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 60 to 80 volunteer 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.
Lorette C. Luzajic, editor and founder
theekphrasticreview@gmail.com
Social Media Team
Facebook
Brian A. Salmons
Twitter
Rebecca Weigold
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 and 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 poetry, these have been ongoing areas of independent study for decades. Literature and text have also been primary themes of her collage paintings, and art and other human creativities has always been central to her writing. Lorette's poetry and short fiction have appeared in hundreds of journals and a dozen anthologies. She has been nominated twice for Best of the Net and three times for the Pushcart Prize. Her recent flash story won first place in a contest at MacQueen's Quinterly. Her latest book is a collection of ekphrastic prose poems called 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. Her art has been collected in at least 25 countries. Visit Lorette at www.mixedupmedia.ca.
Social Media Team Bios:
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.
Rebecca Weigold is a poet and writer who worked in editorial roles at International Thomson Publishing/Southwestern Educational Publishing and F&W Publications. She founded and published the poetry journal, The Cincinnati Poets' Collective, featuring poets from around the globe, annually for about a decade.
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 60 to 80 volunteer 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.
Lorette C. Luzajic, editor and founder
theekphrasticreview@gmail.com
Social Media Team
Brian A. Salmons
Rebecca Weigold
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 and 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 poetry, these have been ongoing areas of independent study for decades. Literature and text have also been primary themes of her collage paintings, and art and other human creativities has always been central to her writing. Lorette's poetry and short fiction have appeared in hundreds of journals and a dozen anthologies. She has been nominated twice for Best of the Net and three times for the Pushcart Prize. Her recent flash story won first place in a contest at MacQueen's Quinterly. Her latest book is a collection of ekphrastic prose poems called 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. Her art has been collected in at least 25 countries. Visit Lorette at www.mixedupmedia.ca.
Social Media Team Bios:
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.
Rebecca Weigold is a poet and writer who worked in editorial roles at International Thomson Publishing/Southwestern Educational Publishing and F&W Publications. She founded and published the poetry journal, The Cincinnati Poets' Collective, featuring poets from around the globe, annually for about a decade.
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.