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Personal essay to 1000 words

August 23, 2023

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


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August 1, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Wendy BooydeGraaff|”Saturday Mornings‌”


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July 26, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Ericka Russel|BURNING ALFALFA FIELDS


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April 18, 2023

Flash Nonfiction|Essay||Paul Perilli|”THE MAYAN BALL GAME”


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April 18, 2023

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


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September 12, 2022

Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2022 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|


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February 17, 2022

Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poem as CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”

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August 29, 2020

Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Taiwan: The Experience of Thomas


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August 12, 2020

Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in New Zealand: The Experience of Jim”


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August 10, 2020

Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Turkey: The Experience of Elena”


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LATEST NEWS

  • Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|”FIRST IT HAPPENS, THEN I MAKE IT UP” October 2, 2023
  • HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 2 October 1, 2023
  • Poetry: All forms & styles||Caroline Maun|”WHAT MY MOTHER PERHAPS WANTED” September 27, 2023

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  • Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|"Poems for Families"
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  • Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Samuel Moore-Sobel|"My New Face"
  • Poetry: All forms & styles|Ed Ruzicka|"All That, Then"
  • Writer's Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|"Impression"
  • Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Anne Leigh Parrish|"Moonlight on The Bay"
  • Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|"A Close Reading of John Updike’s 'Pygmalion'”

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