On the bright side, it's one extra hour to send in your submission. Journal 16, "Sabotage," is open until December 15. Time is complicit. Do your worst!

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Muleskinner Journal is excited to open submissions for Journal 16. Our theme is Sabotage! Do your worst.

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Submissions for Journal 16 open on October 15. Our theme? Sabotage! Do your worst.

Muleskinner Journal Presents TENSION, our fifteenth journal

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Muleskinner closes out our meditations on Tension with a remarkable story from Maryah Converse. Please afford it the space and honor it deserves. We’ll see you soon.

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Nick Di Carlo takes us on another wild ride. Our patience is wearing thin. Our tension is running out.

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Scott Ruescher’s new poem, gracing Muleskinner today, swims upstream with piranha and crocodile, and all sorts of tense and wonderful things.

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Writer Atma Frans brings us a tension-filled short story about gardening. And a few other matters, as well.

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Today, a short poem from the acclaimed Paul Hostovsky. Back Door 1973. Includes a tetherball.

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Poet David Kirby returns to Muleskinner with forgotten history, a story for the ages to make your day

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Muleskinner presents a poem with pain and wonder. Father in the Next Room is a room with and without a view.

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Margot Wizansky’s remarkable poem To Love in that Insane Tortured Way will make you think twice – a good thing.

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A.Z. Foreman brings us a sonnet cut short, for our time. This poem brings it all home.

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From poet Callie Crouch, a poem you can’t quite quit.

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Annie Weeks brings us an excerpt from her upcoming novel. It’s set in the Netherlands, a long time ago, today.

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Today in MSJ: Poet Joel Bush offers insight on roads taken, not taken, and lived on. Not a beginner’s course. A collision course.

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From MSJ today, flash fiction that moves: “The Bus Driver’s Routine” and the road to redemption.

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Poet Shannon Cates sings a song for what’s been lost, but not forgotten

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Today, on the eve of Labor Day, an amazing poem. Briana Naseer takes us on a journey of acceptance

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Diane Gottlieb lines things up in just the right way. Did you hear it too?

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Today in MSJ: Ken Foxe takes us on a wild ride – without ever leaving the house.

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Today in MSJ, a short piece of family history. Heather Pegas reminds us that there’s no tension like generational tension.

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A Muleskinner request: Please read this poem from David J.S. Pickering.

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MSJ today presents a new poem from Sarah Dickenson Snyder. The Beekeeper will stay with you.

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Buenos Aires-based writer Calla Smith presents a tense, powerful, thought-provoking flash fiction story that comes to stay.

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Rev up your engine. Poet Marisa P. Clark was born to ride. And so is our collection on Tension.

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Submissions for Journal 15 will open on July 17. Our theme is Tension. See our Submission Guidelines for all the dirt.
We can’t wait to read your work. Enjoy the flower.

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Muleskinner Journal announces Journal Fourteen. Thanks to everyone who submitted work. What you'll find is what we selected. Memorable work, agonizingly selected over other great work. We are proud and lucky. See here.

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Do you have some time this weekend? We have an amazing treat for you.

We close our Handle & Spout meditations with a handful of new pieces of transformative work from five writers you should know.

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Rough road behind. Open Road ahead. See our pages today for the newest work from writer M F Drummy, whose debut collection is upcoming from Main Street Rag Press.

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