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Mixed FormsLITERARY ARTSTanka Prose

August 11, 2026

Poetry: All forms & styles|MIXED FORMS: TANKA PROSE||Michiya|”AFTER THE QUESTIONS”

FEATUREDFeatured ProjectFIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtAvailable TitlesBroadside Series

August 10, 2026

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Mansa Bey|”August 2003: Baghdad Iraq”

FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtAvailable Titles

July 29, 2026

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Chapbook Series|CNF/Vignette||J.G.P. MacAdam|”Who Are You Who Doubt My Wonders?”

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Non-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS

Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||Jennifer Anderson|”ELECTRIC YOUTH”

Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS

Buttonhook Press|Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”The Gumption of Fallen Sparrows:|Poems of Spiritual Inquiry”

HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook Series

HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku & Related|Tan-Ku: A Collaboration||Jerome Berglund & Melissa Dennison|”Tilt & Curve: 42 poems””

Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS

Mixed Forms:|Haibun/Haiga/Tanka Prose/Sequential Art Stories||Haibun||Kevin Browne|”Yard Work”

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June 22, 2026

Editor’s Advice|A Guide for Submitters||O:JA&L FREE PRESSES:|PUBLISHING AND AUTHOR RIGHTS STEWARDSHIP OVERVIEW

June 21, 2026

HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|American Chapbooks: Reconfiguring Literary Prestige||Where the Crow Breathes Black Stars:|Larry D. Thomas and his expansion of the crow archetype as established by Ted Hughes

June 7, 2026

Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Jeff Ronan|”Revival”

June 2, 2026

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story to 10,000 Words||Ricardo Bernhard|”Simultanergy”

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