Ambush Review

“I expect readers to read in my books something I didn’t know,
but I can expect it only from those who expect to read
something they didn’t know.”
—Italo Calvino
If On a Winter’s Night A Traveler

Who We Are

ambush review is an annual, San Francisco-Bay Area based literary arts publication featuring innovative and experimental poetry, short “flash” fiction, art and photography, essays and critical reviews. Here you will find both emerging and established writers in a diversity of styles and forms.

The premiere issue has been called “a stunning debut.”

“so that the form takes as many risks as the content”
— Carole Maso, Ava

Editors
Bob Booker
Patrick Cahill

Design
Brendan Cahill