The Idaho Review Vol 23 Launch Party

About this event

Celebrate the publication if Issue 23 of The Idaho Review with authors Devon Halliday, Mark Hitz and Editor-in-Chief Anna Caritj.

Together with two editors from the Idaho Review , fiction writers Devon Halliday and Mark Hitz will discuss the process of publishing short stories in literary magazines, and how it has affected their writing careers. How do you decide where to send your stories? What opportunities can come from placing your work in a magazine? How do short stories help build toward a finished book? In a panel followed by a Q&A, these four writers and editors will discuss the short story ecosystem and the path toward publication.

Event Details

Tuesday, December 8

Oldspeak - 3640 W Chinden Blvd, Boise, ID 83714

Please note that Oldspeak is a 21+ venue.

About Devon Halliday

Devon Halliday is a fiction writer based in Brooklyn. Her short stories have been awarded the Pushcart Prize and distinguished by Best American Short Stories . Her debut novel To Stay, To Stay, To Stay has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She teaches creative writing at Ohio University.

About Mark Hitz

Mark Hitz is a writer from Idaho. His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. He’s a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His first novel, The Name of the Dog , is forthcoming from Saga Press in June 2027.

About Anna Caritj

Anna Caritj is the author of Leda and the Swan (Riverhead, 2021). She holds a BA from the University of Virginia, where she studied English and Spanish literature, and an MFA from Hollins University. She was raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where much of her work takes place, though she has lived, most recently, in Florida, California, New Mexico, and Texas. She is currently at work on a second novel.

About The Idaho Review

The Idaho Review is an annual literary journal that has been publishing fiction, poetry, and essays from established and emerging writers since 1998. Out of the journal’s first 22 issues, 19 stories have received the nation’s highest literary awards—including the Pushcart Prize, the O. Henry Award, Best of the West, and New Stories from the South—and have been selected for reprint in The Best American Short Stories anthology. We are proudly powered by Boise State students. We receive thousands of submissions every year, and we read them all carefully and make our picks at lively editorial roundtables. We tend to like stories with grit—that set their own terms and proceed with confidence.