HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 2

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|”THE FLY”

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”To Suffer None of It:|Lack and Gratitude in Disease of Kings”

Special Announcements|OPEN: JOURNAL of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||Buttonhook Press: Call for submissions||OPEN CALL for Chapbooks of Experimental Discourse

Special Announcements|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for submissions|Experimental Discourse/XP fiction or nonfiction|to 2000 words

Flash Fiction||V.A. Wiswell|”Noon Somewhere”

HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Serials||Mick McGrath|”The Deplorable”||Installment 1

Flash Fiction|Short-Short Story||Stephen Orr|”GRANNY KNOT”

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Karineh Arutyunova|“VOICES”|Translated by Lena Mandel

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT RECOVERY”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT DODGE (Iowa)”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT DODGE (Kansas)”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT DISAPPOINTMENT”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”FORT WAGNER”

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay/Memoir/Vignette||Wendy BooydeGraaff|”Saturday Mornings‌”

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Lydia Gwyn|”The Highest Point/Emptiness, Standing Still/All Dreams Speak to Life”

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Ericka Russel|BURNING ALFALFA FIELDS

Flash Fiction||Avital Gad-Cykman|”Flying/Fly/High”

Flash Fiction||Richard Sleboe|”Singularity”

Flash Fiction||Melinda K. Madison Keathley|”A Solution”

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|’THE TWO TAILS’ or ‘THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHER’|by Augusto Monterroso”

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Kim Farleigh|”Protecting Dreams”

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Erica Kletkin|”THE DUCK”

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay, Memoir, Vignette||Alana Goldberg|”How My Day to Day Became My DNA”

Flash Fiction||Walter Weinschenk|”Noah”

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ryan Griffith’s ‘Thrill of Fire’”

Flash Nonfiction|Lyrical Essay/Memoir||Mea Cohen|”How not to come down”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jeffrey Gray|”Homiletic Ode to the Everly Brothers”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jeffrey Gray|”Seattle Induction Center, 1967″

Flash Nonfiction|Essay||Paul Perilli|”THE MAYAN BALL GAME”

Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alden Cullinane|”The Porcelain God Is Female”

O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||Team NeetiBisht®|”The GROUP ART EXHIBITION”

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Nonfiction (XP)|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Ron Theel|”the long goodbye”

Flash Fiction||Amita Basu|”Walking”

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||James Joaquin Brewer|”Juan and Donne”

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Italo Calvino’s|’The Man Who Shouted Teresa'”

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||K.A. Nielsen|”The Real You”

Flash Fiction||Mitzi Dorton|”Shelter”

Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Ellen Brown|”Better Times”

Flash Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”1940 Census”

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Richard Plant’s|’Flatland'”

Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”

Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”Inheritance”

Flash Discourse: Fiction||James Roderick Burns|”Nightcap”

Flash Discourse: Fiction||Karen Schauber|”Flâneur”

Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Noel|”Talking with Ravens”

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”

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Mike Murray|”RESIDUUM”

Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||Nicolò Monti & Alessandro Saccotelli|Graphic Adaptation|Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”

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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Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Michael Mandlin|”Larks”

An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Featured Writer: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Sweet Cherry”

Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Springtime in Mississippi”

Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||”The King of Capitalism”|Story and Art by Donald L. Patten

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”At Jesse Owens’ Grave”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynn Hoggard|”PRAYER”

Buttonhook Press||The Chapbook Series

Buttonhook Press||The Pamphlet Series

Buttonhook Press||The Broadside Series

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Southern Fiction”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Birdie”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Life of the Hermit”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Radius”

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Prolegomenon to Any Future Poem”

Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”The Keys”

Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Anna Lee Hafer|”Switch”

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”

Poetry: All forms & styles||Owen Bullock|”Modal”

Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”COMING HOME”

Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”QUARANTINE DREAMS”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poem as CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'” 

Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Nadja Maril|”Admiration for my Grandmother’s Pitcher”

Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ernie Brill|”Tommy”

Flash Discourse: Fiction||DA Hogan|”LOVE TOO SOON”

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'”

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”

Mixed Forms|Flash Discourse: Fiction/Theater Arts||Mark Blickley|”A Milkman’s Serenade”||Performance by Robert Funaro|Production/Direction by Joe John Battista