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✨ 🗣️This week, an interview featuring Laura Julier, River Teeth’s 2023 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize winner is live on our website.

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✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Some Notes on Rambling.” An essay by Sydney Lea from River Teeth issue 6.1

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“He thinks every question has an answer. A map, an explanation, a truth from millions of years ago. Delivered before bedtime.”
-from “Nobody Knows,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Rachel M. Hollis
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✨There is one more week left to submit to River Teeth’s 2025 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize! The deadline is October 31, 2025.

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✨ A new River Teeth Revisited is online today!

This week, Mikayla Galgerud brings to us: A Gallery of Moments: Finding New Forms in Angela Pelster’s “Eating the Dead: A Guided Tour” from RT 18.1

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✨Travel back this Tuesday to River Teeth 7.1 and read, “The Vulture Tree,” by Katie Fallon.

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“Twirling tiptoe, I am light as satin and tulle, a ballerina dancing under the kitchen spotlights, assisted and lifted by my duet partner, waltzing...”
-from “Dancing Shoes,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
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✨Submissions for Beautiful Things are still open!

✨Want to challenge yourself this weekend? Write a Beautiful Thing and submit through the Submittable portal.

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Exciting News!

This week Pop of Culture will feature, "Jumping in Leaves," by Joseph Gross.

🎧Catch them in real time by tuning into IPR Muncie 92.1 FM at 12pm on Friday (10/17) or Saturday (10/18)

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Dear Jack, Ted, Jim or Some Other One-Syllable Name.” An essay by Cynthia Anne Brandon from River Teeth issue 13.1

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"Jimmy Buffett’s 'Volcano' blared from the lanai speakers, steel drums skipping over sun-soaked chaos. Kids doing cannonballs, adults sloshing bourbon in plastic cups..."
-from “Volcano,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Bethany Bruno
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✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Italian Lessons.” An essay by Sue Allison from River Teeth 7.1

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✨Travel back this Tuesday to read, “A Good Weapon.” An essay by Jackson Connor from River Teeth issue 14.2

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“Even when cancer tethered her to her couch, she didn’t want anyone tethered with her.”
-from “On the Manly Art of Quilting,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Eric K. Taylor
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✨ 🗣️ Introducing River Teeth's 2025 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Judge, Ander Monson! We are ecstatic to have Monson working with us as the final judge. His interview with our Assistant Managing Editor, Natasia Verdel, is live on our website, which you access through the link in our bio.

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Polaroid Baby and the Shape of Time.” An essay by Jessica Johnson from River Teeth issue 23.1

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✨ Meet our River Teeth Fall 2025 interns! At Ball State, graduate students have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with every aspect of magazine publishing through our literary editing course. We are excited to have such a great team working for the magazine!

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✨Meet our River Teeth Fall 2025 interns! At Ball State, graduate students have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with every aspect of magazine publishing through our literary editing course. We are excited to have such a great team working for the magazine!

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✨Treat yourself this Tuesday to River Teeth 21.2 and check out Hope Henderson’s essay, “Star Tables.”

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“I don’t tell you you’re my muse; that will come later, after we’ve left this adobe house in the New Mexico mountains, where you’re gracious to let me stay.”
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
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✨A glimpse into the pages of, “A Meditation on Pain.” An essay by Ira Sukrungruang from River Teeth 16.1

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✨Take a trip to the past and check out River Teeth 18.2 and check out Reg Darling’s essay, “The Stones I Carry.”

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“We were driven small-town kids who had glimpsed enough of the world to know we wanted more.”
-from “Full Moon and Baked Beans,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anne Jacobson
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River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things” is coming to IPR’s Pop of Culture programming tomorrow!

This collaboration will feature Robert Barham and his Beautiful Thing “For My Students”

🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122...

🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2phyWpN...

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Taste Your Lips of Wine: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 1950s.” An essay by Roger Conant Cranse from River Teeth 26.2

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✨Treat yourself this Tuesday to River Teeth 26.2 and check out Hope Henderson’s essay, “How to Survive a Plague.”

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“The flowers had just started blooming, so my mom gathered yellow daffodils and pink azaleas from her yard for your bridal bouquet.”
-from “No Ugly Crying,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Allison Kirkland
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✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Thursday’s Child.” An essay by Catherine Humikowski from River Teeth 26.2

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✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Wedding of the Foxes: A Lyric Essay” by Katherine Larson from River Teeth issue 26.2

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📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize are open!!

✨ Submissions are open until:

River Teeth: September 01 – December 01
Beautiful Things: September 01 – December 01
Book Prize: September 01 – October 31