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Sticky
March 7, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”Poems for Families”
Digital ArtFEATUREDFine ArtistsSTUDIO ARTS
June 1, 2023
O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series:|Digital Artists|2023 Portfolio Spotlights||Edward Supranowicz|Selected Images (with links)
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”Something to be Thankful For”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”What’s True”
Fine ArtistsSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingFEATURED
May 31, 2023
O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series:|Established Artists|2023 Portfolio Spotlights||Gery Kempczynski|Selected Images
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2023
Flash Fiction||Christine Vartoughian|”The Benefits of Being Misunderstood”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
May 24, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage|One-Act Play||Paul Bowman|”Street Scene”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
May 24, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”What Lies Submerged: Myth and Monster|in Natalie Young’s ‘All of This Was Once Under Water'”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 24, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ryan Griffith’s ‘Thrill of Fire’”
LITERARY ARTSFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)
May 23, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Lyrical Essay/Memoir||Mea Cohen|”How not to come down”
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May 22, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jerome Gagnon|”Night Train”
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May 20, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jeffrey Gray|”The Aquarian Foundation”
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May 5, 2023
Hot Button Press|2023 Broadside Series|Flash Discourse: Creative Nonfiction||Aarron Sholar|”To Hate My Female Body”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Prologue”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
May 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Richard Stimac|”Epiphany”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
May 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Steve Duprey|”Women of a Certain Age”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
April 30, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||William Ivor Fowkes|”The Seeker”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
April 28, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ace Boggess|“Why Are You Feeling Blah?”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirLITERARY ARTS
April 28, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Anu Kumar|”The Sound of Planes”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 19, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jeffrey Gray|”Homiletic Ode to the Everly Brothers”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 19, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jeffrey Gray|”Seattle Induction Center, 1967″
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
April 18, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Essay||Paul Perilli|”THE MAYAN BALL GAME”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSPersonal essay to 1000 words
April 18, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alden Cullinane|”The Porcelain God Is Female”
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April 10, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|A Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Once There Was a Way”
PoetryNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
April 9, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Epilogue”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 9, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Once There Was a Way”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
April 6, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jill Ruscoll|”Lightness in Winter”
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April 4, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Diversophiles Everywhere!”
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April 4, 2023
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||”Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshops|with Terry Lucas “
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jacqueline Hughes Simon|”In the Walking”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Brendan Rowland|”Inverness”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Shawna Ervin|”L”
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March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Shawna Ervin|”P”
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March 28, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Experimental Discourse: Fiction||Blossom Hibbert|”Six Coffees with a Madman”
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March 28, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Kimberly Nunes|”In Rome”
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March 26, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|A Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Edison Jennings|”Local Habitations”
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March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”WHY WE DON’T OPEN THE CLOSET”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
March 24, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”SLEEPY HOLLOW”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”LISTENING TO THE CD YOU MADE FOR ME, ONE CHRISTMAS TEN YEARS AGO”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”MY VIRTUAL SON”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WAR OF REBELLION”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 23, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Surrender”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 23, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lee Varon|”Eclipse”
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March 23, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ben Jacques|”Jackhammer Poems”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 21, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||James Roth|”Jacob: a Greendale Garden Boy”
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March 20, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Heikki Huotari|”How the Mayfly Got Its Megaphone”
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March 13, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Democrats be Trippin'”
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March 12, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Adjei Agyei-Baah|”Tales of the Kite”
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March 9, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series||Spencer Silverthorne|”Occasions for Listening”|(Excerpts from WIP)
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March 2, 2023
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||Team NeetiBisht®|”The GROUP ART EXHIBITION”
Experimental (XP)Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 27, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Nonfiction (XP)|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Ron Theel|”the long goodbye”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
February 25, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Americana||Jim Meirose|”An Appreciation for Statuary”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectNon-fictionCNF/Memoir
February 24, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir|Americana||Kerstin Schulz|”Collections”
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February 24, 2023
Special Announcements|Volunteer Opportunity at O:JA&L||Wanted:|Editorial Assistants: Readers-in-Performance|(Voice Artists)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 23, 2023
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Amita Basu|”Walking”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 21, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||James Joaquin Brewer|”Juan and Donne”
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February 21, 2023
Special Announcement|HOT BUTTON PRESS (Contemporary Issues)|An imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for Submissions|as articles, editorials, or position papers|concerning the contemporary state|of literary and fine arts
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSExperimental (XP/Hybrid)PoetryLyric
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”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jane Schapiro|”Black Hole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Ansara|”SPRING MORNING, 2021″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 13, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Whitehouse|”LADY BIRD”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 9, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Ray Gonzalez|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer & artist Ray Gonzalez”
LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP ProseFictionProse Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)
February 9, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||K.A. Nielsen|”The Real You”
LITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
February 5, 2023
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mitzi Dorton|”Shelter”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Ellen Brown|”Better Times”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 2, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles|Americana||Michael Brosnan|”Sixth Floor, Alley Window”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Michael Brosnan|”The Blur”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
February 1, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Cathy Allman|”OUR THIRD ACT—THE SUNSHINE STATE”
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January 30, 2023
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Ray Gonzalez|”The Book of Whispers”
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January 21, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Whitehouse|”Being Ruth Asawa”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 20, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Suzanne O’Connell|”When I Left”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSNon-fictionCNF/Memoir
January 15, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”1940 Census”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 8, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Andreea Finichiu|”Playing Fetch”
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January 8, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku & Senryu||Hassane Zemmouri|”School Songs”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
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
Buttonhook Press|2023 Broadside Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”
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January 6, 2023
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”
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January 4, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of Contemporary Aesthetics||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Perseus with the Head of Medusa”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 4, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”What Handsome Harry Carried in His Wallet|for 70 Years”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 4, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”Inheritance”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 4, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Rochelle Jewel Shapiro|”READING CHARLES BUKOWSKI”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
January 2, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor tano rubio|”Finishing Incomplete:|A Review of Yasmin Mariam Kloth’s|Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation”
Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTSNon-fictionEssay, Craft
January 1, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay|Editorials on Issues of Contemporary Aesthetics||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Perseus with the Head of Medusa”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
December 22, 2022
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Mark Budman|”Flash Fiction: Read Deeper. Have More Fun.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”Self-portrait on Independence Boulevard”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”If I could go back in time”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
December 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Crockett Hill|”Abecedarian for Lost Time”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 19, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||James Roderick Burns|”Nightcap”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 18, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Karen Schauber|”Flâneur”
Non-fictionEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
December 18, 2022
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay|Americana||Logan Silva|”A Feast of Spread”
LITERARY ARTSMixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novels
December 15, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||James Notarianni|”Alchemy of the Mind”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
December 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”As We Walk West in Late Afternoon: Ira Speaks”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Villanelle|Americana||Kimberly Coburn|”Villanelle for Townes”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Claudia Serea|”In the city with tired bones”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
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”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
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
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Tim Hunt|”The Fiddler”
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December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||James Weitz||”The Pandemic Letters:|Interviews with travelers trapped abroad|during COVID”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Tim Hunt|”Saying Grace”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jennifer Clark|”Almost a lullaby on this cold night”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Myles|”On Chrystie Street”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Adjei Agyei-Baah & Jerome Berglund|”High Fashion”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
November 23, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Ryland Shengzhi Li|”Close by”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
November 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”Moons”
LITERARY ARTSMixed FormsHaibun
November 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”The Alan Gogoll Trio”
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November 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||Pamelyn Casto||Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker|A Portable Workshop
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mark Belair|”MAY SNOWFALL”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 30, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Bethany Reid|”Lessons in Beekeeping”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & Styles|Americana||Priscilla Long|”What Happened This Morning”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Priscilla Long|”Strip Mine”
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October 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Priscilla Long|”Chester River Reverie”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
October 24, 2022
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Cutter Streeby|”A Review of ‘Ouafa and Thawra:|About a Lover from Tunisia’ by Arturo Desimone”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 17, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Mark Budman|Interview||Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Mark Budman
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
October 8, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Mike Murray|”RESIDUUM”
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October 6, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Prose Discourse: Short Story to 10000 words||Mike Murray|”Salton Sea”
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September 25, 2022
Special Announcements|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)|2023 Calls for Submissions|All categories||Buttonhook Press|2023 Calls for Submissions|Broadsides/Pamphlets/Chapbooks
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”Sparrows”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”County Fair”
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September 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms|Irish/English Haibun||Gabriel Rosenstock|”The Selborne Haibun”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
September 21, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nathan Nicolau|”Lunch with Frank O’Hara at the Mexican Cantina: Selected and Abridged”
LITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
September 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Toshihisa Nikaido|”Meibunka (Life Culture)”
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September 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana||Jessica Purdy|”Murder in the House:|The ‘Nutshells’ of Frances Glessner Lee”
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingPrintmaking and LithographyLITERARY ARTS
September 15, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||Nicolò Monti & Alessandro Saccotelli|Graphic Adaptation|Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”
Non-fictionTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDPersonal essay to 1000 wordsFeatured Project
September 12, 2022
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2022 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
September 12, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Robert Bly’s|’Warning to the Reader'”
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September 9, 2022
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September 2, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”Family Photo of America”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN ASLEEP”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”FAMILY PHOTO OF AMERICA”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”WHAT HOLDS TOGETHER”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
August 29, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun|Americana||David Walsh|”Gettysburg”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSFictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”Yesterday’s Gutted Girl”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 30, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Greg Sendi|”A Compass for Ariadne”
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTS
July 28, 2022
Featured Writer Wayne Scheer|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with flash fiction writer Wayne Scheer”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
July 28, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Scheer|”Zen and the Art of House Painting”|New and Selected Work
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
July 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|| Steve Myers|”Dove, South Mountain”
LITERARY ARTSPoetryNarrative
July 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Elena Botts|”Thanks for Calling”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”Enkidu”
Pamphlet SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
July 21, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Portfolio SpotlightLITERARY ARTS
July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Sweet Cherry”
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||”Springtime in Mississippi”
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July 18, 2022
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July 17, 2022
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July 16, 2022
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July 14, 2022
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PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Bond|”The Curve of the Open Page”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
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”
LyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectUncategorizedPoetry
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
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NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Aaron Guile|”Bit by Bit”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press||The Chapbook Series
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June 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press||The Pamphlet Series
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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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May 25, 2022
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’”
WritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Southern Fiction”
FEATUREDWritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Birdie”
WritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
WritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeSTUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
InterviewPoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDWritersNon-fiction
May 3, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Poet Brian Clements|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with poet Brian Clements”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”The Longer Dead”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
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”
ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
March 24, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||David Herman|”The Lost Notebooks of Black Beauty”
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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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
March 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”AT STONY LANE POOL, GLADWYNE”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
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”
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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”
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February 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”Hanno”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
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”
Essay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ 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”
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February 8, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Robinson|”Comedy Hour”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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”
Prose poetryPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordLITERARY ARTSPerformance ArtistsPoetry
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”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
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January 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brad Rose|”Funny You Should Ask”
Special AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsBUTTONHOOK PRESSChapbook SeriesArtsLITERARY ARTS
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”
XP ProseFictionLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Featured ProjectExperimental Discourse
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Alter Inertia|”on the way from summer’s”
LITERARY ARTSPoetryProse poetry
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”
Essay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close Reading
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
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”
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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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectPoetryLyric
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”
Chapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
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”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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)”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Mixed FormsOtherPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSOtherLITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
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
Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)STUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTSFictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)
September 29, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sean Padraic McCarthy|”Topping”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP Prose
September 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Deep Fry”
LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)FictionShort Story (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)
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
September 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Megan Marie Sullivan|”The Stylist”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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″
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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”
TranslationPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
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”
Special AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsArts
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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]”
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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”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
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!”
ArtsTHEATER ARTSScreen writingSpecial AnnouncementsCall for Submissions
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
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
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”
Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
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”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS
May 28, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”Soldier, Sailor:|Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
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”
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May 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Promises”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or 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”
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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”
Flash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionBook 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'”
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”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
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”
NarrativeLITERARY ARTSPoetryLyric
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)
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyric