look up the effects of painting when you’re pregnant and they are bad.
I look up the effects of sculpting when you’re pregnant and they are worse.
I wake up in the night full of sweat . . .
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Staff reader Nick Bertelson talks with poet Patrick Phillips about writing the dead beloved, the kinship between poetry and ministry, and the sacred and the profane in his poem “Shit Story” from NER 46.3-4.
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” . . . the gift of this new form enabled me to write during a weary time . . . what a good container for grief it has been.”
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Browse & shop new books by Cortney Lamar Charleston, Jennifer Militello, Kelly Hoffer, Bret Anthony Johnston, & more.
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The New England Review Award for Emerging Writers provides a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2026 and is given annually to an emerging writer who offers an unusual and compelling new voice and who has been published by NER in the past year.
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NER 46.3-4 contributor Jessie Li talks with staff reader Dana Lynch about infinite universes, writing in first-person plural, and the function of misunderstanding in her short story “How We Met Our Father.”
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Staff reader Simone Kraus talks with NER 46.3-4 contributor Michael Carson about the significance of writing letters, Kafka and Lawrence, and the relationship between war and writing.
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NER Out Loud Of Coywolves and Women
Caley Henderson reads an excerpt from her essay “Of Coywolves and Women,” first published in NER 46.3-4 (2025).
