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”
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
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”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 20, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Essay||Kimberly Kearns|”When the Game Ends”
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-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
July 22, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10000 Words|Memoir/Personal Essay||Jonathan Mark|”WHY ARE YOU CRYING?”
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″
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-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”
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)”
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”
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
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”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
December 23, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay||Tim Campbell|”Oblivion and Bliss”
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”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/Memoir
November 17, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr|”Soles”
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”
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
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 ARTSEssay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
April 18, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alden Cullinane|”The Porcelain God Is Female”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 21, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||James Roth|”Jacob: a Greendale Garden Boy”
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”
Non-fictionLITERARY ARTSEssay, Personal
December 18, 2022
Americana|Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Logan Silva|”A Feast of Spread”
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-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Dan Shewan|”The Wrong Kind of Bastard”
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”
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
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”
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
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”
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”
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”
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”
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″
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”
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)
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-fictionEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Phil Rice|”The Walk-Off Homer”
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)
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”
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”
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:”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Non-fiction2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalCNF/Memoir
December 25, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Samuel Moore-Sobel|”My New Face”
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”
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)”
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”
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/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 21, 2019
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||John Hearn|”Francis”
Non-fiction2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalCNF/Memoir
December 21, 2019
Flash Discourse: CNF|Kit Carlson|”What Sadie Knew”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 20, 2019