The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Our objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring enrichment to every facet of life. We want to inspire more ekphrastic writing and promote the best in ekphrasis far and wide.
The Ekphrastic Review is a unique resource that runs out of pocket on love. Lorette spends 80 plus hours every month on the journal- two to three hours a day, every day including weekends, reading submissions, organizing the challenges, responding, setting up showcases, promoting, and corresponding about permissions for images. Consider a gift, small or large, to support us.
We nominate writers for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize.
Lorette C. Luzajic, editor and founder
theekphrasticreview@gmail.com
Social Media Team
Facebook
Christa de Brún
Andrew Blackwood
Prize Nomination Consultants
Laura Cherry
Alarie Tennille
TERcets Podcast
Brian A. Salmons
Guest Editors (guest editors who have read and selected for past ekphrastic writing challenges)
Tina Barry
John Di Leonardo
Shirley Glubka
Kyle Laws
Joan Leotta
Janette Schafer
Alarie Tennille
Jordan Trethewey
Bill Waters
Editor's Bio:
Lorette C. Luzajic is a writer, editor, educator, and visual artist in Toronto, Canada. She studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, but preferred creating and exhibiting mixed media art to the newsroom. Deeply passionate about art history and literature, these have been ongoing areas of study for decades. Lorette's prose poetry and flash fiction, mostly ekphrastic, have appeared in about a dozen anthologies, and hundreds of journals, including Cultural Weekly, Macqueen's Quinterly, Indelible, Axon, Cabinet of Heed, JMWW, Citron Review, Tiny Molecules, Cleaver Magazine, Unbroken, Fatal Flaw, and Miramichi Flash. She has been nominated four times each for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She has also been nominated for Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. One of her flash stories won first place in a contest at MacQueen's Quinterly. Her latest books are collections of ekphrastic prose poems and small stories: Winter in June, and Pretty Time Machine. Lorette is an award-winning visual artist whose work is regularly shown in Toronto and nearby, and has also been exhibited in Mexico, Tunisia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Ireland, Australia, in a magazine ad campaign for Madrid-based jewelry company Carrera Y Carrera, and as a 20 ft. billboard in New Orleans. She has been a jury member for the Boynes International Emerging Art Awards out of Australia, as well as for the city of Barrie Arts Awards. Her art has been collected in at least 30 countries, from Peru to Saudi Arabia. Visit Lorette at www.mixedupmedia.ca.
TERcets Podcast Host:
Brian A. Salmons is a writer and translator who lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife and their three children. He studied anthropology and community development at university, works full time for a full-service, national law firm, and writes and translates poetry. He's been published in several journals since 2017 when he got serious about writing and started submitting for publication. Brian is an avid reader of classic lit, sci-fi, politics, philosophy, history and the social sciences and enjoys attempting to learn other languages, the latest ongoing effort being Indonesian. He is also the host of our podcast TERcets. His website is briansalmonspoetry.wixsite.com/poetry. Find him on IG @teacup_should_be, Twitter @brianasalmons, and FB @brian.salmons.
Social Media Team Bios:
Andrew Blackwood: "Unpublished, but I have been writing most of my life, making my way through different workshops of poetry, prose and for a decade, playwrighting, while looking for a place to land, and think I found it in microfiction. When I am not writing, I live in the urban suburbs of London with my wife and an emptying nest as our children go off into the world. I like my garden and travel, particularly Brasil and Portugal and for the last 30 years practise Tai Chi keeping my beginners mind."
Christa de Brún is an Irish academic and poet. Her poetry was shortlisted for the Anthology Poetry Prize 2020 and the Roscommon Poetry Prize at the Strokestown International Festival 2020. She was most recently published in The Ekphrastic Review, New Word Order and in the anthologies Addictions collated by Veronica Aaronson and Cathal Buí Selected Poems 2021.
Prize Nomination Consultants:
Laura Cherry: Laura's latest chapbook, Two White Beds, is available from Minerva Rising Press, and her first full-length collection of poetry, Haunts, is available from Cooper Dillon Books. Laura's chapbook, What We Planted, was awarded the 2002 Philbrick Poetry Award by the Providence Athenaeum. She is co-editor of the anthology Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press). Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Tuesday: An Art Project, The Vocabula Review, H_NGM_N, Newport Review, Los Angeles Review, and Naugatuck River Review. It has also appeared in the anthologies Present Tense (Calyx Press), Vocabula Bound (Vocabula Books), and Letters from the World (Red Hen Press). Laura was a nominating reader for (and previous recipient of) the Philbrick Poetry Prize and also at Tuesday: an Art Project.
Alarie Tennille was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, with a genius older brother destined for NASA, a ghost, and a yard full of cats. She graduated from the University of Virginia in the first class admitting women. Alarie was a career writer and editor, but art was her first love. In 2016, she discovered The Ekphrastic Review when a friend’s poem appeared there. While Alarie believes a poem should be able to stand on its own, it’s much more exciting to see it paired with the inspiration. Overnight, The Ekphrastic Review became her journal home. Both her poetry collections are listed on the review’s Book Shelf, and Alarie became one of the first guest challenge editors in 2019. Now retired, Alarie serves on the Emeritus Board of The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri. Please visit her at alariepoet.com.
The Ekphrastic Review is a unique resource that runs out of pocket on love. Lorette spends 80 plus hours every month on the journal- two to three hours a day, every day including weekends, reading submissions, organizing the challenges, responding, setting up showcases, promoting, and corresponding about permissions for images. Consider a gift, small or large, to support us.
We nominate writers for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize.
Lorette C. Luzajic, editor and founder
theekphrasticreview@gmail.com
Social Media Team
Christa de Brún
Andrew Blackwood
Prize Nomination Consultants
Laura Cherry
Alarie Tennille
TERcets Podcast
Brian A. Salmons
Guest Editors (guest editors who have read and selected for past ekphrastic writing challenges)
Tina Barry
John Di Leonardo
Shirley Glubka
Kyle Laws
Joan Leotta
Janette Schafer
Alarie Tennille
Jordan Trethewey
Bill Waters
Editor's Bio:
Lorette C. Luzajic is a writer, editor, educator, and visual artist in Toronto, Canada. She studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, but preferred creating and exhibiting mixed media art to the newsroom. Deeply passionate about art history and literature, these have been ongoing areas of study for decades. Lorette's prose poetry and flash fiction, mostly ekphrastic, have appeared in about a dozen anthologies, and hundreds of journals, including Cultural Weekly, Macqueen's Quinterly, Indelible, Axon, Cabinet of Heed, JMWW, Citron Review, Tiny Molecules, Cleaver Magazine, Unbroken, Fatal Flaw, and Miramichi Flash. She has been nominated four times each for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She has also been nominated for Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. One of her flash stories won first place in a contest at MacQueen's Quinterly. Her latest books are collections of ekphrastic prose poems and small stories: Winter in June, and Pretty Time Machine. Lorette is an award-winning visual artist whose work is regularly shown in Toronto and nearby, and has also been exhibited in Mexico, Tunisia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Ireland, Australia, in a magazine ad campaign for Madrid-based jewelry company Carrera Y Carrera, and as a 20 ft. billboard in New Orleans. She has been a jury member for the Boynes International Emerging Art Awards out of Australia, as well as for the city of Barrie Arts Awards. Her art has been collected in at least 30 countries, from Peru to Saudi Arabia. Visit Lorette at www.mixedupmedia.ca.
TERcets Podcast Host:
Brian A. Salmons is a writer and translator who lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife and their three children. He studied anthropology and community development at university, works full time for a full-service, national law firm, and writes and translates poetry. He's been published in several journals since 2017 when he got serious about writing and started submitting for publication. Brian is an avid reader of classic lit, sci-fi, politics, philosophy, history and the social sciences and enjoys attempting to learn other languages, the latest ongoing effort being Indonesian. He is also the host of our podcast TERcets. His website is briansalmonspoetry.wixsite.com/poetry. Find him on IG @teacup_should_be, Twitter @brianasalmons, and FB @brian.salmons.
Social Media Team Bios:
Andrew Blackwood: "Unpublished, but I have been writing most of my life, making my way through different workshops of poetry, prose and for a decade, playwrighting, while looking for a place to land, and think I found it in microfiction. When I am not writing, I live in the urban suburbs of London with my wife and an emptying nest as our children go off into the world. I like my garden and travel, particularly Brasil and Portugal and for the last 30 years practise Tai Chi keeping my beginners mind."
Christa de Brún is an Irish academic and poet. Her poetry was shortlisted for the Anthology Poetry Prize 2020 and the Roscommon Poetry Prize at the Strokestown International Festival 2020. She was most recently published in The Ekphrastic Review, New Word Order and in the anthologies Addictions collated by Veronica Aaronson and Cathal Buí Selected Poems 2021.
Prize Nomination Consultants:
Laura Cherry: Laura's latest chapbook, Two White Beds, is available from Minerva Rising Press, and her first full-length collection of poetry, Haunts, is available from Cooper Dillon Books. Laura's chapbook, What We Planted, was awarded the 2002 Philbrick Poetry Award by the Providence Athenaeum. She is co-editor of the anthology Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press). Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Tuesday: An Art Project, The Vocabula Review, H_NGM_N, Newport Review, Los Angeles Review, and Naugatuck River Review. It has also appeared in the anthologies Present Tense (Calyx Press), Vocabula Bound (Vocabula Books), and Letters from the World (Red Hen Press). Laura was a nominating reader for (and previous recipient of) the Philbrick Poetry Prize and also at Tuesday: an Art Project.
Alarie Tennille was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, with a genius older brother destined for NASA, a ghost, and a yard full of cats. She graduated from the University of Virginia in the first class admitting women. Alarie was a career writer and editor, but art was her first love. In 2016, she discovered The Ekphrastic Review when a friend’s poem appeared there. While Alarie believes a poem should be able to stand on its own, it’s much more exciting to see it paired with the inspiration. Overnight, The Ekphrastic Review became her journal home. Both her poetry collections are listed on the review’s Book Shelf, and Alarie became one of the first guest challenge editors in 2019. Now retired, Alarie serves on the Emeritus Board of The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri. Please visit her at alariepoet.com.