The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature & arts with the aim to shine a light on emerging and underrated writers, storytellers, poets, artists, and other creatives across the globe.

The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature, culture & arts with the aim to shine a light on emerging and underrated writers, storytellers, poets, artists, and other creatives across the globe. Named and conceptualised by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury in July 2022, she invited fellow writer-poet and friend, Ankit Raj Ojha, onboard in October 2022. The two have since been editing the magazine, expanding and developing it, and building its foundations to humbly serve the literary community in the years to come.

Six Questions For

including Novel Excerpts, Translations

including Prose Poetry

Literature Essays

Creative

also Photography, Haiga, Photo Essays

Murals, Graffiti, Street Art

and Film Scripts

including Cartoons

Everyone 18 and above are welcome to submit!

Tejaswinee Roychowdhury 

Ankit Raj Ojha 

Francois Bereaud

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Our Editorial/Publication Ethics:

·        We have a strict policy against plagiarism and work deliberately intended to offend any person or group. Upon receiving such submissions, we reserve the right to ban you permanently from submitting to our magazine.
·        We’re sure AI is helpful in many ways but this space is about original creativity and so we won’t publish AI-generated work.
·        Our readers are (hopefully) mature adults. Eroticism/sensuality in literature and art is wonderful, but we will reject pornographic work.
·        Hit us with experimental themes, and difficult subject matters. As such, your work may be political but we don’t want to be preached at.
·        While we love work that brings forth your culture, we don’t want religious work intended to proselytize.

Work inspired by accepted Murals

Our Weekly Features page is a living, breathing ecosystem comprising the liveliest writings from across categories that do not often find a place in the somewhat rigid litmag issue model with its constraints of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry etc. We publish humour (can be prose, poetry, drama, etc.), culture essays (literature, cinema, theatre, music, sports, art, food, and everything else under the sun), travelogues / travel writing, photo essays (should tell a story through the photographs with the written work designed to supplement the photos), craft essays, and reviews (of books, films, theatre, music albums). Try us even if you cannot figure out how to categorise your work.


Weekly Features

Issue 4

A book review of R.N. Roveleh's debut novel, "Lucky Wolf."

Lucky Wolf by R.N. Roveleh — A Medieval Tale about Identity, Love, and Death

A woman reminisces about the death of her father and his mother tongue.

Family Records

Ricky's Funeral is Thursday

This story explores a young woman, Malka Spitzer, and her struggles with maladaptive daydreaming and escapism.

Malka Spitzer Likes To Disappear

Mind Junkie

"We're writers, darling. We turn men into frogs."

The Moonchild

A piece exploring the author’s feelings on her disability and how society views disability.

i am an anglerfish

When you ask me to marry you, I won't say yes. Not at first. I'll make you wait, tease you with the possibility that I could refuse. 
But you'll probably ask me somewhere I can't say no 

The Perfect Ceremony of Love's Rite

If we are the products of cell division and the minuscule hance that allows for humans to be as complex as they are from evolution... How many big bangs does it take to break the world one has always known? What creates my universe?

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