Welcome to Heimat Review. |
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Heimat means “home.” More than a house or city, heimat is the place of being, of presence and reflection. It is the moment in time when you are invited to ask “where am I” and “where should I be?”.
Heimat Review is an online journal that seeks to be a home for your prose, poetry, and art. It is a journal of treehouses and chipped coffee mugs, creaky floors and dusty corners. A place to tape your work to the kitchen fridge.
We are interested in your reflections and nostalgia, your narratives of familiarity and strangeness, the things that draw you back to where you are—and where you hope to be.
Heimat Review is an online journal that seeks to be a home for your prose, poetry, and art. It is a journal of treehouses and chipped coffee mugs, creaky floors and dusty corners. A place to tape your work to the kitchen fridge.
We are interested in your reflections and nostalgia, your narratives of familiarity and strangeness, the things that draw you back to where you are—and where you hope to be.
Most Recent Issues
Issue 10Ever write something down, erase it, and still see the shadow beneath? That lingering echo is a palimpsest—one story pressed over another. Issue 10 gathers work that reckons with the traces we inherit, the ones we create, and the ones we try to bury, forming a portrait of lives built in layers.
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Issue 9Issue 9 begins not in softness but in stark clarity—an unflinching look at the body, memory, and what it means to be seen. Across poetry, prose, and art, this issue dwells in thresholds, tracing the chiaroscuro of identity, loss, and the quiet echoes that memory leaves behind.
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Issue 8Through poetry, prose, and art, Issue 8 explores the emotional complexities of loss, resilience, and the unspoken wishes that bind us. From the aftermath of natural disasters to deeply personal journeys of self-discovery, this collection invites readers to step closer, to listen, and to find solace in shared experiences.
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Issue 7As the summer sun warms our days, our seventh issue takes flight, guiding us through a journey of dreams, sight, and transformation. Issue 7 explores the landscapes of memory, woven with threads of birds, feathers, flight, and movement all seen through varied perspectives.
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Submissions are currently closed.
Our next reading period for Issue 12 opens June 15.
For this themed issue, we invite work engaging myth and legend in all their forms—from imagined and speculative worlds to local, familial, and cultural stories passed down through time. We’re interested in writing and art that considers how belief takes shape, and how stories continue to guide, trouble, or sustain us.
We welcome poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art, and we especially encourage submissions that approach myth broadly: as fantasy or folklore, as inherited narrative, or as personal story held close.
1-2 pieces of creative nonfiction of no more than 3000 words each. Each CNF piece should be attached to one email in separate documents. See more details in the full submission guidelines.
1-2 pieces of fiction of no more than 3000 words each. Each fiction piece should be attached to one email in separate documents. See more details in the full submission guidelines.
1-5 high-res photos or images of originally-created artwork. We always need more visual art submissions, so please send us your work! See more details in the full submission guidelines.