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
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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”
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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
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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”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
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”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
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”
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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”
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-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”
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”
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 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-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”
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’”
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'”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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
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
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”
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”
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Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Discourse|Review: Short Works||Jim Meirose|Review of W
December 24, 2019