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Colette Parris is a Caribbean-American attorney who returned to her literary roots during the pandemic. Her work can be found in Michigan Quarterly Review, Scoundrel Time, Gordon Square Review, The Healing Muse, LEON Literary Review ... Read more at coletteparris.com.
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Anna Josephson is based in Washington, DC and teaching at the University of Maryland. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Does It Have Pockets, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel about a furloughed intern during a government shutdown.
10.01.2026 02:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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The Man Who Shot the Moon by Christopher Flakus
The inside of the car is dark. Aspen trees with their white bodies flash by the passenger window. They frighten you, but you donโt tell your father whose smells of sweat, cigarettes, and whiskey youโv...
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A writer and poet from Mexico, US, MFA in fiction from the University of Houston, and currently a PhD Student at LSU's Comparative Literature program. He writes in English and Spanish. His first novel, Flight of the Chicxulub to be published by Pegasus Press.
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Toxic Accomplice by Kevin Langson
Beyond the headline-grabbing accomplishments in grotesquerie, he is most vividly known for his habit of so fondly fondling his shotgun while his femme du jour gave him head, finally squeezing the trig...
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A queer social worker focused on forced migration, he left Chicago to begin working at a refugee resettlement agency in New Haven, where he continues as a grant writer. He has been published in TAYO Literary Magazine and the Best Gay Romance 2014 anthology.
20.11.2025 02:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Post by Aaron Rabinowitz
After Grandma died my sister said, We need to send Uncle Larry cards, keep him happy, and I said, I donโt think that he was ever happy and she said, We should all send him cards even just postcards an...
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Meridianโs Short Prose Prize, PRISM Creative Nonfiction, CANSCAIPโs Writing for Children Competition; residencies - British Columbia, CA, OR. Currently writer-in-residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Publishing: Grain, Malahat Review, The Masters Review
28.10.2025 18:42 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Maybe by Wolfgang Wright
I was at my girlfriendโs when she got a call from a friend whose car had run out of gas, and this friend wanted Katieโthatโs my girlfriendโtoโand because her friend was pretty much shouting through th...
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Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
14.10.2025 23:59 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My Deal by Ellen Davis Sullivan
โYouโre not breathing,โ my mother said. A voice coach who teaches Suits and Baby MBAs how to speak in public, sheโs an expert on the way nerves shut down air intake.
I couldnโt tell her that at that m...
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Sullivanโs stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay โThe Perfect Height for Kissingโ won Columbia Universityโs Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
01.10.2025 23:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
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things you should know by Kathleen Hellen
I should throw it away. Nubbed and frayed
from all the cycles. The thrashing and the tumbling.ย
This shabby robe that robs the dignity of my undressing.
This effigy that hangs on tatty sleeves. These ...
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Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umbertoโs Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writersโ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.
28.08.2025 12:04 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Past Life by Billie Pritchett
Before my mother, there had been another woman, Britannia, whom my father loved and married when they were both in their twenties. After a brief courthouse ceremony with three friends as witnesses, th...
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Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.
13.08.2025 02:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Smoke Break by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
So I left Lady for good then got off the bus. It felt right, leaving Lady Prananda. Plus I thought no way sadness is not not not going to happen to this girl right here so I dropped her for good, my s...
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Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.
28.07.2025 15:20 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Barber Shop by Amrita De
Every day, at nine in the morning, Mr. Ghosh got his mustache trimmed while waiting for things to happen. Betel juice dripped from one side of his paan-stained lips, his backside comfortably lodged on...
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Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Cafรฉ Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.
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New Territories by Nina Ellis
Callie landed just after eleven oโclock in the morning. Immigration was easyโthe guy glanced at her picture and grinned. Her bag came out third. She had nothing to declare...
www.jjournal.org/post/new-ter... Nina Ellisโs short stories have appeared in Granta, American Chordata, Carve Magazine, The London Magazine, Ambit, 3:AM, the Mays anthology and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Oxford Review of Books and elsewhere.
12.06.2025 11:51 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Current Issue | J Journal
J Journal is a literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry and personal narrative, all quietly justice-themed. Support the literary arts and purchase the latest issue.
www.jjournal.org/current-issue The cartoon voice saying, "I am what I am," sounds simplistic. But we are what we are and like. We like low-to-the ground, less-is-more, tangential routes to justice. Still, in new issue #35, more than real seems possible; possible enough to move toward the fantastic.
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Murmuration of Mind and Tongue by Laurie Lamon
how can it be as the mind moves the tongue moves somewhere near the flock a falcon is (the flock loses no information) How can it be...
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Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.
19.05.2025 14:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I, Labor by Irene Cooper
โDeath Sentence: Poetry Consolation IIโ is a poem constructed by artificial intelligence algorithms based on the prison writings...
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Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.
12.05.2025 19:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Last Will by Joshua Brorby
It came to pass that I was asked to assist the executor of a modest last will and testament. The problem was that I had become intimately...
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Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.
05.05.2025 00:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Where Catfish Once Stood by Paul Stapleton
Everyone was antsy, sitting on the front porch, the kids picking at the chipped paint with the toes of their sneakers...
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Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story โThe Fall of Punicea,โ which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.
31.03.2025 01:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Mom/wife/attorney/writer/work in Wigleaf Top 50/Best Microfiction, 3X BOTN, and 3X Pushcart nominee/unabashed Gemini/amateur genealogist/nature lover (from a distance). Words in MQR, Scoundrel Time, The Offing, Cleaver, Lost Balloon, LEON, MoonPark, etc.
Environmental & Socio- Political Activist with Principle of secularism, Equality,Humanity & Justice. A Tribal, Son Of Farmer. Founder of @tribalarmy.org
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The biggest divide in America today is not between โrightโ and โleft,โ or between Republicans and Democrats.
Itโs between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels โ โrightโ and โleftโ โ prevent most people from noticing theyโre being shafted.
Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Short Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. ๐ฉท๐๐
Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
I would kill another Franco spy
Fiction: The Gettysburg Review, J Journal, The Forge Literary Magazine
Southern (American) writer academic gay guy living in Cornwall (for now). Immigrant. Recovering publisher. NCSSM87. I write books and essays and things. Horror-adjacent. Neurodivergent. Had a very excellent cat until recently. Hello. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ญ๐ฐ
Poet, author, blogger, filmmaker, gardener, Nordic skier, distance swimmer, cyclist. https://carlapoet.Com @cb99videos on all social platforms. Https://Wakewiththesun.Blogspot. Com
DadยปWriter of fiction&poetryยป๐ฆป๐ปยปUtopian socialistยปCatholic Woke MarxistยปChicago boyยปitโs November, back to the boring display nameยปHe/him
https://dahosek.com
Novelist-in-progress ๐ | Portland, ME ๐ฆ
VCCA fellow | Tin House scholar
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Watching the days go by from your dystopian future.
Writer. Short stories in: Sonora Review,
J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
AASECT Certified Sex Counselor. Writer. Teacher. Group facilitator.
Writing: finndeerhart.substack.com
Counseling: finndeerhart.com
writer | assistant professor | nonfiction editor for Aquifer: Florida Review Online | metal head
brendanstephenswriting.com
Novel Debut: SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE TO ME, May 12, 2026. Running Wild Pub. Prof.& Prison Activist, Author/ed 8 books including SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS (St. Martins), BOY WITH A KNIFE (IGpublishing). Truthout, BINJreports, BostonMag--https://jeantrounstine.com
Author of You Should Pity Us Instead, a Finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in Fiction. www.AmyGustine.com.
Writer, Book Addict, Avid Gardener
4 Story Collections: Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Mayor of the Roses, The Lost Language & Residents of the Deep (Unsolicited Press) See you at AWP Baltimore!
Story writer, occasional playwright, rare essayist.
Writer, prof, etc. | Stories: Cincinnati Review, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review | VCCA '23, '24; KHN '24; Hambidge '25 | #RVA | @Richmonder.bsky.social | Reader @Variantlit.bsky.social
https://thebrandonhaff.com/
Author, archivist, professor