The Tampa Review editorial team was saddened to hear of the passing of Troy Bernardo, a recent Tampa Review contributor. Troy’s obituary can be found here. We wanted to express our heartfelt condolences and share Troy Bernardo’s nonfiction piece, “Raw,” published in Tampa Review 63/64. Raw Troy Bernardo When you first start eating raw oysters, you can’t taste any difference … [Read more…]
The Tampa Review editorial team is excited to announce that our guest judge, Evan James, has selected a winner for the Danahy Prize for short fiction. This year’s winning story is “Security” by Shayla Bruin. Bruin is a writer living in Chicago, Illinois. This is her first published work. Of the winning story, our judge, Evan James, says, … [Read more…]
Issue 65 of Tampa Review is off to the printer! To celebrate, we are sharing one of its featured poems, apropos of recent discussions on the death of poetry. Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City (Grid Books, 2021) and Choose Your Own America … [Read more…]
Nobel prize winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day, July 21st, 1899. Controversial, brilliant, and always quotable, his words on fiction and truth, taken from a 1954 letter to Bernard Berenson, beautifully captures the tenacity and passion of Hemingway as a writer. You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade … [Read more…]
We stumbled upon this excerpt from a talk by Ira Glass, brought to life with beautifully rendered typography, on storytelling, good taste and the absolute necessity of perseverance in creative work. https://vimeo.com/24715531 (via brainpickings.org)