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Meet your PHR team! 🎉Jennifer is the author of four novels: A Partial History of Lost Causes, Cartwheel, The Spectators, and The Last Language. A recipient of multiple fellowships, duBois teaches in the MFA program at Texas State. @txstenglish@txstmfa@jennifer_dubois
Meet your PHR team! 🎉Subramani believes that honest storytelling can have a desirable impact on us and the world we live in. He is a second-year MFA fiction candidate at Texas State University, San Marcos and the nonfiction editor of Porter House Review. @txstmfa@txstenglish
Meet your Porter House Review team! 🎉Jessica is a poet and writer from Beirut, Lebanon with an attachment to the Mediterranean and more than enough material to write about for the foreseeable future! Before becoming AME at PHR, Jessica served as the journal's Nonfiction Editor.
Meet your Porter House Review team! 🎉Nemi writes poetry and creative nonfiction. He has taught creative writing in both elementary and high school. He currently teaches college writing at Texas State University, where he is an MFA candidate in Poetry.
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Meet your PHR team! 🎉 Ruby Camacho is a historical fiction writer from Philadelphia (GO BIRDS!) and holds a B.A. in English and Literature, now pursing her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at Texas State University. 📖 Check out Ruby's reading recs! @txstmfa@txstenglish
Meet your PHR team! 🎉 Divine Byrd is a queer, Black author from Austin, TX and the Managing Editor this year. With her years of experience, Divine will be overseeing the day to day operations and submissions. Check out Divine's reading recommendations! 📖 @txstmfa@txstenglish
We want your work! Porter House Review is open for submissions from September 15 - October 20, accepting all genres. Keep an eye out for our Submittable link soon! @txstmfa@txstenglish
✨AWP 2026 Off-Site Event Announcement✨
We are pleased to present: From the Hill Country to the Harbor: An Evening with Texas State University’s MFA Affiliates & Porter House Review!
EVENT DETAILS
When: Mar. 4, 6-8 PM ET
Where: Charm City Books
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Come write at #TXSTMFA, where there's something for everyone!
🌟 Tracks in poetry & prose with award-winning faculty
🌟 Almost 90% of students receive funding
🌟 Robust visiting writer series
Interested? Apply by Feb. 15 for Fall admission. @TXSTEnglish@txstla@TXSTGradCollege
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📣ATTENTION WRITERS!📣 Porter House Review will be opening our 2025 - 2026 Editors' Prize contest on December 15, judged by James Frankie Thomas and Carl Phillips. Get ready to send us your amazing fiction and poetry starting next week! 🎉
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"Elegy for Nairobi River which gathers speed, accelerando, bursts dams, washes away homes and cars and former people who’ll appear as false reparation promises on the tongue of a canting president."
-An excerpt from @mwanigaminagey, An Elegy for Nairobi.
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"My mind’s eye becomes that of a tlaquetzqui, and I find my soul operating on a different plane."
— An excerpt from Julia E Hammond's, “love letter to the tlaquetzqui: a conversation on the short stories of ire'ne lara silva in the light of your body"
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Click below to read Victoria Garcia’s interview with Saul Hernandez, “Wading through Identity: Tracing lineage in Saul Hernandez’s poetry in How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters" from PHR's 9/29 publication.
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"I'm barely middle aged. She is astounded / That love should finish here, just where it started."
-A segment from @AlastMorrison's poem titled "Skipping Forward", featured in our September 15 publication.
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🔸"In Which a Son and a Mother Meet at the Parking Lot of an Airport Where Queerness Attempts Not to Be a Metaphor..." by @ug_damian
🔸"Airports Are Quiet Now and I Can’t Get To You..." by Emily Daniel
🔸"The Igbo word for death is almost the same..." by @ChisomOkafor16
Rounding out our Best of the Net 2026 series, we’re delighted to announce our Poetry nominees! Congratulations and good luck to our nominated poets. (1/3). @TXSTEnglish@txstmfa
We’re thrilled to share our Nonfiction nominees for @SundressPub 2026 Best of the Net Anthology. Congrats and good luck to the following:
In the Garden of Gethsemane, a Lamp by @LeScribbler
Years of Gravity by W. Scott Hanna
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