FictionProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)Short Story (to 10,000 words)
September 12, 2026
Prose discourse|Fiction|Novel Excerpt||James Joaquin Brewer||TELEMACHUS CONSULTS MENELAUS|(Re A Ranger: Rust and Recreation)|(a self-contained chapter from Dublin Downs,|an experimental novel based on The Odyssey)
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
September 10, 2026
Prose Discourse|Fiction|Short Story to 7,500 Words||Thomas Orange||”The Lice Assassins”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP Prose
August 14, 2026
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story to 10,000 Words|Experimental Forms (XP)||Gabriele Micozzi|”The Office of Human Remaining”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
June 2, 2026
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story to 10,000 Words||Ricardo Bernhard|”Simultanergy”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
January 5, 2026
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story to 10,000 Words||Jennifer Celeste|”FROM THE MOUNTAIN MEN”
FictionProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
November 15, 2025
Americana|Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story to 10,000 Words||Itto and Mekiya Outini|”The Indisputable Master of Her Craft”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
August 23, 2025
Prose Discourse: Creative Nonfiction to 10,000 words|Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Sidney Burris|”Counting the Metaphors”
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”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
July 19, 2025
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story to 10,000 Words||Craig Proffitt|”A HOUSE BUILT FROM THE UNIVERSE”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
May 22, 2025
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story to 10,000 Words||Joshua Sastre|”Finished”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 12, 2025
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Darrin Doyle|”The Boys Who Danced”
WritersFictionProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
March 6, 2025
Special Feature|| Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto||”An Interview with|O:JA&L’s new Flash Fiction/Nonfiction Editor|Richard Holeton”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
September 16, 2024
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||David Obuchowski|”Fever Tree”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 6, 2024
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Susan Bloch|”The Wrong Man”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental Discourse
April 19, 2024
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Gogol|”SMOKE”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
March 20, 2024
Americana|Prose Discourse|Short Fiction to 5000 Words||Mike Murray|”MIDNIGHT AT THEIR OASIS”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
March 8, 2024
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Kim Farleigh|”EXTENDING PRIVILEGES”
UncategorizedFictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 27, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Kim Farleigh|”Protecting Dreams”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 21, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||James Joaquin Brewer|”Juan and Donne”
FictionProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
February 9, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||K.A. Nielsen|”The Real You”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
October 8, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Mike Murray|”RESIDUUM”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 12, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Michael Mandlin|”Larks”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
June 6, 2022
Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction||Jim Meirose|”At Jesse Owens’ Grave”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)STUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTS
September 29, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sean Padraic McCarthy|”Topping”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Alec Schmidt|”The Last Woman”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 18, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Harriet Garfinkle|”The Ghoul and the Gunslinger”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 16, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Mike Murray|”Salton Sea”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Don L. Robishaw|”Bad Paper”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 4, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Anne Whitehouse|”The Faith Healer”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 11, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||J.D. Scrimgeour|”Say ‘Hi’ to Your Dad”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 11, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Jane Snyder|”Daddy Hates Jello”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 26, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Prose Discourse: Short Story|”City as Museum (Turkish 1)”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 26, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Hermione Laake|”Black Ink and Anxiety”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Anne Leigh Parrish|”Moonlight on The Bay”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||John Perilli|”Please Don’t Push Me Away”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 24, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Tim Waldron|”Some Other Kind of Apocalypse”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Karen Sosnoski|”Un/hooked Love Story”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Alex Muller|”The Last Original Thought”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Maria McDonald|”HisTime”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Tracy DeBrincat|”Velociraptor”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Chồn Lười|”Bin Man”
FictionProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mare Leonard|”Israeli Family Trip”
FictionProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Alice K. Boatwright|”What comes to hand must be faced”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019