FictionExperimentalLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 9, 2026
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose |”TWILIGHT NIGHT”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimentalProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)Short Story (to 10,000 words)
August 16, 2025
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story to 10,000 Words||Adam John Wilshaw|”PODCAST ICARUS”
FictionExperimentalLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
July 14, 2024
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Per Olvmyr|”ORANGES I-XV”
Experimental (XP)WritersExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
October 23, 2023
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction||Featured Writer Jim Meirose|An Essay on Craft|”EXPERIMENTAL STORYTELLING: THE TIMELINE OF COMPLEMENTARY REALITIES”
WritersExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
October 22, 2023
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer Jim Meirose|”AWK, TINKER”
WritersExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
October 21, 2023
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction||Featured Writer Jim Meirose|”I LIKE THE CEMETERY”
WritersExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
October 20, 2023
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse: Fiction||Featured Writer Jim Meirose|”OFF’N ‘OME ANALYSTICLE PROLE”
WritersExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
October 19, 2023
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction||Featured Writer Jim Meirose|”BACK ‘N BABCI’S HOUSE-KITCHEN”
WritersExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
October 18, 2023
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer Jim Meirose|”MY NAME IS NOT MISTER BIRD!”
Special AnnouncementsExperimental (XP)SubmissionsBUTTONHOOK PRESSCall for SubmissionsArtsXP ProseExperimental DiscourseLITERARY ARTSNon-fictionExperimentalFiction
September 17, 2023
Special Announcement|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||Buttonhook Press: Call for submissions||OPEN CALL for Chapbooks of Experimental Discourse
ArtsExperimentalNon-fictionExperimental DiscourseXP ProseSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsExperimental (XP)
September 17, 2023
Special Announcement|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for SUBMISSIONS|EXPERIMENTAL DISCOURSE (XP)|FICTION to 2000 words
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
April 4, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis|”Rip Torn”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||David Herman|”The Lost Notebooks of Black Beauty”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
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/CollaborationsXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
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”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
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.”
Featured ProjectFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)FEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryExperimental
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”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESSFictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSDrama for stage or pageExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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…”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
November 17, 2020
Featured Series|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Jim Meirose|”Welcome to Biblical Walk”
FictionLITERARY ARTSExperimentalProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
May 27, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||David Capps|”Menoeceus’ Letter to Epicurus”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
April 12, 2020
Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Flash Fiction||Jim Meirose|”The Largest Lady in the World”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
February 25, 2020
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction|J. Ray Paradiso|”Follow-Up Question” (XP)
ExperimentalXP ProseExperimental DiscourseProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)FEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryInterviewNon-fiction
January 31, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Interview|”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with UWA’s Catherine Noske”
Fictionbook or article review or close readingXP ProseExperimental Discourse2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewNon-fictionExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Experimental Discourse||Contributing Editor Warwick Newnham|”A Review of Dinner with Father Dwyer,|an Experimental Novel by Jim Meirose”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalEssay, CraftNon-fictionExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Contributing Editor Warwick Newnham|”O:JA&L Celebrates Experimental Writing: A Foreword”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Rollin Jewett|”Swingtown Snake”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Emma Beard|”Her Return”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Kimberly Crafton|”Questioning the Silence”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Nelson Lowhim|”Journal of Truth”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Zeeshan Amit|”Wall People”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSExperimentalFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Shawn Anto|”Lessons on Constancy”
Experimental2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetry
December 21, 2019