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Congratulations to the 10:4:Tenn winners for 2026!

1st Place, The Hand You're Dealt by Tracey Zerwig Ford

2nd Place, Turn of the Tidier by Rex McGregor

3rd Place, Going to Meet the Man by James Bruns

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Announcing our Pushcart Prize nominees!

Our next submission period begins Dec. 15.

Order your copy or send us your work: ponderreview.submittable.com

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📢 Call for Submissions! ✍️

Ponder is seeking Creative Nonfiction for our upcoming issue!

✨ What We’re Looking For:

✅ Engaging personal narratives

✅ Thought-provoking essays

✅ Lyrical and experimental nonfiction

📝 Deadline: March 15, 2025

📩 Submit your work at: https://www.muw.edu/ponderreview/submit/

Share your story with us!

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Call For Submissions

Today we begin our next reading period for Ponder Review Volume 9, Issue 1

Send us your fiction, poetry, CNF, plays, art, newmedia

December 15, 2024 — March 15, 2025

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Here is Ponder Review, Volume 8, Issue 2 with the beautiful cover image by Zane Choi of South Korea!

Copies arrived this noon from the printer. We'll be printing labels and stuffing envelopes so they can go in the mail to subscribers and contributors early next week! Look for yours in your mailbox soon!

And if you still need to order yours, it's not too late.

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AWP25

We've reserved our table in the Book Fair for #AWP25. Writers, come see us at T1133 when you head to LA March 26-28.

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We'll be at this table with our low-res MFA program!

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We sent in our Pushcart nominations last week! We have so many great poems in Issue 16 that it was hard to choose only 6! Good luck to everyone!

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We're very proud of our Pushcart nominees. We have some great work in this year's volume, and we're thrilled to send the on to the main contest. Good luck to all!

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Submissions Closing Soon!

With just one more week in our reading period, we'd especially love to see more CNF, short plays, and new media, though we're also always looking for poetry, fiction, and flash! Send us your work. Deadline for our next issue: Sept. 15.

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Heading to AWP in Kansas City?

Stop by our table at the Book Fair — T1248.

We'd love to talk, and we'll have sample copies of our magazines Ponder Review and Poetry South, plus swag, candy, and flyers.

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Contributors to Ponder Review, we'd love to see you at AWP! Stop by T1248 to say hello! Looking for somewhere to submit? Check out our magazines.

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New Students / Alums

One ritual at the start of the semester is to update our map. Check out where we live. Welcome new students: Karen Dyson, Leslie Cardwell, Mac Cromwell, Christian Collier, Alexis Jemal, Karin Fazio Littlefield, Morgan Raper, and Kerri Roe! I've also moved our newest alumni to the long blue line of MFA alums: Alana Benoit, Bailey Hammond, Jan Hoover, Léhana Lewis, Hannah Madonna, Rich Sobolewski, Brooke Sandlin, and Dana Xedos.

The W's MFA in CW - Google My Maps

Mississippi University for Women's Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing Students, Alumni, and Faculty live in these places.

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Featured on Duotrope

We learned today that we're the featured magazine at Duotrope for the day. We're thrilled for the exposure, esp. while we're actively reading for Issue 7.2. Send us your fiction, poetry, CNF, Drama, Art, or New Media!

Duotrope is an established, award-winning resource for writers and artists. We help you save time finding publishers or literary agents for

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With the total demise of #twitter or @——er, or now @X (as in what the X?) we will try to post more here. If you're looking for a place to send your fiction, poetry, CNF, drama, art, etc., give us a look. Submissions open until Sept. 15

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Issue 7.1 is now available!  The reading period for 7.2 is June 15th - September 15th 2023Ponder Review welcomes: Fiction Flash Fiction C

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See us at #AWP23

If you’re headed to Seattle next week, stop by T1221 in the AWP Book Fair to talk with us about our program, Ponder Review, or Poetry South. We’ll be there with our program director and four students, as well as a number of alumni of the program (and former editors!) who are bound to stop by our table. It will be exhausting, exhilarating, refreshing, and overwhelming. Whenever you need to see a friendly face, you can find one at our table, and maybe we’ll still have some chocolate or a great literary magazine to peruse!

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Advice for #AWP23 — 

Stop by T1221 to get your Ponder Review! 

Be kind to people you don’t know

Remember, everyone else is probably as nervous as you are

When you take our candy, stop and talk to us — we don’t bite (usually)

If a panel is too crowded, it’s okay to leave, you might discover something equally great or even better just down the hall

No one will remember that embarrassing thing you said when you walked by their table or booth and if they do, they’re just weird

You win AWP if you get a copy of Ponder Review; otherwise you lose, sorry… (just kidding, you can always subscribe later!)

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Call for Submissions: Ponder Review

For our first post on Tumblr, we’d like to announce our current call for submissions. We’re looking for fiction, poetry, flash, CNF, short plays, new media, and visual art — if you write it, we want to see it. Deadline, March 15. 

See our guidelines and read back issues at ponderreview.com

Ponder Review is a publication of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women.