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June 27, 2023

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|’THE TWO TAILS’ or ‘THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHER’|by Augusto Monterroso”

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June 27, 2023

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Kim Farleigh|”Protecting Dreams”

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June 11, 2023

O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||”Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshops|with Terry Lucas “

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June 13, 2022

Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”When A Hawk Flushes An Undulating Flock Of Dunlins”

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January 18, 2021

Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|Victor Pambuccian|”Visibly Missing”

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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 Cambodia: The Experience of John”

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LATEST NEWS

  • Special Announcement||O:JA&L’s 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees November 27, 2023
  • Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Angela Townsend|”Giving up the Ghost” ‌ November 26, 2023
  • Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Thomas Lowery|”Friends Forever” November 25, 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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  • Flash Discourse: Fiction||Thomas Cook|"Other Voices"
  • Flash Discourse: Fiction||Elizabeth Moura|"D"
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  • Writer's Portfolio: Liz Marlow|Poetry: All forms & styles|"Camp Synagogue, 1941"
  • Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Daniel A. Olivas|"The Courtship of María Rivera Peña"

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