Day Eight is pleased to announce editors for the Mid-Atlantic Review in 2027. The 2027 editorial team includes members of the editorial board – Robert Bettmann, Regie Cabico, Rebecca Bishophall, and Jennifer Helgeson, and guest editors Tony Nicholas Clark, Michele Evans, Jessica Genia Simon, Ori Z Soltes, Shay Azoulay, Donna Denize, Ellen Sazzman, Carolivia Herron and Maritza Rivera, and youth editors Ava Rogers and Gali Feinberg. Read below for month by month detail and editor bios.
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The Mid-Atlantic Review editors selecting for January are Rebecca Bishophall and Tony Nicholas Clark. The cutoff for submission consideration by the January editors is November 21, 2026. Rebecca Bishophall is the co-author of Breaking the Blank with Dwayne Lawson-Brown, published by Day Eight in 2022. Tony Nicholas Clark has received publication in numerous literary journals, including the Mid-Atlantic Review, and he earned his dual M.A/M.F.A degrees in English and Creative Writing from Monmouth University in 2022 and 2023.
The editors for February are Regie Cabico and Michele Evans. The cut off for submission consideration by these editors is December 20, 2026. Regie Cabico is winner of top prizes in the 1993, 1994, and 1997 National Poetry Slams and is the author of A Rabbit in Search (Day Eight, 2023). Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian and an English and creative writing teacher, is the author of the poetry collection purl (2025)and the chapbook februaries (Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2026).
The editors for March are Ava Rogers and Jessica Genia Simon. The cutoff for submission consideration by these editors is January 15, 2027. Ava Rogers, a youth editor for the Mid-Atlantic Review in 2027, is a past participant in Day Eight’s pre-professional Women and Girls writing program and our summer Writing Camp. Jessica Genia Simon’s poems have been published in the Atlanta Review, Slipform 2020 Anthology, Moment Magazine, Magnolia: A Journal of Women’s Socially Engaged Literature, and more, and she is the author of Built of All I Shape and Name (2025).
The editors for April are Jennifer Helgeson and Gali Feinberg. The cut off for submission consideration by these editors is February 15, 2027. Jennifer Helgeson’s first book of poetry, The Silhouette of the Day Before, is forthcoming in 2027. Gali Feinberg, a youth editor for the Mid-Atlantic Review in 2027, is a past participant in Day Eight’s pre-professional Women and Girls writing program and our summer Writing Camp.
The editors for May are Regie Cabico and Ori Z Soltes. The cut off for submission consideration by these editors is March 15, 2027. Regie Cabico is winner of top prizes in the 1993, 1994, and 1997 National Poetry Slams, and author of A Rabbit in Search (Day Eight, 2023). Ori Z Soltes is a pre-eminent scholar of Jewish art, culture, and history at Georgetown University and the author of three books poetry, most recently, The Poppy Poems (forthcoming).
In June the Mid-Atlantic Review will publish a special section of short fiction, selected by editor Shay Azoulay. The deadline for submission to the short fiction special fiction is to be announced. Shay Azoulay is published in Zoetrope All-Story, Tablet Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Molotov Cocktail, and The Short Story Project and he contributes book reviews to The New York Times.
The editors for August are Donna Denize and Ellen Sazzman. The cut off for submission consideration by these editors is June 15, 2027. Donna Denize, a Haitian American, has poems in Gargoyle, Provincetown Arts, Innisfree Journal of Poetry, and the anthology, From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons Volume II (Food). Ellen Sazzman is a Pushcart-nominated poet whose work has been recently published in Clackamas Review, Slipstream, Dos Gatos Press, Atlanta Review, Folio, Peregrine, Delmarva Review, Sow’s Ear, Lilith, and Common Ground, and others.
The editors for September are Regie Cabico and Rebecca Bishophall. The cut off for submission consideration by these editors is July 15, 2027.
The editors for October are Jennifer Helgeson and Maritza Rivera. The cut off for submission consideration by these editors is August 15, 2026. Maritza Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet and Army veteran, founder of Mariposa Press and the Mariposa Poetry Retreat, and the creator of a short form of poetry called Blackjack. Rivera is also an Advisory Editor of the Mid-Atlantic Review.
The editors for November include Carolivia Herron. The cut off for submission consideration for this month is September 15, 2026. Carolivia Herron is a professor of Classics at Howard University, host of the radio show, Epic City, on Takoma Radio, and a writer of adult and children’s literature. Herron is also an Advisory Editor of the Mid-Atlantic Review.
The Mid-Atlantic Review is a literary magazine dedicated to supporting new and under-represented voices, with a focus on D.C. voices. There are two portals for submission to the Mid-Atlantic Review: one for DC area residents and one for non-DC residents. Submission remains free for D.C.-area poets and submission for non-D.C. residents requires a $5 dollar reading fee. Click here to visit the submission portal.