Sometimes, what we intend to happen simply does not, or does not yet, perhaps not until well after we are gone. Explore the liminal life between hope and happening, intent and action, and the past and present and possible in this issue of Reservoir Road.
www.reservoirroadlit.com/issue-11
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On a general writing/artistic break until the kids get older. Still a person who likes things and is delightful at dinner parties.
Email: Michaelbtager1@gmail.com
Website: michaelbtager.com
Fav F&F: Tokyo Drift
The body is a temporary gathering place (2024 Autofocus) . One Person Away From You (2021 Moon City Press)3x notable at Best American Essays. Work in The Best American Poetry, The ThreePenny Review, Prairie Schooner etc.
Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Proud union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games & ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Harvard Review | Wigleaf | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink (fmrly Crazyhorse) | Wigleaf | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
If you can describe us, you get magic coffee and jumping cookies.
Editors: @owenwyke.bsky.social & @amygcb.bsky.social
Current issue: https://gonelawn.net/
Writer. Founding editor of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com)
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
Chapbook One Good Thing available from Bottlecap Press
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Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Canadian writer. Lake lover.
Wigleaf Top 50 2025.
Words in Atticus Review, Bending Genres, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel.
Nominated for Pushcart (x2), Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN.
Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | 🌈😷| Rep’d by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. Contains flash fiction and poetry, which may or may not contain animals. Est. May 2018.
Mag: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Discord: discord.gg/H59VjYGfas
Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Microfiction 2024, & Wigleaf Top 50 🌸 Winner of the Fractured Literary 2021 Flash Fiction Contest and the Welkin Prize 🌻 Author of LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, published by The Masters Review 🌷lindybiller.com
Writer, school nurse. Stories in SmokeLong, Ghost Parachute, New World Writing, Cincinnati Review+. Pushcart & BotN nom. Wigleaf Top50 LL. Assoc FF Editor @JMWW. Loves a good view & due process.
lisathorntonwriter.com
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She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
CONFLUENCE (Broadstone Books, 2021) I she/her I corgi is Moose
PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her
www.taylorbyas.com
Bending Genres is an online journal and a global community. We publish hybrid material bi-monthly. We also offer online weekend workshops with various teachers, an ongoing writer's roundtable and two annual week long writing retreats. www.bendinggenres.com
