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 colour 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. 

If all literature is a kind of extended metaphor – a way of getting readers to think, This is like that. This scenario, this character, this image, is analogous to something in my own life – then, for us, the most fundamental building block of a poem, a story, or even a novel ought thus likewise to be the metaphor. We demand that this process of analogy occur continually throughout the process of reading the work we publish, even on the level of the line and the phrase. We want our readers to be constantly confronted with images that startle them into looking at the world in new ways. 

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 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.