ArtsPamphlet seriesPublic Service AnnouncementsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNon-fiction
September 13, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics||O:JA&L Best Practices Guide||”How to Market Poetry”
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)
ArtsLITERARY ARTSHaibunMixed Forms
September 12, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics||O:JA&L’s Analytical Rubric for Haibun
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”
ArtsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 10, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ekphrasis||Tushar Sen|”THE FALL OF LUCIFER BY PETER PAUL RUBENS (1620)”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 8, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ekphrasis||Tushar Sen|”THE CREATION OF ADAM BY MICHELANGELO”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
September 8, 2026
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Tushar Sen|”Labyrinth: Poems”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 5, 2026
O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||John Dorroh|”IF ONLY A FAIRY TALE KNEW ITS OWN ENDING”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 4, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||John Dorroh|”MY HOMETOWN”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 3, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Dorroh|”THAT GRAVITY WEREN’T SUCH A PAIN”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 2, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Dorroh|”KILLING TIME IN THE O’FALLON, ILLINOIS, CITY LIBRARY|WHILE WAITING ON LINDA TO HAVE A HEART CATHETERIZATION”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable TitlesHOT BUTTON PRESSArtsFEATURED
September 1, 2026
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Pamphlet Series|A Performance Protocol||Gabriele Micozzi|”Protocol for Declaring the Human Still Present”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
August 29, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”Art Theory”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
August 28, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”Building the Serial Killer”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
August 27, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”Competitive First Date”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
August 26, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”Understanding”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
August 25, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”Balancing the Rapture”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook Series
August 24, 2026
Buttonhook Press|Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jianqing Zheng|”Dancing Apart”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesPamphlet Series
August 23, 2026
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Pamphlet Series|FICTION: SHORT STORY|A Satire||James Weitz|”A Brief History of Racial Classification and Human Exhibitions in the West, 1814–2026|Proposed as Reflective Practice for University of Cambridge Faculty”
ArtsFEATUREDSpecial AnnouncementsEditor's AdviceUpdates
August 22, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics||O:JA&L’s Analytical Rubric for Haiku & Senryu|with a Submission Preparation Checklist
ArtsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsWriters
August 20, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Cowboy Poetry||Featured Writer: Rod Miller|Interview||”Saddle Work & the Unfinished West:|Associate Editor Jeff Streeby|talks with Rod Miller,|Cowboy Poet, Historian, and Commentator”
ChapbooksChapbook SeriesWritersNon-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectArts
August 19, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Cowboy Poetry|An Essay on Craft||Featured Writer: Rod Miller|”Fine Lines & Wrinkles”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
August 18, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Cowboy Poetry|Featured Writer: Rod Miller|”The E.S.L. Ranch”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
August 17, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Cowboy Poetry||Featured Writer: Rod Miller|”Give That Cowboy a Hand”
UncategorizedArtsWritersPerformance ArtistsFEATUREDFeatured ProjectChapbooksDALLY POST PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook SeriesChapbook Series
August 17, 2026
DALLY POST PRESS|The 2026 O:JA&L Masters Series|Cowboy Poetry|A Writer’s Portfolio||Rod Miller||”Saddle Work:|The Art & Practice of Cowboy Poetry”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 12, 2026
Poetry: All forms & style||Gabriele Micozzi|”Inventory of the Grandmothers Who Stayed”
ArtsNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingPamphlet series
August 12, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”ATTENDING TO THE QUIET: A Reading of Gabriele Micozzi’s ‘Inventory of the Grandmothers Who Stayed’”
Mixed FormsLITERARY ARTSTanka Prose
August 11, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|MIXED FORMS: TANKA PROSE||Michiya|”AFTER THE QUESTIONS”
FEATUREDFeatured ProjectFIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtAvailable TitlesBroadside Series
August 10, 2026
O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Mansa Bey|”August 2003: Baghdad Iraq”
FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtAvailable Titles
July 29, 2026
O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Chapbook Series|CNF/Vignette||J.G.P. MacAdam|”Who Are You Who Doubt My Wonders?”
WritersPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
July 26, 2026
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay|A Featured Collaboration||The Bluff Coast Writers|Lois Baer Barr, Kathryn Dohrmann, Cynthia T. Hahn||”GROUP ZUIHITSU FOR A TRANSYLVANIAN NAPKIN”
ArtsNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingPamphlet series
July 25, 2026
O:JA&L FREE PRESSES||HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library Pamphlet Series
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
July 24, 2026
Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||Jennifer Anderson|”RATTLESNAKE”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 23, 2026
Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||Jennifer Anderson|”ELECTRIC YOUTH”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
July 21, 2026
Buttonhook Press|Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”The Gumption of Fallen Sparrows:|Poems of Spiritual Inquiry”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
June 29, 2026
Mixed Forms:|Haibun/Haiga/Tanka Prose/Sequential Art Stories||Haibun||Kevin Browne|”Yard Work”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPublic Service AnnouncementsHOT BUTTON PRESSHIGH BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbooksDALLY POST PRESSAvailable TitlesFIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtBroadside SeriesChapbook SeriesPamphlet series
June 22, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics|Editor’s Advice||O:JA&L FREE PRESSES:|PUBLISHING AND AUTHOR RIGHTS STEWARDSHIP OVERVIEW
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 7, 2026
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Jeff Ronan|”Revival”
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”
ArtsNon-fictionFEATUREDFeatured Projectbook or article review or close reading
May 29, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”SINGING A HYMN TO THE SEA:|Larry D. Thomas|Returns to the Texas Gulf Coast”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 22, 2026
Flash Fiction|Short-short story||Richard Grayson|”Robert Kennedy Jr. Saved From Quicksand”
Artsbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
May 21, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”SPEAKING THE OVERFULL WORLD:|A Close Reading of Bruce McRae’s Poem “All In”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
May 20, 2026
Buttonhook Press|Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”Singing a Hymn to the Sea:|Poems of the Gulf Coast”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDFIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtAvailable TitlesPamphlet SeriesPamphlet series
May 19, 2026
O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Pamphlet Series|Flash Nonfiction||Robert Holeton|”AMBUSH”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
May 18, 2026
FLASH NONFICTION: ALL MILITARY|Flash Memoir, CNF, or Vignette||Charles Jacobson|”To Saigon”
ArtsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsWriters
May 16, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun|Featured Writer: Roberta Beary|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with Haibunist Roberta Beary”
ArtsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsWriters
May 15, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun|An Essay on Craft||Featured Writer: Roberta Beary|”The Heart of Haibun”
WritersFEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook SeriesChapbooks
May 14, 2026
Buttonhook Press|The 2026 O:JA&L Masters Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun|A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Roberta Beary|”The Heart of Haibun”
FictionExperimentalLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 9, 2026
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose |”TWILIGHT NIGHT”
ArtsFEATUREDBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook SeriesChapbooksChapbook Series
April 24, 2026
O:JA&L’s Buttonhook Press||The Masters Series
ArtsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsWriters
April 22, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|POETRY: All forms & styles|Featured Writer: Richard Widerkehr|Interview||”Associate Editor Jeff Streeby|talks with poet Richard Widerkehr”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDChapbooksChapbook SeriesPamphlet series
April 21, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”Richard Widerkehr:|a poet of place, memory, and quiet epiphany”
Artsbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
April 20, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”The Burdens of Intimacy|A close reading of ‘Two Solitudes,’|a poem by Richard Widerkehr”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 17, 2026
O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”Two Solitudes”
ArtsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsWriters
April 16, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|POETRY: All forms & styles|An Essay on Craft||Featured Writer: Richard Widerkehr|”What on Earth?”
FEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook SeriesChapbooksChapbook Series
April 16, 2026
Buttonhook Press|The 2026 O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Richard Widerkehr|”What on Earth?”
FEATUREDFeatured ProjectFIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtAvailable TitlesPamphlet Series
April 14, 2026
O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Pamphlet Series|Flash Nonfiction||LT. Clement Valot|”Liberty: Part 1″ (WIP)|”The Arabian Sea”
UncategorizedFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsWritersArts
April 13, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Writer: Bruce McRae|Interview||”Associate Editor Jeff Streeby|talks with poet Bruce McRae”
UncategorizedArtsNon-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDbook or article review or close reading
April 13, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”Correspondence Across Landscapes:| a review of Wolf Tree & Agave, a poetic exchange between Larry D. Thomas & Clarence J. Wolfshohl”
UncategorizedFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsWritersArts
April 12, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|POETRY: All forms & styles|An Essay on Craft||Featured Writer: Bruce McRae|”My Craft and Sullen Art…
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce McRae|”All In”
WritersFEATUREDBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook SeriesChapbooksChapbook Series
April 10, 2026
Buttonhook Press|The 2026 O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Bruce McRae|”My Craft and Sullen Art…”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 9, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Paul Hostovsky|”PHTH”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTSExperimental (XP/Hybrid)
April 8, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Paul Hostovsky|”DEAR EDVARD MUNCH”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 7, 2026
FLASH NONFICTION: ALL MILITARY|Flash Memoir, CNF, or Vignette||Clement Valot|”April 2008, Gulf of Oman, Indian Ocean”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 6, 2026
FLASH NONFICTION: ALL MILITARY|Flash Memoir, CNF, or Vignette||Clement Valot|”February 2008, Straits of Hormuz, Arabian Gulf”
ArtsNon-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDbook or article review or close reading
April 4, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”A HOWLING AT THE THRESHOLD:|Transformation and Wildness in Wolf by Bruce McRae|A REVIEW
FEATUREDBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside SeriesBroadside Series
March 25, 2026
Buttonhook Press Broadside Series|2026|Poetry: All forms & styles||Patrick Bradshaw|”VISITATION”
WritersFEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
March 24, 2026
Buttonhook Press Broadside Series|2026|Poetry: All forms & styles||Patrick Bradshaw|”PRAISE”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
March 17, 2026
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Prose Poetry||Heikki Huotari|”SIX/SEVEN”
Special AnnouncementsPublic Service AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsArtsPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/MemoirNon-fiction
March 11, 2026
Special Announcement|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for SUBMISSIONS||ALL MILITARY Flash Memoir, CNF, or Vignette
ArtsWritersPoetryProse poetryPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook SeriesChapbooksChapbook Series
March 10, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Hekkei Huotari|”What Will Martians Make of Us?”
ArtsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 9, 2026
Prose Discourse: Creative Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Personal Essay||A.G. Sorette|”You’ll Eat It and You’ll Like It”
ArtsNon-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
March 7, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”A Stillness in Motion:|A Review of Little Prose by David Person”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 5, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Willa Potter|”IT’S LOVELY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 4, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Willa Potter|”2/1/24 (imbolc)”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 3, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Willa Potter|”THE MEADOW, THE GARDEN”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 2, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Willa Potter|”It Was a Good Day”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPamphlet SeriesChapbooksChapbook Series
February 26, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”REMEMBERING IN FRAGMENTS:|HAIBUN, HAIKU, AND ETHICAL MEMORY|IN DUST & RUST by Taofeek Ayeyemi||A REVIEW”
Fine ArtistsFEATUREDHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook Series
February 23, 2026
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku & Related||Laszlo Aranyi|”LADY BUDDHA”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Marzelle Robertson|”Colosseum”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 21, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Naa Asheley Ashitey|”somewhere, in between,|I am simply searching for peace”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 20, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Naa Asheley Ashitey|”I wore your favorite satin”
ArtsWritersEvents/Projects/CollaborationsLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPamphlet series
February 19, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”THE OUTRUN” by Julie Alden Cullinane:| A REVIEW”
ArtsWritersEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDPamphlet series
February 18, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”MIRO’S WARS by John Brantingham:|A REVIEW”
HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesBroadside Series
February 16, 2026
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Lee Johnson|”Jesus Was”
FEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
February 11, 2026
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles|Ekphrasis||Larry D. Thomas|”Stories Begging Color”
ArtsNon-fictionLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDExperimental DiscourseExperimental (XP)Pamphlet series
February 10, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||Jim Meirose|”Experimental Discourse: A Productive Labor”
FEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
February 9, 2026
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles|Ekphrasis||John Brantingham|”MIRÓ’S WARS”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDChapbooksChapbook SeriesPamphlet series
February 8, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”The O:JA&L Masters Series”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDChapbooksChapbook SeriesPamphlet series
February 7, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library||American Chapbooks:|Reconfiguring Literary and Artistic Prestige||”Mick McGrath|and the Samizdat Tradition”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 6, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Hoffmann|”THE GREAT BUDDHA OF KAMAKURA”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Hoffmann|”GODARD: A PASTICHE”
ArtsNon-fictionLITERARY ARTSEditor's AdviceExperimental (XP)
February 2, 2026
An O:JA&L Guide for Submitters| Editor’s Advice||Definitions at O:JA&L||”Experimental Discourse (XP)”
WritersFEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
January 28, 2026
Buttonhook Press Pamphlet Series|Essays on the Writer’s Craft||Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|”The Land of the Ice Medusa: Writing from Your Fear”
ArtsNon-fictionSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsExperimental (XP)
January 24, 2026
Special Announcement|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for SUBMISSIONS|EXPERIMENTAL DISCOURSE (XP)|NONFICTION to 2000 words
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 22, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Samantha Padgett|”ARTILLERY OF TEETH”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 20, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Samantha Padgett|”PORTRAIT OF PARENTING YOUR PARENTS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 20, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Samantha Padgett|”I MISPLACE MY HUMANITY AT THE GROCERY STORE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 18, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Robert Beveridge|”FRITTO MISTO”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Robert Beveridge|”CRIME PREVENTION IN THE HOME”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2026
Flash Fiction|Short-short story||Chris Cottom|”LILY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sarah Kersey|”FAILED APOLOGY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 14, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynsey France|”Through The Auto Salvage Yard’s Garden”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 13, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynsey France|”Home, Again”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
January 12, 2026
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Miranda Barfuss|”ROSEANNE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 11, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jonathan Fletcher|”Co-Redemptrix”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
January 11, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction/Nonfiction|Featured Writer: Kent Dixon|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Kent Dixon”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
January 9, 2026
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction/Nonfiction|An Essay on Craft||Featured Writer: Kent Dixon|”Flash Discourse: A Physical Artifact”
WritersFEATUREDFeatured ProjectBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook SeriesChapbooksChapbook Series
January 9, 2026
Buttonhook Press|The 2026 O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction: A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Kent Dixon|”Flash As Flash Can”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 8, 2026
Poetry: All forms & styles||Shyla Ann Shehan|”TWILIGHT MEDITATION”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDBUTTONHOOK PRESSFIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench ArtAvailable TitlesPamphlet Series
January 7, 2026
O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||LT. Kalireyna Streeby, USN|”Ode to a Gunner’s Mate” (2015)
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 6, 2026
Mixed Forms|Haibun & Tanka Prose||Iris Lee|”EVERY AUTUMN IS NEW”
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”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 4, 2026
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Isaura Lira Greene|”TARDIGRADES”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Zac Gosney|”GENESIS 1:27″
Special AnnouncementsPublic Service AnnouncementsAwards Announcement
December 2, 2025
Special Announcements|OPEN: JOURNAL of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations
HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook Series
November 25, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|ChapbookSeries|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Cory D. Cart|DUST and LEATHER:| A Queer Outpost of Cowboy Poetry
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Laura Sweeney|”SELF PORTRAIT AS LATCHKEY GIRL”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Laura Sweeney|”AT THE SANTA MARIA WINERY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 22, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Laura Sweeney|”WHERE I FIND SOPHIA THE FEMININE FACE OF GOD”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
November 21, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Essay/Memoir/ Vignette||Alida Dean|”Someday”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
November 20, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Essay/Memoir/ Vignette||Alida Dean|”I Try to Understand My Fear”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 20, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Essay||Kimberly Kearns|”When the Game Ends”
FictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 18, 2025
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Christian Barragan|”The Wasp”
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”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS
November 13, 2025
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction|An Essay on Craft||Featured Writer: Tom Hazuka||”Structure and Style in Flash Fiction”
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November 11, 2025
Buttonhook Press|The 2025 O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction: A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Tom Hazuka|”MIXTURE”
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November 11, 2025
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer Tom Hazuka|”MIXTURE”
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November 5, 2025
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”Mississippi River Delta: A Bestiary”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 28, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sean Wang|”NIGHT WALK WITH STONE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sean Wang|”SEAM-GLASS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 26, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sean Wang|”BIRD AND THE SHELL”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 25, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sean Wang|”Ring Work”
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October 25, 2025
Buttonhook Press Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Sean Wang|”Twin Beams”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 21, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|Ekphrasis||John Brantingham|”Paul Klee’s Ins Nachbarhaus”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 20, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|Ekphrasis||John Brantingham|”Paul Klee’s Fire in the Evening”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
October 19, 2025
Americana|Prose Discourse|Short Fiction to 5,000 words||Jason Thornberry|”Saint Rudy”
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October 19, 2025
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Flash Discourse: NONFICTION||Colin Dardis|”My Life is a Film|I Haven’t Yet Watched”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
September 29, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Robin Landa|”The Waiting Room”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
September 28, 2025
Theater Arts|Screen Writing||Deb Havens|”CE-V|(Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind)”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 27, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”UNDERLYING PREDICTION”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 26, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”THE WORRY”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 25, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”TRUST”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”THE CASE AGAINST”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 23, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”Steady Work”
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September 15, 2025
Theater Arts|Screen Writing||Deb Havens|”Top Notch”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 15, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Irritant”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 13, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”THE REAL ZODIAC KILLER”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
September 11, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage|A Play in One Act||Bella Poynton|” The Last Poetry Reading”
Mixed FormsHaibunOtherLITERARY ARTSTanka Prose
September 10, 2025
Mixed Forms|Haibun & Tanka Prose||Carolyn Martin|”GUEST SPEAKER”
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September 10, 2025
Buttonhook Press Pamphlet Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun & Tanka Prose|A Writer’s Portfolio||Carolyn Martin|”A Week Late…”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
September 9, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Beatrice Onions|”LAUNDRY SADS”
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September 8, 2025
DALLY POST PRESS|Broadside Series|Cowboy Poetry||Doug Stoiber|”Manhunt in Mossy Creek”
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September 7, 2025
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Conceived, edited, and compiled by|Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto||”Prominent Writers on Craft and Practice”
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September 7, 2025
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Conceived, edited, and compiled by|Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto||”Prominent Writers Discuss Craft and Practice”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
August 30, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Faith de Savigné|”Celebrity Crisis Management”
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August 29, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Christine Benvenuto|”SHE WILL HOLD ME”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalCNF/MemoirAcademic writing/ Close Reading
August 28, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Mixed-form essay/memoir/vignette||James Joaquin Brewer|”Pilgrim Ways and Voices:|Bryars’ Tramp and Salinger’s Glasses”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTS
August 27, 2025
Special Feature||Guest Editor Ibrahim Nureni|”An Interview with Haiku Poet Taofeek Ayeyemi”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
August 26, 2025
Theater Arts|Screen Writing||John Biscello|”Nocturne Variations”
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August 25, 2025
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||A Close Reading of Franz Kafka’s|”Up in the Gallery”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
August 24, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Matthew Moore|”The Surfer Buys the Perfect Wave”
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”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
August 22, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Juan Carlos Hernandez|”The Discerning Dummy”
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”
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August 15, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of Adrienne Fidelin Restored (2025)|by Anne Whitehouse”
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August 15, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of Frida (2022)|by Anne Whitehouse”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 13, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mykyta Ryzhykh|”leviathan”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 27, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Tuhin Bhowal|”The Canyon at Gorge”
HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook Series
July 25, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|ChapbookSeries|Fiction||Samantha Isasi|”The Apology”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 23, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrew Furst|”bullet”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
July 22, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10000 Words|Memoir/Personal Essay||Jonathan Mark|”WHY ARE YOU CRYING?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 22, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Tuhin Bhowal|”Never Against Those Visions of Sin”
HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook Series
July 21, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|ChapbookSeries|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Julie Alden Cullinane|”The Outrun: Poems”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
July 19, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||N. Graham|”Thanksgiving, Florida, 2022″
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”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
July 17, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Craft Essay/Analysis/Explication||María DeGuzmán|SUBTLE MATERIALIZATIONS OF MEMORY
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
July 16, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Aldo Giovannitti|”THE FONT”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalOtherLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10000 words|Contemporary Controversies|Personal Essay||Mick McGrath|”IF I HAVE TO READ ONE MORE THING|ABOUT EMBITTERED WOMEN|CLAWING THEIR WAY TO THE TOP|IN A MALE-DOMINATED SOCIETY…”||A Strongly Worded Response|to Alice Hatcher’s Recent Essay
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
July 14, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10000 words|Contemporary Controversies|Personal Essay||Alice Hatcher|”LET THEM EAT COOKIES:|SUGAR-COATING ANXIETY|AT A CROSSROADS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 12, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Daniel Romo|”Respawning”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 7, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrew Furst|”wait”
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July 2, 2025
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June 28, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|PERSONAL ESSAY/MEMOIR/VIGNETTE||Gregory Ormson|”LIGHTING MATCHES.”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
June 27, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|PERSONAL ESSAY/MEMOIR/VIGNETTE||Gregory Ormson|”A MAN BECAME A BIRD|AND ACCUSED HIMSELF OF AN UNFORGIVABLE SIN”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
June 26, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|PERSONAL ESSAY/MEMOIR/VIGNETTE||Gregory Ormson|”STRATOSPHERIC STRINGS AND BANJO LIBERATION|WITH THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS”
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June 25, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”Musing the Crossroads”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 23, 2025
Flash Fiction|Microstory Sequence||Stephen Delaney|”INNER MOTH, INNER FLAME” (Three Microstories)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 22, 2025
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||MEH|”Facility”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
June 22, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Tara Hashagen|”SEVEN FOLDS”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
June 21, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Anya Connelly-Howland|”Pyre”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 19, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jeanne Obbard|”Things to know about angels”
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June 18, 2025
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|OULIPO Poetry||Ben Egerton|”Antiphony-Anti-Phoney”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
June 17, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Thomas Smith|”Different Stories”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
June 16, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Thomas Smith|”Appearances”
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June 15, 2025
Buttonhook Press 2025 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Yucheng Tao|”Fever”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 13, 2025
Flash Fiction|Short-short story||Sandeep Kumar|”A Bride”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 13, 2025
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||John Brantingham|”Naming the Turtle”
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June 9, 2025
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction||John Repp|”As If This Light “
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
May 30, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shelley Tracey|”MY DOUBLE”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
May 29, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shelley Tracey|”Going Around in Circles”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
May 28, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shelley Tracey|”Incline”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
May 27, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shelley Tracey|”Vacancy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 27, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shelley Tracey|”Weight”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Joseph Hutchison|”HEART OF SUMMER”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Joseph Hutchison|”HEART ON SLEEVE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 23, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||John Brantingham|”CATTAIL MEDITATION”
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”
HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook Series
May 21, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS 2025 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction||Lukas Wood|”NUANCE SINGULARITY”||”Appendix III”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 21, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Pam Alvoledo|”THE BIRTHDAY BALLOONS”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
May 20, 2025
Mixed Forms: Haibun|| Zoé Mahfouz|”ASD AND PARADISE”
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May 17, 2025
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Mixed Forms: Haibun and Tanka Prose||Joshua Michael Stewart|”One More Thing Without You”
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May 9, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS 2025 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Mixed Forms: Haibun & Short Works||Steve Gerson|”HAVE NOT”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSOral Interpretation/Spoken WordMusicPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)NarrativeLyric
April 17, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Poetry-In-Performance|Reader: Tianna Sheppard||Dr. Ernest Williamson III|”The Beautiful Life”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
April 15, 2025
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||A Close Reading of W. Somerset Maugham’s|“The Appointment in Samarra“
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
April 14, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||James Roderick Burns|”Skein of geese”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
April 13, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||James Roderick Burns|”Seasons Change”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 10, 2025
Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Janelle Cordero|”Broken”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 8, 2025
Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Janelle Cordero|”Donut Parade”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 7, 2025
Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Janelle Cordero|”Health Class”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2025
Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Joanne Furio|”WHAT DADDY DIDN’T KNOW”
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April 3, 2025
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Prose Poetry/Flash fiction|A Writer’s Portfolio||David Person|”little prose”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 30, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Rick K. Reut|”(Traveling Through Your Head)”
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March 30, 2025
O:JA&L Free Presses|Titles available on Amazon|BUTTONHOOK PRESS||Erik Harper Klass|”Polish Poets in Beds with Girls|And Other True Stories”
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March 27, 2025
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PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 26, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”VALUES”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 25, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Ken Poyner|”UNPROFITTING PROGRESS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrés Rodríguez|”THREE VOICES”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 23, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrés Rodríguez|”PROSHCHAVAJ”
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March 20, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Pamphlet Series|Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Perry Genovesi|”Superfluous Super Louis”||Winner of the 2025 WEITZ PRIZE|for Counter-Revolution Writing
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 20, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”West Sixties”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 18, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Midcentury Modern”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 17, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Bath Salts”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 16, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”FIELD OF VIEW”
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March 15, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Of Sleep”
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”
STUDIO ARTSPainting and Drawing
March 11, 2025
Studio Arts: Image Spotlight|| Sean BW Parker||”Robin Garbutt”
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March 10, 2025
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2025 O:JA&L Featured Artist Series|Portfolio Spotlights|Painting & Drawing||Sean BW Parker|”The Tension of Mystery”
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March 6, 2025
Special Feature|| Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto||”An Interview with|O:JA&L’s new Flash Fiction/Nonfiction Editor|Richard Holeton”
HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesChapbook Series
February 24, 2025
O:JA&L’s FREE PRESSES Chapbook Series|HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Fiction||Mick McGrath|”People with whom I am quite pissed”
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February 24, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Pamphlet Series|Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Mick McGrath|”RULE & INNOVATION”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
February 20, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||R.P. Singletary|”A Proud Noise to Live For”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Contributing Editor Ibrahim Nureni|”A Review of Adjei Agyei-Baah’s Scaring Crow”
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February 14, 2025
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Spencer Holst’s|’The Zebra Storyteller’”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable TitlesHOT BUTTON PRESSFictionLITERARY ARTS
February 13, 2025
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies|Pamphlet Series|Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Mick McGrath|”THE FUTURE IS MAO!”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 12, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Madelyn Meyers|”RED LIGHT”
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP Prose
February 9, 2025
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose |”The Lost Traveler’s Dream Under the Hill”
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February 8, 2025
Buttonhook Press 2025 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Robert Walicki|”LOWER BURRELL ISN’T THAT FAR”
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February 7, 2025
Buttonhook Press 2025 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Robert Walicki|”City Chicken”
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February 6, 2025
Buttonhook Press 2025 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Robert Walicki|”JOURNEYMAN”
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February 5, 2025
Buttonhook Press 2025 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Robert Walicki|”Clean Out”
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February 4, 2025
Buttonhook Press 2025 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Robert Walicki|”Mitt”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
January 28, 2025
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Grace Blackledge|Midnight Library|A Play in One Act
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Grey|”Card Table”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 24, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Grey|”A Soldier’s Beliefs”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
January 22, 2025
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”WEST: Toward Squalicum Mountain”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Eileen Pettycrew|”BUSINESS DISTRICT circa 1982″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2025
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mykyta Ryzhykh|”return”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 13, 2025
Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Laura Shell|”I’m the One”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
January 10, 2025
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”BESTIARY: Far West Texas”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
January 9, 2025
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Pedro Ponce|Interview|”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Pedro Ponce”
WritersNon-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 8, 2025
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Pedro Ponce|An Essay on Craft|”UNDERGROUND: A FLASH MANIFESTO”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 7, 2025
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Pedro Ponce|”Orpheus”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 6, 2025
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Pedro Ponce|”ORIGIN STORY”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESSWritersFEATURED
January 6, 2025
Buttonhook Press|The 2025 O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction: A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Pedro Ponce|”A Map of the Underground”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
December 20, 2024
Theater Arts|Screenwriting: Feature Film/Pilot Episode||Katheryne McMullen|”Patterson”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 16, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Emily Ransdell|”MANZANITA BEACH IN JANUARY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 14, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Emily Ransdell|”AFTER A FALLING OUT WITH A FRIEND”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 13, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Emily Ransdell|”Like a pilgrim, I enter the darkness”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 12, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Emily Ransdell|”I DREAM OF MY MOTHER”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 10, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Emily Ransdell|”If you’re anything like me”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
November 20, 2024
Buttonhook Press|2024 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”Gems”
Available titlesChapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
November 14, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|AMERICANA|Poetry: All forms & styles|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio||Lynne Potts|”DAWNS ON ME: A Country”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 13, 2024
Flash nonfiction|Personal essay, Memoir, or Vignette||Beth Duddy|”Hand in Hand”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Annie Stenzel|”On Mother’s Day, I nestle beneath|a poem’s feathered wing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Annie Stenzel|”Erratics”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 5, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Annie Stenzel|”On my first night at altitude, sleep often eludes me”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Annie Stenzel|”When I say I owe my life to dead poets, I really mean it (Part II)”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
November 2, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio||Larry D. Thomas|”LETTING THE LIGHT WORK”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 31, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Massimo Fantuzzi|”Eastbourne”
Non-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 30, 2024
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Luisa Valenzuela’s|’Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye’”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
October 23, 2024
Theater Arts|Screenwriting: Feature Film||Jenna D’Amato|”THE SLEEP DOCTOR”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
October 17, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio||Heikki Huotari|”OPTIMAL Or Not”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
October 11, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Sarah Bovold|“THE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
October 9, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Kip Knott|”Diary Entry Written in the Shadow of an Asteroid”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
October 3, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Millie Sparks|”Umbrellas”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 3, 2024
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||David James|”Let Me Say This Up Front:”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
October 3, 2024
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||David James|”Let Me Say This Up Front”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 2, 2024
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Rachel Berryman|”Inner Pioneer”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyric
September 30, 2024
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||JIANQING ZHENG|”GARDEN”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
September 30, 2024
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||JIANQING ZHENG|”GARDEN: Poems”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 26, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Vikram Masson|”The Son Returns”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
September 23, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Kathryn Dohrmann|”ALLÉE”
HOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesPamphlet Series
September 20, 2024
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2024 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Based Fiction||Mick McGrath|”Woes Innumerous”
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”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 15, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Sherif Abdelkarim|”DEBT TO DEBT”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 13, 2024
Flash Fiction: Short-short Story||Travis Flatt|”Death” & “A Flower, A Pistol, and a Music Box”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Natalie Harris-Spencer|”Speed Date Spouses”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 10, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Christina Kallery|”Chad”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 9, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Christina Kallery|”The View from There”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 9, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”3:30 a.m.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 6, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Spring Cleaning”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 5, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Warm Spam”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 4, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Closure”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 3, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”For Ron Monstera”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 2, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sean G. Meggeson|”JAG”
Available titlesChapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
September 2, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio||Sean G. Meggeson|”Cosmic Crasher”
Writersbook or article review or close readingFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
September 1, 2024
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”What Does It Mean to Mean:|Percival Everett’s Sonnets in a Missing Key”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||JACOB KOBINA AYIAH MENSAH|”EGYPTIAN DISH”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
August 31, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Mixed Forms: Haibun & Tanka Prose Hybrids||JACOB KOBINA AYIAH MENSAH|”Overland Geometry”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
August 28, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms|Haibun & short poems||Erin Castaldi|”Full Bright Autumn”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 25, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Vallie Lynn Watson|Three Flash Stories:|”SONGS & FURY”|”STARK NAKED MODERN MUSIC”|”THE PANTS”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook SeriesAvailable titles
August 21, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku, Senryu, and Small Poems||Hassane Zemmouri|”Everyday Life”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 21, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Daniel Arbino|”Crater”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 17, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Cathleen Daly|”I THINK”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
August 10, 2024
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|Gordon Lish’s “The Merry Chase'”
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 3, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Sandra Carlson Khalil|”Cedars of God”
Available titlesPamphlet SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
August 1, 2024
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio of Formalist Poems||Peter Austin|”Once Is Enough”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 1, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles|Formalism||Peter Austin|”Once Is Enough”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
July 17, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Jesse Curran|”The Cities of the Interior”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 16, 2024
Flash Fiction|Vignette||Adam McOmber|”Things Behind the Wall”
FictionExperimentalLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
July 14, 2024
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Per Olvmyr|”ORANGES I-XV”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 6, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Catherine Davenport|”Goodbye And All That|(with a wink and a nod to Joan and Lacy)”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
June 30, 2024
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Steve Gerson|”SUNSET DIORAMA”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
June 30, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Steve Gerson|”There Is a Season”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
June 29, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Mykyta Ryzhykh|”Where have I been?”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
June 22, 2024
Buttonhook Press|2024 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||David M. Harris|”Dead Letter Office: Tony Norris”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 6, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Whitehouse|”DIMITRI’S BARBER SHOP”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
June 5, 2024
Buttonhook Press|2024 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio of Micropoems||Ronald J. Scully|”NEEDFUL THINGS”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook SeriesAvailable titles
May 30, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Paresh Tiwari|”Pareidolia”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 29, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||James B. Nicola|”GOODBYES”
LifestyleFine ArtistsWritersEvents/Projects/CollaborationsOtherSTUDIO ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 28, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|An O:JA&L Video Series|ARTISTS ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS||Ivan de MonBrison
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 27, 2024
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|Lorna Crozier’s ‘Another Bear Story'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 27, 2024
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||L. Lois|”It Wasn’t Going to Work Out Between Us”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
May 25, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Violet Piper|“NETS AND WINGS”
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
May 24, 2024
Flash Fiction|Three Stories||Beth Sherman|”Seven Minutes in Heaven/Altitude/Good Morning Max”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
May 23, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Philip Newman Lawton|”Getting It Right”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 22, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Maureen Aitken|”The Haunting”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 22, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Michael James O’Neill|”Arc of a Romance”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 20, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Michael James O’Neill|”Old Fart”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 19, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||BRUCE MCRAE|”A WOLF MAY LOOK AT A MOON”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 18, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||BRUCE MCRAE|”ONE DAY THE WOLF”
Available titlesChapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
May 18, 2024
Buttonhook Press|2024 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||BRUCE MCRAE|”WOLF”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 15, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Wendy Taylor Carlisle|”Designation”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
May 15, 2024
Buttonhook Press|2024 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Wendy Taylor Carlisle|”Designation”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
May 1, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Tori Rego|”Hand-me-downs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 28, 2024
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||David Dephy|”Picture from My Window at 7 a.m.”
Special AnnouncementsPublic Service AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsArtsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDEvents/Projects/CollaborationsGalleries
April 27, 2024
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||Team NeetiBisht®|”The GROUP ART EXHIBITION”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 24, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Meredith Davies Hadaway|”[Among the many disappearing things]”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 23, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Meredith Davies Hadaway|”[Gone]”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 22, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Meredith Davies Hadaway|”Your Past Will Surprise You”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 21, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Meredith Davies Hadaway|”Crocuses”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 18, 2024
Poetry: Alll forms & styles||Jean C. Howard|”RESURRECTION: AUNT RINI’S TULIPS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 17, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jean C. Howard|”FUNERAL IN SHIRLEY’S BACKYARD”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 16, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jean C. Howard|”WIDOW: DEATH OF THE BRICKLAYER”
ChapbooksAvailable TitlesHIGH BUTTON PRESSArtsBUTTONHOOK PRESSFeatured ProjectFEATUREDFine Art PhotographySTUDIO ARTSFine Artists
April 15, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2024 O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series|Portfolio Spotlights|Fine Art Photography||Natalie Christensen|”NEW MEXICO Deconstructed”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 14, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story|| Lynn Bey|“ONE FOR THE TEAM”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 14, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Lynn Bey|”We Who Would be Murderers”
Experimental (XP)Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalCNF/Memoir
April 12, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette, CNF||jamilla vandyke-bailey|”candles in the wind”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Aditi Kay|”Candies for a Birthday”
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 11, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Aditi Kay|”Walking and Running”
ChapbooksChapbooksAvailable TitlesHIGH BUTTON PRESSFine ArtistsBUTTONHOOK PRESSFeatured ProjectFEATUREDPainting and DrawingMixed MediaSTUDIO ARTS
April 10, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2024 O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series|Portfolio Spotlights|Painting & Drawing||Ann-Marie Brown|”Imperfect Vessel”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 9, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jeffrey Kingman|”WE CAN ALL LISTEN”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 8, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Betsey Martin|” Of Kale”
ArtsEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalMixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsOtherOral Interpretation/Spoken WordOtherLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseBUTTONHOOK PRESS
April 7, 2024
Buttonhook Press|Special Release||Mary-Margaret Grant|”Queer Crush: Places”|A Multimedia Film Project
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 6, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Maggie Nerz Iribarne|”PAPA HEMINGWAY, HELP ME”
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 4, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Maggie Nerz Iribarne|”THE MELTDOWN”
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 3, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Maggie Nerz Iribarne|”GOING SOUTH”
ChapbooksAvailable TitlesHIGH BUTTON PRESSArtsBUTTONHOOK PRESSFEATUREDSculpture and InstallationSTUDIO ARTSFine Artists
April 1, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2024 O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series|Portfolio Spotlights|Sculpture & Installation||Mark Yale Harris|”By Land & By Sea: Awakening the Sensual”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
March 31, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Andrew Cochrane|”It Is Sweet and Proper to Die for One’s Hockey Team”
Available titlesChapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
March 30, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Stimac|”TOPOLOGY”
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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
March 18, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Flash Fiction||Richard Stimac|”SEEDS OF STARS”
Chapbook SeriesChapbooksAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
March 14, 2024
Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series||Mixed Forms: Haiga||Hassane Zemmouri (Haiku)|Magali Bretou (Photography)|”TATTOO”|A Collaboration
ArtsBusinessUpdatesPublic Service Announcements
March 11, 2024
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Events||”Poetry Workshops with Terry Lucas”|”Sturgeon Moon Poetry Readings”
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”
ChapbooksAvailable TitlesHIGH BUTTON PRESSArtsBUTTONHOOK PRESSFEATUREDPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSFine Artists
March 3, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2024 O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series|Portfolio Spotlights|Painting & Drawing||Bette Ridgeway|”Layered Light”
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February 29, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2024 O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series|Portfolio Spotlights|Fine Art Photography||Rex Wilder|”Rites of Calibration: Images and Excerpts”
Non-fictionFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterview
February 27, 2024
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Prose Poetry||Featured Writer: Maxine Chernoff|Interview|”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Maxine Chernoff”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fiction
February 27, 2024
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Prose Poetry||Featured Writer: Maxine Chernoff|An Essay on Craft|”Love Affair with Prose Poetry”
WritersPoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 27, 2024
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Prose Poetry||Featured Writer: Maxine Chernoff|”DIARY (THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE)”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
February 27, 2024
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & Styles|Prose Poetry||Maxine Chernoff|”DIARY”
ChapbooksAvailable TitlesHIGH BUTTON PRESSArtsBUTTONHOOK PRESSFEATUREDPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSFine Artists
February 17, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2024 O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series|Portfolio Spotlights|Painting & Drawing||Kathleen Frank|”Essence & Atmosphere”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 13, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Laura Lee Koenig|”In the Walls”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2024
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Stimac|”Evergreen”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 4, 2024
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Stimac|”Field Work”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 3, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”MOTH MEAL”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 1, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Paul Perilli|”LAYOVER”
ChapbooksAvailable TitlesHIGH BUTTON PRESSArtsBUTTONHOOK PRESSFEATUREDSTUDIO ARTSFine Artists
January 27, 2024
HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art|The 2024 O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series|Portfolio Spotlights||Catherine Eaton Skinner|”Tangent & Interplay”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 26, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON|”CASKET OF LOVE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 25, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Lee Johnson|”California Summer”
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January 25, 2024
Buttonhook Press|2024 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s PortfolioButtonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 24, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||jamilla vandyke-bailey|”black curses as songs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 23, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||R. Bremner|”Impacts persist.”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fiction
January 22, 2024
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”The ABCs of Abecedarians”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 20, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Benjamin Goluboff|”MAN RAY PLAYS THE PATRONAGE VARIATIONS|UPON PEGGY GUGGENHEIM”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 19, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Benjamin Goluboff|”BERENICE ABBOTT PHOTOGRAPHS PEGGY GUGGENHEIM”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 18, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Matthew Moniz|”The Way We Hold Each Other”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2024
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Tom Barlow|”OVERHAUL”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2024
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Tom Barlow|”I Know a Woman”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2024
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Tom Barlow|”The Bonsai Garden”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 14, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Cal Freeman|“DISAMBIGUATION|WITH BARRY SANDERS, PLUTO, AND PERSEPHONE“
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 13, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Rory Perkins|“THE LIES OF FATHERHOOD” & “IF IT WASN’T TOO LATE”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 12, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Brigitte McCray|“AMERICAN CHESTNUT BLIGHT”
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January 11, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Olga Katsovskiy|“A SECRET LANGUAGE“
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January 10, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Sasha Bailyn|”Anatomy of a Wave”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 9, 2024
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Richard Plant|”A Face, A Foot, A Woman on a Bicycle”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
January 9, 2024
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Martin Heavisides|”POLICING THE YEARS”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
January 7, 2024
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Lawrence Kraft|”Waiting for a Eulogy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 6, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Lauchlan|”Letter to James Wright|After Reading the Last of His Poems”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 5, 2024
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Richard L. Matta|”Karma”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 4, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Daniel Seifert|”Day of Rest”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 3, 2024
Poetry: All forms & styles||Daniel Seifert|”Stumbletongue”
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January 1, 2024
Special Announcement|Buttonhook Press|HOT BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Issues||2024 CALLS FOR CHAPBOOK SUBMISSIONS
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December 30, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Richard John Miller|”SEASIDE HEIGHTS”
Non-fictionFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterview
December 28, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Peter Conners|Interview|”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer and publisher Peter Conners
UncategorizedFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalEssay, CraftNon-fictionWriters
December 28, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Peter Conners|An Essay on Craft|”PLENTY: How to Write Very Short Fiction”
WritersFEATUREDBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
December 28, 2023
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Peter Conners|”PLENTY: How to Write Very Short Fiction”
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December 23, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay||Tim Campbell|”Oblivion and Bliss”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 21, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Wagner|”CRÈME BRÛLÉE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Wagner|”APHORISMS AT CHRISTMAS”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
December 20, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Irwin Hahn|”Ring-O-Levio!”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 19, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Hyun Woo Kim|”Deserted Small Pretty Things”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 18, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sam Ambler|”The River Queen”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 18, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sam Ambler|”Agnes, at Her Funeral”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 17, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellen June Wright|”Years Ago September Smoke Rose For Weeks”
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December 16, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of ‘Yours’ by Mary Robison”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
December 15, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Kayla Pica Williams|”Warrior Marks”
PoetryLyricNarrativePERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordLITERARY ARTSNarrative poetry
December 14, 2023
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Original Poetry||Farida Olass|”Transitions: 10:09 p.m.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 13, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Adrienne Pilon|”Jamaica”
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December 13, 2023
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||Adrienne Pilon|”Rain Comes to the Central Valley”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 12, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jean Kane|”THE HOBBLE, THE TATTER”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 12, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jean Kane|”Deciduous”
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December 12, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jean Kane|”Deciduous”
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December 10, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Creative Commentary on International Events||Tony Brinkley|”Lamentations: Icons of War”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 8, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”Biloxi”
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December 6, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”POTTER’S VALLEY ROAD”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mykyta Ryzhykh|”Balances”
FictionLITERARY ARTSHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesSerialized Titles
December 2, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 4
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 1, 2023
Flash Fiction|Flash Sequence||Ken Poyner|”Beautification”|”Completing the Circle”|”Proof”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
November 30, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Ron Theel|”Common Ground”
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November 29, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Thomas Lowery|”Friends Forever”
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November 27, 2023
Special Announcement||O:JA&L’s 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
November 26, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Angela Townsend|”Giving up the Ghost”
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November 25, 2023
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Thomas Lowery|”Friends Forever”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 25, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”Columbus Sailed the Oceans Blue”
Available titlesPamphlet SeriesAvailable TitlesHOT BUTTON PRESSPamphlet SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
November 25, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Kirby Olson|”In Praise of Columbus”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 23, 2023
Flash Fiction|Short-short Story||Christopher Ananias|”Unmedicated Grief”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 20, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Helen Wickes|”MAYBE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 19, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Penelope Schott|”AS IF TO BELIEVE IN PRAYER”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 18, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Penelope Schott|”OLD BARN, OR HOW THINGS GO ON”
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November 18, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Penelope Schott|”OLD BARN or How Things Go On”
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November 17, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr|”Soles”
Mixed FormsLITERARY ARTSTanka Prose
November 15, 2023
Mixed Forms: Tanka Prose||Jianqing Zheng|”THE DREAM SONG TO THE COMPS”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
November 15, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Maya Bernstein-Schalet|”On Being Alone”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 8, 2023
Flash Fiction||Karen Regen Tuero|”WHAT ELSE WAS NORMAL THAT I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT?”
FictionLITERARY ARTSHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesSerialized Titles
November 1, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 3
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingLITERARY ARTSBook Review
October 29, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Historical Fiction/Flash Fiction||Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|”A Review of|’Polish Poets in Beds with Girls and other true stories’|by Erik Harper Klass”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS
October 25, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Anu Kumar|”Journeys of a Lifetime”
Experimental (XP)WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
October 24, 2023
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction||Featured Writer: Jim Meirose|Interview|”Associate Editor Warwick Newnham|talks with XP writer Jim Meirose”
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!”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
October 14, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms: Haiga||Gabriel Rosenstock (English & Irish Haiku)|Debiprasad Mukherjee (Photography)|”Eye of the Fish”|A Collaboration
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesAmazon Titles
October 12, 2023
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||Erik Harper Klass||POLISH POETS IN BEDS WITH GIRLS and Other True Stories|A Novella of the Interwar Years 1919-1939
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 12, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Celise Lippman|”DISTURBANCES IN THE FIELD”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
October 9, 2023
Flash Fiction||Rowan MacDonald|”After the Wake”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
October 6, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|Interview|”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer and artist Roberta Allen”
WritersPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalEssay, CraftNon-fiction
October 5, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|An Essay on Craft|”FIRST IT HAPPENS, THEN I MAKE IT UP”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 4, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|”THE BEHEADING”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 3, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|”HOPE”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
October 2, 2023
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|”FIRST IT HAPPENS, THEN I MAKE IT UP”
FictionLITERARY ARTSHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesSerialized Titles
October 1, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 2
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 27, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Caroline Maun|”WHAT MY MOTHER PERHAPS WANTED”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 26, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Caroline Maun|”ON PLANNING AHEAD”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATURED
September 25, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|”THE FLY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 25, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynn Cohen|”What Awaits”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynn Cohen|”SONNET FOR A WOMAN IN TROUBLE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 23, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynn Cohen|”ENVY”
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September 23, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Lynn Cohen|”Nothing To Be Sorry For”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsBUTTONHOOK PRESSPublic Service AnnouncementsHOT BUTTON PRESS
September 18, 2023
Special Announcements|OPEN: JOURNAL of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||Buttonhook Press: Call for submissions|HOT BUTTON PRESS: Call for submissions||OPEN CALL for long prose submissions|organized for SERIAL PUBLICATION
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSPoetryBook Review
September 18, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”To Suffer None of It:|Lack and Gratitude in Disease of Kings”
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
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September 17, 2023
Special Announcement|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for SUBMISSIONS|EXPERIMENTAL DISCOURSE (XP)|FICTION to 2000 words
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 11, 2023
Flash Fiction||V.A. Wiswell|”Noon Somewhere”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
September 10, 2023
Mixed forms: Haibun||Barbara Anna Gaiardoni|”Surprise”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 10, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Donna L. Emerson|”JANE, BETTY, DORIS”
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September 10, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Donna L. Emerson|”JANE, BETTY, DORIS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 8, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Amanda Leal|”LANTERNS”
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September 7, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writers Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Robinson|”Qualm (Before a Storm)”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 6, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Abbie Doll|”seasonal whirlwind disorder”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 6, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Abbie Doll|”you dropped the ball when the ball dropped|but i won’t hold that against you”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 4, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Abbie Doll|”I LIKE MY EGGS JAILBREAK RUNNY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSConcrete
September 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Abbie Doll|”when will the well run dry”
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September 2, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku Sequences||JIANQING ZHENG|”JUST LOOKING”|Haiku Sequences about the Mississippi Delta
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSConcrete
September 2, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Abbie Doll|”me/mo/ry’s”
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September 1, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 1
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
August 31, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or stage|A 10-Minute Play||Ada Cheng|”Don’t Say That!”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
August 30, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series|Mixed Forms: Haiga||Hassane Zemmouri (Haiku)|Magali Bretou & Bea Bauer (Photography)|”Small Lantern”|A Collaboration
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 29, 2023
Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Stephen Orr|”GRANNY KNOT”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
August 28, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Barnes|”If I Had a Milwaukee Vibrator”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
August 27, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Barnes|”11.6 Pounds”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
August 26, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Barnes|”Roll on Tanner Creek”
PoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
August 25, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Barnes|”Glacier”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTSExperimental (XP/Hybrid)
August 25, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason Dean Arnold|”Inventory”
TranslationNon-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
August 23, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Karineh Arutyunova|“VOICES”|Translated by Lena Mandel
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
August 21, 2023
Americana|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Amanda Russell|”It’s July in Texas Time”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 19, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Stephen Massimilla|”LEAVING DEATH VALLEY”
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August 18, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Ronald J. Scully|”A Sport and a Pastime”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
August 13, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT RECOVERY”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
August 9, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Mike Power|”Renewal”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
August 6, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT DODGE (Iowa)”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
August 6, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT DODGE (Kansas)”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
August 6, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT DISAPPOINTMENT”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESSWritersFeatured ProjectFEATURED
August 6, 2023
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”The Tiny Book of Forts”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
August 6, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT WAGNER”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
August 6, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer Michael Martone|An Essay on Craft|”The Title: A SHORT SHORT STORY’S OWN SHORT SHORT STORY”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
August 6, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|Interview|”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Michael Martone”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 1, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Wendy BooydeGraaff|”Saturday Mornings”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
July 30, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Lydia Gwyn|”The Highest Point/Emptiness, Standing Still/All Dreams Speak to Life”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
July 26, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Ericka Russel|BURNING ALFALFA FIELDS
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 26, 2023
Flash Fiction||Avital Gad-Cykman|”Flying/Fly/High”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 26, 2023
Flash Fiction||Richard Sleboe|”Singularity”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 25, 2023
Flash Fiction||Melinda K. Madison Keathley|”A Solution”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSTranslation
July 19, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry|Translation from the Japanese||Rena Fukazawa|”Box”||(translated by Owen Bullock as|”How does Maman sit in the boat?”)
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingLITERARY ARTSBook Review
July 15, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Historical Fiction/Flash Fiction||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”A Review of|’Polish Poets in Beds with Girls and other true stories’|by Erik Harper Klass”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 30, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Evalyn Lee|”YOU THE FALLEN ANGELS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Evalyn Lee|”I Park the Car in the Wrong Lane”
Uncategorizedbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
June 27, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|’THE TWO TAILS’ or ‘THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHER’|by Augusto Monterroso”
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”
FEATUREDHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesPamphlet Series
June 25, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”The End of ‘The Black Victim’ Narrative?”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
June 11, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Erica Kletkin|”THE DUCK”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 11, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Robbie Nester|”Space Talk”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 11, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ali Rowland|”Everything Is Rushing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 11, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Robbins|”Riding the Subway After September 11″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 11, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellen Lager|”Rhubarb”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
June 8, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Alana Goldberg|”How My Day to Day Became My DNA”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesPamphlet Series
June 7, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Let’s Talk About Female Academics”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 6, 2023
Flash Fiction||Walter Weinschenk|”Noah”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Angie Minkin|”SOLAR SYSTEM”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Angie Minkin|”WHO WILL SAVE US?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Angie Minkin|”IMMERSION”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
June 2, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Allison Whittenberg|”The Sane Asylum”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
June 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage|One Act Play||Malia Wessel|”The Father”
Fine ArtistsSTUDIO ARTSDigital ArtFEATURED
June 1, 2023
O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series:|Digital Artists|2023 Portfolio Spotlights||Edward Supranowicz|Selected Images (with links)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”Letter from Summer in LA”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”Something to be Thankful For”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”Behind the Armoire at Tienda 17″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”What’s True”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
June 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Rustam Khalikov|”The Shepherd”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Rosalind Kaliden|”REPORT FROM BUNKER HILL”
Fine ArtistsSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingFEATURED
May 31, 2023
O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series:|Established Artists|2023 Portfolio Spotlights||Gery Kempczynski|Selected Images
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2023
Flash Fiction||Christine Vartoughian|”The Benefits of Being Misunderstood”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
May 24, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage|One-Act Play||Paul Bowman|”Street Scene”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
May 24, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”What Lies Submerged: Myth and Monster|in Natalie Young’s ‘All of This Was Once Under Water'”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 24, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ryan Griffith’s ‘Thrill of Fire’”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)
May 23, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Lyrical Essay/Memoir||Mea Cohen|”How not to come down”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
May 22, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jerome Gagnon|”Night Train”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
May 20, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jeffrey Gray|”The Aquarian Foundation”
Broadside SeriesAvailable TitlesHOT BUTTON PRESS
May 5, 2023
Hot Button Press|2023 Broadside Series|Flash Discourse: Creative Nonfiction||Aarron Sholar|”To Hate My Female Body”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Prologue”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
May 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Richard Stimac|”Epiphany”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
May 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Steve Duprey|”Women of a Certain Age”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
April 30, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||William Ivor Fowkes|”The Seeker”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 28, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ace Boggess|“Why Are You Feeling Blah?”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS
April 28, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Anu Kumar|”The Sound of Planes”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 19, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jeffrey Gray|”Homiletic Ode to the Everly Brothers”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 19, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jeffrey Gray|”Seattle Induction Center, 1967″
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 18, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Essay||Paul Perilli|”THE MAYAN BALL GAME”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 18, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alden Cullinane|”The Porcelain God Is Female”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
April 17, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Yuko Otomo|”Drops of Water”||Irish trans. by Gabriel Rosenstock|Scots trans. by John McDonald
Amazon TitlesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESSNon-fictionLITERARY ARTSInterview
April 13, 2023
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||Erik Harper Klass|Author of “Polish Poets in Beds with Girls”||Interview|”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Erik Harper Klass”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
April 10, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|A Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Once There Was a Way”
PoetryNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
April 9, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Epilogue”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 9, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Once There Was a Way”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 6, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jill Ruscoll|”Lightness in Winter”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
April 4, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Diversophiles Everywhere!”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jacqueline Hughes Simon|”In the Walking”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Brendan Rowland|”Inverness”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Shawna Ervin|”L”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Shawna Ervin|”P”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
March 28, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|Experimental Discourse: Fiction||Blossom Hibbert|”Six Coffees with a Madman”
PoetryNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 28, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Kimberly Nunes|”In Rome”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
March 26, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|A Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Edison Jennings|”Local Habitations”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”WHY WE DON’T OPEN THE CLOSET”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”SLEEPY HOLLOW”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”LISTENING TO THE CD YOU MADE FOR ME, ONE CHRISTMAS TEN YEARS AGO”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”MY VIRTUAL SON”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WAR OF REBELLION”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 23, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Surrender”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 23, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lee Varon|”Eclipse”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
March 23, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ben Jacques|”Jackhammer Poems”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 21, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||James Roth|”Jacob: a Greendale Garden Boy”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
March 20, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Heikki Huotari|”How the Mayfly Got Its Megaphone”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
March 13, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Democrats be Trippin'”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
March 12, 2023
Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Adjei Agyei-Baah|”Tales of the Kite”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
March 9, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series||Spencer Silverthorne|”Occasions for Listening”|(Excerpts from WIP)
Exhibition SpotlightPublic Service AnnouncementsArtsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDSTUDIO ARTSOtherNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
March 2, 2023
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||Team NeetiBisht®|”The GROUP ART EXHIBITION”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental (XP)
February 27, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Nonfiction (XP)|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Ron Theel|”the long goodbye”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
February 25, 2023
Americana|Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Flash Fiction||Jim Meirose|”An Appreciation for Statuary”
Non-fictionFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSCNF/Memoir
February 24, 2023
Americana|Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kerstin Schulz|”Collections”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsUpdatesPublic Service Announcements
February 24, 2023
Special Announcements|Volunteer Opportunity at O:JA&L||Wanted:|Editorial Assistants: Readers-in-Performance|(Voice Artists)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 23, 2023
Flash Fiction||Amita Basu|”Walking”
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”
LITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsHOT BUTTON PRESSAvailable TitlesBroadside SeriesPamphlet SeriesChapbook Series
February 21, 2023
Special Announcements|HOT BUTTON PRESS (Contemporary Controversies)|An imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for Submissions|Articles, editorials, position papers, or creative work|concerning contemporary controversies
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSExperimental (XP/Hybrid)
February 17, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Experimental (XP)/Hybrid||Spencer Silverthorne|”The Speaker is Listening to ‘You Make Me Like Charity’|by The Knife On The Occasion of A Sudden Departure|from a Benefit in the Park”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
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'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jane Schapiro|”Black Hole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Ansara|”SPRING MORNING, 2021″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 13, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Whitehouse|”LADY BIRD”
Non-fictionFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterview
February 9, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Ray Gonzalez|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer & artist Ray Gonzalez”
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2023
Flash Fiction||Mitzi Dorton|”Shelter”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Ellen Brown|”Better Times”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2023
Americana|Poetry: all forms & styles||Michael Brosnan|”Sixth Floor, Alley Window”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 1, 2023
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Brosnan|”The Blur”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 1, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Cathy Allman|”OUR THIRD ACT—THE SUNSHINE STATE”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
January 30, 2023
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & Styles|Prose Poetry||Ray Gonzalez|”The Book of Whispers”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
January 21, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Whitehouse|”Being Ruth Asawa”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 20, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Suzanne O’Connell|”When I Left”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
January 15, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”1940 Census”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 8, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Andreea Finichiu|”Playing Fetch”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
January 8, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku & Senryu||Hassane Zemmouri|”School Songs”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
January 7, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Richard Plant’s|’Flatland'”
Available titlesBroadside SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
January 6, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Broadside Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 6, 2023
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
January 4, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of Contemporary Aesthetics||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Perseus with the Head of Medusa”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
January 4, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”What Handsome Harry Carried in His Wallet|for 70 Years”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
January 4, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”Inheritance”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 4, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Rochelle Jewel Shapiro|”READING CHARLES BUKOWSKI”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
January 2, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor tano rubio|”Finishing Incomplete:|A Review of Yasmin Mariam Kloth’s|Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
January 1, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay|Editorials on Issues of Contemporary Aesthetics||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Perseus with the Head of Medusa”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
December 22, 2022
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Mark Budman|”Flash Fiction: Read Deeper. Have More Fun.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”Self-portrait on Independence Boulevard”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”If I could go back in time”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Crockett Hill|”Abecedarian for Lost Time”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 19, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||James Roderick Burns|”Nightcap”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 18, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Karen Schauber|”Flâneur”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSEssay, Personal
December 18, 2022
Americana|Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Logan Silva|”A Feast of Spread”
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||James Notarianni|”Alchemy of the Mind”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 8, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”As We Walk West in Late Afternoon: Ira Speaks”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 8, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|Villanelle||Kimberly Coburn|”Villanelle for Townes”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 6, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”In the city with tired bones”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 5, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”The Statue of Liberty goes home to Brooklyn”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 5, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”Minestrone Soup”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 5, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Noel|”Talking with Ravens”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jennifer Clark|”A Balloon Called Young America”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Tim Hunt|”The Fiddler”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesAmazon Titles
December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||James Weitz||”The Pandemic Letters:|Interviews with travelers trapped abroad|during COVID”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Tim Hunt|”Saying Grace”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 2, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jennifer Clark|”Almost a lullaby on this cold night”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 2, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Myles|”On Chrystie Street”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 2, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Myles|”Girl in a Red Dress with Cat and Dog”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
November 30, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Adjei Agyei-Baah & Jerome Berglund|”High Fashion”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
November 23, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Ryland Shengzhi Li|”Close by”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
November 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”Moons”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
November 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”The Alan Gogoll Trio”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesAmazon Titles
November 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||Pamelyn Casto||Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker|A Portable Workshop
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mark Belair|”MAY SNOWFALL”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 30, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bethany Reid|”Lessons in Beekeeping”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & Styles||Priscilla Long|”What Happened This Morning”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Priscilla Long|”Strip Mine”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
October 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Priscilla Long|”Chester River Reverie”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 24, 2022
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Cutter Streeby|”A Review of ‘Ouafa and Thawra:|About a Lover from Tunisia’ by Arturo Desimone”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
October 17, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Mark Budman|Interview||Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Mark Budman
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”
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October 6, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Prose Discourse: Short Story to 10000 words||Mike Murray|”Salton Sea”
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September 25, 2022
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PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 24, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Thomas Mitchell|”Sparrows”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 24, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Thomas Mitchell|”County Fair”
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September 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms|Irish/English Haibun||Gabriel Rosenstock|”The Selborne Haibun”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 21, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nathan Nicolau|”Lunch with Frank O’Hara at the Mexican Cantina: Selected and Abridged”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
September 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Toshihisa Nikaido|”Meibunka (Life Culture)”
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September 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana||Jessica Purdy|”Murder in the House:|The ‘Nutshells’ of Frances Glessner Lee”
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingPrintmaking and LithographyLITERARY ARTS
September 15, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||Nicolò Monti & Alessandro Saccotelli|Graphic Adaptation|Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”
Non-fictionFeatured ProjectPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary Tourism
September 12, 2022
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2022 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|
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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'”
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September 9, 2022
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September 2, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynne Potts|”Family Photo of America”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynne Potts|”IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN ASLEEP”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynne Potts|”FAMILY PHOTO OF AMERICA”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynne Potts|”WHAT HOLDS TOGETHER”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
August 29, 2022
Americana|Mixed Forms: Haibun||David Walsh|”Gettysburg”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”The Etymology of Sacrifice”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”Yesterday’s Gutted Girl”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 30, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Greg Sendi|”A Compass for Ariadne”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSInterview
July 28, 2022
Featured Writer Wayne Scheer|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with flash fiction writer Wayne Scheer”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook SeriesAvailable titles
July 28, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Scheer|”Zen and the Art of House Painting”|New and Selected Work
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 28, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|| Steve Myers|”Dove, South Mountain”
PoetryNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Elena Botts|”Thanks for Calling”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”Enkidu”
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July 21, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Portfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 20, 2022
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Featured Writer: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Sweet Cherry”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Portfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Springtime in Mississippi”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
July 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Irish/English Haiku||Gabriel Rosenstock|”A Sweater for the Tayfel”|A Celebration of the Art of Issachar Ber Ryback
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July 17, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms|Haibun||Taofeek Ayeyemi|”Dust and Rust”|with a foreword by Rich Youmans
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July 16, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Bond|”The Curve of the Open Page”
Mixed FormsLITERARY ARTSPrintmaking and LithographyPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSSequential Art Stories/Graphic novels
July 14, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||”The King of Capitalism”|Story and Art by Donald L. Patten
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Bond|”The Curve of the Open Page”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Joshua St. Claire|”les rois fainéants”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms 7 styles|Haiku||Joshua St. Claire|”a gnomon”
UncategorizedFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
June 13, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”When A Hawk Flushes An Undulating Flock Of Dunlins”
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June 13, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”In Grandma Hale’s Painting, Which She Gave Me”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Aaron Guile|”Bit by Bit”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Aaron Guile|”A Response to Classical Theology”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
June 9, 2022
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Seductive and Subversive Prose Poetry”
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”
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June 6, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Emerging Writers|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jacob Laba|”Bareness”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
June 4, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynn Hoggard|”RED-BILLED, BLACK-BELLIED, WHITE-WINGED TEXAS WHISTLING DUCKS”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
June 4, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Lynn Hoggard|”PRAYER”
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June 3, 2022
O:JA&L’s FREE PRESSES||The Chapbook Series
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June 3, 2022
O:JA&L’s FREE PRESSES||The Pamphlet Series
Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
June 1, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Brian Clements|An Essay on Craft||”Some Generic Notes on Short Prose”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 26, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Edward Supranowicz|”Never Again”
ArtsFEATUREDSpecial AnnouncementsBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
May 25, 2022
O:JA&L’s FREE PRESSES||The Broadside Series
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May 20, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Southern Fiction”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Birdie”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Life of the Hermit”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Radius”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Prolegomenon to Any Future Poem”
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May 12, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 10, 2022
Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Flash Fiction||Jim Meirose|”The Keys”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
May 9, 2022
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Anna Lee Hafer|”Switch”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
May 9, 2022
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Margaret Munz-Losch|”At the American Visionary Art Museum: White Rabbit”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryInterviewNon-fiction
May 3, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Poet Brian Clements|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with poet Brian Clements”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ 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
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Barbara Daniels|”Street Shrine”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 28, 2022
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||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”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
March 24, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Adjei Agyei-Baah|”Scaring Crow”|With a Foreword by Hiroaki Sato
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”
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March 7, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”Poems for Families”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR, DOMESTICATED”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”WESTERN PSYCHONAUTS of the POSTPARTUM PERIOD”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”COMING HOME”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
March 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Jianqing Zheng|”Delta Notes”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)
February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
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February 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”Hanno”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”La Primavera According to Savonarola”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”REVISED LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO HOLY MEN”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”QUARANTINE DREAMS”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
February 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poem as CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ 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”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
February 8, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Robinson|”Comedy Hour”
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
February 4, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mark Blickley|”Hunger Pains”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)
February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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: Nonfiction|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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||E.R. Lutken|”Conservation of Momentum”
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January 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brad Rose|”Funny You Should Ask”
ArtsLITERARY ARTSSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsBUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook Series
January 22, 2022
Special Announcements|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)|Buttonhook Press||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-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF (Creative Nonfiction)||Hermione Laake|”Palindrome”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ernie Brill|”Tommy”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)FEATUREDLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||DA Hogan|”LOVE TOO SOON”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 11, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”AUDEN’S BOOKCASE”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”DANTE’S TOMBS”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ 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'”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||RC deWinter|”ghosted”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Patricia Cannon|”Breaking That Empty Plate in the Sky”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Rendezvous Monochrome”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Burrator Reservoir”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”A Bout de Souffle”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Grief Ode”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Horizon”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
December 6, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Allisa Cherry|”Mogollon Rim”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Exegesis”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach”There Must Be”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Here I Take”
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
November 26, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jeff Streeby|”WILE: Sketches from Nature”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ 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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Eritrean Neighbourhood in South Tel Aviv”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
November 6, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Poem scrawled on a maize-sheaf for her (last offering)”
OtherLITERARY ARTSFictionTHEATER ARTSOral Interpretation/Spoken WordPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)OtherMixed FormsProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2021
Flash Discourse: Historical Fiction||Aurelien Hannoyer|”Artemisia”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic 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'”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
October 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Gordon Taylor|”When You Attached”
STUDIO ARTSDigital Art
September 29, 2021
Studio Arts: Digital Imagery|Artist Portfolio||Edward Michael Supranowicz
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)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP Prose
September 24, 2021
Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Deep Fry”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
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”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
September 17, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Mark Blickley|”Troupe 621″ (A play in one act)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Marte Carlock|”The Deserter”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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″
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
August 29, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral”/”CBET B XPAME”
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”
TranslationBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
August 25, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral:|Russian/English Poems”
TravelLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismInterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 21, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Austin Horn|”Ahead of Time”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsCall for Submissions
August 10, 2021
Special Announcements|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for Submissions|Theater Arts: Drama as Plays for Page or Stage
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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]”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
July 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ruhi Jiwani|”Buffalo”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
July 20, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Richard John Miller|”The Trenton Six”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
July 19, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Donald Dewey|”Sweeps”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
July 18, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Natascha Graham|”French Beans & Inner Peace”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
July 18, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog at Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
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”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Sympathy for the Scarecrow”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Spin The Bottle: 1958″
PoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”At O’Hare Airport: Her Foxgloves”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
July 15, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Cresser|”Here Comes Herodotus, Again!”
ArtsTHEATER ARTSScreen writingSpecial AnnouncementsCall for Submissions
July 14, 2021
Special Announcements|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for Submissions|Theater Arts: Screen Writing||Feature Film Screenplay|Concept Video|Series Pilot Script
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|South Lake, Tahoe
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|”Clams”
ArtsTHEATER ARTSDrama for stage or pageScreen writingSet DesignOtherSpecial AnnouncementsPublic Service Announcements
July 2, 2021
Special Announcements|Volunteer Opportunity at O:JA&L||Wanted: Contributing Editor for Theater Arts
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsAwards Announcement
July 1, 2021
The First Annual O:JA&L Prize for Flash Discourse||Selected and with an introduction by|Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
June 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Democracy Has Lifted Its Voice”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
June 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kyle Ingrid Johnson|”It’s Time to Go”
FictionFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash 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”
Pamphlet SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
June 2, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Poetry & Prose||Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|”2YC Review: THE WORKS”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Luna Dragon Mac-Williams|”Fossils”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
May 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”The Day We Stopped Laughing”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
May 23, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”Swedish Knight”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
May 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Promises”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ 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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
May 13, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Winter’s Orphan”
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 or article review or close readingLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Book Review
May 10, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Flash Discourse: CNF||Guest Editor 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): Fiction|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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
May 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction|A Writer’s Portfolio||Don Robishaw|”Just Willie Please: Eight Flash Fiction Tales”
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”
Broadside SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
April 26, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”X-Ray/Chiaroscuro” (A collaboration)
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFine Art PhotographySTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”A Life in a Day”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
April 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”Solace”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”Just Say No”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”The Boy Who Went to Divinity School”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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 Narrative||”The Mark”|Story and Art by Siolo Thompson|Lettering by Michael Stock
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSExperimental Discourse
March 17, 2021
Experimental Discourse|Nonfiction|Interview||”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with Freya Howarth concerning|the new Australian XP anthology Dizzy Limits”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
March 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Jerome Berglund|”Exalt”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Allison Whittenberg|”Life as a Cliché”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
March 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Tyler Jacobs|”ELEGY”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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)
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY 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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”Cocked”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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″
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kai Zweibel|”Is That Enough?”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”|Brett Thompson|”An Elegy for Richard Nixon”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brett Thompson|”For This”|
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
February 8, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry||2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”||Laura Sweeney|”At the Fountain”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse 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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
January 30, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Atar Hadari|”Last of the Gallants, Elegies”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kamil Czyz|”Patria Nostra, my family”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”lenses”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”textures”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”obol”
Editor's AdviceSpecial AnnouncementsArtsLITERARY ARTSTHEATER ARTSSTUDIO ARTSPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Essay, CraftNon-fiction
January 25, 2021
An O:JA&L Guide for Submitters| Editor’s Advice||Contributing Editor Hermione Laake||”How to Prepare a Professional|Biographical Statement”
Editor's AdviceSpecial AnnouncementsNon-fictionLITERARY ARTSTHEATER ARTSSTUDIO ARTSPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Essay, Craft
January 25, 2021
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics|Editor’s Advice||Contributing Editor Hermione Laake||”How to Submit via Submittable”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
January 24, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Ohlmann|”Cycling Around Lake Davis”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Victor Pambuccian|”Seeing in Hiding”
UncategorizedFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|Victor Pambuccian|”Visibly Missing”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics|Editor’s Advice||Contributing Editor Hermione Laake||”How to Record Voice”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
January 14, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles|Sloan Asakura|”How to Love a Headstone”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook SeriesAvailable titles
January 12, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series||”O:JA&L Pushcart Prize Nominees: 2019″
Chapbook SeriesAvailable titlesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
January 10, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series||”O:JA&L Pushcart Prize Nominees: 2018″
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
January 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Carl Boon|”The Troubles”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Gene Twaronite|”Be Safe”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/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”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/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.”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 30, 2020
Special Feature||O:JA&L Executive Editor Cutter Streeby||”An Interview with the Poet: Victoria Chang”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”THE BARBER”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”Citarella”
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”
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″
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brad Rose|”Lucky, I Guess”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
December 11, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Evegenia Jen Baraonova|”Ox-eye Daisies”|(Translated by Sergey Gerasimov)
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
December 11, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|Experimental Discourse:CNF||Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|”Ray-the-Roo”
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Paul Glenn|”Jack Kerouac”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”A Second Finding”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”Elegy for Mary Oliver”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of ‘Outside from the Inside’|Poetry by Anne Whitehouse”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
December 5, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
December 4, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|”POETRY: Three Essays on Craft|by O:JA&L Featured Writers|Claudia Serea|Kendra Tanacea|Natalie Young”
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…”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation from the Russian|Evgenia Jen Baranova|”Winter”|(trans. Sergey Gerasimov)
TranslationPoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
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-fictionbook or article review or close readingLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ 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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
November 22, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice||Rachel Custer|”Safe Spaces: A Pretty Lie”
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Dan A. Cardoza|”Saying Goodbye Shouldn’t Hurt so Much”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Sarah J. Hozumi|”The Burning Bones”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 17, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Will Woldenburg|”Transfiguration”
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”
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/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
November 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Anna Idelevich|”Early in the morning”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
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/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftNon-fiction
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|An Essay on Craft|”James Wright: The Alchemy of a Poet”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
November 11, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Atar Hadari|”Last of the Gallants”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 11, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with poet Kendra Tanacea”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
November 10, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Kent Dixon|”Something Else About Mary”
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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
November 7, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice||Rachel Custer|”The Artistic Power of Silence:|On Letting Art Speak for Itself”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
November 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Hyland|”RARELY”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
October 28, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of poetic Practice||Rachel Custer|”Songs on the Way to God: A Theory of Poetics”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
October 25, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 O:JA&L Chapbook Series||Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|”Flash Fiction: A Primer”
Non-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 23, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Colin Wilson”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
October 18, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Atar Hadari|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Winter Weather”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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)”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
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.”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
October 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Emily Jacko|”Her Garden”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
September 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Judy DeCroce|”Bearing Witness”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
September 23, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Shalini Pattabiraman|”The Making of a Woman”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
September 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|’Love Suicides'”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
September 21, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Jeff Streeby|”Revelation: Teplovo Estate”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
September 21, 2020
Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jeff Streeby|”Horse: 4 Frames”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 19, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Ava Galbraith|”Over the Edge”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 16, 2020
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Mike Murray|”Salton Sea”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||E.D. Watson|”Expecting”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
September 2, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY 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’”
TravelPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismEssay, PersonalNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
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”
TravelPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismEssay, PersonalNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
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)
TravelPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismEssay, PersonalNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
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”
UncategorizedPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismEssay, PersonalNon-fictionTravel
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”
TravelPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
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”
TravelPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismInterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
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”
TravelPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSTravel Writing/Literary TourismNon-fictionEvents/Projects/Collaborations
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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY 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)
PoetryLITERARY ARTSLyric
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-fictionbook or article review or close readingLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ 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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY 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)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
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||Guest Editor Janis Butler Holm||”An Interview with Multigenre Author Lucy Wang”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash 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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 22, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|James Miller|”Red Letter”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
July 18, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||Diane Finlayson|”No Cover”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
July 17, 2020
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Richard John Miller|”Amati”
PERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word
July 14, 2020
Performance Arts|Poetry-in-Performance|Mercury-Marvin Sunderland|”Split in Janus’ Image”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
July 9, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||Jacqueline Jules|”Shaggy New Species”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
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”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 3, 2020
Mixed forms: Haibun||Jennifer Hambrick|”Virgin”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 3, 2020
Mixed forms: Haibun||Jennifer Hambrick|”Footloose”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 2, 2020
Mixed forms: Haibun||Alexis Rotella|”Small Town on a Hot Day”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 2, 2020
Mixed forms: Haibun||Alexis Rotella|”Control Freak”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
June 29, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Bai Xiao-Yi’s|‘Explosion in the Parlor’”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 18, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Elizabeth Moura|”Reunion”
FictionLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
June 17, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: SuperFlash||2020 theme: “Nocturne”|Anne Gresham|”Nocturne in the Key of 1997”
Academic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDNon-fictionFeatured Project
June 14, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROSE POETRY ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS, AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 14, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Bill Capossere|”The Waiter Museum”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 14, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Bill Capossere|”The Museum of Tears”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 14, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Bill Capossere|”The Map Museum”
FictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSShort Story (to 10,000 words)
June 13, 2020
Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Auxx-Coo the Computational Man – ALIVE!!!”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
June 13, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Dino Buzzati’s ‘The Falling Girl'”
PoetryNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 8, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ed Meek|”The Price of Heat”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”the stars” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”whispered prayers” (Haiku)
PoetryLITERARY ARTSLyric
June 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”a sparrow” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”river surface” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”foggy morning” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”old graveyard” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”abandoned farm” (Haiku)
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
June 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Dramatic Monologue in Blank Verse|2020 theme: “Poor Excuses”|Richard Widerkehr|”The Missing War: This Armed Ghost Speaks to His Son”
PoetryNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|David M. Alper|”Preserved Words”
PoetryNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Sebastian Santiago|”At Buckhorn Lake”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 3, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Nick Olson|”Clouds of Static”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 3, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Carolina Ixta Navarro-Gutiérrez|”Sideshow!”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
June 3, 2020
Featured Series|Mixed forms: Haibun|2020 theme: “The Sacredness of Common Things”||B.A. France|”Foxtrot”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
June 2, 2020
Flash Discourse|Featured Series: MicroFlash|2020 theme: “Aubade”|Gerard Sarnat|”Aubade”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”evening sky” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”thunderstorm over” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”graveyard visit” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Keckler|”Spring Crocus” (Haiku)
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
May 28, 2020
Featured Series|Mixed forms: Tanka Prose|2020 theme: “The Sacredness of Common Things”||Anna Cates|”2020”
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 27, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Elizabeth Enochs|”Water Baptism”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 27, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Don Niederfrank|”Rug”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
May 24, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lon Otto’s Flash Fiction|’Love Poems'”
Mixed FormsOtherLITERARY ARTS
May 19, 2020
Mixed Forms: Tanka Prose||Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri|”Wednesday.April.”
FEATUREDOtherOral Interpretation/Spoken WordMusicPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)InterviewNon-fictionPerformance Artists
May 19, 2020
Featured Performance Artist Funke Awodiya|Interview|”Contributing Editor Adekunle Adewunmi|talks with Nigerian performance poet Funke Awodiya”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|D.S. Maolalai|”Some things that happen”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Michael Lauchlan|”Winter Groceries”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Michael Lauchlan|”Knapsack”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Michael Lauchlan|”Dinner”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Michael Lauchlan|”The Rain Insinuates Itself”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Vikram Masson|”Meera”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Vikram Masson|”Jacob the Christian”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 9, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Stephen Barile|”Ghosts of Tulare Lake”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 9, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Stephen Barile|”The Roundhouse”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 9, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Stephen Barile|”Ancient Campfires”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Kristallnacht, 1938: Night of Shattered Glass”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”When We Send My Sister Birkenstocks,|She Gives Them Away”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Sun Shower”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Peter “Pedro” Brown Hoffmeister|”Fairy Tales for Terrified Children”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
April 22, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Mark J. Mitchell|”Small Pi Poem”
Fine ArtistsClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSPortfolio SpotlightOtherEssay, CraftNon-fiction
April 22, 2020
Contributing Editor Toti O’Brien|Art & Artists of Los Angeles|”Sheer Matter: The Art of Marina Moevs”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 21, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Coleman Bomar|”Six Feet”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
April 21, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|M. Shayne Bell|”midnight on the front steps . . .” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
April 21, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|M. Shayne Bell|”Georgia O’Keeffe museum…” (Haiku)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 21, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Bill Wilkinson|”Lost in the Undertow”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
April 17, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”||David Howard|”The Last Word”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
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”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Samn Stockwell|”Sound in February”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Samn Stockwell|”Late Pastoral”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Samn Stockwell|”Comparative Pastoral”
PoetryFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public servant or Cultural Icon”|Dmitry Blizniuk|”The Epoch of Miracles”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
April 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|John Dorroh|”Vector Analysis”
FictionLITERARY ARTSOtherMixed FormsFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 15, 2020
Mixed Forms: Prosimetrum||Charles Tarlton|”Simpler Than Truth”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 14, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Hermione Wilds|”Consumption”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 14, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Hermione Wilds|”The Narrative”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 13, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Stephanie Parent|”Arachnida”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 13, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Selena Wade|”Don’t Fuck with Mother Nature”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 13, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Meghan Faszholz|”How to Knit”
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”
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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/ExplicationWritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Octavio Paz’s|’The Blue Bouquet’”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Raymond Carver’s|’Popular Mechanics'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 4, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Erin Wilson|”Rarity Keeps the Raven at Bay”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
March 29, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||Richard Burt|”2315 hours x 0750 hours, Noche Despacio”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
March 29, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||Richard Burt|”2315 hours x 0750 hours”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
March 29, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||P.B. Johnson|”Bumps in the Night, Chicago 1998-2001″
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
March 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Efe Ogufere|”Train Ride to Kaltungo” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Laurinda Lind|”Later Forms”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
March 28, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Micah Thorp|”The Fourth Horseman”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 20, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Kelli Allen|”A decapitated moon”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 20, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Katherine Fallon|”Dianna, Sunrise Ranch”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
March 20, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Anna Cates|”After Gloaming”
Call for SubmissionsBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSNon-fictionSpecial Announcements
March 19, 2020
Special Announcements|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||Open Calls for Submissions|Book Reviews
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSHaibunMixed FormsEssay, CraftNon-fiction
March 18, 2020
Featured Writer Parsh Tiwari|An Essay on Craft|”Haibun Uncaged”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 16, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Two December Mornings”
Non-fictionFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalCNF/Memoir
March 12, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||Allen Forrest|”A Different World” (Los Angeles Riots of 1992)
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 10, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jason Dean Arnold|”The danger of trying”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 10, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jason Dean Arnold|”Little Soul (after W. S. Merwin)”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 10, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jason Dean Arnold|”Evening Commute”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 10, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jason Dean Arnold|”A General Pattern of Missingness”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
February 28, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Doreski|”Drone Attack”
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|John Repp|”Bitter”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
February 25, 2020
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction|J. Ray Paradiso|”Follow-Up Question” (XP)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Laurel Miram|”At the Bus Stop, After”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Mark A. Murphy|”Boy Bitten by a Lizard”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Cullen|”vacant farm” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Cullen|”dust motes rising” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Cullen|”dusk on the solstice” (Haiku)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Diane D. Gillette|”Rotten Apple”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Diane D. Gillette|”Affair”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 25, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Douglas Favero|”Kokanee”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|Poetry|”Exhausted|by More Than Just Tears and Empty Ice Cube Trays,|the Human Addresses the Alien’s Water Experiments”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|Poetry|”Victim:”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|Poetry|”Jealousy and Greed Are Green|or|The Alien Tries to Explain his Flat Temper”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|Poetry|”Much of the Universe’s”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeFEATURED
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|Poetry|”The Alien Takes the Human’s Tears”
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|An Essay on Craft|”The Question of May Swenson”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
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
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
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'”
TranslationPoetryLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
February 21, 2020
Contributing Editor Jorge Sarabia Martinez|Featured Series of Translations|Bulgarian poetry to Spanish|”Peyo Yavorov|’Dos bellos ojos'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
February 20, 2020
Contributing Editor Jorge Sarabia Martinez|Featured Series of Translations:|Bulgarian poetry to Spanish|”Pencho Slaveikov|’sueño para la felicidad'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslation
February 20, 2020
Contributing Editor Jorge Sarabia Martínez|Featured Series of Translations:|Bulgarian poetry to Spanish|”Dimcho Debélianov|’Guardaré la primera carta'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Laura Potts|”Photographs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 14, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Whitehouse|”Pauline Pfeiffer’s Folly”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
February 13, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay/Memoir|Nicolas Ridley|”AT THE HOUSE OF ANTON PAVLOVICH:|Three studies in authenticity”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Satch Dobrey|”The Vanishing Ice Pack”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS2017-18Translation
February 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning/Translation||Kathleen Vail|”The Horses of Achilles by C. P. Cavafy:|A New Translation”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Phil Rice|”The Walk-Off Homer”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Christina Fulton|”Ghosts?”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 13, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Joseph Hutchison|”A Real Comedian”
Fine ArtistsSPA-felenkoFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
February 12, 2020
Featured Artist Gene Kreyd|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian-born painter Gene Kreyd”
STUDIO ARTSFine Art PhotographyPortfolio Spotlight
February 12, 2020
Artist Portfolio Spotlight: Marie Dashkova|Fine Art Photography|”Sensations and Moods”
STUDIO ARTSFine Art PhotographyPortfolio Spotlight
February 12, 2020
Artist’s Portfolio|Spotlight: Matheus Barreto|Fine Art Photography|”The Bozorio Project”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page2019 archive
February 11, 2020
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Shamar English|”Amy” (A play in one act)
Non-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 7, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Literary Tourism: Cambodia||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”The Death and Life of Dith Pran”
2019 archiveFEATUREDOtherOral Interpretation/Spoken WordMusicPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)InterviewNon-fictionPerformance Artists
February 7, 2020
Featured Performance Artist Kwiksie Ifediora|Interview||”Contributing Editor Nurein Ibrahim|talks with musician and poet Kwiksie Ifediora”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryInterviewNon-fiction
February 6, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with poet Kate Hanson Foster”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
February 6, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Evan Guilford-Blake|”Letting Go”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
February 6, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Evan Guilford-Blake|”Like You Were the Blues”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
February 5, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|William Ellis|”Lost”
Editor's AdviceSpecial AnnouncementsArtsLITERARY ARTSHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftNon-fiction
February 5, 2020
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics|Editor’s Advice|||Associate Editor Jeff Streeby||”How to Publish a Poem: A Guide for New Submitters”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryInterviewNon-fiction
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with poet Devon Balwit”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|An Essay on Craft|”What’s It For?”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|An Essay on Craft|”Crow Funerals and the Loss of Meaning”
WritersPoetryLyricLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDNarrative poetry
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Poetry|”Penitent”
WritersPoetryLyricLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDNarrative poetry
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Poetry|”Foolish (II)”
WritersPoetryLyricLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDNarrative poetry
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Poetry|”Foolish (1)”
WritersPoetryLyricLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDNarrative poetry
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Poetry|”Morning Devotional”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Poetry|”If You Don’t Like What You See, Turn”
WritersNarrative poetryFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSLyricPoetry
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Poetry|”Both”
Featured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSMusicPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)InterviewNon-fictionEvents/Projects/CollaborationsPerformance Artists
January 31, 2020
Featured Fine Artist Ilya Beshevlí|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with composer Ilya Beshevlí”
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”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Here I Am”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Yes”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2020
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Salt of the Earth”
Non-fictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryEssay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2020
Experimental Discourse: Creative Nonfiction|WJP Newnham|”Downtime” (CNF)
Non-fictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseNarrative poetryLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetryEssay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2020
Experimental Discourse: Creative Nonfiction|WJP Newham|”Ray-The-Roo” (CNF)
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”
Writersbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationNarrative poetryFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|An Essay on Craft|”So Sweet and So Cold:|Plums and Poems from Romania to New Jersey”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”The language of the crows”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”Drinking moonshine in the middle of nowhere”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”How I earned 10 lei in second grade”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”At the edge of the world”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”There are two kinds of people in the world:|the ones who leave and the ones who stay”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”Get it while it lasts”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”The greatest musical of all time”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Poetry|”The moon, my brother, and I”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Scorched”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryInterviewNon-fiction
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Claudia Serea”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”The Poet Navigates by Stars”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Reading Poetry at a Café”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”The Perfumer”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Losing the River to a Lake”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Bite-sized Bullets”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Pareidolia”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
January 24, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Kim Goldberg|”Atlantis”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured Project
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”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
January 23, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Fragments”
WritersMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
January 23, 2020
Featured Writer Paresh Tiwari|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Rag Dolls”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured Project
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|David Joez Villaverde|”Issei Sagawa as Ouroboros”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Stella Pierides|”Seriously”
Mixed FormsFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSHaibun
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Stella Pierides|”Solace (a triptych)”
Mixed FormsSpa-HaibunFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSHaibun
January 23, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Autumn Noelle Hall|”Shadow Puppetry”
Mixed FormsSpa-HaibunFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSHaibun
January 23, 2020
Mixed Forms: 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”
Spa-HaibunNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSHaibunMixed FormsFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
January 21, 2020
Featured Series: Mixed Forms|Haibun||Contributing Editor Christine Taylor|”An Introduction to Haibun”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSpa-Haibun
January 21, 2020
Featured Series: Haibun|Robin Anna Smith|”calving”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
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”
Fine ArtistsSPA-alijendroFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
January 20, 2020
Featured Artist Alejandro Rosemberg|Interview|”Contributing Editor Adekunle Adewunmi|talks with painter Alejandro Rosemberg”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
January 20, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|An Essay on Craft|”Songs on the Way to God: A Theory of Poetics”
PoetryFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
January 20, 2020
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Lisa Trudeau|”Emelia”
PoetryFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
January 20, 2020
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Lisa Trudeau|”Dare Behind the Drapery”
PoetryFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
January 19, 2020
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Lisa Trudeau|”A Dream Before the Hunt”
STUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingPortfolio Spotlight
January 18, 2020
Artist Portfolio Spotlight: Alex Sobolta|Painting & drawing|Abstract Expressionism|With remarks by O:JA&L Art Director JL Jacobs
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSInterviewNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Interview|”Managing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with Canadian writer Lorna Crozier”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Flash Fiction|”Darkness, Its Origin”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Flash Fiction|”Shoe”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Flash Fiction|”Doorknobs”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Flash Fiction|”Nose: A Story”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Flash Fiction|”The Midnight News”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Flash Fiction|”Another Bear Story” (from Inventing the Hawk)
Non-fictionXP ProseExperimental DiscourseFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Luis Lopez-Maldonado|”Overqualified:”
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”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Poetry|”Reincarnate”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Poetry|”Grease”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Poetry|”Now I Lay Them Down to Sleep”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Poetry|”Glimpse”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Poetry|”The Sentinel”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Poetry|”911″
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Poetry|”Vessel”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Frida Kahlo Speaks to Ada Limón|about Bright Dead Things”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Everything moves in tune|with what the belly contains”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|Poetry|”For the Cessation of Cutting”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Renunciation”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|Poetry: All forms & styles|”The year of broth”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, PersonalEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|An Essay on Craft|”Thinking about Process: Planting or Planning”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer: Rachel Custer|Poetry|”Winter in Indiana & Mercy Dies”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer: Rachel Custer|Poetry|”Apotheosis”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer: Rachel Custer|Poetry|”Hellebore”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer: Rachel Custer|Poetry|”Mercy, Indiana”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer: Rachel Custer|Poetry|”Apocalypse”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”What We Keep Worth Dying For”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”spring”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”The Way to God Runs Through a Panic Attack”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”Self Portrait with God at the End of the World”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”Rapture/Anxiety”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”A Tale Told in Whispers”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”If I Tell You I Love A Woman”
WritersNarrative poetryFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSLyricPoetry
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Poetry|”All Over, Dead Birds Are Falling from the Sky”
WritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryInterviewNon-fiction
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|Interview|”Contributing Editor Adekunle Adewunmi|talks with poet and NEA Fellow Rachel Custer”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTS2019 archivePersonal essay to 1000 words
January 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay|Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice||Poetry Editor Rachel Custer|”The Poem as Holy Ground: Radical Silence in Action”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTS2019 archivePersonal essay to 1000 words
January 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay|Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice||Poetry Editor Rachel Custer|”A Call to Radical Silence: Deaf Republic and Twitter Noise”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTS2019 archivePersonal essay to 1000 words
January 13, 2020
Poetry Editor Rachel Custer|An Editorial on Issues of Poetic Practice|”The Artistic Power of Silence: On Letting Art Speak for Itself”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTS2019 archivePersonal essay to 1000 words
January 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay|Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice||Poetry Editor Rachel Custer|”Safe Spaces: A Pretty Lie”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWriters2017-18FEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Fielding Dawson’s ‘Vertical Fields'”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Heinrich Bőll’s ‘The Laugher’”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of John Updike’s ‘Pygmalion’”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured Project2019 archiveWritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Alice Walker’s ‘The Flowers'”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectWritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”Brief and (Likely) Necessary Fiction”|(Russian version)
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Milos Macourek’s ‘Jacob’s Chicken'”
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Molly Giles’s ‘The Writers’ Model’”
WritersFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”The Myth-ing Link (or Linking Up to Myth)”
WritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”Flash Fiction: From Flash Text To Flash Film”
Featured ProjectWriters2017-18FEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”FLASH FICTION: Brief And (Likely) Necessary Literature”
Spa-HaibunWritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”On the Road With Haibun”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 9, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Flash Fiction||”Flight to Babylon”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 9, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Poetry|Hymn to Yttrium
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 9, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Poetry|9 Fluorine
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 9, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with poet Terry Lucas”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 8, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Poetry|Returning To My Childhood Home Thirty Years After Foreclosure
WritersSPA-LucasFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
January 8, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Poetry|Mud Sparrows
Non-fictionSPA-LucasFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
January 8, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|An Essay on Craft|”The Future of American Poetry in the 21st Century: Trajectories of Content and Form”*
ArtsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSSPA-2019-Flash
January 8, 2020
Flash Discourse|2019 O:JA&L Flash Discourse Prize|Theme: Flash Fiction with a Source in Myth or Legend||Dorian Fox|Beneath the Falls
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
January 8, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Whitehouse|”In the Necropolis”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Erik Harper Klass”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Łódź, 2018″
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Aleksander Wat”
FEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftNon-fictionWriters
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|An Essay on Craft|”For the Love of Dirt”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Antoni Słonimski”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Kazimierz Wierzyński”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Julian Tuwim”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Bruno Jasieński”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Władysław Broniewski”
WritersSPA-ericFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 4, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Flash Fiction|”Café Ziemiańska, Warsaw, 1927″
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Cezarija Abartis|”Jack and the Beanstalk”
FictionNon-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Prose Discourse: CNF|Mark Olmstead|”ink”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ken Olson|”Dog Star” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ken Olson|”Sunrise” (Haiku)
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”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Paul Brown Hoffmeister|”When A Traumatic Brain Injury|Has Sex With An Arrogant Mind”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Simon Perchik|”Always, between the strings”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Simon Perchik|”You sharpen one hand with the other”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Simon Perchik|”You were just a kid, the newspaper”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Alice Pettway|”Translation”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Laura Potts|”Friday”
FictionPersonal essay to 1000 words2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Ken Poyner|”The Triumphant Stroll”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Marcia J. Pradzinski|”In Waves”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||J.O. Quantaman|”Hot Wheels” (Excerpt from WIP)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Anisa Rahim|”The Constant”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Anisa Rahim|”The Train”
Fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Matthew Reed|”Last Minute Hugo”
Fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Joni Renee|”Ladyboss”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash discourse: Fiction|C.R. Resetarits|”Ghost Lover”
Fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Yvonne Shao|”Tweetsie”
Fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||William R. Soldan|”Stairmaster”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Nancy Stohlman|”The Rapture”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Lauren Swift|”Histories”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||David Tromblay|”Out of This World”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.|”Test Pattern”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Saira Viola|”The Day Trippers”
Non-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Literary Tourism: Thailand||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Interview with Don Linder,|Author of ‘The Last Executioner'”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Margo Williams|“Falling In Love Like Little Girls Fall In Love”
Fine ArtistsSPA-azamFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Azam Atakhanov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian Artist Azam Atakhanov”|(Русская версия)
Fine ArtistsSPA-azamFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Azam Atakhanov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian artist Azam Atakhanov”
Fine ArtistsSPA-nikolaiFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Nikolay Vryasov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian painter Nikolay Vryasov”|(Русская версия)
Fine ArtistsSPA-nikolaiFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSInterviewNon-fiction
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Nikolay Vryasov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian painter Nikolay Vryasov”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 28, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Satisfice”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 28, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Sacrifice”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 28, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”How I Tend”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 28, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Impression”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 28, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”Her Sister Nikki Carved a Birdhouse of St. Francis”
LITERARY ARTSSpa-SheilaFictionPortfolio SpotlightHaibunMixed FormsProse poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 28, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Sheila E. Murphy|Mixed Forms: Haibun|”As if to Tempt the Diatonic Marvel from the Ivory”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
December 28, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Kirby Wright|”The Bicoastals”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 28, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Christie Williamson|”Traveler”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 28, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Christie Williamson|”Dear”
Non-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 28, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Literary Tourism: Burma||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Emma Larkin’s ‘Finding George Orwell in Burma’|and George Orwell’s ‘Burmese Days'”
WritersSPA-DixonFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalEssay, CraftNon-fiction
December 27, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|An Essay on Craft|”Flash Discourse: The Long of the Short of It”
WritersSPA-DixonFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/MemoirNon-fiction
December 27, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Discourse: CNF|”Geeker Pray to His God” (from WIP Jailhouse Rock)
WritersSPA-DixonFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/MemoirNon-fiction
December 26, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Discourse: CNF|”Three by Marty”
WritersSPA-DixonFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
December 26, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Fiction|”Something Else About Mary”
WritersSPA-DixonFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
December 26, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Fiction|”How Mary Got Pregnant, Interruptus”|(from WIP Not for Sunday School)
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Dixon
December 26, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Fiction|”It Wasn’t Me”|(from WIP Not for Sunday School)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jonathan Travelstead|”Alfred”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jonathan Travelstead|”Kitchen of Tomorrow”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Jonathan Travelstead|”Fast Food Cook Mansplains|the Large Hadron Collider”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Diana Tigerlily|”Sitti’s Kitchen on Arago Street”
WritersSPA-DixonFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
December 26, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Fiction|”Joseph and the Angel of the Lord”|(from WIP Not for Sunday School)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Xavier Stone|”Anansi’s Passage”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|John Stanizzi|”The March Acrostics: 3.7-3.11″ (from POND, WIP)
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Dixon
December 26, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Fiction|”Older Brother James”|(from WIP Not for Sunday School)
Poetry2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 26, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Marcus Slease|”Flora & Fauna”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Barbara Kreader Skalinder|”During This Temporary Recovery”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Fred Shaw|”Fat Lady”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Fred Shaw|”The World Feels Small|After Shaking Hands with Bruno Sammartino”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Fred Shaw|”Party Girls”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Western Genre||Matthew Senn|”Faire Belle”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Western Genre||Matthew Senn|”Head North, & Follow the River”
Fine Artists2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ali Salzman|”Winter Lessons”|A pairing with featured fine artist Nikolay Vryasov
Fine Artists2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ali Salzman|”Lady of the River: A Portrait”|A pairing with featured fine artist Nikolay Vryasov
Fine Artists2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ali Salzman|”Marriage”|A pairing with featured fine artist Nikolay Vryasov
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jean Ryan|”A Few Words for My Father”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ed Ruzicka|”All That, Then”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Prose Discourse:Fiction|Short Story||Tristan Drue Rogers|”Don’t Let Your Girlfriend Use Scissors”
Non-fiction2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Nicolas Ridley|”At Dr. Johnson’s House”
THEATER ARTS2019 archiveScreen writing
December 26, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film|Bradford Richardson|”Awkward Moments”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Emily Ransdell|”Night Sky”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Emily Ransdell|”Salt”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Emily Ransdell|”Fire Season”
Fine Artists2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Juanita Rey|”My First Ever Mountain Trip”|A pairing with featured fine artist Nikolay Vryasov
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Catherine Zickgraf|”Sworn”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Erin Wilson|”It Seeks Cracks and Enters”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Erin Wilson|”Centripetal Force and a Lull in the Stratosphere”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Robin White|”You Asked Me in a Bar”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Keith Welch|”I Return Home Late on November 14, 2017″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anna Weaver|”sister pine”
Poetry2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 26, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Pavle Radonic|”Murder at the Haig”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|David B. Prather|”Hey, Zeus”
Poetry2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 26, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Ken Poyner|”The Rain Mistress”
Poetry2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 26, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Ken Poyner|”Cash Crop”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Joyce Peseroff|”Thaw”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Robert Penick|”Corpse”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Chris Pellizzari|”FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||David S. Osgood|”Seven Minutes”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Randy Osborne|”The Violin”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & Styles|Kirby Olson|”The Widow”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Robert Okaji|”Reticent as Ever, I Follow the Map”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Victoria Nordlund|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Reflecting on 30×30″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Victoria Nordlund|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Infinity”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Victoria Nordlund|Poetry: All forms & styles|”We Didn’t Wear Seatbelts in 1977″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Victoria Nordlund|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Prophecy at Delphi”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Victoria Nordlund|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Cardinals”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 25, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anna Weaver|”pushing my luck”
Non-fiction2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalCNF/Memoir
December 25, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Samuel Moore-Sobel|”My New Face”
THEATER ARTS2019 archiveScreen writing
December 24, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Richard John Miller|”Ocean City”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Matt Miller|”Hannah in Effigy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Michael Meyerhofer|Poetry: All forms & styles|”The First Person Who Saw Gold”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Michael Meyerhofer|Poetry: All forms & styles|”In the Event of our Parents’ Murder”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Michael Meyerhofer|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Common Denominators”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Michael Meyerhofer|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Weekend Getaway”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 24, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anna Weaver|”a flatlander visits the beach”
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”
Poetry2017-18LITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 24, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|David Joez Villaverde|”今野真理, 吉沢正美, 難波絵梨香, 野本綾子”
PoetryXP ProseExperimental Discourse2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 24, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Jim Meirose| “In Mid Game”(XP)
FictionXP ProseExperimental Discourse2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 24, 2019
Experimental Discourse (XP): Fiction|Flash Fiction||Jim Meirose|”The Dad Anecdote”
Fictionbook or article review or close readingXP ProseExperimental Discourse2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 24, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Discourse|Review: Short Works||Jim Meirose|WJP Newnham’s Experimental Work|”El Greco Rides Again”
Fictionbook or article review or close readingXP ProseExperimental DiscourseLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Discourse|Review: Short Works||Jim Meirose|Review of W
December 24, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Discourse|Review: Short Works||Jim Meirose|Review of WP Newnham’s Experimental Work|”El Greco”
FictionXP ProseExperimental Discourse2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Discourse|Review: Short Works||Jim Meirose|Review of W
December 24, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Discourse|Review: Short Works||Jim Meirose|Review of WP Newnham’sExperimental Work|”Eddie-Spaghetti-OH!”
Non-fiction2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 24, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Kathleen McGuire|”Spiritus Mundi”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Todd McCarty|”Paris Scene”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Bruce McAllister|”Magic Kingdom”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|James Bruce May|”Home”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Irina Mashinski |”A Sketch”
Poetry2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyric
December 23, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Liz Marlow|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Wilhelm Kube’s Candy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Liz Marlow|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Yakova’s Parade”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Liz Marlow|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Hannah’s New Home”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Liz Marlow|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Mikhail’s Soup”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Liz Marlow|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Camp Synagogue, 1941″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Tony Magistrale|”Moving Out”
Events/Projects/Collaborations2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSFine Art PhotographySTUDIO ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetry
December 23, 2019
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”Heart, Lichen, Stone/Heart Holding On”
PoetryLyricNarrativeSTUDIO ARTSMixed MediaLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ann Lovett|”Sometimes They Come Undone”
PoetryLyricNarrativeSTUDIO ARTSMixed MediaLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Ann Lovett|”Fall to Frost”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Sheree La Puma|”Death by Cholera in 4 Movements”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Seth Jani|”Lullaby”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.R. James|”Seaside at Seaside”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||David James|”Three Small Men”| A Play in One Act
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Romana Iorga|”Portrait with Crows”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Romana Iorga|”Out of Eden”
2019 archiveFEATUREDOtherOral Interpretation/Spoken WordPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Prose poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryPerformance Artists
December 23, 2019
Featured Performance Artist: Cyprian|Interview|”Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|talks with poet and musician Cyprian”
THEATER ARTS2017-18Screen writing
December 23, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Gary Van Haas|”The Devil’s Banker”
Poetry2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 23, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Lizzy Drew|”Hypothetical Explanations for the Fermi Paradox”
THEATER ARTS2017-18Screen writing
December 23, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Gary Van Haas|”The Club”
2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSOral Interpretation/Spoken WordMusicPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Prose poetryNarrativeLyricPoetryPerformance Artists
December 23, 2019
Featured Performance Artist Hassana Maina|Interview|”Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|talks with poet and performance artist|Hassana Maina”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing2017-18
December 23, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Gary Van Haas|”The Chrysanthemum Throne”
THEATER ARTS2017-18Screen writing
December 23, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Harvey Havel|”The Chosen”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Lois Marie Harrod|”Leaves Fall like Lapsarians”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Tayve Neese|”Milking the Cow”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Elizabeth Kate Switaj|”Watermarked”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 words2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 23, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Sarah Hermes Griesbach|”Florian, Now Gray”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Agus Maulana Sunjaya|”Sunflower”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Agus Maulana Sunjaya|”A Winter Song”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Christopher Stolle|”More Lines Left To Write”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Travis Stephens|”16th of September”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Travis Stephens| “one less”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||William A. Sigler|”WAITING TO LAND”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amber Shockley|”Domestic Astronomy”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||MM Schreier|”Wednesday”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mike Scallan|”The Minotaur’s Memoir”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Terry Sanville|”Life Drawing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Rikki Santer|”Afterlife”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Stan Sanvel Rubin|”The Scales”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Stan Sanvel Rubin|”Amuse Bouche”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Tristan Drue Rogers|”The Elder Gentleman”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Louise Robertson|”Diminuendo al Niente”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 23, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essaay||Barbara Ridley|”A Tiny Little Historical Mystery”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Repps|”Sonny Rollins”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Alice Pettway|”A Return to Seasons”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Benjamin Goluboff|”Untitled Photograph by Emmy Andriesse”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 words2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 23, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Kathy Gibbons|”Mopping Up”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Elizabeth Gauffreau|”Esther on eBay”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Peter Fong|”The Judge’s Widow (Shanghai)”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Peter Fong|”The Mature Learner (Prague)”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Peter Fong|”A Pedestrian at the Straits (Tangier)”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 23, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Alexis Rhone Fancher|”Portrait of a Woman As An Aerial Photograph”
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||Morgen Eljot|”Lalli”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Danielle Beazer Dubrasky|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Swansea”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Wes Civilz|”The Glass Vase”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Danielle Beazer Dubrasky|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Father’s Day”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Danielle Beazer Dubrasky|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Night Patterns”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Danielle Beazer Dubrasky|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Moving West”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Luanne Castle|”Imagine This Portrait”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Danielle Beazer Dubrasky|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Hollow Bones”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Luanne Castle|”Waterland”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Luanne Castle|”Eurydice”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Rodney Nelson|”Up There”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jefferson Navicky|”Matt Parker Brain”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Elizabeth Moura|”my father walked into a bar”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Brandon Marlon|”Reading Between the Lines”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Elizabeth Moura|”D”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Luci Moody|”Love is Denial”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Luci Moody|”Showering in Regret”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Minor|”Recidivism”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Minor|”The Open Window on State St.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Devon Miller-Duggan|”In Celebration of My Retirement|from Arranging Church Flowers for 30 Years”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Devon Miller-Duggan|”A Flatlander Explains Her State”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Michael Meyerhofer|Poetry: All forms & styles|”On the Difficulty of Loving the Theatrically Insane”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Michael Meyerhofer|Poetry: All forms & styles|”Phantom Head Syndrome”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Jose Enrique Medina|”The Underwear Models’ Convention”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jose Enrique Medina|”Father’s Anger When He Finds Your Stash”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Tom Mead|”Cold Turkey”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Linda McMullen|”Elaine’s Idyll”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Amanda McLeod|”Blue Tiles”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lisa Masé|”Wild Water”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Diane G. Martin|”Execution Bridge”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Carolyn Martin|”Thoughts on a Translation”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Davis Jr.|”Biohazard Summer”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alice Lowe|”Quirky: Strange but Cool”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Mary Lide|”(carry)”
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”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSOtherEssay, Personal
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Mary Leoson, M.S., M.A.|”In Search of Eve:|A Lyrical Essay about the Maternal Line”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mare Leonard|”Meditation on Ageing”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jennifer Ledbury|”MARIA”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Cresser|Flash Discourse: Fiction|”At the End of the Millennium”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Susan L. Leary|”That’s the Wonder of It: On the Debate of ‘Does Poetry Matter?’”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Janine Langley-Wood|”Good Eating”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Cresser|Flash Discourse: Fiction|”Esther”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||John Langenfeld|”First Date”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Thomas Cook|”Other Voices”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pirate Lanford|”A Day Like a Dream”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jessie Kramer|”Black and White Girl”
Poetry2017-18LITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightOtherMixed FormsNarrativeLyric
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio/Artist’s Portfolio: J.I. Kleinberg|Mixed Forms: Poetry/Mixed Media Visual Art|”Light”
OtherMixed FormsLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio/Artist’s Portfolio: J.I. Kleinberg|Mixed Forms: Poetry/Mixed Media Visual Art|”this unsettled”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Cresser|Flash Discourse: Fiction|”Calling from the Ice Age”
PoetryLITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightOtherMixed FormsNarrativeLyric
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio/Artist’s Portfolio: J.I. Kleinberg|Mixed Forms: Poetry/Mixed Media Visual Art|”there’s no today”
Poetry2017-18LITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightMixed FormsNarrativeLyric
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio/Artist’s Portfolio: J.I. Kleinberg|Mixed Forms: Poetry/Mixed Media Visual Art|”Beginning”
Poetry2017-18LITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightOtherMixed FormsNarrativeLyric
December 22, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio/Artist’s Portfolio: J.I. Kleinberg|Mixed Forms: Poetry/Mixed Media Visual Art|”Feel the Stars”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kat Kiefer-Newman|”Studio Time”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anastasia Jill|”Ocular Manifestation”
Fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Norm Jenson|”Home Run”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Edison Jennings|”Pax Americana”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Edison Jennings|”Blush”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Isaac Eustice|”A Texas Blues Song”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Elisabeth Horan|”Trading Up/Trading In”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay/Memoir||Richard Holeton|”March Madness, 1974″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry:All forms & styles||Robert Hilles|”Set Matters”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Heather Heckman-McKenna|”Target”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Translation||Mark Budman|”The Fifty-Year Old Virgin” (English translation)
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||John Hearn|”Francis”
Mixed FormsHaigaLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Mixed Forms: Haiga||John Hawkhead|”Winter Rain”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||David M. Harris|”Dear Kathy”
Fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mason Hanrahan|”Forgetting”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Cordelia M. Hanneman|”No Moon: A Mother’s Lament”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||William Cass|”A Stillness and a Light”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Phillip Hall|”Flirting with Reality”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mitchell Grabois|”Ulysses”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Anita Goveas|”Monochrome”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Howie Good|”Crises of Late Capitalism”
Non-fiction2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalCNF/Memoir
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: CNF|Kit Carlson|”What Sadie Knew”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jennifer Giacalone|”Green, Growing Things”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steven Gehrke|”Sisyphus by Choice, 1985″
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Simon R. Gardener|”Kismet”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wendy Carlisle|Poetry: all forms & styles|”These Days”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Elaine Feeney|”today I become mother”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wendy Carlisle|Poetry: all forms & styles|”Awful”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Matthew Fash|”Illinois”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wendy Carlisle|Poetry: all forms & styles|”Grits”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wendy Carlisle|Poetry: all forms & styles|”Havana, 1959″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wendy Carlisle|Poetry: all forms & styles|”The Drake Equation”
ArtsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Omar Esparza|”Chuurqin”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mary Byrne|”Reminiscence Bump”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mary Byrne|”Student Visas”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
December 21, 2019
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Poetry|”What We Are”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Darren Demaree|”Emily As A Full Clip”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mary Byrne|”Jet-Lag”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Albert DeGenova|”Unveiled”
Poetry2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 21, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|James Roderick Burns|”Attenborough Goes East”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Grant Currier|”Cement and Timber”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|James Roderick Burns|”Crow departs” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|James Roderick Burns| “Horned shadows” (Haiku)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mark Burke|”THE SWEEPER”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mark Budman|”The 50-year-old Virgin”|”50-летний Девственник” (Russian original)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Albert DeGenova|”Time to Go”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Elena Botts|”i think it must be by the tracks”
Poetry2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSProse poetry
December 21, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Paula Bonnell|”In the Middle of the Night”
Experimental2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSProse poetryPoetry
December 21, 2019
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|Mark Bolsover|”deluge (—fragment (only) from a dream. … ).” (XP)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mark Blickley|”Valadon: Reclining Nude”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Henry Bladon|”Utrillo’s Window”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||L. Shapley Bassen|”One Line Poems from BRONZE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Valerie Bacharach|”The Pale of Settlement 1908″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason Dean Arnold|”Viewing a ‘Live’ Photo of You on My iPhone at Work”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason Dean Arnold|”When You Hear Music”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason Dean Arnold|”Fragile, Fluctuating Center”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sandra Anfang|”Tie-Dye”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Cresser|Flash Discourse: Fiction|”From the Files of August Strindberg:|Stockholm, February, 1875″
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Cresser|Flash Discourse: Fiction|”Baines”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Barbara Crane|”There Had To Be a Rothko”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jonathan Crane|”We Met Up for Coffee”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Andrew Coombs|”Artefacts”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Brendan Connolly|Stuff About Me (WIP)|”Excerpt #7″
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2019
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Anna Cates|”Boy”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Wayne F. Burke|”Early morning and…”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mark Budman|”The Greatest Tale of Woe|on the Western Side of the Atlantic”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Matthew Brockmeyer|”Carried Statues”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Charlie Brice|”Advice from the Couch”
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Emil Brägg|”An Old Story”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ace Boggess|”Svetlana Wants to Chat”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ace Boggess|”I heard a CNN Commentator Say Generation-Xers Are the Adults Now”
THEATER ARTS2017-18OtherScreen writing
December 20, 2019
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Gary Van Haas|”Blood on the Border”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Scott Bassis|”Mercedes Evades Danger”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||William Auten|”Transplant”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Stephanie Austin|”Descent”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Glen Armstrong|”Nobody Can Have Everything All at Once”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Toby Alfier|”A Slice of Teddy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|Tobi Alfier|”Birthday at the Murder of Crows Pub”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles|AKA Louis|”J’ai Trouvé Ma Liberté”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Ayo Ajetomobi|”Copies”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Hal Ackerman|”My New Young Wife”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Poetry: All forms & styles||Alan Parker|”Deleted Dreams”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 2, 2017