Volume 7.2 | Winter 2024
Bringing together poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter 2024) deepens San Antonio Review’s commitment to showcasing fearless, boundary-pushing work. This issue highlights both emerging and established voices reflecting on identity, memory, and the pressing concerns of our time. With vibrant artwork alongside inventive prose and verse, the Winter 2024 issue offers readers a rich, multifaceted experience that challenges convention while celebrating the enduring power of creativity.
Volume 7.1 | Fall 2024
Volume 7, Issue 1 (Fall 2024) presents a wide-ranging collection of contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art from diverse voices around the world. From intimate verse and striking short stories to thought-provoking essays and reviews, this issue continues SAR’s mission to publish bold, boundary-crossing work that challenges and inspires. With visual art complementing the written word, the Fall 2024 issue offers readers a vivid snapshot of today’s literary and artistic landscape.
Volume 6 | Summer 2022
Blending poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and reviews, Volume 6 (2022) showcases the wide-ranging voices that define San Antonio Review. From sharp short stories and meditative haiku to essays on culture, faith, and society, this issue explores the personal and the political with equal urgency. Featuring new and established writers alongside striking visual art and critical reviews, it offers readers an expansive, thought-provoking journey across genres and forms.
Volume 5 | Summer 2021
This issue of San Antonio Review includes nearly 300 pages of art, poetry, short fiction, reviews and more.
The issue opens with editors’ notes and a “Timeline of Irresponsibility” charting Texas leaders failures in responding to the SARS-Cov-2/COVID-19 pandemic, police violence and Winter Storm Uri, among other contemporary challenges. The feature essay by Baylor University professor Dr. Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D. looks at Texas Republicans’ efforts to limit discussions in public school classrooms by attacking critical race theory. Founding Editor and Publisher William O. Pate II shares an excerpt of his work-in-progress transcription of the third volume of the report from the 1919 Texas House of Representatives Committee Investigation into the Texas Rangers for violence against Mexican Americans during the first quarter of the 20th century. A cartoon by Coyote Shook. Peter Berard, Ph.D., reviews the next world war. Postcard art by and a Q&A with Milicent Fambrough. Paintings by and a Q&A with Andrea Muñoz Martínez. Quotes, recommendations and much more.
Volume 4 | Fall 2020
This vibrant issue features a compelling blend of visual art, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cartoons, and reviews. Expect everything from introspective short stories like “Interstitial” and “Steam Power” to vivid poetry exploring intimacy, memory, and place. Summer’s tension meets political resonance in nonfiction essays such as “On the Difficulty of Civic Friendship…” and “Tulsa,” while Chris Manno’s cartoons and a thoughtful Q&A bring humor and insight. With book reviews on works like Jack and The Last American Aristocrat, Volume 4 showcases the range—tender, urgent, and bold—that San Antonio Review consistently delivers.
Volume 3 | Summer 2020
The Expanded Pandemic Edition of San Antonio Review (Volume 3, Summer 2020) captures a world in upheaval through poetry, prose, essays, and visual art created in the shadow of COVID-19. This issue gathers voices wrestling with isolation, loss, resilience, and renewal, while also celebrating creativity as a vital response to crisis. From striking verse and intimate short stories to provocative essays and arresting art, it stands as a document of both its moment and the enduring power of literature to make meaning amid uncertainty.
Volume 2 | Winter 2019
In its second issue, San Antonio Review presents a dynamic collection of fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art that speaks to the complexities of contemporary life. Volume 2 (Winter 2019) showcases emerging and established voices exploring questions of identity, politics, and human connection, while the art selections add striking visual counterpoints to the written word. Bold, eclectic, and unafraid of risk, this issue reflects SAR’s commitment to publishing work that challenges, provokes, and inspires.
Volume 1 | Winter 2017
The debut issue of San Antonio Review (Winter 2017) introduces the journal’s vision with a vibrant mix of poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art. Bold and eclectic, this first volume sets the tone for SAR’s commitment to publishing diverse voices that question, provoke, and inspire. From intimate reflections to sharp cultural critique, Volume 1 marks the beginning of a literary space dedicated to exploring ideas, art, and the human condition.