Cherry Road Review is an online literary journal dedicated to publishing work that understands language not simply as a path forward, but as a means of enjoying the color 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 focuses particularly on the evocative, associative, and emotive power of words. To that end, CRR is looking to publish diverse, formally innovative work that thinks about language as able to conjure, move, and inspire, as well as simply to express. We strongly believe in writing that boldly questions itself. And in resonance—the slant—all the strangeness that lives inside the ordinary.

We publish two issues online per year, once in the spring and once in the fall. We’re looking for writing that is fresh, challenging, and genre-defying; our authors are characterised merely by a shared desire to write with language, rather than merely through it.