Non-fictionOtherSTUDIO ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPublic Service AnnouncementsExhibition SpotlightArtsEvents/Projects/Collaborations
March 2, 2023
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||Team NeetiBisht®|”The GROUP ART EXHIBITION”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 24, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir|Americana||Kerstin Schulz|”Collections”
Close Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 17, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Italo Calvino’s|’The Man Who Shouted Teresa'”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 9, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Ray Gonzalez|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer & artist Ray Gonzalez”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 7, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Richard Plant’s|’Flatland'”
Non-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFeatured Project
September 12, 2022
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2022 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
September 12, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Robert Bly’s|’Warning to the Reader'”
UncategorizedPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”When A Hawk Flushes An Undulating Flock Of Dunlins”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”In Grandma Hale’s Painting, Which She Gave Me”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 4, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynn Hoggard|”RED-BILLED, BLACK-BELLIED, WHITE-WINGED TEXAS WHISTLING DUCKS”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
June 4, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynn Hoggard|”PRAYER”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
May 20, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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 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”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
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”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Blake Everitt|”THE PROBLEM WITH HOPE”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||E.R. Lutken|”Conservation of Momentum”
FictionLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Featured 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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Alter Inertia|”on the way from summer’s”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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 ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Halsey Hyer|”Elegy for Olivia”
Essay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ 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'”
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'”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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 ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Luna Dragon Mac-Williams|”Fossils”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
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 ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”Solace”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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’”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
April 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Alan Perry|”In Jeopardy” (for Alex Trebeck)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Jerome Berglund|”Exalt”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Tyler Jacobs|”ELEGY”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”Cocked”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”|Brett Thompson|”An Elegy for Richard Nixon”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryProse poetry
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brett Thompson|”For This”|
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryProse poetry
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”At the Fountain”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryProse poetry
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”
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
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”
LyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectUncategorizedPoetry
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”
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”
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”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY 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”
Featured ProjectWritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
LyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectWritersPoetry
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”
Featured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
Featured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
LyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectWritersPoetry
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”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY 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.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Experimental
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”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryProse poetry
December 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brad Rose|”Lucky, I Guess”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Paul Glenn|”Jack Kerouac”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Karla Linn Merrifield|”Duane’s Blues”
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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 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)ExperimentalBUTTONHOOK PRESSDrama for stage or pageAvailable titlesLITERARY ARTSPamphlet SeriesFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
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…”
ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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”
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”
LyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectEvents/Projects/CollaborationsPoetry
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”You lie and think…”
LyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectEvents/Projects/CollaborationsPoetry
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?”
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
November 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Hyland|”RARELY”
Essay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 23, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY 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”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY 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”
Featured ProjectWritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
Featured ProjectWritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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)”
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 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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
September 19, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Matthew James Babcock|”I Realized Today”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
September 18, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||S. Ellis|”Inscrutable Totems”
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”
Featured ProjectEvents/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
September 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kathleen Hellen|”she can never altogether sink”
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.”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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”
Featured ProjectEvents/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
Featured ProjectNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
June 14, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROSE POETRY ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS, AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 17, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||David Howard|”The Last Word”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
April 16, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||Steve Brightman|”On the Day in Which My Ligaments Crumble with Grief for My Brother”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Samn Stockwell|”Sound in February”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Samn Stockwell|”Late Pastoral”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Samn Stockwell|”Comparative Pastoral”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Dmitry Blizniuk|”The Epoch of Miracles”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Peter Meinke’s ‘The Cranes'”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Octavio Paz’s|’The Blue Bouquet’”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Raymond Carver’s|’Popular Mechanics'”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 12, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||Allen Forrest|”A Different World” (Los Angeles Riots of 1992)
Featured ProjectWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 22, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”An Essential Reading List:|FLASH FICTION/SUDDEN FICTION/SHORT-SHORT FICTION|ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS, AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFiction
February 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Charles Baudelaire’s|’To Each His Own Chimera'”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)MusicLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPerformance Artists
January 31, 2020
Featured Fine Artist Ilya Beshevlí|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with composer Ilya Beshevlí”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalNon-fictionEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 30, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Contributing Editor Warwick Newnham|”O:JA&L Celebrates Experimental Writing: A Foreword”
LITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured ProjectMixed FormsHaibun
January 24, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Owen Bullock|”Facts and Figures”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 24, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Anna Cates|”Question”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 24, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Colleen M. Farrelly|”Ditch Day”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Marc Frazier|”Devotion”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured Project
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Robin Smith|”fragments with periods”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured Project
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Robin Smith|”Carnival”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured Project
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|R.J. Sobel|”The Shortcut”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured Project
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|David Joez Villaverde|”Issei Sagawa as Ouroboros”
LITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectMixed FormsHaibun
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Stella Pierides|”Seriously”
LITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectMixed FormsHaibun
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Stella Pierides|”Solace (a triptych)”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-Haibun
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Autumn Noelle Hall|”Shadow Puppetry”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-HaibunMixed FormsHaibun
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Roberta Beary|” Threading Cobwebs on the Upper West Side”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-Haibun
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Bill Gottlieb|”Garbage Piece”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-Haibun
January 22, 2020
Mixed Forms: Featured Series|Haibun||Lori Minor|”Crash-test”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-Haibun
January 22, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun||Kala Ramesh|”peace of m.i.n.d.”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-Haibun
January 22, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Ray Rasmussen|”Eventide”
HaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationSpa-HaibunNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Mixed Forms
January 21, 2020
Featured Series: Mixed Forms|Haibun||Contributing Editor Christine Taylor|”An Introduction to Haibun”
Featured ProjectEvents/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 21, 2020
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Poetry: All forms & styles|2YC Member Lois Roma-Deeley|”Emily Dickinson Travels Between Two Points in Time”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 20, 2020
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Lisa Trudeau|”Emelia”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 20, 2020
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Lisa Trudeau|”Dare Behind the Drapery”
LITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectPoetryProse poetry
January 19, 2020
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Lisa Trudeau|”A Dream Before the Hunt”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseNon-fictionCNF/Memoir
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Luis Lopez-Maldonado|”Overqualified:”
Experimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Rollin Jewett|”Swingtown Snake”
Experimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Emma Beard|”Her Return”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Kimberly Crafton|”Questioning the Silence”
ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Nelson Lowhim|”Journal of Truth”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Zeeshan Amit|”Wall People”
ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Shawn Anto|”Lessons on Constancy”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Fielding Dawson’s ‘Vertical Fields'”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Heinrich Bőll’s ‘The Laugher’”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of John Updike’s ‘Pygmalion’”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Alice Walker’s ‘The Flowers'”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”Brief and (Likely) Necessary Fiction”|(Russian version)
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Milos Macourek’s ‘Jacob’s Chicken'”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Molly Giles’s ‘The Writers’ Model’”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”The Myth-ing Link (or Linking Up to Myth)”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”Flash Fiction: From Flash Text To Flash Film”
Featured ProjectWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”FLASH FICTION: Brief And (Likely) Necessary Literature”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-HaibunWritersFiction
January 10, 2020