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Christopher Fielden’s Links to Writing Critique Services

Links to sites offering free and paid critiques

Omer Friedlander and BK Loren Win the 28th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest

This contest, sponsored by Winning Writers and Duotrope, awarded $8,000 in prizes to 12 winners

Dead Darlings

Novel-writing advice blog by alumni of GrubStreet Boston’s Novel Incubator

Catholic Poetry Room

Devotional poetry column on the Integrated Catholic Life website is open to submissions

Oprelle “Matter” Poetry Contest

Oprelle wants to recognize hidden talent by giving unknown writers a chance to be published

Tales from the Trail

Short poetry videos inspired by US hiking trails

Subscriber News: October 2020

Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers

Ryan Henry (a pseudonym) comes to see me at the end of the day, practically tiptoeing into the classroom to be sure he's not bothering me. He checks to see if the coast is clear before making eye contact. “How do you make a point you're trying to make?” His…

In the Mouth of the Mountains

It is 9:00 p.m. in Kit Carson Park. Although the path leading to the cemetery is barred off (“open from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.”, the sign reads), the other path is open. My shoes kiss the gravel as I cautiously venture into the park. I'm here to take a…

The Color of Pilgrimage

Labbayk, Allahuma labbayk, labbayk la sharika laka labbayk, Innal Hamda wan nimata, laka wal mulk, la sharika lak. I am here at Your service, O Allah. I am here at Your service. You have no partner. I am here at Your Service. Praise and blessing belong to You, and the…

The Gift

火葬 Cremation The fire devoured Mama whole, ate everything: her silky black hair, her willow leaf-shaped eyes, her almost-amputated, diabetes-swollen legs. 洗澡 Bath In Taiwan, when I was little, my family lived in a traditional Japanese house—a minka—that had been a government official's compound during the Japanese Occupation Era (1895-1945…

Soft n’ Sheepish: No-More-Lyes Conditioning Crème Relaxer System

Welcome back! If you're reading this, you've caved, and are once again about to embark on chemically relaxing your hair even though you promised yourself you were finally going natural. * Okay, at this point tell yourself again that this isn't just about internalized racism and upholding white standards of…

The Painted Box

The young man stepped out onto the cool patio stones, beyond which lay the abandoned orchard and the tiny field of oats and, past that, the desert. He peered eastward, toward the faint lightening on the December horizon like a wash of watercolor. He cocked his head, hearing what might…

No Use in Takin’ Chances

“Boy take your hands from locked from behind your head.” I was only vaguely aware of the stout voice issuing a command. I ignored it, secure in the knowledge that, for once, it couldn't be aimed at me. My homework and house chores were done. Howdy Doody was on television…

House of Stones

Othelia Malan lay face up in the dirt. The wind picked up, and above her, dark ashes clouded the sky. A grey flake settled on her cheek, then several others on her hair. Her blond plait was caked in warm blood as was her shirt, flapping in the wind. In…

When We Get Where We’re Going

The tall man with the beard stood for a moment and stomped the snow off his boots. The boy wore a baggy coat over his pajamas and no shoes, but mimicked the man, stomping his bare feet on the ice. The boy's feet were swollen and blue, yet he lifted…

Fall

No one knew what happened until after he hit the ground. Until after his eyes faded shut, after the arm wrapped around his neck loosened its grip and slipped off. Jonah had his back turned. Dave saw nothing at all. There must have been other people there, they realized later.…

Sir, May I Have a Pack of Marlboros?

Illustrations by Amanda Elanor Tribble I'm standing in the threshold wearing a tank top and torn boxers, my hands gripping the top of the doorway. I arch my body forward like a bow and arrow when I talk. “I don't even like women,” I tell her. “They bug me. Even…

The Sand Collector

Illustration by Phillip Fleming I fell in love with Salim twenty-five years ago, when the last Israeli soldiers were withdrawing from Sinai. It was 1982, I was fourteen, and I remember watching on television as the Egyptians raised their red-white-and-black flag with the eagle of Saladin atop the fence that…

Jim Zervanos

Jim Zervanos is the author of the novel LOVE Park, which Charles Baxter praised as “funny and moving”, Philadelphia Magazine called “smart, insightful”, and The Philadelphia Inquirer featured in a front-page story. He has finished two memoirs, That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story and Your Story Starts Here…

Remi Recchia

Remi Recchia is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English-Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Cimarron Review and Reviews Editor for Gasher Journal. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi’s work has appeared or…

Ilari Pass

When Ilari Pass isn't writing poetry, personal essays, or short stories, she recites Ayahs (verses) from the Quran and enjoys traveling with her family. Her new endeavor is to introduce readers of all faiths to Muslim children and families, showing them positively in published works such as picture and chapter…

Allison Hong Merrill

Allison was born and raised in Taiwan and arrived in the US at age 22 as a university student. That's when she realized her school English wasn't much help when asking for directions on the street or opening a bank account. By recording each of the classes she took––including physical…

Tara Campbell

With a BA in English, an MA in German, and an MFA in Creative Writing, Tara Campbell has a demonstrated aversion to money and power. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, she has also lived in Oregon, Ohio, New York, Germany and Austria. She currently lives in Washington, DC. She is the…

Suzanne Paschall

Suzanne has been writing since the fifth grade, when she produced a “book” (four pages of stapled lined A-4 paper) about a family vacation weekend. She grew up to write hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, blog posts and three albums of original music before turning to stories and books.…

Donald Marbury

Reverend Donald L. Marbury is an ordained African Methodist Episcopal Church elder and currently serves as the senior pastor of Ebenezer AME Church in Hagerstown, MD. He had been for 11 years the senior pastor of Ebenezer AME Church in Brunswick, Maryland, and from 2000 to 2005 he was the…

Anna Prawdzik Hull

Anna Prawdzik Hull is a Canadian writer, literary translator, and editor based in Albuquerque, NM. She holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University and an MFA in fiction from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). She earned a research master's degree in sociolinguistics and linguistic human rights, for which she conducted…

Blake Goodwin

Blake Goodwin is growing up among the views and brews of the Colorado front range. He has dropped out of college three times and has gone back to college three times, and will probably do both of those things at least once more—but he will never stop writing. His stories…

Alexandra Blogier

Alexandra Blogier was born and raised in Boston, MA. She attended the University of Maryland, where she studied Social and Cultural History. She is the author of The Last Girl on Earth, a Young Adult science fiction romance hailed as “an immersive and intriguing alien invasion story that focuses not…

BK Loren

BK Loren's novel Theft was awarded the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers award, a Willa (Cather) award, and was a finalist for the Lambda award, among others. Her essay collection Animal, Mineral, Radical garnered the Colorado book award, and BK is thankful for the fellowships, grants and awards each essay…

Omer Friedlander

Omer Friedlander grew up in Tel-Aviv. His short story collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, and his novel, The Glass Golem, are both forthcoming from Random House. He has a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and an MFA from Boston University, where…