Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
October 24, 2022
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Cutter Streeby|”A Review of ‘Ouafa and Thawra:|About a Lover from Tunisia’ by Arturo Desimone”
Non-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFeatured Project
September 12, 2022
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2022 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingUncategorizedNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
September 12, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Robert Bly’s|’Warning to the Reader'”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTS
July 28, 2022
Featured Writer Wayne Scheer|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with flash fiction writer Wayne Scheer”
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”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
May 20, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
May 3, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Poet Brian Clements|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with poet Brian Clements”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 27, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR, DOMESTICATED”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”WESTERN PSYCHONAUTS of the POSTPARTUM PERIOD”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”COMING HOME”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”REVISED LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO HOLY MEN”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”QUARANTINE DREAMS”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
February 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poem as CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
January 29, 2022
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”Reviews of Anne Whitehouse’s Chapbooks|’Surrealist Muse’ and ‘Escaping Lee Miller’”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF (Creative Nonfiction)||Hermione Laake|”Palindrome”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 3, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of A. M. Homes’s|’With One Wheel Gone Wrong'”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Dan Shewan|”The Wrong Kind of Bastard”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 26, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Stephanie Anderson|”Grief in Miniature”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTS
August 22, 2021
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2021 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Vietnam:|The Experience of an Australian Nomad”
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”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kyle Ingrid Johnson|”It’s Time to Go”
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”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Elaine Neil Orr|”Shared History Is|the Chimney that Doesn’t Burn Down|Even if the Rest of the House Does|Or,|How to Stay Married
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
Non-fictionBook ReviewFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
May 10, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Flash Discourse: CNF||Karlene Bayok Edwards|”Brian Doyle’s ‘One Long River of Song:|Notes on Wonder'”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”Just Say No”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”The Boy Who Went to Divinity School”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSExperimental Discourse
March 17, 2021
Experimental Discourse|Interview||”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with Freya Howarth concerning|the new Australian XP anthology Dizzy Limits”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
February 8, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of The Last Tiger Is Somewhere|Poetry by Robert Carney and Scott Poole”
Special AnnouncementsEditor's AdviceArtsNon-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTS
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Prepare a Professional|Biographical Statement”
Editor's AdviceNon-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTSSpecial Announcements
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Submit via Submittable”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTS
January 14, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Record Voice”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 30, 2020
Special Feature|Executive Editor Cutter Streeby|”An Interview with the Poet: Victoria Chang”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of ‘Outside from the Inside’|Poetry by Anne Whitehouse”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 5, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Melanie Brake|”Beyond Twenties”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
November 26, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of Singing Back to the Sirens,|Poetry by Margaret Deritter”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 18, 2020
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with writer Kent Dixon”
WritersNon-fictionEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 12, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|An Essay on Craft|”James Wright: The Alchemy of a Poet”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 11, 2020
Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|Interview|”Contributing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with poet Kendra Tanacea”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
November 8, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE:|Edgar Allan Poe’s Misplaced Youth”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 23, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
September 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|’Love Suicides'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
September 2, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|A Review of Tolu Akinyemi’s|”I Laugh at these Skinny Girls”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Taiwan: The Experience of Thomas
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 12, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in New Zealand: The Experience of Jim”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 10, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Turkey: The Experience of Elena”
UncategorizedTravelNon-fictionEssay, PersonalTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 10, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Cambodia: The Experience of John”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Laos: The Experience of Gal”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Taiwan: Interview with Janette”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 words
August 8, 2020
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”|Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”My Own Experience: Trapped in Taiwan”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
August 1, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Prose Discourse: Fiction||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|A Review of And Yes She Was, a novel by Tsipi Keller
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”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
July 27, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Augusto Monterroso’s|’The Eclipse’”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTS
July 26, 2020
Special Feature|Janis Butler Holm|”An Interview with Multigenre Author Lucy Wang”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 18, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||Diane Finlayson|”No Cover”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
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’”
Featured ProjectNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
June 14, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROSE POETRY ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS, AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
June 13, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Dino Buzzati’s ‘The Falling Girl'”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS
May 24, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lon Otto’s Flash Fiction|’Love Poems'”
Performance ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)MusicOral Interpretation/Spoken WordOtherFEATURED
May 19, 2020
Featured Performance Artist Funke Awodiya|Interview|”Contributing Editor Adekunle Adewunmi|talks with Nigerian performance poet Funke Awodiya”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFine ArtistsNon-fictionEssay, CraftOtherPortfolio SpotlightSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingPortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 22, 2020
Contributing Editor Toti O’Brien|Art & Artists of Los Angeles|”Sheer Matter: The Art of Marina Moevs”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 13, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Selena Wade|”Don’t Fuck with Mother Nature”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 13, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Meghan Faszholz|”How to Knit”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Peter Meinke’s ‘The Cranes'”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Octavio Paz’s|’The Blue Bouquet’”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Raymond Carver’s|’Popular Mechanics'”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||Richard Burt|”2315 hours x 0750 hours, Noche Despacio”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||Richard Burt|”2315 hours x 0750 hours”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||P.B. Johnson|”Bumps in the Night, Chicago 1998-2001″
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 28, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Micah Thorp|”The Fourth Horseman”
WritersNon-fictionEssay, CraftMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
March 18, 2020
Featured Writer Parsh Tiwari|An Essay on Craft|”Haibun Uncaged”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 12, 2020
Featured Series: Nonfiction|Law Enforcement Officer CNF/Memoir||Allen Forrest|”A Different World” (Los Angeles Riots of 1992)
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|An Essay on Craft|”The Question of May Swenson”
Featured ProjectWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 22, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”An Essential Reading List:|FLASH FICTION/SUDDEN FICTION/SHORT-SHORT FICTION|ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS, AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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'”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
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?”
Fine ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingPortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-felenko
February 12, 2020
Featured Artist Gene Kreyd|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian-born painter Gene Kreyd”
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”
Performance ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)MusicOral Interpretation/Spoken WordOtherFEATURED2019 archive
February 7, 2020
Featured Performance Artist Kwiksie Ifediora|Interview|”Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|talks with musician and poet Kwiksie Ifediora”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 6, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with poet Kate Hanson Foster”
Special AnnouncementsEditor's AdviceArtsNon-fictionEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryMixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2020
Associate Editor Jeff Streeby|Editor’s Advice|”How to Publish a Poem: A Guide for New Submitters”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with poet Devon Balwit”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|An Essay on Craft|”What’s It For?”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|An Essay on Craft|”Crow Funerals and the Loss of Meaning”
Performance ArtistsEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)MusicLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 31, 2020
Featured Fine Artist Ilya Beshevlí|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with composer Ilya Beshevlí”
ExperimentalNon-fictionInterviewProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 31, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Interview|”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with UWA’s Catherine Noske”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalPoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 30, 2020
Experimental Discourse: Creative Nonfiction|WJP Newnham|”Downtime” (CNF)
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalPoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSNarrative poetryExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 30, 2020
Experimental Discourse: Creative Nonfiction|WJP Newham|”Ray-The-Roo” (CNF)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalNon-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTS2019 archiveExperimental DiscourseXP Prosebook or article review or close reading
January 30, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Experimental Discourse||Contributing Editor Warwick Newnham|”A Review of Dinner with Father Dwyer,|an Experimental Novel by Jim Meirose”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalNon-fictionEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 30, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Contributing Editor Warwick Newnham|”O:JA&L Celebrates Experimental Writing: A Foreword”
Close Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingWritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDNarrative poetry
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|An Essay on Craft|”So Sweet and So Cold:|Plums and Poems from Romania to New Jersey”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 24, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Claudia Serea”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationSpa-HaibunNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 21, 2020
Featured Series: Mixed Forms|Haibun||Contributing Editor Christine Taylor|”An Introduction to Haibun”
Fine ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingPortfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-alijendro
January 20, 2020
Featured Artist Alejandro Rosemberg|Interview|”Contributing Editor Adekunle Adewunmi|talks with painter Alejandro Rosemberg”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 20, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|An Essay on Craft|”Songs on the Way to God: A Theory of Poetics”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Lorna Crozier|Interview|”Managing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with Canadian writer Lorna Crozier”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
January 18, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse|Luis Lopez-Maldonado|”Overqualified:”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|An Essay on Craft|”Thinking about Process: Planting or Planning”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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
Poetry Editor Rachel Custer|An Editorial on Issues of Poetic Practice|”The Poem as Holy Ground: Radical Silence in Action”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTS2019 archivePersonal essay to 1000 words
January 13, 2020
Poetry Editor Rachel Custer|An Editorial on Issues of Poetic Practice|”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
Poetry Editor Rachel Custer|An Editorial on Issues of Poetic Practice|”Safe Spaces: A Pretty Lie”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Fielding Dawson’s ‘Vertical Fields'”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Heinrich Bőll’s ‘The Laugher’”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of John Updike’s ‘Pygmalion’”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Alice Walker’s ‘The Flowers'”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”Brief and (Likely) Necessary Fiction”|(Russian version)
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Milos Macourek’s ‘Jacob’s Chicken'”
2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Molly Giles’s ‘The Writers’ Model’”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured Project
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”The Myth-ing Link (or Linking Up to Myth)”
Featured ProjectWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”Flash Fiction: From Flash Text To Flash Film”
Featured ProjectWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”FLASH FICTION: Brief And (Likely) Necessary Literature”
HaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectSpa-HaibunWritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryMixed Forms
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”On the Road With Haibun”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 9, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Interview|”Managing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with poet Terry Lucas”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
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”*
WritersNon-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-eric
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Erik Harper Klass”
craft essayaesthetics essayLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-ericFeatured writer
January 7, 2020
Featured Writer Erik Harper Klass|An Essay on Craft|”For the Love of Dirt”
FictionNon-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 31, 2019
Prose Discourse: CNF|Mark Olmstead|”ink”
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”
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'”
Fine ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-azam
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Azam Atakhanov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian Artist Azam Atakhanov”|(Русская версия)
Fine ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-azam
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Azam Atakhanov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian artist Azam Atakhanov”
Fine ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-nikolai
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Nikolay Vryasov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian painter Nikolay Vryasov”|(Русская версия)
Fine ArtistsNon-fictionInterviewSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-nikolai
December 29, 2019
Featured Artist Nikolay Vryasov|Interview|”Contributing Editor Vera Falenko|talks with Russian painter Nikolay Vryasov”
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'”
WritersNon-fictionEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Dixon
December 27, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|An Essay on Craft|”Flash Discourse: The Long of the Short of It”
WritersNon-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Dixon
December 27, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Discourse: CNF|”Geeker Pray to His God” (from WIP Jailhouse Rock)
WritersNon-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Dixon
December 26, 2019
Featured Writer Kent Dixon|Flash Discourse: CNF|”Three by Marty”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 26, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Nicolas Ridley|”At Dr. Johnson’s House”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 25, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Samuel Moore-Sobel|”My New Face”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionLITERARY ARTS2019 archiveExperimental DiscourseXP Prosebook or article review or close reading
December 24, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Discourse|Review: Short Works||Jim Meirose|WJP Newnham’s Experimental Work|”El Greco Rides Again”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prosebook or article review or close reading
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTS2019 archiveExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
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-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 24, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Kathleen McGuire|”Spiritus Mundi”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archivePersonal essay to 1000 words
December 23, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Sarah Hermes Griesbach|”Florian, Now Gray”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 23, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essaay||Barbara Ridley|”A Tiny Little Historical Mystery”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS2019 archivePersonal essay to 1000 words
December 23, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Kathy Gibbons|”Mopping Up”
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”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alice Lowe|”Quirky: Strange but Cool”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Mary Lide|”(carry)”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalOtherLITERARY ARTS2017-18
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”
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?’”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kat Kiefer-Newman|”Studio Time”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay/Memoir||Richard Holeton|”March Madness, 1974″
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||John Hearn|”Francis”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2019 archive
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: CNF|Kit Carlson|”What Sadie Knew”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Andrew Coombs|”Artefacts”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 20, 2019