The Chapbook Series
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2020
O:JA&L Pushcart Prize Nominees: 2018
O:JA&L Pushcart Prize Nominees: 2019
Something Else About Mary (Exclusive subscriber content)
(from WIP Not for Sunday School)
Flash Fiction by Kent Dixon
Flash Fiction: A Primer
A writer’s resource by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
Poetry: Three Essays on Craft
by O:JA&L Featured Writers
Ray-the Roo
Experimental Discourse by Associate Editor WJP Newnham
Horse: 4 Frames
Haibun by Associate Editor Jeff Streeby
2021
Just Willie Please: Eight Flash Fiction Tales
A flash fiction sequence by Don Robishaw
The Imp of the Perverse: Edgar Allan Poe’s Misplaces Youth
An essay from a longer academic WIP by Anne Whitehouse
The First Annual O:JA&L Prize for Flash Discourse
Selected and with an Introduction by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The 10 Best Flash Narratives 2017-2021
Here Comes Herodotus, Again!
Flash Discourse by Wayne Cresser
Where the Thin Winds Worry
Flash Discourse by Carolyn Mikulencak
(No longer available)
2022
Funny You Should Ask
Prose Poetry by Brad Rose
Hunger Pains
Flash Discourse by Mark Blickley
Comedy Hour
Poetry by Bruce Robinson
Delta Notes
Haiku by Jianqing Zheng
Scaring Crow
Haiku by Adjei Agyei-Baah
Dust and Rust
Haibun by Taofeek Ayeyemi
A Sweater for the Tayfel
Irish/English Haiku by Gabriel Rosenstock celebrating the art of Issachar Ber Ryback
Zen and the Art of House Painting
New and selected flash fiction by Wayne Scheer
The Selborne Haibun
Irish/English Haibun by Gabriel Rosenstock, featuring passages from The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1720-1793)
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Brian Clements on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Mark Budman on Flash Discourse
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
2023
School Songs
Haiku & Senryu by Hassane Zemmouri
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