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"An interest in nudism and nudity is an interest in the animal part of our body that wants to feel the sun on our skin, that wants to be natural in the world, naked as we were born." from Mark Bessen's interview with Justin Torres. Read more via link porterhousereview.org/articles/justi…

"Marie imagines the robbers breaking in and finding her as she is: staring at the windowpane, a book drooping out of her hand. She imagines herself flicking on the lamp, calm as a cloud..." from Peter Schlachte's fiction piece, "Wings". Read more via porterhousereview.org/articles/wings/

"before love is cartooned worthy of honour, before lawyers bind grief into forms where careful records make up for absence" from Roy Wang's poetry piece, "Oratorio for three voices". Read from via porterhousereview.org/articles/orato…

We're so excited to announce the results of our 2025-2026 Editor's Prize Fiction Winner: "Wings" by Peter Schlachte! Congratulations to our finalists and thank you to our judge, Rebecca Makkai! Stay tuned for our nonfiction and poetry winners coming soon!

"A carrot, a turnip, my tumor: objects that can reach fifteen centimeters without being too much. I grew the tumor slowly, the way a woman cradles a pregnancy inside her, long and slow until the baby is ripe." from Tomilyn Hannah Rupert's fiction piece, "Wapping Station".

" The myths are logged in our collarbones, travel through our mid riffs. Our stomachs learn to home mythologies as prayer." from Sneha Subramanian Kanta's poetry piece, "Mythologies".

In our Nonfiction category, our winner is "Wichita Falls" by Joshua Forehand! Congratulations to our finalists-Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Mwanabibi Sikamo, Jessica Kim, and Celia Chandler! And thank you to our nonfiction judge, Maurice Chammah! Stay tuned for our poetry winner!

To finish off our PHR's 2024-2025 Editor's Prize Winners, our winner for poetry is "Inverse Ghazal" by Aman Rahman! Congratulations to our finalists: Gosepel Chinedu, Jennifer Handy, Obasiota Ibe, Timi Sanni, and Martins Deep. And thank you to our poetry judge, Romeo Oriogun!

"My poetry is most concerned with connectivity. " from Devyne Byrd's interview piece, "On Centering Connectivity: A Conversation with Amanda Johnston" Read more via link porterhousereview.org/articles/on-ce…

"My God, I even name-dropped Audre Lorde in the most obnoxious demonstration of too-cool-for-Chaucer antics that I thought possible for myself." from Raven Reese's field notes piece, "On Being "Under-Read" Read more via link porterhousereview.org/articles/on-be…

Happy Birthday, Katherine Anne Porter! Born today, May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, TX 💫 William T Johnson Porter House Review

"Sensuously, carefully, like any pressure would till his skin and give way to pores that would erode the glow he'd struggled so hard to cultivate." from Enyinna Nnabuihe's fiction piece, "The Anatomy of a Boy Who Never Became a Man" Read more via link porterhousereview.org/articles/the-a…

"The question carried across the unlit living room from the recliner end of a forest green sectional. The venetian blinds behind her concealed the sunset over the lake. She was indifferent to sunsets." from Joshua Forehand's piece, "Wichita Falls'. Link porterhousereview.org/articles/wichi…

"Look at me look at you. Look: how every corner in this room points to us." from Aman Rahman's poetry piece, "Inverse Ghazal". Read more via link below porterhousereview.org/articles/inver…

"There was once a girl who overwatered her plants because she didn’t know when to stop giving." from Nala Washington's interview piece, "I'm Either Drowning or Swimming: A Conversation with Spoken Word Artist Ebony Stewart" Read more via link in bio

"Language, then, is sanctified yet secular—capable of building and breaking, liberating and limiting in equal measure." from Divine Byrd's interview piece, "Are You Listening? : A Study of Enyinna Nnabuihe’s The Anatomy of a Boy Who Never Became a Man" Read more via link in bio

"I trust you, I replied, which was the same mistake I’d made all thirteen years we were together." from Eric Rasmussen's fiction piece, "Underworld Party (with Goats)". Read more via link porterhousereview.org/articles/under…

"my father’s / body is an intersection of many borders. he found / home in the wrong countryside." from Gospel Chinedu's poetry piece, "Psalm 191 or How I Test Run Faith At The Edge Of A Switchblade". Read more via link porterhousereview.org/articles/psalm…