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2026 Honeybee Poetry Prize Finalists
Hello friends! Happy almost-summer! Today, we’re pleased to report that the team has completed combing through the 1200 poems received for the 2026 Honeybee Poetry Prize and cherry-picked eight finalists. Poems from the following people have been sent to the fabulous MARYA HORNBACHER, who will select this year’s winner…
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Welcome to spring and the latest edition of TGLR. Winter here in Nebraska was uncharacteristically warm and mostly void of snow, but the return of spring has brought the rain and with it, a refreshing drenching of new work by talented writers and artists we matched with via our reading platform. We love all these…
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Free Subs for our Summer 2026 Issue
Guidelines are available on our submission page and the form to send work is available on Submittable (be sure to select the fee-free option, unless you want to give us moneys, which is OK too). Click the image to access the magic portal.
This opportunity will end on March 31st or when we reach…
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Fashionably Late, but Coming In Red Hot
We missed Valentine’s Day and all those feels. But being fashionably late is cool. All the hopeless romantics know that hearing “I love you” when it’s *almost* too late is so satisfying. (As evidenced by the frequent use in rom-coms in Hollywood.)
In all fairness, in our December newsletter, we also said we were gearing…
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Sub Window for Issue #23 Closes Soon
We are currently reading work for Issue #23. We publish poetry, short fiction and cnf (up to 5000 words), and flash fiction and cnf (up to 1000 words). We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, Best Micro Fictions, and Pen Short Story Award, AND… YES we are a paying…
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Introducing Issue #22 ~ Winter 2026
We’re excited to announce the release of Issue #22 ~Winter 2026. This issue is a “Best Of” Edition that features some of our prize-worthy pieces from the past two years, plus bonus new work from Matt Mason (Nebraska State Poet 2019-2024), Jake Bienvenue, Frank Gaughan, and the Nebraska Writers Collective 2025 Kate Sommer Memorial Poetry…
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Introducing Issue #21 ~ Autumn 2025
Welcome, friends, to fall and the latest edition of TGLR. Yes, today is the day… The big reveal of Issue #21!! It’s always a delight to introduce the authors and artists we meet through the publication process, but it’s especially wonderful when people are as kind as this bunch. We’re honored to promote them and…
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2026 Best of the Net Nominations
Hello friends. Fall has arrived here in Omaha and the cooler weather means it’s nom-nom-nomination season again. Today, we’re thrilled to kick off this gourmet meal with a healthy dish of Best of the Net Noms!
This year’s two creative nonfiction essays, two fiction stories, six poems, and three pieces of art being nominated…
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Introducing Issue #20 ~ Summer 2025
Welcome to the sweltering heart of summer. If this is your first visit to The Good Life Review, the 20th, or the 100th, we thank you. If you’re here to read a single poem that was written by someone you know or intend to read this latest release “cover to cover,” we thank you. And…
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Issue #13 Cover Image: “And Yet” by Ann-Marie Brown
