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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.

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Creative Nonfiction: An Everyday Occurrence by Angela Marotta It was still ugly but didn’t really have a witchy vibe to it anymore; in fact, I could feel the corners of my mouth turn up as I gazed at it.

"It was still ugly but didn’t really have a witchy vibe to it anymore"

Creative Nonfiction: An Everyday Occurrence by Angela Marotta

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Plot Points: An Interview with Matt Norman with Jen Michalski Reading a funny writer writing about grief was very helpful.

"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 & Henry’s Holiday Movie Marathon!

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Creative Nonfiction: Off the Wall by Angela Townsend It turns out spackling is a friendly art. The seven-dollar tube was forgiving and cooperative. β€œToo much” and β€œtoo little” could both be fixed.

"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 Welcome Our Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Megan Doney!

Welcome Our Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Megan Doney!

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Creative Nonfiction: The Fourth Trimester by Kelley Dundas I do not know the time or day but I can still count backwards from one-hundred.

"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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Crafting the β€œOther”: On Hybrid & Beyond-Genre by Bradley David Waters Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st!

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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Congratulations to our 2026 Best of Net nominees! Congratulations to our 2026 Best of Net nominees!

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Poetry: Where It Opened I Filled With the East River by Rachel Mikita The river is rushing through β€” stones upholding negative space.

"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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Creative Nonfiction: My Earliest Memory, but Not Really by John Janelle Backman The scene runs like a video loop in my head, three seconds long.

"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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Welcome Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Keene Short Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Keene Short!

Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Keene Short!

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The Ebb and Flow: An Interview with Grant Clausner by Curtis Smith I tell my students that the poet’s mind is never happy with just one thingβ€”it has to be ready to see 18 things in every one thing.

"I tell my students that the poet’s mind is never happy with just one thingβ€”it 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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Poetry: we time travel all the time and it isn’t great by Nathaniel Calhoun something is shifting and I don’t 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.

"something is shifting and I don’t 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 isn’t great by Nathaniel Calhoun

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Creative Nonfiction: Is This Abuse? by Ashton Russell I stared at the thunderstorm rolling in and wondered if that was the last time I would get to speak to my mother.

"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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Welcome our Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, K Roberts Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, K Roberts!

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One Poem at a Time: An Interview with Bill Hollands by Diane Gottlieb I use the writing to help me figure it out, to come to some understanding, and perhaps some resolution.

"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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We are looking for a senior fiction editor! jmwwΒ is currently looking for a Senior Fiction Editor!

jmwwΒ is looking for a Senior Fiction Editor!Β 

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Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted! We’re growing again, and we’d like to add another associate creative nonfiction editor!

Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted!

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Creative Nonfiction: Sign With Love, Not Fear by Xavion Davis Because even the alarm clock felt like a cage. It didn’t wake me up. It caught me.

"Because even the alarm clock felt like a cage. It didn’t wake me up. It caught me."

Creative Nonfiction: Sign With Love, Not Fear by Xavion Davis

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Editorial Team Announcements We have some exciting editorial changes to announce at jmww! Olga Katsovskiy has been promoted to Editor-in-Chief. Jen Michalski, Founding Editor, will stay on as our Interviews Editor.

'β€œI have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.” ~ Anne Truitt,Β ProspectΒ (1996)"

Editorial Team Announcements
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Welcome our Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Heather Harris Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Heather Harris!

Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Heather Harris!

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Creative Nonfiction: Dead Sea by Allison Field Bell I understood that being who he was meant he would likely die young. I didn’t understand what young meant.

"Uncle Henry. His obsession with Elvis and bowling and twinkies."

Creative Nonfiction: Dead Sea by Allison Field Bell

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Welcome Our Newest Associate Flash Fiction Editor, Jason Lee Norman! Introducing New Associate Flash Fiction Editor, Jason Lee Norman!

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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Thinking Outside the Box: A Conversation withΒ Maw Shein WinΒ by Swetha Amit My previous poetry collection … was more conceptual, focusing on poems as containers and containers as poems. I think of Percussing the Thinking Jar as having more of a sprawling, all-over fe…

"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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Woman of the Hour: An Interview with Claire Polders by Claire Ibarra We can feel unseen in our experiences if we don’t see them represented in popular culture, which is so often saturated with simplified or sanitized versions of female life.

We can feel unseen in our experiences if we don’t 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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Welcome Our Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Charlotte Van Schaack! Introducing New Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor Charlotte Van Schaack!

Introducing Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor Charlotte Van Schaack!

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We are seeking an Associate Flash Fiction Editor! jmwwΒ is currently looking for anΒ Associate Flash Fiction Editor!

We need a few good folks!

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Detonation: An Interview with Peter Mountford by Jamey Baumgardt I like characters whose perspective is cracked in this way, who have no sense of belonging.

"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 are seeking an Associate Flash Fiction Editor! jmwwΒ is currently looking for anΒ Associate Flash Fiction Editor!

We're looking for a few good candidates! Come volunteer with an amazing team of flash readers!

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