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March 23, 2023
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March 23, 2023
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March 21, 2023
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March 12, 2023
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February 27, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Nonfiction (XP)|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Ron Theel|”the long goodbye”
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February 25, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Americana||Jim Meirose|”An Appreciation for Statuary”
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February 24, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir|Americana||Kerstin Schulz|”Collections”
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February 23, 2023
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February 21, 2023
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February 17, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Experimental (XP)/Hybrid||Spencer Silverthorne|”The Speaker is Listening to ‘You Make Me Like Charity’|by The Knife On The Occasion of A Sudden Departure|from a Benefit in the Park”
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February 17, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Italo Calvino’s|’The Man Who Shouted Teresa'”
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February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jane Schapiro|”Black Hole”
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February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Ansara|”SPRING MORNING, 2021″
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February 13, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Whitehouse|”LADY BIRD”
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February 9, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Ray Gonzalez|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer & artist Ray Gonzalez”
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February 9, 2023
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February 5, 2023
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mitzi Dorton|”Shelter”
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February 2, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Ellen Brown|”Better Times”
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February 2, 2023
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February 1, 2023
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February 1, 2023
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January 30, 2023
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January 21, 2023
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January 20, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Suzanne O’Connell|”When I Left”
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January 15, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”1940 Census”
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January 8, 2023
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January 7, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Richard Plant’s|’Flatland'”
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January 6, 2023
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Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”
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January 4, 2023
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January 4, 2023
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January 4, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Rochelle Jewel Shapiro|”READING CHARLES BUKOWSKI”
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January 2, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review||Guest Editor tano rubio|”Finishing Incomplete:|A Review of Yasmin Mariam Kloth’s|Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation”
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January 1, 2023
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December 19, 2022
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December 19, 2022
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December 19, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||James Roderick Burns|”Nightcap”
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December 18, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Karen Schauber|”Flâneur”
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December 18, 2022
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December 15, 2022
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December 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”As We Walk West in Late Afternoon: Ira Speaks”
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December 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Villanelle|Americana||Kimberly Coburn|”Villanelle for Townes”
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December 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Claudia Serea|”In the city with tired bones”
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December 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Claudia Serea|”The Statue of Liberty goes home to Brooklyn”
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December 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Claudia Serea|”Minestrone Soup”
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December 5, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Noel|”Talking with Ravens”
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December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jennifer Clark|”A Balloon Called Young America”
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December 3, 2022
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December 3, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Tim Hunt|”Saying Grace”
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December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jennifer Clark|”Almost a lullaby on this cold night”
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December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Myles|”On Chrystie Street”
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December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Myles|”Girl in a Red Dress with Cat and Dog”
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November 30, 2022
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November 23, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Ryland Shengzhi Li|”Close by”
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November 21, 2022
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November 21, 2022
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November 5, 2022
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October 30, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Bethany Reid|”Lessons in Beekeeping”
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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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”
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October 17, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Mark Budman|Interview||Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Mark Budman
Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)
October 8, 2022
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September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”Sparrows”
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September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”County Fair”
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September 23, 2022
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September 21, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nathan Nicolau|”Lunch with Frank O’Hara at the Mexican Cantina: Selected and Abridged”
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September 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Toshihisa Nikaido|”Meibunka (Life Culture)”
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September 18, 2022
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September 15, 2022
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September 12, 2022
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September 12, 2022
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September 2, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”Family Photo of America”
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August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN ASLEEP”
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August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”FAMILY PHOTO OF AMERICA”
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August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”WHAT HOLDS TOGETHER”
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August 29, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun|Americana||David Walsh|”Gettysburg”
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August 12, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Michael Mandlin|”Larks”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”The Etymology of Sacrifice”
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August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”Yesterday’s Gutted Girl”
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July 30, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Greg Sendi|”A Compass for Ariadne”
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July 28, 2022
Featured Writer Wayne Scheer|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with flash fiction writer Wayne Scheer”
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July 28, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Scheer|”Zen and the Art of House Painting”|New and Selected Work
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July 28, 2022
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July 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Elena Botts|”Thanks for Calling”
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July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”Enkidu”
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July 21, 2022
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July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Portfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Sweet Cherry”
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July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Springtime in Mississippi”
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July 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Irish/English Haiku||Gabriel Rosenstock|”A Sweater for the Tayfel”|A Celebration of the Art of Issachar Ber Ryback
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July 17, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms|Haibun||Taofeek Ayeyemi|”Dust and Rust”|with a foreword by Rich Youmans
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July 16, 2022
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July 14, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||”The King of Capitalism”|Story and Art by Donald L. Patten
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June 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Bond|”The Curve of the Open Page”
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June 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Joshua St. Claire|”les rois fainéants”
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June 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms 7 styles|Haiku||Joshua St. Claire|”a gnomon”
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June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”When A Hawk Flushes An Undulating Flock Of Dunlins”
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June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”In Grandma Hale’s Painting, Which She Gave Me”
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June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Aaron Guile|”Bit by Bit”
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June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Aaron Guile|”A Response to Classical Theology”
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June 9, 2022
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Brian Clements|”Seductive and Subversive Prose Poetry”
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June 6, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”At Jesse Owens’ Grave”
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June 6, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Emerging Writers|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jacob Laba|”Bareness”
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June 4, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynn Hoggard|”RED-BILLED, BLACK-BELLIED, WHITE-WINGED TEXAS WHISTLING DUCKS”
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June 4, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynn Hoggard|”PRAYER”
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June 1, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Brian Clements|An Essay on Craft||”Some Generic Notes on Short Prose”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 26, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Edward Supranowicz|”Never Again”
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Buttonhook Press||The Broadside Series
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May 20, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Southern Fiction”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Birdie”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Life of the Hermit”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Radius”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Prolegomenon to Any Future Poem”
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May 12, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
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May 10, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”The Keys”
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May 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
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May 9, 2022
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Anna Lee Hafer|”Switch”
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May 9, 2022
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Margaret Munz-Losch|”At the American Visionary Art Museum: White Rabbit”
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May 3, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Poet Brian Clements|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with poet Brian Clements”
Essay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close Reading
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'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MISERY THE TUTOR”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MAPPING”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”THE GIFT OF YES”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DO GEESE SEE GOD?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DESIGNS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Catherine Reef|”This Evening”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Kid Stuff”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”The Longer Dead”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Mendonoma”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
April 4, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis|”Rip Torn”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Street Shrine”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Unknown American Paintings”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Tustin|”RUINED”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||David Herman|”The Lost Notebooks of Black Beauty”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
March 24, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Adjei Agyei-Baah|”Scaring Crow”|With a Foreword by Hiroaki Sato
LyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSPoetry
March 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Owen Bullock|”Modal”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”MOTHERS’ DAY”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”The Latest Articulation Errors”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”[How to Finish the End Paper]”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”Persephone in the Tunnel of Love”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson||”HIGHLINE PARK IN NYC”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
March 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”AT STONY LANE POOL, GLADWYNE”
Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSNon-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
March 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Jianqing Zheng|”Delta Notes”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS2017-18
February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
February 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”Hanno”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
February 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”La Primavera According to Savonarola”
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”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lauren Camp|”Faraway Love”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
February 8, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Robinson|”Comedy Hour”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kerry Rawlinson|”the girl who swallowed a bird”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||J.R. Solonche|”FALSE MESSIAH”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Abbie Doll|”boxing it all up: a recap from when my father died”
Performance ArtistsPoetryProse poetryPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordLITERARY ARTS
February 4, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Original Prose Poetry||Joel Peckham|”The Last 25: On Trying to Record a Cover|of ’25 Miles’ by Edwin Starr”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
February 4, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mark Blickley|”Hunger Pains”
Non-fictionFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 30, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Zack Rogow|”FOR THE LOST CAUSES”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
January 30, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Nadja Maril|”Admiration for my Grandmother’s Pitcher”
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’”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 28, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Cesca Janece Waterfield|”Anamnesis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Blake Everitt|”THE PROBLEM WITH HOPE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||E.R. Lutken|”Conservation of Momentum”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
January 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brad Rose|”Funny You Should Ask”
Call for SubmissionsBUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook SeriesArtsLITERARY ARTSSpecial Announcements
January 22, 2022
Special Announcements||Buttonhook Press,|an imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)|2022 Open call for chapbook submissions|Poetry: All forms & styles
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Gabriela Gonzales|”packing”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Gabriela Gonzales|”Stendhal”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF (Creative Nonfiction)||Hermione Laake|”Palindrome”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ernie Brill|”Tommy”
FEATUREDProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Featured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”Superman’s Picnic Table”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Steffen|”Precedented Times”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Howie Good|”Apocalyptically Yours”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||DA Hogan|”LOVE TOO SOON”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Alter Inertia|”on the way from summer’s”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Residue of Yesterday”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Carl Reiner Photoshoot”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Oyama|”What I do not think”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 11, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”AUDEN’S BOOKCASE”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”DANTE’S TOMBS”
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'”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||RC deWinter|”ghosted”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Patricia Cannon|”Breaking That Empty Plate in the Sky”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn|”Eviction”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 21, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jianqing Zheng|”Attachment”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Hermione Laake|”Dance for me, Baby”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Rendezvous Monochrome”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Burrator Reservoir”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”A Bout de Souffle”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Grief Ode”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Horizon”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
December 6, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Allisa Cherry|”Mogollon Rim”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Exegesis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach”There Must Be”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Here I Take”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
November 26, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jeff Streeby|”WILE: Sketches from Nature”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Michael Colonnese|”Birding in the Tidal Estuary|After Visiting a Friend in Hospice”
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
November 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Interruption”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Dan Shewan|”The Wrong Kind of Bastard”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Eritrean Neighbourhood in South Tel Aviv”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
November 6, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Poem scrawled on a maize-sheaf for her (last offering)”
Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSOtherLITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Mixed FormsOtherPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)
November 4, 2021
Mixed Forms|Flash Discourse: Fiction/Theater Arts||Mark Blickley|”A Milkman’s Serenade”||Performance by Robert Funaro|Production/Direction by Joe John Battista
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John L. Stanizzi|”Early Fall”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Halsey Hyer|”Elegy for Olivia”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jan Karlo Lopez|”Heartbreak Heist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”All I know of Coal”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”Aria for Poland Woods”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2021
Flash Discourse: Historical Fiction||Aurelien Hannoyer|”Artemisia”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
October 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Gordon Taylor|”When You Attached”
STUDIO ARTSDigital Art
September 29, 2021
Studio Arts: Digital Imagery|Artist Portfolio||Edward Michael Supranowicz
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)STUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTS
September 29, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sean Padraic McCarthy|”Topping”
LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)
September 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Deep Fry”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
September 23, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Bruce Robinson|”Several Rooms”
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'”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
September 17, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Mark Blickley|”Troupe 621″ (A play in one act)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Megan Marie Sullivan|”The Stylist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||L. Shapley Bassen|”Grisaille”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Marte Carlock|”The Deserter”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||R.A. Shockley|”When to Cry on the Bus”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 1″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 2″
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
August 29, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral”/”CBET B XPAME”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 26, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Stephanie Anderson|”Grief in Miniature”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSTranslationPoetryLyric
August 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation||Andrey Gritsman|”LIGHT IN THE CATHEDRAL”
TranslationBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
August 25, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral:|Russian/English Poems”
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 21, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Austin Horn|”Ahead of Time”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsCall for Submissions
August 10, 2021
Special Announcements||OPEN CALL for Submissions|Theater Arts: Drama as Plays for Page or Stage
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”A Sacrament”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Wendy Taylor Carlisle|”Dogwood”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”My dog makes a metaphor”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Charlie Brice|”Nuremberg”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Julia Chiapella|”HOW TO FORGIVE”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Paul Ruta|”The Arc of a Bullet”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 31, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ray Corvi|”[SPEAX THE SPEECH]”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
July 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ruhi Jiwani|”Buffalo”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
July 20, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Richard John Miller|”The Trenton Six”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
July 19, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Donald Dewey|”Sweeps”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
July 18, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Natascha Graham|”French Beans & Inner Peace”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
July 18, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog at Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog At Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mercury-Marvin Sunderland|”In. And Out.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Stanizzi|”FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”CUTTING BACK”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”Warnings”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Sympathy for the Scarecrow”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Spin The Bottle: 1958″
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”At O’Hare Airport: Her Foxgloves”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
July 15, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Cresser|”Here Comes Herodotus, Again!”
Screen writingSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsArtsTHEATER ARTS
July 14, 2021
Special Announcements||Open Call for Submissions|Theater Arts: Screen Writing|Feature Film Screenplay/Concept Video/Series Pilot Script
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|South Lake, Tahoe
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|”Clams”
Awards AnnouncementArtsSpecial Announcements
July 1, 2021
The First Annual O:JA&L Prize for Flash Discourse||Selected and with an introduction by|Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
June 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Democracy Has Lifted Its Voice”
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 3, 2021
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Flash Discourse: Fiction||2YC Member Steven R. Wolfe|”The Pit”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
June 2, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Poetry & Prose||Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|”2YC Review: THE WORKS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Amanda Leal|”Gratitude”
Essay, CraftLITERARY ARTSNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 28, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”Soldier, Sailor:|Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Luna Dragon Mac-Williams|”Fossils”
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
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Judy Decroce|”Bad News”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Cezarija Abartis|”The Angel Fairy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”The Day We Stopped Laughing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 23, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”Swedish Knight”
Available titlesPamphlet SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
May 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Promises”
Essay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Lineage”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Self-Portrait as a Straw Man Rowing in Place”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Giacommetti’s Heads”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
May 13, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Winter’s Orphan”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Top 76,000″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Hyenas”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Conversation with a Skunk”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”As Though the Narrative Went Out for a Smoke”
Non-fictionBook ReviewFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
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'”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 7, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”In the Shadow of the World’s Largest Cross”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
May 7, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series|Flash Discourse: Annual Call for Themed Submissions|Super-Flash (100 words)|2021 theme: “Vignette/The Open Window”||O.G. Rose|”The Open Window”
Available titlesChapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
May 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series||Don Robishaw|”Just Willie Please: Eight Flash Fiction Tales”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Chatterton Meets Rimbaud”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Grub Street Parties”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
April 26, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”X-Ray/Chiaroscuro” (A collaboration)
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDEvents/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeSTUDIO ARTSFine Art Photography
April 26, 2021
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”X-Ray/Chiaroscuro”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”A Life in a Day”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”Cicada Love”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 16, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Kathleen Powers-Vermaelen|”No Joke”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
April 15, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Todd Robinson|”Nebraska”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”Solace”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 11, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”There’s a Saying, ‘Live, Laugh, Love’”
Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSNon-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Alan Perry|”In Jeopardy” (for Alex Trebeck)
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsSTUDIO ARTSLITERARY ARTS
March 19, 2021
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||”The Mark”|Story and Art by Siolo Thompson|Lettering by Michael Stock
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSExperimental Discourse
March 17, 2021
Experimental Discourse|Nonfiction|Interview||”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with Freya Howarth concerning|the new Australian XP anthology Dizzy Limits”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Jerome Berglund|”Exalt”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Allison Whittenberg|”Life as a Cliché”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Tyler Jacobs|”ELEGY”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Bruno Jasieński”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Jan Lechoń”|From Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Antoni Słonimski”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Carolyn Martin|”An Elegy in Two Memoirs”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
March 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Carolyn Martin|”Ben Franklin”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)
February 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Alec Schmidt|”The Last Woman”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”This Is Not Here” (An Apology)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”Apologies”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”Cocked”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”A Fond Farewell For a Friend: October 21st, 2003″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kai Zweibel|”Is That Enough?”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
February 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Terri Drake|”Thin Veil Through the Thinning Trees”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsPublic Service Announcements
February 20, 2021
Public Service Announcement|Call for Contest Submissions: Gunpowder Press|”The Barry Spacks Poetry Prize”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 18, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Harriet Garfinkle|”The Ghoul and the Gunslinger”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”|Brett Thompson|”An Elegy for Richard Nixon”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brett Thompson|”For This”|
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or 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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Travis Stephens|”THE BROWNS VS THE BLUES”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”At the Fountain”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”I Listen to the Soundtrack from A Star Is Born”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Quincy Gray McMichael|”What Was Lost”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Louis Robishaw|”Whatever Happened to the American Dream”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amanda Leal|”Clues”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
February 5, 2021