Staff reader Thomas Nath talks with poet Ama Codjoe about intimacy, the potency of childhood, and the uses of memory in her sonnet sequence from NER 47.1.
Author: Maya Hynes
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Ama Codjoe
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Hasanthika Sirisena
Staff reader Meera Vijayann talks with NER 47.1 author Hasanthika Sirisena about rethinking relationships, the differences between public and private sex, and the research that led to her essay “Castaway.”
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Winner of the 2026 Emerging Writers Award
New England Review and the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference are thrilled to introduce Abigail Dembo as the recipient of the twelfth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.
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Kaveh Bassiri
NER office manager Mary Heather Noble talks with writer, poet, & translator Kaveh Bassiri about love, the afterlife of language, & conveying the unknown in his essay “Tarjoma” from NER 46.3-4.
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Announcing the Finalists for 2026
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.
