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
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”
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”
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-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-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
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”
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”
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”
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-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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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-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”
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)”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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“
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”
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 11, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Olga Katsovskiy|“A SECRET LANGUAGE“
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-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)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
November 26, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Angela Townsend|”Giving up the Ghost”
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”
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”
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
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”
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”
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”
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-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”
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”
Non-fiction2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)
February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
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-fictionLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)
February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
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-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-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”
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-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”
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:”
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 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”
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”
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-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-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 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