FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimentalExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 10, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”The Keys”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
April 27, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MISERY THE TUTOR”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MAPPING”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”THE GIFT OF YES”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DO GEESE SEE GOD?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DESIGNS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Catherine Reef|”This Evening”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Kid Stuff”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”The Longer Dead”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Mendonoma”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
April 4, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis|”Rip Torn”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Street Shrine”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Unknown American Paintings”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Tustin|”RUINED”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||David Herman|”The Lost Notebooks of Black Beauty”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Owen Bullock|”Modal”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”MOTHERS’ DAY”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”The Latest Articulation Errors”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”[How to Finish the End Paper]”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”Persephone in the Tunnel of Love”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson||”HIGHLINE PARK IN NYC”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”AT STONY LANE POOL, GLADWYNE”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR, DOMESTICATED”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”WESTERN PSYCHONAUTS of the POSTPARTUM PERIOD”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”COMING HOME”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”La Primavera According to Savonarola”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”REVISED LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO HOLY MEN”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”QUARANTINE DREAMS”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lauren Camp|”Faraway Love”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kerry Rawlinson|”the girl who swallowed a bird”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||J.R. Solonche|”FALSE MESSIAH”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Abbie Doll|”boxing it all up: a recap from when my father died”
Performance ArtistsPoetryProse poetryPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordLITERARY ARTS
February 4, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Original Prose Poetry||Joel Peckham|”The Last 25: On Trying to Record a Cover|of ’25 Miles’ by Edwin Starr”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 30, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Zack Rogow|”FOR THE LOST CAUSES”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
January 30, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Nadja Maril|”Admiration for my Grandmother’s Pitcher”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
January 29, 2022
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”Reviews of Anne Whitehouse’s Chapbooks|’Surrealist Muse’ and ‘Escaping Lee Miller’”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 28, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Cesca Janece Waterfield|”Anamnesis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Blake Everitt|”THE PROBLEM WITH HOPE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||E.R. Lutken|”Conservation of Momentum”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsBUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook Series
January 22, 2022
Special Announcements||Buttonhook Press,|an imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)|2022 Open call for chapbook submissions|Poetry: All forms & styles
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Gabriela Gonzales|”packing”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Gabriela Gonzales|”Stendhal”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF (Creative Nonfiction)||Hermione Laake|”Palindrome”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ernie Brill|”Tommy”
FictionLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDExperimentalFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 16, 2022
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”Superman’s Picnic Table”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Steffen|”Precedented Times”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Howie Good|”Apocalyptically Yours”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||DA Hogan|”LOVE TOO SOON”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Alter Inertia|”on the way from summer’s”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Residue of Yesterday”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Carl Reiner Photoshoot”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Oyama|”What I do not think”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 11, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”AUDEN’S BOOKCASE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”DANTE’S TOMBS”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
January 3, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of A. M. Homes’s|’With One Wheel Gone Wrong'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||RC deWinter|”ghosted”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Patricia Cannon|”Breaking That Empty Plate in the Sky”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn|”Eviction”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 21, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jianqing Zheng|”Attachment”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Hermione Laake|”Dance for me, Baby”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Rendezvous Monochrome”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Burrator Reservoir”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”A Bout de Souffle”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Grief Ode”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Horizon”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Exegesis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach”There Must Be”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Here I Take”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Michael Colonnese|”Birding in the Tidal Estuary|After Visiting a Friend in Hospice”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
November 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|”The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Interruption”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Dan Shewan|”The Wrong Kind of Bastard”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Eritrean Neighbourhood in South Tel Aviv”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalMixed FormsOtherPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSOtherLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Mixed Forms|Flash Discourse: Fiction/Theater Arts||Mark Blickley|”A Milkman’s Serenade”||Performance by Robert Funaro|Production/Direction by Joe John Battista
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John L. Stanizzi|”Early Fall”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Halsey Hyer|”Elegy for Olivia”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jan Karlo Lopez|”Heartbreak Heist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”All I know of Coal”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”Aria for Poland Woods”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2021
Flash Discourse: Historical Fiction||Aurelien Hannoyer|”Artemisia”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
October 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Gordon Taylor|”When You Attached”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTS
September 29, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sean Padraic McCarthy|”Topping”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimentalExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
September 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Deep Fry”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental
September 23, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Bruce Robinson|”Several Rooms”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Megan Marie Sullivan|”The Stylist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||L. Shapley Bassen|”Grisaille”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Marte Carlock|”The Deserter”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||R.A. Shockley|”When to Cry on the Bus”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 1″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 2″
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 26, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Stephanie Anderson|”Grief in Miniature”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
August 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation||Andrey Gritsman|”LIGHT IN THE CATHEDRAL”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTS
August 22, 2021
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2021 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Vietnam:|The Experience of an Australian Nomad”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 21, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Austin Horn|”Ahead of Time”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”A Sacrament”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Wendy Taylor Carlisle|”Dogwood”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”My dog makes a metaphor”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Charlie Brice|”Nuremberg”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Julia Chiapella|”HOW TO FORGIVE”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Paul Ruta|”The Arc of a Bullet”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 31, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ray Corvi|”[SPEAX THE SPEECH]”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 18, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction/Memoir||Edward M. Cohen|”Tea and Sympathy and Lies”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog At Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mercury-Marvin Sunderland|”In. And Out.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Stanizzi|”FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”CUTTING BACK”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”Warnings”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Sympathy for the Scarecrow”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Spin The Bottle: 1958″
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”At O’Hare Airport: Her Foxgloves”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|South Lake, Tahoe
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|”Clams”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kyle Ingrid Johnson|”It’s Time to Go”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 3, 2021
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Flash Discourse: Fiction||2YC Member Steven R. Wolfe|”The Pit”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Amanda Leal|”Gratitude”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS
May 28, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”Soldier, Sailor:|Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Luna Dragon Mac-Williams|”Fossils”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Elaine Neil Orr|”Shared History Is|the Chimney that Doesn’t Burn Down|Even if the Rest of the House Does|Or,|How to Stay Married
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Judy Decroce|”Bad News”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Cezarija Abartis|”The Angel Fairy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”The Day We Stopped Laughing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 23, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”Swedish Knight”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Lineage”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Self-Portrait as a Straw Man Rowing in Place”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Giacommetti’s Heads”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Top 76,000″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Hyenas”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Conversation with a Skunk”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”As Though the Narrative Went Out for a Smoke”
Non-fictionBook ReviewFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
May 10, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Flash Discourse: CNF||Karlene Bayok Edwards|”Brian Doyle’s ‘One Long River of Song:|Notes on Wonder'”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 7, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”In the Shadow of the World’s Largest Cross”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Chatterton Meets Rimbaud”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Grub Street Parties”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeSTUDIO ARTSFine Art PhotographyLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 26, 2021
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”X-Ray/Chiaroscuro”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”A Life in a Day”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”Cicada Love”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 16, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Kathleen Powers-Vermaelen|”No Joke”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
April 15, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Todd Robinson|”Nebraska”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”Solace”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 11, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”There’s a Saying, ‘Live, Laugh, Love’”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”Just Say No”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”The Boy Who Went to Divinity School”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Alan Perry|”In Jeopardy” (for Alex Trebeck)
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsSTUDIO ARTSLITERARY ARTS
March 19, 2021
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narratives||”The Mark”|Story and Art by Siolo Thompson|Lettering by Michael Stock
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSExperimental Discourse
March 17, 2021
Experimental Discourse|Interview||”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with Freya Howarth concerning|the new Australian XP anthology Dizzy Limits”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Jerome Berglund|”Exalt”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Allison Whittenberg|”Life as a Cliché”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Tyler Jacobs|”ELEGY”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Bruno Jasieński”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Jan Lechoń”|From Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Antoni Słonimski”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Carolyn Martin|”An Elegy in Two Memoirs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Carolyn Martin|”Ben Franklin”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
February 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Alec Schmidt|”The Last Woman”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”This Is Not Here” (An Apology)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”Apologies”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”Cocked”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”A Fond Farewell For a Friend: October 21st, 2003″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kai Zweibel|”Is That Enough?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Terri Drake|”Thin Veil Through the Thinning Trees”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
February 18, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Harriet Garfinkle|”The Ghoul and the Gunslinger”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”|Brett Thompson|”An Elegy for Richard Nixon”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brett Thompson|”For This”|
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
February 8, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of The Last Tiger Is Somewhere|Poetry by Robert Carney and Scott Poole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Travis Stephens|”THE BROWNS VS THE BLUES”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”At the Fountain”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”I Listen to the Soundtrack from A Star Is Born”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Quincy Gray McMichael|”What Was Lost”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Louis Robishaw|”Whatever Happened to the American Dream”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amanda Leal|”Clues”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amanda Leal|”The Telephone Game”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kamil Czyz|”Patria Nostra, my family”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”lenses”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”textures”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”obol”
ArtsNon-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsEditor's Advice
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Prepare a Professional|Biographical Statement”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsEditor's Advice
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Submit via Submittable”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Victor Pambuccian|”Seeing in Hiding”
UncategorizedPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|Victor Pambuccian|”Visibly Missing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Victor Pambuccian|”Elegy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Rousseau at the Giant Burger”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Out into the Day –Marfa, TX, 2009″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”The Hole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Reverse Abecedarian Prayer”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTS
January 14, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Record Voice”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Pedro Hoffmeister|”OR THE DEATH OF JIM LONEY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Ohlmann|”NUCLEAR”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Carl Boon|”The Troubles”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Barry Seiler|”In Memory of Show Business”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 5, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Anna Cates|”Love in the Time of Covid”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Christopher Ruff|”Moonrise, Late Autumn”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Gene Twaronite|”Be Safe”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 4, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Oyster shells can sing if they are empty”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 4, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”In Our House”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 3, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Kamikaze bugs look like my hands|when i’m holding onto him”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 3, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Verena Mahlow|”Good-bye, Shoes”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 3, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Oscar Davis|”To become an opera singer or a physicist”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”She wears me whenever I wear her jeans”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Altar”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 2, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Lauren Dennis|”This Guy.”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 30, 2020
Special Feature|Executive Editor Cutter Streeby|”An Interview with the Poet: Victoria Chang”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”THE BARBER”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”Citarella”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 16, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||M Bennett|”I watch this new lover fire the whole world down & want to burn, too or sweetheart, let me tell you a ghost story”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”U2″
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”The Water Carrier”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alan Clark|“…writes with flowers, colors with songs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alan Clark|”The View from Here- 10/31/20″
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brad Rose|”Lucky, I Guess”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 8, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Mike Puican|”Praying Through the Ruins”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Joseph Hutchison|”Black Willow”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Paul Glenn|”Jack Kerouac”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Karla Linn Merrifield|”Duane’s Blues”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
December 7, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|James Roderick Burns|”A Crack on the Head is What You Get for Not Asking,|And A Crack on the Head is What You Get for Asking”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”A Second Finding”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”Elegy for Mary Oliver”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”The Rune’s Requiem”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of ‘Outside from the Inside’|Poetry by Anne Whitehouse”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalDrama for stage or pageLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
December 4, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|SPECIAL EDITION|Featured Series:Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash to 2000 Words: Closet Drama|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Anthony Hamilton|”…are serious offenses, and…”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation from the Russian|Evgenia Jen Baranova|”Winter”|(trans. Sergey Gerasimov)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation from the Russian|Evgenia Jen Baranova|”Ox-eye Daisies”|(trans. Sergey Gerasimov)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Catherine Stansfield|”MAKIN’ MOVES”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Melanie Brake|”Beyond Twenties”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 26, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Concrete Poetry|Abigail Ardelle Zammit|”Rodetes, Dama de Elche”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
November 26, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of Singing Back to the Sirens,|Poetry by Margaret Deritter”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with writer Kent Dixon”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Dan A. Cardoza|”Saying Goodbye Shouldn’t Hurt so Much”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Sarah J. Hozumi|”The Burning Bones”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Will Woldenburg|”Transfiguration”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 17, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Jim Meirose|”Welcome to Biblical Walk”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Green’s Idea”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”When You Ask About That Dream”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”We went out into the night,|the jackets were buttoned”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”You lie and think…”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”Early in the morning”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Edward Michael Supranowicz|”Ain’t Love Grand?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Tatiana Retivov|”St. Petersburg Revisited”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Renee Yaseen|”While the Lavender Grows”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|Alan Perry|”The Sum of Her Numbers”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Alan Perry|”Aurora”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 13, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Noir”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”After Your Death”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Naked”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”FINDING VALUES FOR THE UNKNOWN”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Learning to Ice Skate”
WritersNon-fictionEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|An Essay on Craft|”James Wright: The Alchemy of a Poet”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 11, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with poet Kendra Tanacea”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
November 8, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE:|Edgar Allan Poe’s Misplaced Youth”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Hyland|”RARELY”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 6, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: Half Flash|2020 theme: “Epiphany”|Mike Wilson|”Somewhere Outside Berlin, Nevada”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alison Hicks|”Heart, Lungs, Bladder”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
October 23, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Colin Wilson”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Winter Weather”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”The Ballad of Stan and Ollie”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 16, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Tony Soprano’s Son-in Law (Ed Vassalo)”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
October 15, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Last of the Gallants”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 14, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: Half Flash|2020 theme: “Epiphany”|Tavia Allan|”We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Jacko|”A Harsh Environment for Our Nature”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Jacko|”Her Garden”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Jacko|”My First Portrait”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Aiden Heung|”This Very Moment”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Aiden Heung|”Flute”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 12, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Tyrel Kessinger|”the trees hear”
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
October 4, 2020
Mixed Forms: Tanka Prose||Kala Ramesh|”Lens”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 29, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Judy DeCroce|”Walking On”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Judy DeCroce|”Bearing Witness”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 26, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Autumn Bernhardt|”Ikto’mi and the Duck”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
September 23, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shalini Pattabiraman|”The Making of a Woman”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
September 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|’Love Suicides'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 19, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Matthew James Babcock|”I Realized Today”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 19, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Ava Galbraith|”Over the Edge”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 18, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||S. Ellis|”Inscrutable Totems”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 16, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Mike Murray|”Salton Sea”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kathleen Hellen|”the lesser questions of magdalen”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kathleen Hellen|”she can never altogether sink”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||E.D. Watson|”Expecting”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
September 2, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|A Review of Tolu Akinyemi’s|”I Laugh at these Skinny Girls”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Don L. Robishaw|”Bad Paper”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Carolyn Martin|”An Amateur Photographer Reads|Szymborska’s ‘No Title Required’”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
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
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Rodney Nelson|”A Round of Mast”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
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”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”making” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”evening rush hour” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”cherry blossoms” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”clear sky” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”third-day moon” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”pilgrim town” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”orchard breeze” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”spring dusk” (Haiku)
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
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”
UncategorizedTravelNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
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”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Laos: The Experience of Gal”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Taiwan: Interview with Janette”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”My Own Experience: Trapped in Taiwan”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”Meditation” (haiku)
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
August 6, 2020
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Poetry: All forms & styles|2YC Member Richard Jeffrey Newman|”#24″|From a sequence entitled|“This Sentence Is A Metaphor for Bridge.”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 4, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Anne Whitehouse|”The Faith Healer”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”so much garden” (haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”scent of rain—” (haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”oolong tea for winter’s chill” (haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”deepening shadows–” (haiku)
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2020
Mixed Forms: Experimental Poetry (XP)|Radoslav Rochallyi|”so quietly ≠ so noiselessly”
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2020
Mixed Forms: Experimental Poetry (XP)|Radoslav Rochallyi|”πing”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
August 1, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Prose Discourse: Fiction||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|A Review of And Yes She Was, a novel by Tsipi Keller
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 31, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Mary M. Brown|”Bouquet, astilbe & rue”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)OtherLITERARY ARTS
July 30, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction/Vignette|C.M. Vitali|”Of Working in a Bottling Factory”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 30, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: Half Flash|2020 theme: “Epiphany”|Mary Byrne|”If love of mine could lure you back to me”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 28, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Renée Elizabeth Clarke|”Blue”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
July 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jessica Renee Dawson|”rushing waters” (Haiku)
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
July 27, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Augusto Monterroso’s|’The Eclipse’”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 27, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Adeeko Ibukun|”Noah’s Ark”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTS
July 26, 2020
Special Feature|Janis Butler Holm|”An Interview with Multigenre Author Lucy Wang”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
July 23, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: SuperFlash||2020 theme: “Nocturne”|Hermione Laake|”Pink Shirt”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
July 23, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||Satch Dobrey|”A Drunken Toast”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 22, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|James Miller|”Red Letter”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 18, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||Diane Finlayson|”No Cover”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 9, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||Jacqueline Jules|”Shaggy New Species”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
July 8, 2020
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Poetry: All forms & styles|2YC Member Ken Letko|”Bright Angel”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 8, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||David Capps|”For Konstantinos Katsifas”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Benjamin Goluboff|”Emmy Andriesse Photographs the Star”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Benjamin Goluboff|”Emmy Andriesse Photographs the Hunger Winter, Amsterdam, 1944-1945″
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured series: Narrative poetry|2020 theme: “A Long Obedience”|Roger Camp|”Twenty-one thousand and one nights”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Dramatic Monologue in Blank Verse|2020 theme: “Poor Excuses”|Afroze Fatima Zaidi|”In Neez Bogzarad”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Dramatic Monologue in Blank Verse|2020 theme: “Poor Excuses”|Brian A. Salmons|”Orphan Negative”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured series: Narrative poetry|2020 theme: “A Long Obedience”|Antoni Ooto|”Come Full Moon”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Cal Freeman|”The Treacle and the Trace”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 3, 2020
Mixed forms: Haibun||Jennifer Hambrick|”Green”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimentalExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 10, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”The Keys”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
April 27, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MISERY THE TUTOR”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MAPPING”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”THE GIFT OF YES”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DO GEESE SEE GOD?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DESIGNS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Catherine Reef|”This Evening”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Kid Stuff”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”The Longer Dead”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Mendonoma”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
April 4, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis|”Rip Torn”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Street Shrine”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Unknown American Paintings”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Tustin|”RUINED”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||David Herman|”The Lost Notebooks of Black Beauty”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Owen Bullock|”Modal”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”MOTHERS’ DAY”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”The Latest Articulation Errors”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”[How to Finish the End Paper]”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”Persephone in the Tunnel of Love”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson||”HIGHLINE PARK IN NYC”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”AT STONY LANE POOL, GLADWYNE”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR, DOMESTICATED”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”WESTERN PSYCHONAUTS of the POSTPARTUM PERIOD”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”COMING HOME”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”La Primavera According to Savonarola”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”REVISED LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO HOLY MEN”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”QUARANTINE DREAMS”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lauren Camp|”Faraway Love”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kerry Rawlinson|”the girl who swallowed a bird”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||J.R. Solonche|”FALSE MESSIAH”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Abbie Doll|”boxing it all up: a recap from when my father died”
Performance ArtistsPoetryProse poetryPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordLITERARY ARTS
February 4, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Original Prose Poetry||Joel Peckham|”The Last 25: On Trying to Record a Cover|of ’25 Miles’ by Edwin Starr”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 30, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Zack Rogow|”FOR THE LOST CAUSES”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
January 30, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Nadja Maril|”Admiration for my Grandmother’s Pitcher”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
January 29, 2022
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”Reviews of Anne Whitehouse’s Chapbooks|’Surrealist Muse’ and ‘Escaping Lee Miller’”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 28, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Cesca Janece Waterfield|”Anamnesis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Blake Everitt|”THE PROBLEM WITH HOPE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||E.R. Lutken|”Conservation of Momentum”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsBUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook Series
January 22, 2022
Special Announcements||Buttonhook Press,|an imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)|2022 Open call for chapbook submissions|Poetry: All forms & styles
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Gabriela Gonzales|”packing”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Gabriela Gonzales|”Stendhal”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF (Creative Nonfiction)||Hermione Laake|”Palindrome”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ernie Brill|”Tommy”
FictionLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDExperimentalFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 16, 2022
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”Superman’s Picnic Table”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Steffen|”Precedented Times”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Howie Good|”Apocalyptically Yours”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||DA Hogan|”LOVE TOO SOON”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Alter Inertia|”on the way from summer’s”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Residue of Yesterday”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Carl Reiner Photoshoot”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Oyama|”What I do not think”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 11, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”AUDEN’S BOOKCASE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”DANTE’S TOMBS”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
January 3, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of A. M. Homes’s|’With One Wheel Gone Wrong'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||RC deWinter|”ghosted”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Patricia Cannon|”Breaking That Empty Plate in the Sky”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn|”Eviction”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 21, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jianqing Zheng|”Attachment”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Hermione Laake|”Dance for me, Baby”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Rendezvous Monochrome”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Burrator Reservoir”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”A Bout de Souffle”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Grief Ode”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Horizon”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Exegesis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach”There Must Be”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Here I Take”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Michael Colonnese|”Birding in the Tidal Estuary|After Visiting a Friend in Hospice”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
November 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|”The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Interruption”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Dan Shewan|”The Wrong Kind of Bastard”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Eritrean Neighbourhood in South Tel Aviv”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalMixed FormsOtherPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSOtherLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Mixed Forms|Flash Discourse: Fiction/Theater Arts||Mark Blickley|”A Milkman’s Serenade”||Performance by Robert Funaro|Production/Direction by Joe John Battista
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John L. Stanizzi|”Early Fall”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Halsey Hyer|”Elegy for Olivia”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jan Karlo Lopez|”Heartbreak Heist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”All I know of Coal”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”Aria for Poland Woods”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2021
Flash Discourse: Historical Fiction||Aurelien Hannoyer|”Artemisia”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
October 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Gordon Taylor|”When You Attached”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTS
September 29, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sean Padraic McCarthy|”Topping”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimentalExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
September 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Deep Fry”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental
September 23, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Bruce Robinson|”Several Rooms”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Megan Marie Sullivan|”The Stylist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||L. Shapley Bassen|”Grisaille”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Marte Carlock|”The Deserter”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||R.A. Shockley|”When to Cry on the Bus”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 1″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 2″
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 26, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Stephanie Anderson|”Grief in Miniature”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
August 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation||Andrey Gritsman|”LIGHT IN THE CATHEDRAL”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTS
August 22, 2021
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2021 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Vietnam:|The Experience of an Australian Nomad”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 21, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Austin Horn|”Ahead of Time”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”A Sacrament”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Wendy Taylor Carlisle|”Dogwood”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”My dog makes a metaphor”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Charlie Brice|”Nuremberg”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Julia Chiapella|”HOW TO FORGIVE”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Paul Ruta|”The Arc of a Bullet”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 31, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ray Corvi|”[SPEAX THE SPEECH]”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 18, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction/Memoir||Edward M. Cohen|”Tea and Sympathy and Lies”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog At Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mercury-Marvin Sunderland|”In. And Out.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Stanizzi|”FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”CUTTING BACK”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”Warnings”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Sympathy for the Scarecrow”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Spin The Bottle: 1958″
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”At O’Hare Airport: Her Foxgloves”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|South Lake, Tahoe
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|”Clams”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kyle Ingrid Johnson|”It’s Time to Go”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 3, 2021
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Flash Discourse: Fiction||2YC Member Steven R. Wolfe|”The Pit”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Amanda Leal|”Gratitude”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS
May 28, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”Soldier, Sailor:|Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Luna Dragon Mac-Williams|”Fossils”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Elaine Neil Orr|”Shared History Is|the Chimney that Doesn’t Burn Down|Even if the Rest of the House Does|Or,|How to Stay Married
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Judy Decroce|”Bad News”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Cezarija Abartis|”The Angel Fairy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”The Day We Stopped Laughing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 23, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”Swedish Knight”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Lineage”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Self-Portrait as a Straw Man Rowing in Place”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Giacommetti’s Heads”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Top 76,000″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Hyenas”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Conversation with a Skunk”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”As Though the Narrative Went Out for a Smoke”
Non-fictionBook ReviewFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
May 10, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Flash Discourse: CNF||Karlene Bayok Edwards|”Brian Doyle’s ‘One Long River of Song:|Notes on Wonder'”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 7, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”In the Shadow of the World’s Largest Cross”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Chatterton Meets Rimbaud”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Grub Street Parties”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeSTUDIO ARTSFine Art PhotographyLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 26, 2021
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”X-Ray/Chiaroscuro”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”A Life in a Day”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”Cicada Love”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 16, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Kathleen Powers-Vermaelen|”No Joke”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
April 15, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Todd Robinson|”Nebraska”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”Solace”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 11, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”There’s a Saying, ‘Live, Laugh, Love’”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”Just Say No”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”The Boy Who Went to Divinity School”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Alan Perry|”In Jeopardy” (for Alex Trebeck)
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsSTUDIO ARTSLITERARY ARTS
March 19, 2021
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narratives||”The Mark”|Story and Art by Siolo Thompson|Lettering by Michael Stock
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSExperimental Discourse
March 17, 2021
Experimental Discourse|Interview||”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with Freya Howarth concerning|the new Australian XP anthology Dizzy Limits”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Jerome Berglund|”Exalt”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Allison Whittenberg|”Life as a Cliché”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Tyler Jacobs|”ELEGY”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Bruno Jasieński”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Jan Lechoń”|From Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Antoni Słonimski”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Carolyn Martin|”An Elegy in Two Memoirs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Carolyn Martin|”Ben Franklin”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
February 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Alec Schmidt|”The Last Woman”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”This Is Not Here” (An Apology)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”Apologies”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”Cocked”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”A Fond Farewell For a Friend: October 21st, 2003″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kai Zweibel|”Is That Enough?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Terri Drake|”Thin Veil Through the Thinning Trees”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
February 18, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Harriet Garfinkle|”The Ghoul and the Gunslinger”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”|Brett Thompson|”An Elegy for Richard Nixon”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brett Thompson|”For This”|
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
February 8, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of The Last Tiger Is Somewhere|Poetry by Robert Carney and Scott Poole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Travis Stephens|”THE BROWNS VS THE BLUES”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”At the Fountain”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”I Listen to the Soundtrack from A Star Is Born”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Quincy Gray McMichael|”What Was Lost”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Louis Robishaw|”Whatever Happened to the American Dream”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amanda Leal|”Clues”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amanda Leal|”The Telephone Game”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kamil Czyz|”Patria Nostra, my family”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”lenses”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”textures”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”obol”
ArtsNon-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsEditor's Advice
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Prepare a Professional|Biographical Statement”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsEditor's Advice
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Submit via Submittable”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Victor Pambuccian|”Seeing in Hiding”
UncategorizedPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|Victor Pambuccian|”Visibly Missing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Victor Pambuccian|”Elegy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Rousseau at the Giant Burger”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Out into the Day –Marfa, TX, 2009″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”The Hole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Reverse Abecedarian Prayer”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTS
January 14, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Record Voice”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Pedro Hoffmeister|”OR THE DEATH OF JIM LONEY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Ohlmann|”NUCLEAR”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Carl Boon|”The Troubles”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Barry Seiler|”In Memory of Show Business”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 5, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Anna Cates|”Love in the Time of Covid”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Christopher Ruff|”Moonrise, Late Autumn”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Gene Twaronite|”Be Safe”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 4, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Oyster shells can sing if they are empty”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 4, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”In Our House”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 3, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Kamikaze bugs look like my hands|when i’m holding onto him”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 3, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Verena Mahlow|”Good-bye, Shoes”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 3, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Oscar Davis|”To become an opera singer or a physicist”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”She wears me whenever I wear her jeans”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Altar”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 2, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Lauren Dennis|”This Guy.”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 30, 2020
Special Feature|Executive Editor Cutter Streeby|”An Interview with the Poet: Victoria Chang”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”THE BARBER”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”Citarella”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 16, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||M Bennett|”I watch this new lover fire the whole world down & want to burn, too or sweetheart, let me tell you a ghost story”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”U2″
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”The Water Carrier”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alan Clark|“…writes with flowers, colors with songs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alan Clark|”The View from Here- 10/31/20″
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brad Rose|”Lucky, I Guess”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 8, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Mike Puican|”Praying Through the Ruins”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Joseph Hutchison|”Black Willow”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Paul Glenn|”Jack Kerouac”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Karla Linn Merrifield|”Duane’s Blues”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
December 7, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|James Roderick Burns|”A Crack on the Head is What You Get for Not Asking,|And A Crack on the Head is What You Get for Asking”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”A Second Finding”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”Elegy for Mary Oliver”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”The Rune’s Requiem”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of ‘Outside from the Inside’|Poetry by Anne Whitehouse”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalDrama for stage or pageLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
December 4, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|SPECIAL EDITION|Featured Series:Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash to 2000 Words: Closet Drama|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Anthony Hamilton|”…are serious offenses, and…”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation from the Russian|Evgenia Jen Baranova|”Winter”|(trans. Sergey Gerasimov)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation from the Russian|Evgenia Jen Baranova|”Ox-eye Daisies”|(trans. Sergey Gerasimov)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Catherine Stansfield|”MAKIN’ MOVES”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Melanie Brake|”Beyond Twenties”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 26, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Concrete Poetry|Abigail Ardelle Zammit|”Rodetes, Dama de Elche”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
November 26, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of Singing Back to the Sirens,|Poetry by Margaret Deritter”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with writer Kent Dixon”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Dan A. Cardoza|”Saying Goodbye Shouldn’t Hurt so Much”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Sarah J. Hozumi|”The Burning Bones”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Will Woldenburg|”Transfiguration”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 17, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Jim Meirose|”Welcome to Biblical Walk”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Green’s Idea”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”When You Ask About That Dream”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”We went out into the night,|the jackets were buttoned”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”You lie and think…”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”Early in the morning”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Edward Michael Supranowicz|”Ain’t Love Grand?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Tatiana Retivov|”St. Petersburg Revisited”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Renee Yaseen|”While the Lavender Grows”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|Alan Perry|”The Sum of Her Numbers”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Alan Perry|”Aurora”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 13, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Noir”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”After Your Death”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Naked”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”FINDING VALUES FOR THE UNKNOWN”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Learning to Ice Skate”
WritersNon-fictionEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|An Essay on Craft|”James Wright: The Alchemy of a Poet”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 11, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with poet Kendra Tanacea”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
November 8, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE:|Edgar Allan Poe’s Misplaced Youth”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Hyland|”RARELY”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 6, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: Half Flash|2020 theme: “Epiphany”|Mike Wilson|”Somewhere Outside Berlin, Nevada”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alison Hicks|”Heart, Lungs, Bladder”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
October 23, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Colin Wilson”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Winter Weather”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”The Ballad of Stan and Ollie”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 16, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Tony Soprano’s Son-in Law (Ed Vassalo)”
PoetryLyricNarrativePortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
October 15, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Last of the Gallants”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 14, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: Half Flash|2020 theme: “Epiphany”|Tavia Allan|”We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Jacko|”A Harsh Environment for Our Nature”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Jacko|”Her Garden”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
October 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Jacko|”My First Portrait”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Aiden Heung|”This Very Moment”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Aiden Heung|”Flute”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 12, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Tyrel Kessinger|”the trees hear”
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
October 4, 2020
Mixed Forms: Tanka Prose||Kala Ramesh|”Lens”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 29, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Judy DeCroce|”Walking On”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Judy DeCroce|”Bearing Witness”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 26, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Autumn Bernhardt|”Ikto’mi and the Duck”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
September 23, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shalini Pattabiraman|”The Making of a Woman”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
September 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|’Love Suicides'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 19, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Matthew James Babcock|”I Realized Today”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 19, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Ava Galbraith|”Over the Edge”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 18, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||S. Ellis|”Inscrutable Totems”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 16, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Mike Murray|”Salton Sea”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kathleen Hellen|”the lesser questions of magdalen”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kathleen Hellen|”she can never altogether sink”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||E.D. Watson|”Expecting”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
September 2, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|A Review of Tolu Akinyemi’s|”I Laugh at these Skinny Girls”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Don L. Robishaw|”Bad Paper”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Carolyn Martin|”An Amateur Photographer Reads|Szymborska’s ‘No Title Required’”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
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
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Rodney Nelson|”A Round of Mast”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
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”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”making” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”evening rush hour” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”cherry blossoms” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”clear sky” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”third-day moon” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”pilgrim town” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”orchard breeze” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 11, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”spring dusk” (Haiku)
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
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”
UncategorizedTravelNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
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”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Laos: The Experience of Gal”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Taiwan: Interview with Janette”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”My Own Experience: Trapped in Taiwan”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Srinivas S|”Meditation” (haiku)
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
August 6, 2020
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Poetry: All forms & styles|2YC Member Richard Jeffrey Newman|”#24″|From a sequence entitled|“This Sentence Is A Metaphor for Bridge.”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
August 4, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Anne Whitehouse|”The Faith Healer”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”so much garden” (haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”scent of rain—” (haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”oolong tea for winter’s chill” (haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|CarrieAnn Thunell|”deepening shadows–” (haiku)
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2020
Mixed Forms: Experimental Poetry (XP)|Radoslav Rochallyi|”so quietly ≠ so noiselessly”
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2020
Mixed Forms: Experimental Poetry (XP)|Radoslav Rochallyi|”πing”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
August 1, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Prose Discourse: Fiction||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|A Review of And Yes She Was, a novel by Tsipi Keller
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 31, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Mary M. Brown|”Bouquet, astilbe & rue”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)OtherLITERARY ARTS
July 30, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction/Vignette|C.M. Vitali|”Of Working in a Bottling Factory”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 30, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: Half Flash|2020 theme: “Epiphany”|Mary Byrne|”If love of mine could lure you back to me”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTS
July 28, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Renée Elizabeth Clarke|”Blue”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
July 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jessica Renee Dawson|”rushing waters” (Haiku)
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
July 27, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Augusto Monterroso’s|’The Eclipse’”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 27, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Adeeko Ibukun|”Noah’s Ark”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTS
July 26, 2020
Special Feature|Janis Butler Holm|”An Interview with Multigenre Author Lucy Wang”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
July 23, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: SuperFlash||2020 theme: “Nocturne”|Hermione Laake|”Pink Shirt”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
July 23, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||Satch Dobrey|”A Drunken Toast”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 22, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|James Miller|”Red Letter”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 18, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||Diane Finlayson|”No Cover”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 9, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||Jacqueline Jules|”Shaggy New Species”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
July 8, 2020
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Poetry: All forms & styles|2YC Member Ken Letko|”Bright Angel”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 8, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||David Capps|”For Konstantinos Katsifas”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Benjamin Goluboff|”Emmy Andriesse Photographs the Star”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Benjamin Goluboff|”Emmy Andriesse Photographs the Hunger Winter, Amsterdam, 1944-1945″
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured series: Narrative poetry|2020 theme: “A Long Obedience”|Roger Camp|”Twenty-one thousand and one nights”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Dramatic Monologue in Blank Verse|2020 theme: “Poor Excuses”|Afroze Fatima Zaidi|”In Neez Bogzarad”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Dramatic Monologue in Blank Verse|2020 theme: “Poor Excuses”|Brian A. Salmons|”Orphan Negative”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured series: Narrative poetry|2020 theme: “A Long Obedience”|Antoni Ooto|”Come Full Moon”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Cal Freeman|”The Treacle and the Trace”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 3, 2020