: L. Renée

Congratulations to these winners and all of our finalists. We’re so thankful for everyone who trusted us with their work and who submitted to this contest.

01/16/2021

WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW!!!!

New Limestone Review & PLUCK! welcome emerging Black writers to submit to the inaugural Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize. Submissions may be fiction, nonfiction/memoir, poetry, and other hybrid forms.

We named this contest in honor of writer and Professor, Crystal Wilkinson. Wilkinson has impacted countless students during her career as a professor and even more individuals who have encountered her written works. Wilkinson is the author of The Birds of Opulence which received the Weatherford Fiction Award and Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her forthcoming book of poetry, Perfect Black, will be published in August 2021.

$500 for first place
$250 for second place

Only one entry per writer. Additional entries will not be considered.

The winner will be chosen by Dr. DaMaris Hill, who serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, an edited collection of essays, a chapbook of poems entitled \ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \(Visible Textures), and her memoir in verse, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing (Bloomsbury).

SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW UNTIL FEB 15!!

Go to https://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2021-nlr-pluck-crystal-wilkinson-creative-writing-prize/ for submission guidelines!

01/11/2021

“Thirty minutes after takeoff, I realized the old man sitting next to me had died.”

Read story ‘Sydney’ by following the link in our bio.

01/05/2021

New Limestone Review & PLUCK! welcome emerging Black writers to submit to the inaugural Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize. Submissions may be fiction, nonfiction/memoir, poetry, and other hybrid forms.

$500 for first place
$250 for second place

Only one entry per writer. Additional entries will not be considered.

The winner will be chosen by Dr. Damaris Hill, who serves as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, an edited collection of essays, a chapbook of poems entitled \ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \(Visible Textures), and her memoir in verse, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing (Bloomsbury).

09/01/2020

“Not Knowing” by Tom Gartner (New fiction) online now at http://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2020/08/27/not-knowing/ -2963

Tom Gartner’s fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Whetstone, California Quarterly, Concho River Review, and most recently The Madison Review and Above the Margin. One story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other work is forthcoming in Levee and Deracine. He lives in California, just north of the Golden Gate, and works as a buyer for an independent bookstore in San Francisco.

Not Knowing August 27, 2020 Fiction For the first couple of weeks, it was mostly about the s*x. When you’ve got fifteen years to make up for, and you only get to see other a few times a week, usually just for an hour or two, there’s not much leisure for doing sudoku together. Fiction by Tom Gart...

06/29/2020

Check out a new short story on New Limestone Review today! Beetle by Nikki Ervice.

Nikki Ervice is a writer and professional dancer from Homer, Alaska. Her work has appeared in Allegory Ridge and 805 Lit, among others. She holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

http://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2020/06/26/beetle/

06/10/2020

Send us your fiction — we want to read it! OPEN NOW

04/29/2020

Check out our podcast interview with Kayleb Rae Candrilli up on Apple Podcasts!

Kayleb Rae Candrilli is a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award and is author of Water I Won't Touch (Copper Canyon, 2021), All the Gay Saints (Saturnalia 2020), and What Runs Over (YesYes Books, 2017). What Runs Over won the 2016 Pamet River Prize and was a 2017 Lambda Literary finalist for Transgender Poetry and a finalist for the 2018 American Book Fest's best book award in LGBTQ nonfiction. All the Gay Saints was the winner of the 2018 Saturnalia Book Prize, selected by Natalie Diaz. They are published or forthcoming in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Bettering American Poetry, The Boston Review, and many others

Podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-limestone-review-podcast/id1362400566?i=1000470906629

Kayleb’s next book is out next week, on May 5 but you can preorder it now!

Preorder link: https://www.amazon.com/All-Gay-Saints-Kayleb-Candrilli/dp/1947817124/ref=nodl_

04/24/2020

We’re happy to share a poem with you today by Sofia Skavdahl, “The First Spring.” You can read it on our website today:

http://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2020/04/22/the-first-spring/

Art by Ruth Kasper

The First Spring April 22, 2020 Poetry In the beginning they eroded green stars / split and turned them red, hiccuped / the line between what was ancient and / what is palpable. Knocked the wind out of diplomats / Poetry by Sofia Skavdahl In the beginning they eroded green stars, split and turned th...