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The fiction contest is now open for submissions! We can’t wait to read to your stories 🕺 by @breakwaterrev

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Meet our 2026 fiction contest judge, Jessica Anthony! Submissions open October 1—stay tuned for more info very soon.

Jessica Anthony is the author of four books of fiction, including the novel The Most, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Prix Fitzgerald and the Clark Fiction Prize. Her novel Enter the Aardvark was a finalist for the New England Book Award, and her novel The Convalescent won the inaugural Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award from McSweeney’s. Her short stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best New American Voices, McSweeney’s, The Idaho Review, and elsewhere.

Anthony is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and has received the Creative Capital Award for Literature. Other fellowships include support from the Maine Arts Commission, MacDowell, Ucross, and the Bogliasco Foundation. by @breakwaterrev

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Presenting Breakwater Review Issue 40, which features the 2026 Perseroff Prize Poetry Contest’s winning poem “Four Years Later, We Arrive at the Winter We Imagined” by Cady Favazzo, our incredible poetry contest runner-ups, cover art by Michael Moreth, a UMass Boston Student Spotlight by Heather Beckius, and more riveting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Read it now at our link in bio or at www.breakwaterreview.com.

#writing #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #literaryjournal by @breakwaterrev

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4 months ago

Announcing Cady Favazzo as our 2026 Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest Winner!

About her winning poem “Four Years Later, We Arrive at the Winter We Imagined”, Guest Judge Jill McDonough wrote: “I’m delighted to award the Peseroff Prize to Cady Favazzo, for their poignant and funny love poem, “Four Years Later, We Arrive at the Winter We Imagined.” Chock full of images of everyday beauty, “coming snow glowing in the opaque band of sunset behind our house,” this poem gives us “a universe that never tires//of loving back.” It’s a love poem “to this eternal thing between us,” celebrating even the moment the beloved was “born into this world for me to find.” There is so much charming wonder here, “filed between the work week and my eternal/begging to be touched,” a love poem not just to the beloved, but to love itself, and the way it colors our lives: when we are this happy, “the gas station glows/ through the gauzy curtains all night.”

Read it in Issue 40, dropping soon!

#writing #poetry #poetrycontest #writingcommunity #literaryjournal by @breakwaterrev

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5 months ago

Thank you to all our incredible writers who came out to read at Grubstreet for the Breakwater Review reading series. It was a fantastic night! 🎤🌝 taken in GrubStreet by @breakwaterrev

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6 months ago

Issue 39 highlight from fiction editor Heather Beckius’s interview of our fiction contest guest judge Eileen Pollack. Read the interview and more at the link in bio! ✒️ by @breakwaterrev

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6 months ago

Issue 39 highlight from our archives, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s story “Neon Guillotine.”

Read the full story and more at the link in bio! ✒️ by @breakwaterrev

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6 months ago

All are welcome to attend our reading series taking place soon at Grubstreet in the Seaport! Hope to see you there⭐️ by @breakwaterrev

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6 months ago

Our Perseroff Prize Poetry Contest closes in ONE WEEK. Don’t miss this chance for a $1,000 prize and publication in our spring issue!

#writing #poetrycontest #poetry #literaryjournal #writingcommunity by @breakwaterrev

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6 months ago

Issue 39 highlight from Susanna Baird’s nonfiction piece “The Plus.”

Read the full poem and more at the link in our bio! ✒️

#writing #fiction #poetry #writingcommunity #literaryjournal by @breakwaterrev

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7 months ago

Issue 39 highlight from Elisa Báláu’s nonfiction piece “Lilia.”

Read the full piece and more at the link in our bio! ✒️

#writing #fiction #poetry #writingcommunity #literaryjournal by @breakwaterrev

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Issue 39 highlight from Nick Soluri’s poem “Essay on Neglect.”

Read the full poem and more at the link in our bio! ✒️

#writing #fiction #poetry #writingcommunity #literaryjournal by @breakwaterrev

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7 months ago