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LITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsAwards Announcement

November 27, 2023

Special Announcement||O:JA&L’s 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees

Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS

November 26, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Angela Townsend|”Giving up the Ghost” ‌

FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS

November 25, 2023

Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Thomas Lowery|”Friends Forever”

Editor's Picks

Highlights

PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS

Poetry: All forms & styles||Helen Wickes|”MAYBE”

NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric

Poetry: All forms & styles||Penelope Schott|”AS IF TO BELIEVE IN PRAYER”

PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS

Poetry: All forms & styles||Penelope Schott|”OLD BARN, OR HOW THINGS GO ON”

BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series

Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Penelope Schott|”OLD BARN or How Things Go On”

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November 17, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr|”Soles”

November 15, 2023

Mixed Forms: Tanka Prose||Jianqing Zheng|”THE DREAM SONG TO THE COMPS”

November 15, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Maya Bernstein-Schalet|”On Being Alone”

November 8, 2023

Flash Fiction||Karen Regen Tuero|”WHAT ELSE WAS NORMAL THAT I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT?”

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