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an international literary magazine
The Dawn Review
The Dawn Review publishes written and visual work from emerging and established writers and artists. At Dawn, we promote the surprising, the genre-bending, and the overwhelmingly human.
We care about:
By the numbers:
5,300+
submissions reviewed
750+
pages of feedback provided
60+
countries represented
Reading Periods:
Reading Period 1: August 15th - October 31st
Reading Period 2: December 15th - February 28th
Dawn Prize for Poetry: February 1st - March 31st
Reading Period 3: May 15th - June 30th
Issues are published in December, April, and August
Muhammed Olowonjoyin is the winner of The Dawn Prize for Poetry!
Congratulations to Muhammed Olowonjoyin for winning first place out of over 500 submissions! Muhammed will receive a $100 cash prize, and his work will be published in the third issue of The Dawn Review. Here's what our guest judge, Sarah Ghazal Ali, has to say about his poem:
I mirror, I oasis, I elegance—this poem phoenixes the self line after line, propelled—or perhaps compelled— by the body and mind’s inescapable cycle of transformation. Here is a speaker honest about his own unknowing, who longs to make sense of what he is, isn’t, and could still be. A beautiful and electric poem from start to finish.
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