For this issue, we invite both traditional and experimental writing that explores the physical, imaginary, 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.

The Spring Crab welcomes genre hybridity and celebrates the unexpected. Show us the kitchen in surprising, unfamiliar ways.

    What We Are Seeking:  

• Writing that ventures not just within but beyond the kitchen's walls
• Writing about culture, food rituals, immigrant experiences, and culinary memory
• Writing about dynamics of gender, race, class and domesticity in the kitchen
• Writing about kitchens as spaces of solidarity, communion, survival, and secrecy
• Writing about the kitchen as a site of transformation, resistance, and labor
• Writing that examines hunger and nourishment

The Specifics: 

• Submit up to three poems.

• All work must be previously unpublished.

• Simultaneous submissions accepted, however please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Work not originally in English must be translated into English. For work in translation, translators are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint any material under copyright that exceeds the guidelines of fair use or does not have a Creative Commons license.

• We only accept work that is the creative effort of humans. Crab Creek Review is dedicated to publishing work by diverse writers whose voices need to be heard. The lived experience of being human is critical to our mission, therefore we are not open to work that has been fully or mostly written or generated by AI (artificial intelligence). We are open to prose and poetry that has experimented with and incorporated technology in creative ways as long as the role of AI is clearly explained. All submitters will be asked to confirm and disclose the role that AI and other non-standard technologies have played in the creation of their submitted work.

For this issue, we invite both traditional and experimental writing that explores the physical, imaginary, 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.

The Spring Crab welcomes genre hybridity and celebrates the unexpected. Show us the kitchen in surprising, unfamiliar ways.

    What We Are Seeking:  

• Writing that ventures not just within but beyond the kitchen's walls
• Writing about culture, food rituals, immigrant experiences, and culinary memory
• Writing about dynamics of gender, race, class and domesticity in the kitchen
• Writing about kitchens as spaces of solidarity, communion, survival, and secrecy
• Writing about the kitchen as a site of transformation, resistance, and labor
• Writing that examines hunger and nourishment

The Specifics: 

• One (1) essay of up to 1,500 words.

• All work must be previously unpublished.

• Simultaneous submissions accepted, however please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Work not originally in English must be translated into English. For work in translation, translators are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint any material under copyright that exceeds the guidelines of fair use or does not have a Creative Commons license.

• We only accept work that is the creative effort of humans. Crab Creek Review is dedicated to publishing work by diverse writers whose voices need to be heard. The lived experience of being human is critical to our mission, therefore we are not open to work that has been fully or mostly written or generated by AI (artificial intelligence). We are open to prose and poetry that has experimented with and incorporated technology in creative ways as long as the role of AI is clearly explained. All submitters will be asked to confirm and disclose the role that AI and other non-standard technologies have played in the creation of their submitted work.

For this issue, we invite both traditional and experimental writing that explores the physical, imaginary, 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.

The Spring Crab welcomes genre hybridity and celebrates the unexpected. Show us the kitchen in surprising, unfamiliar ways.

   What We Are Seeking:

• Writing that ventures not just within but beyond the kitchen's walls
• Writing about culture, food rituals, immigrant experiences, and culinary memory
• Writing about dynamics of gender, race, class, and domesticity in the kitchen
• Writing about kitchens as spaces of solidarity, communion, survival, and secrecy
• Writing about the kitchen as a site of transformation, resistance, and labor
• Writing that examines hunger and nourishment

The Specifics: 

• One (1) story of up to 1,500 words.

• All work must be previously unpublished.

• Simultaneous submissions accepted, however please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Work not originally in English must be translated into English. For work in translation, translators are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint any material under copyright that exceeds the guidelines of fair use or does not have a Creative Commons license.

• We only accept work that is the creative effort of humans. Crab Creek Review is dedicated to publishing work by diverse writers whose voices need to be heard. The lived experience of being human is critical to our mission, therefore we are not open to work that has been fully or mostly written or generated by AI (artificial intelligence). We are open to prose and poetry that has experimented with and incorporated technology in creative ways as long as the role of AI is clearly explained. All submitters will be asked to confirm and disclose the role that AI and other non-standard technologies have played in the creation of their submitted work.

Order your copy of Crab Creek Review's 2023 Spring/Summer issue here!

From cathedrals to dance floors to climate change, this issue tackles our loftiest questions while celebrating the most personal. It shifts from deep meditations to startling crystallizations as each work takes on a new form and shape.  With this latest issue, you'll find writing from Jory Mickelson, Jared Beloff, Rebecca Martin, Rodrigo Toscano, Julia Mallory, Shilo Niziolek, Sarah Dalton, Forester McClatchey, Shannon K. Winston, David J. Bauman, Melody Wilson, Stephanie L Harper, Benjamid D. Carson, Carolyn Oliver, Jane Zwart, Jude Dexter, Lauren Camp among so, so many others. And we can't wait to share them all with you.