"It was still ugly but didnβt really have a witchy vibe to it anymore"
Creative Nonfiction: An Everyday Occurrence by Angela Marotta
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jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/), a weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
"It was still ugly but didnβt really have a witchy vibe to it anymore"
Creative Nonfiction: An Everyday Occurrence by Angela Marotta
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"Novel ideas are weird."
Had a blast talking to my fellow writer, friend, Baltimore lover, and funny guy Matt Norman about his new novel, Grace & Henryβs Holiday Movie Marathon!
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"It turns out spackling is a friendly art."
Creative Nonfiction: Off the Wall by Angela Townsend
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Welcome Our Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Megan Doney!
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03.10.2025 17:16 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"I do not know the time or day but I can still count backwards from one-hundred."
Creative Nonfiction: The Fourth Trimester by Kelley Dundas
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Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st!
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"The river is rushing through β
stones upholding negative space."
Poetry: Where It Opened I Filled With the East River by Rachel Mikita
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"The scene runs like a video loop in my head, three seconds long."
Creative Nonfiction: My Earliest Memory, but Not Really by John Janelle Backman
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Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Keene Short!
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"I tell my students that the poetβs mind is never happy with just one thingβit has to be ready to see 18 things in every one thing."
The Ebb and Flow: An Interview with Grant Clausner by Curtis Smith
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"something is shifting and I donβt know if it is that point or those moments or that line after which we are no longer amused by our stumbling and become concerned"
Poetry: we time travel all the time and it isnβt great by Nathaniel Calhoun
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"I stared at the thunderstorm rolling in and wondered if that was the last time I would get to speak to my mother."
Creative Nonfiction: Is This Abuse? by Ashton Russell
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"I use the writing to help me figure it out, to come to some understanding, and perhaps some resolution."
One Poem at a Time: An Interview with Bill Hollands by Diane Gottlieb
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jmwwΒ is looking for a Senior Fiction Editor!Β
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Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted!
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"Because even the alarm clock felt like a cage. It didnβt wake me up. It caught me."
Creative Nonfiction: Sign With Love, Not Fear by Xavion Davis
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'βI have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.β ~ Anne Truitt,Β ProspectΒ (1996)"
Editorial Team Announcements
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Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Heather Harris!
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"Uncle Henry. His obsession with Elvis and bowling and twinkies."
Creative Nonfiction: Dead Sea by Allison Field Bell
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We are thrilled to welcome our newest Associate Flash Fiction Editor, Jason Lee Norman!
Jason Lee Norman is the co-founder of Funicular Magazine. He lives, writes, and eats in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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"I think of Percussing the Thinking Jar as having more of a sprawling, all-over feel."
Thinking Outside the Box: A Conversation withΒ Maw Shein WinΒ by Swetha Amit
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We can feel unseen in our experiences if we donβt see them represented in popular culture, which is so often saturated with simplified or sanitized versions of female life.
Woman of the Hour: An Interview with Claire Polders by Claire Ibarra
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Introducing Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor Charlotte Van Schaack!
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We need a few good folks!
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"I like characters whose perspective is cracked in this way, who have no sense of belonging."
Detonation: An Interview with Peter Mountford by Jamey Baumgardt
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We're looking for a few good candidates! Come volunteer with an amazing team of flash readers!
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