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In print since 1983, Crab Creek Review is a literary journal dedicated to publishing the best new poetry and prose from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Crab Creek Review publishes in print twice a year and publishes our online issue, The Spring Crab, annually. 


Vandana Khanna To Judge 2026 Poetry PRize

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Crab Creek Review is pleased to announce that celebrated poet and editor Vandana Khanna will be the judge of the 2026 ​Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize!

Born in New Delhi, India, Vandana Khanna is a writer, educator, and editor. Her recent collection of poetry, Burning Like Her Own Planet, was published by Alice James Books. Her previous books have won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize, The Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition. Her work has appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The New Republic, Guernica, New England Review and The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry.

Submissions for this year’s Prize open February 15 and will close May 15, Midnight PST. Winning poem will receive $500 cash prize. Winner and finalists will be published in the fall issue of Crab Creek Review. All poems are eligible for publication.

Full Guidelines

Spring Fiction Call

We are looking for your best fiction! Send us that prose that you’ve been crafting for ages, those character-driven stories you’ve been charting. We will open for fiction from March 16 to March 30.

Send one piece of fiction up to 3,000 words. Stories must be one file, with your work double-spaced, 12pt standard font. One submission per reading period. Revisions may be made upon acceptance; do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revision concerns. Pieces accepted will be published in the fall issue of Crab Creek Review.


We look forward to reading your authentic, narratively engaging, and well-crafted fiction.

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the spring crab Vol 3: the kitchen

Fall Issue Still Available

Crab Creek Review is pleased to present this year's Spring Crab, our themed online publication dedicated to genre exploration.

For this issue, we invited writing that explores the physical, emotional, sensory, and symbolic aspects of a space familiar to all: the kitchen. Kitchens are often the heart of our homes and communities. They contain contradictions: both conflict and comfort, the mundane and celebratory, necessity and desire. Kitchens shape our identities and tell stories.

Read the nine selected pieces today!
As leaves turn and the big dark descends, we settle into the warmth of our homes with the latest issue of Crab Creek Review. 

This issue features the results of the 2025 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, including Susan Rich’s award-winning poem “Dream of Oranges,” finalist poems by Judy Halebsky and Veronica A. Bettencourt, and our semifinalists. This issue also features poetry from our Poetry Month fast lane; prose by B.M. Owens, Shelli Rottschaffer, Joe Marshall, and Jane VB Larson; an interview with Laura Da’; and a review of Katy E. Ellis’s new book Forty Bouts in the Wilderness by Mary Ellen Talley. 

Cover art: Submerged ​by Linde Husk

We can’t wait to share this latest issue with you. Order the current issue or subscribe today.
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Contributor Spotlights

Rachel Mehl
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Donna Miscolta
Anastacia-Renée
Christina Lloyd
José Angel Araguz
Olatunde Osinaike
Kait Heacock

Elisávet Makridis
Jax NTP
Erica Charis-Molling
David Greenspan
​Lois Rosen





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Jory Mickelson
Satya Dash
​Molly Bashaw
​Nick Stanovick
​Abi Pollokoff
​Mandy Shunnarah
Arlene Naganawa

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