Mid-American Review is a publication of Bowling Green State University’s Department of English and staffed by BGSU’s Creative Writing Program. The Program is undergoing some exciting curricular developments and MAR will be taking a two-year hiatus during these changes, following the publication and distribution of volume 44 in May 2026. Thank you for being with us; we wish you well in all your writing endeavors and encourage you to follow our social media for updates
MAR is proud of its tradition of featuring the work of both new and established artists. Writers such as Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Rita Dove, Maggie Smith, Carl Dennis, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Stephen Dunn, Cate Marvin, Michael Martone, David Kirby, and Camille Dungy have appeared in MAR. But MAR is also dedicated to introducing non-English speaking voices to our audience through our translation chapbook series, featuring writers such as Salgado Maranhão, Wisława Szymborska, and Circe Maia, and translators such as Jesse Lee Kercheval and Alexis Levitin.
Works that first appeared in MAR have been reprinted in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Essays, Pushcart: Best of the Small Presses, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, New Stories from the South, Poetry Daily, and Harper’s Magazine.
MAR is published at Bowling Green State University through the cooperation of the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
