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ABOUT FHR
For 30 years, Flint Hills Review has sought to discover and redefine regional writing by publishing work with a particular interest in the Midwest region, including its connection to ethnicity, gender, and personal relationships.
We are produced by the Creative Writing Program at Emporia State University, in the Donald Reichardt Center for Publishing and Literary Arts.
2026 HIATUS
As we at Flint Hills Review shift from an all-print to an online journal, we have regretfully found it necessary to take the 2026 year off from publishing the journal.
As writers who regularly send out work ourselves, we understand how frustrating this can be to hear, especially if you've been waiting on a response for a long time. We apologize for the inconvenience and delay while we regroup and navigate some institutional changes that made this deferral necessary.
Right now, our plan is to publish a special double-issue in 2027. Currently, all submitted pieces are still under consideration for that upcoming online edition.
If you would like your work to remain under consideration, you don't need to do anything (though, as always, please do let us know if it is accepted elsewhere in the interim). If, on the other hand, you would like to go ahead and pull your submission, we understand. Please let us know sometime within the next two months.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. Please follow us online (Facebook/Instagram @esucreativewriting) for announcements and updates.
Sincerely,
Kevin Rabas
Editor-in-Chief, FHR
MEET THE EDITORS
KEVIN RABAS
Editor-in-Chief
Kevin Rabas served as the 2017-2019 Kansas Poet Laureate and teaches creative writing, literature, and podcasting & filmmaking at Emporia State University. He also serves as the Director for the Donald Reichardt Center for Publishing & Literary Arts
An avid jazz drummer and critic, Rabas writes regularly for Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). His published books of poetry include Bird’s Horn and Other Poems and Sonny Kenner's Red Guitar (Coal City Review Press), and Lisa's Flying Electric Piano (Woodley Press.) Spider Face, a collection of his short stories, was released by Otoliths, and Green Bike, a group novel, was released by Meadowlark.
He has poems, stories, and plays published in venues such as Nimrod, The Malahat Review, The Laurel Review, Kansas English, and The Mid-America Poetry Review.
ROSALIE S. KRENGER
Managing Editor
Rosalie Krenger serves as the Publishing & Media Outreach Coordinator for the ESU Creative Writing Program, Bluestem Press, and Donald Reichardt Center for Publishing & Literary Arts.
She received the Jeremy Wild Graduate Essay Award, multiple awards from Kansas Collegiate Media for editorial writing and column writing, and earned the Laurence C. Boylan Scholar Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis.
Her fiction and poetry has been anthologized in Sunlight in the Sanctuary and appears in publications such as One Throne, Down in the Dirt, One Sentence Poems, and The Tin Lunchbox Review among others. She has worked on publications such as Right Hand Pointing and Quivira Student Literary Journal, and has worked with publishers such as Fountainhead Press, Meadowlark Press, Woodley Press, QuailCreek Editions, and more.
In addition to the caring members of the literary community that make FHR possible each year, our staff includes an ever changing roster of Emporia State University students, eager to work on FHR and gain both valuable experience and college credit. If you are interested in finding out more about the program visit our Creative Writing Program page to learn more about EG 580 - Seminar in Literary Magazine.
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