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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 7d

Check out our conversation with Dennis James Sweeney on The Rolodex Happenings, a novella that blurs truth and fiction through fragmentary storytelling.

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 20d

Our 2025 Contest Folio is here!Featuring stunning works by Mariah Gese, Hajjar Baban,Faye Wikner,and Mai-Linh Hong! Read the full folio here:
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A promotional graphic for Hayden’s Ferry Review announcing the “2025 Contest Folio.” The design features a pink-and-purple background with grass silhouettes. At the top, the magazine title Hayden’s Ferry Review is displayed, followed by bold text: “2025 Contest Folio.” Four featured authors are listed with circular black-and-white photos: Mariah Gese, “Choose Your Own Sorrow”; Hajjar Baban, 3 poems; Faye Wikner, “This Universe, You’re Next”; and Mai-Linh Hong, “Field Notes From Aliens Who Float.”

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 21d

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 24d

Again! Meet the Genre Editors of HFR ! 🎉 From poets to filmmakers, our editorial team is powered by passionate MFA writers at ASU. They bring bold voices, fresh perspectives, and fierce creative energy to Hayden’s Ferry Review.

📍 More at: haydensferryreview.com/about
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Portrait of Hana Saad, Nonfiction Editor. Text notes she is a Lebanese-American writer based in Phoenix with work in Mizna and support from Tin House. She enjoys traveling, concerts, and time with friends.

Portrait of Max Wheeler, Translations Editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review. Text notes he is a trans writer from Oakland and an MFA candidate at Arizona State University, with work in several journals and selection for Best Small Fictions 2024.

Portrait of Lan Lesmeister, Art & Web Editor. Text notes they are a queer Mexican-Vietnamese American poet and filmmaker, an MFA candidate in Poetry at Arizona State University, and a Lambda Literary Fellow and Pushcart nominee with work in multiple journals.

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 25d

Meet the Genre Editors of HFR! 🎉
From poets to filmmakers, our editorial team is powered by passionate MFA writers at ASU. They bring bold voices, fresh perspectives, and fierce creative energy to Hayden’s Ferry Review.

📍 More @ haydensferryreview.com/about

#haydensferryreview #literarymagazine

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 28d

Huge congratulations to Hajjar Baban, winner of the HFR Poetry Contest, who’s just been selected for the National Poetry Series! Check our previous post for more details!

Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

Congrats to our 2025 poetry winner, Hajjar Baban! Poetry judge Hieu Minh Nguyen selected 3 poems by Hajjar, which will be published in an online folio later this year and in our fall/winter print issue✨✨✨

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

...This is my favorite sort of short story, one that uses a bold conceit and yet still, it's the character and the emotion that dominate and linger.”

Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

Gwen Kirby on Mariah's winning story: “This story about grief made me feel so alive! Rich with characters, mess, and texture, it achieves a sort of density that mimics a black hole. I felt myself becoming the protagonist, time slowing down around me in an endless surreal night...

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

Announcing our fiction winner, Mariah Gese! Their story "Choose Your Own Sorrow" was selected by fiction judge Gwen Kirby and will be published in an online folio later this year and in our fall/winter print issue. Congrats Mariah! 👏

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hieu Minh Nguyen on Hajjar's winning work: “Something in me snagged when I read these poems. Like a branch, like a bracelet caught on a stranger’s garment, I kept returning to unhook myself from the hot-to-the-touch syntax—the syntax, at once, both new and familiar.”

Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

Congrats to our 2025 poetry winner, Hajjar Baban! Poetry judge Hieu Minh Nguyen selected 3 poems by Hajjar, which will be published in an online folio later this year and in our fall/winter print issue✨✨✨

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

Announcing the runners-up for our 2025 fiction and poetry contest: Faye Wikner and Mai-Linh Hong!

Their work will be published in an online folio later this year and in the our fall/winter print issue 🌟🌟🌟

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 16

Surprise! We've decided to keep our submissions open for a little bit longer!

✨Poetry and nonfiction submissions will close on 7/31
✨Fiction subs will close after 100 more subs or on 7/31 (whichever comes first)
✨Translation and arts subs will remain open all year!

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎉 Congrats to our Fiction & Poetry Contest Finalists! 📝🏆 Winners will be announced soon – stay tuned!

Thanks to our judges @hieuminh.bsky.social and @gwenekirby.bsky.social
#fiction #poetry #litmag #writingcontest

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 1

Note that we've reached our free subs caps in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, but still strongly encourage submissions from underrepresented voices in all genres! (And there are some free translation subs left for all the translators out there...)

Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hope to see you next time!

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jul 1

⏳ Just 2 weeks left to submit to Hayden’s Ferry Review! Send us your best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or translation for our Fall/Winter 2025 issue. $3 fee, art subs free. hfr.submittable.com/submit

#litmag #amwriting #submissionsopen

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jun 15

Just a heads up that we're already almost halfway to our cap for free poetry submissions! Poets hoping to submit through that option, act fast! 🐆

Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jun 15

Whims are a great reason to submit! Fresh work is fun! 🎡🍭🍀

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jun 15

All submissions will be considered for Issue 77, our Fall/Winter 2025 print issue. 📗🍂👀 For an idea of what we publish, read selected work from Issue 76 on our website: haydensferryreview.com/hfr-76

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Haydens Ferry Review is an international literary journal published by Arizona State University. HFR issues a new issue biannually, and its blog and The Dock: HFR Online, are updated frequently.

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jun 15

Submit up to 20 pages of prose or up to 3 poems. Visit our website for more on what we're looking for: haydensferryreview.com/submit

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jun 15

HFR is open for submissions! ✏️📩🎨 Send us your poems, stories, flash, and creative nonfiction! hfr.submittable.com/submit

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Jun 3

Friends, in time for pride, my story of defiant queer love and stinky food. Hope you’ll read it. Thank you @haydensferryreview.bsky.social 🙏🏾🧡🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · Jun 8

HFR will be accepting submissions for our next print issue June 15-July 15. Mark your calendars! ✏️📅 No Theme, 50 free subs for underrepresented writers, all details here: haydensferryreview.com/submit

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