ArtsPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)CNF/MemoirNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
September 14, 2026
Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Vignette||August Edwards|”HEARING ‘DRIFT AWAY’ BY DOBIE GRAY FOR THE FIRST TIME”
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”
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”
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-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-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 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 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-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”
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”
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“
Non-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
January 10, 2024
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Sasha Bailyn|”Anatomy of a Wave”
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”
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-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-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-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”
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|
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”
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”
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”
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”
FictionPersonal essay to 1000 words2017-18LITERARY ARTSFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
December 31, 2019
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Ken Poyner|”The Triumphant Stroll”
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-fictionPersonal essay to 1000 words2019 archiveLITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
December 23, 2019