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If you're looking a few poetry chapbooks to round out your reading list for the Sealey Challenge ... we can help you out with 11 to choose from. 😀

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYKX?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tpbk

https://www.thesealeychallenge.com/

Our August / September issue is live!

https://ogre.red/issues/2024-08/2024-08-introduction/

With our trademark mix of poetry and visual art, a new article in our regular critique column, and several music tracks.

A wonderful interview by Ambrielle Butler of Katie Beswick, author of our newest chapbook, Plumstead Pram Pushers:

https://ambriellebutler.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/interview-with-katie-beswick-plumstead-pram-pushers/

Get your copy here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D69RKGYP

Happy Monday!

A quick note - our August issue is now full.

Which means, of course, we're opening the reading period for the October issue:

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/300236/october-2024-poetry-visual-art

We're excited to officially release our newest chapbook - Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick - a coming of age collection set in South East London.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D69RKGYP

Readers describe the book as vivid, visceral, and deeply humane.

Check it out! 😀

We're a week ahead of officially releasing the newest chapbook in this year's series - Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick - and the book is already in Amazon's Top 100 for poetry.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D69RKGYP

Early reviews are unanimously positive! 😀

We're gearing up to officially release Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick, the newest chapbook in our in-house series.

For a look ahead of time:

https://ogre.red/info/books/2024-chapbook-beswick-katie/

https://katiebeswick.com/

We've had stellar early reviews! 😀

I haven't written much flash, so it's especially exciting to have a piece in this year's UK National Flash Fiction Day!

https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/surly-lizards-by-matthew-bullen.html

A little piece about dragon tropes. 😀

I'm just thrilled to have my Castlevania anime / Wagner opera mashup as this week's poem by The Friday Poem:

https://thefridaypoem.com/vlad-dracul-is-pissed-off/

It's one of my favorite recent pieces. 😀

Happy Saturday!

Our June issue is live with our trademark mix of poetry and visual art, along with a bit of creative nonfiction flash and a new essay in our regular critique column.

https://ogre.red/issues/2024-06/2024-06-introduction/

I'm delighted to have my contribution to the discourse of the day live in MEMEZINE's new "The Slop" special issue - a little poem about an adventurous bear.

https://www.memezinelit.com/slop-issue-1/interesting-landscapes-matthew-bullen

Matt, ROR EIC

I'm delighted to have a piece in Blackstone / Whitestone's new Found Things zine - a surreal word collage composed from marketing copy taken from a pack of CVS hairbands.

https://blackstoneonawhitestone.wordpress.com/found-things-zine/

Matt, ROR EIC

Right on schedule, our June issue is half full!

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

More prose poetry and longer poems would be nice.

We're also open for music / audioscape tracks (any genre or style).

We're excited to say that we have two new poetry chapbooks signed and in the works!

One about growing up in small town Colorado:

https://www.definwords.com

And one about the culture of South London council estates:

https://katiebeswick.com

Nice to see that within just a few days of its release, our newest chapbook is closing in on several Amazon Top 100 lists.

The Goose Liver Anthology is a retelling of Mother Goose in the style of the Spoon River Anthology.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CY4WT463

What makes it noticeable is that these Top 100 lists are usually filled with reprints of classics, longstanding reliably-selling titles, etc.

Rarely poetry chapbooks from small indie presses. 😀

Our twenty-third and April issue is live!

https://ogre.red

With poetry, visual art, a critical essay in our new critique column, and two music tracks.

The SFPA has graciously accepted nominations for three of our 2023 chapbooks for this year's Elgin Awards.

@sfpoetry

A reading this Saturday at The Writer's Center with Don Illich, author of Rescue is Elsewhere and Love Poems on Bar Napkins.

https://writer.org/event/illich-carroll

Don's books are available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYKX?binding=paperback

Right on schedule, our April issue is full!

The last few acceptances will go out this week.

And that means we're now open for the June issue:

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/290864/june-2024-poetry-visual-art

It's best to submit early.

Cover art for Don Illich's Love Poems on Bar Napkins, the newest book in this year's in-house poetry chapbook series.

Don's first book with us, Rescue is Elsewhere, is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Elsewhere-Ogre-Review-Books/dp/B0CHL3MB6Q