The Maine Review, a new Maine-based print/digital literary review publishing short fiction, poetry, essays, and memoir, has just launched its first quarterly issue. 

Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Review features work by Maine authors, including celebrated poet Annie Finch, Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson, Maine Senior Poet Laureate Roger Finch, and Ellie O'Leary, host of WERU-FM's Writers Forum, and also includes works by new and emerging writers in Maine.  A painting by Portland artist Marguerite Lawler is featured on the cover.

The Review is currently sponsoring a writing contest which offers prizes, a chance for publication in the Fall issue, and other perks.  Guidelines are available at www.TheMaineReview.com/submit.html.

Subscriptions are available for 25% off the cover price: $30 for four quarterly print issues, or $15 for an electronic subscription.  Single copies can also be ordered via the website.

The Review is seeking sponsors—literary-loving patrons who want to contribute toward the costs of publication of the Fall issue—and businesses who wish to sponsor the magazine in return for ads targeted toward Maine readers and the national reading public.  Sponsors will be listed in each issue of the Review and on the website, www.TheMaineReview.com.

The Editor of the Review is Maine writer Katherine Mayfield, author of the award-winning memoir The Box of Daughter: Healing the Authentic Self and Bullied: Why You Feel Bad Inside and What to Do About It.

For more information, visit www.TheMaineReview.com.  For questions about sponsorship or advertising, please contact the Editor at editor@TheMaineReview.com.

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