An online journal that seeks to be a home for your prose and poetry. 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.

At Heimat Review, our mission is to provide a home for poetry, prose, and art. We believe that language—narratives, questions, and reflections—offers a vibrant way to explore where we come from, where we are, and where we hope to be.  
 
Heimat (home) is not just a location. It is the place of being, where we find the center of ourselves. It is the moment in time when we reflect on where we are—on who we are—and on where we hope to be. In the spirit of that reflection, Heimat Review offers a place for writers and artists to tell the stories of their homes, their communities, their histories and their futures.

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Visual Art

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Heimat Review

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.<div><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>To Submit:
Email your submissions to heimatreview@gmail.com with the subject line: [Your Name] – CNF.

Attach 1-2 fiction pieces of creative nonfiction of no more than 3000 words each as separate documents in one email. Please name the attached file(s) as the title of your piece(s).​</div></div>

Creative Nonfiction (CNF)

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.<div><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>To Submit:
Email your submissions to heimatreview@gmail.com with the subject line: [Your Name] – Visual Art.

Attach 1-5 original, high-resolution visual art pieces (photography, scanned artwork such as paintings, digital art created in applications such as Procreate, etc.) as separate documents in one email, or you may send us a Google Drive link to the images if they are too large to attach to an email.

If you're unsure what we might accept, contact us at heimatreview@gmail.com or on X, Bluesky, and Instagram @HeimatReview. We'd be happy to answer any questions you have!

We are always looking for more visual arts submissions, so please send us your work!</div></div>

Art & Photography

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.<div><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>To Submit:
Email your submissions to heimatreview@gmail.com with the subject line: [Your Name] – Fiction.

Attach 1-2 fiction pieces of fiction of no more than 3000 words each as separate documents in one email. Please name the attached file(s) as the title of your piece(s).​</div></div>

Fiction

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.<div><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>To Submit:
Email your submissions to heimatreview@gmail.com with the subject line: [Your Name] – Poetry.

Attach 1-5 poems in a single document, with each poem starting on a new page (if submitting more than one). Please name the attached file as the title of your poem.

If you are submitting multiple poems to us, you may choose to title your file something like: The First Poem in My Collection and Other Poems.</div></div>

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