Cherry Road Review is an online literary journal dedicated to publishing work that engages language as not simply a path forward, but a finding of shape in detour.

The journal was founded in 2025 by Charlotte Ungar, alongside Ava Reilly, Maisie Bilston, Annabel Richards, and Liam Smith, out of a shared desire to create a space for writing that does not seek to explain the world, but to ask something more strange and necessary of it. In this spirit, CRR publishes work that appreciates the page as a threshold. We strongly believe in writing that boldly questions itself. And in resonance—the slant—the sentimental strangeness that lives inside the ordinary.

We publish two issues online per year, once in the spring and once in the fall. Each issue is created to take on its own relevant terrain, balancing compelling literary content with important visual art. What does it mean to walk backward into a room you’ve never left? How can we all truly write with language?