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Essay, Personal

November 30, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Ron Theel|”Common Ground”

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November 17, 2023

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

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October 5, 2023

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|An Essay on Craft|”FIRST IT HAPPENS, THEN I MAKE IT UP”

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August 23, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Karineh Arutyunova|“VOICES”|Translated by Lena Mandel

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July 30, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Lydia Gwyn|”The Highest Point/Emptiness, Standing Still/All Dreams Speak to Life”

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April 18, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alden Cullinane|”The Porcelain God Is Female”

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March 21, 2023

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||James Roth|”Jacob: a Greendale Garden Boy”

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January 1, 2023

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay|Editorials on Issues of Contemporary Aesthetics||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Perseus with the Head of Medusa”

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December 18, 2022

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Americana|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Logan Silva|”A Feast of Spread”

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March 6, 2022

Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR,  DOMESTICATED”

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  • HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 4 December 2, 2023
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  • Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Ron Theel|”Common Ground” November 30, 2023

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