Managing Editor Aiden Hunt shares about Philly Chapbook Review’s need for more volunteer poetry readers and a link to apply in this Editor’s Note for August.
Tag: Issue 13: Summer 2026
Poetry Chapbooks (July 2026)
Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in July 2026 by Tupelo Press, Bull City Press, Tough Poets Review, Poetry Society of America, Parlyaree Press, Rockwood Press, Broadstone Books, kith books, Prolific Pulse, Greying Ghost Press, Cardboard House Press, Bottlecap Press, above/ground press & Finishing Line Press.
New Poetry Titles (8/4/26)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 8/4 from Mercer University Press, Black Square Editions, Seagull Books, LSU Press, Tia Chucha Press & Bull City Press.
New Fiction Titles (8/4/26)
Check out new fiction books for the week of 8/4 from Black Rose Writing, Scribner, Graywolf Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Random House, Penguin Books, Algonquin Books, Amistad, Bellevue Literary Press, Peirene Press, University of Nevada Press & Black Lawrence Press.
Call for Fall Poetry & Fiction Submissions
PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry and fiction from August 1 and September 15 for our Fall 2026 issue and beyond. Read this post for details!
Two Poems by Irene Cunningham
“The woman’s head & hair are lavishly dressed. I probably leapt off the logic of the hairdresser being blind and therefore had to work on the head/body/mind rather than just hair as a surface issue of presentation.” Read two poems by Irene Cunningham, our third biweekly poet of the Summer 2026 issue, along with a few words about “The Blind Hairdresser.”
New Fiction Titles (7/28/26)
Check out new fiction books for the week of 7/28 from Set Margins, HarperVia, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, HarperCollins, Atria Books & Knopf.
ADHD in a Non-ADHD World: on Undersight by Alison Hurwitz
“[Hurwitz] shares moments of angst and moments of awe. More than that, there are moments of deep recognition. She sees herself in [her sons] and, in fact, receives a later-life ADHD diagnosis of her own.” Read the full chapbook review by new contributor, Nancy Murphy.
New Poetry Titles (7/21/26)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 7/21 from Westbrae Literary Press, Bloodaxe Books, Orison Books, LSU Press, Knopf, Black Lawrence Press, CLASH Books & University of Utah Press.
New Fiction Titles (7/21/26)
Check out new fiction books for the week of 7/21 from New Island Books, Arcade, WTAW Press, Ballantine Books, Catalyst Collective, New Directions, 37 Ink & Doubleday.