At Common Ground Review, we seek to publish well crafted poems, short stories and creative nonfiction that surprises and illuminates, amuses, informs, and challenges. CGR comes out twice a year: we accept submissions from September to May 1. Our annual poetry contest opens to entries in January and closes mid-March.
Common Ground Review is a free access online publication and a member of CLMP.
We are delighted to announce that Lisa Hase-Jackson will be our 2026 Annual Poetry Contest Judge.
Lisa Hase-Jackson’s second collection of poetry, Insomnia in Another Town (Clemson University Press 2024), was selected by poet Clare Batemen for the 2024 Converse University MFA Alumni Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Nelson Poetry Book Prize by the Kansas Authors Club. Her debut collection of poetry, Flint and Fire (Word Works) was selected by Pulitzer prize-winning poet Jericho Brown for the 2019 Hilary Tham Capital Collection Series. She has been awarded writing residency fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and the Kimmel Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts. Her work has recently appeared in the anthologies The Crafty Poet and Ice on a Hot Stove as well as in such literary journals as The Cimarron Review, Sugar House Review, Vox Populi, and Verse Daily.
Common Ground Review was founded in 1999 by the Common Ground Writers’ Group, in order to create a place open to many styles of poetry and many different poets. In 2006, CGR affiliated with Western New England College (now Western New England University). After 15 issues, the founding editors turned over the magazine to the current editor in 2011.
Common Ground Review was a print magazine until 2020: copies of many of those issues are available. Please contact us if you're interested in purchasing one or more.
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