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Two Sylvias Press: Write 30 New Poems in April
Back by popular demand: Write 30 new poems for NaPoWriMo!
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Villanelle for the Wound
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Grass Flower Head
Mama Was a Negro Spiritual
She was a goodnight prayer, a moon that Shined down on me through her bedroom Window. She was the alphabet, a Sunday School verse, a third Sunday gospel song to Rehearse, a mostly misunderstood exchange Of power, responsibility & commands. She was a black '73 Ford LTD, a Nottoway River…
Teacup of the Rose
The rose is painted red. There is no other teacup of the rose unbroken. I bring it to my mother. Mother cries, for her mother's rose garden once tended with love. When Mother sleeps, please pardon: she is an orphan now. Her father, long of the sea, mute; or could…
Augumtoocooke
North side of the Merrimack is what the Pennacooks called Augumtoocooke, but as I drive east along Pawtucket Boulevard there's no seeing Augumtoocooke. That road pours into Varnum Ave then onto the VFW Highway so on my left I see Heritage Park, the University, a Mickey D's, Dad's frat, but…
Robeson County, North Carolina, 1993, 1939
We hiked deep into the back woods, Carolina pines covering our swollen faces and the pillow cases that pushed us. Our sandals crunched dry-rotted twigs and fern fronds whispered hello and goodbye in one breath, Our necks smelled of bug spray and camp bunks, metallic sweat and dried blood. we…
The Barrio
To love your lover as you love your city; To move along the sutures of her streets At noon, and touch the swaying palm, her body. This spot at which her cheek and temple meet. A smoldering of herbs is wafting from The kitchen of her mind—paprika, chives And marijuana…
Lemon Blossoms
In Miss Sahar's Arabic class, we learned to conjugate the verb saar, a variant of the past tense. We learned that to describe what became of the people after the war we would have to remember a tray of cheese pastries supple and pale, nestled in neat rows. We would…
Literary Citizenship
Creative writing teacher Cathy Day’s principles for contributing to a stronger literary community
Jewish Storyteller Press
Small press revives classics of Yiddish literature in English translation
Yard Work
Our mother prowled the yard, winding wires around bare stems of rose bushes, attaching Woolworth's plastic roses— her flowered house dress puffed out full, hair lifting like flames. I watched, embarrassed by how tacky, how pathetic but it had been a bad spring all around what with Dad's drinking and…
Man Talk
I watched the landscape pass from the back of a Volkswagen Passat crammed between lads of size and silence until we stopped on the shoreline. I watched scrubs of grass anchored to sand dunes, pebbles, shells and driftwood scattered on the sand, seaweed snaking through thin streams of seawater into…
Trying to Get My Body Back
As if the baby had slithered away with it. As if I had carried a spare change of bodies into the hospital in my overnight bag. As if a trapper had come in the night, slit it from me like a pelt, leaving me pooled in the bedsheets. As if…
The New Sentimentality
Involves this fascination with purging. O to live off of very small servings of sushi and gourmet teas. My uncle paints his thoughts onto teapots, one circled with commentary on eating a handful of dry brown rice: “you'd be surprised to find what comes out.” A physical, unexplainable desire to…
Tim Slade
Tim Slade (born 1976) is a Tasmanian poet. Long-term ill-health led him to poetry. Tim has been published in The Weekend Australian and is forthcoming in Cordite. His favourite poet is George Mackay Brown.
Matt W. Miller
Matt was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He played football at Yale University until a neck injury senior year put him back in the library reading all the books he forgot to read and doing a little writing. He worked as a fry cook, a bouncer, a landscaper, a…
Belle Ling
Belle Ling was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the New Territories of Hong Kong. After finishing her study in English Studies at The University of Hong Kong, she went to Australia to study Master of Creative Writing at The University of Sydney. There, she embarked on her…
Brooke Harris
Brooke Harris was born in Pinehurst, NC to New York City parents. She later moved to Lexington, KY as a child and never left. After attending Asbury University for Journalism, she later received her MFA in Writing from Spalding University. She is currently cultivating her passions of writing, painting and…
Wes Civilz
Wes Civilz lives on a green hill in Vermont. He writes poetry and short fiction, but is currently focusing on a memoir about intoxication. He also posts a daily micro-poem on Instagram under the profile @wes_civilz. His work has appeared in such journals as The Antioch Review, Arts & Letters,…
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American writer of Palestinian, Syrian, and Jordanian heritage. She is the author of Water & Salt (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award, and Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize. She holds a BA in Comparative…
Simon Lewis
Simon lives in Carlow, Ireland. He works as the principal of his local Educate Together primary school. He is well known in education circles for his views on technology in education and has written several publications in this field. He also cares passionately about equality, particularly in education, and campaigns…
Jen Stewart Fueston
Jen Stewart Fueston is a writer and teacher. She spent most of her early adulthood obtaining degrees, traveling widely, and teaching internationally. Now as a mom of two young sons, she works from home in suburban Colorado. She publishes regularly in anthologies and journals such as Ruminate, Christian Century, and…
McKayla Conahan
McKayla Conahan is a poet currently residing in Richmond, Virginia where ze is getting zer MFA. Ze hails from three different cities in South Carolina, and has a degree from the College of Charleston in Astronomy.
Sean Patrick Mulroy
Sean Patrick Mulroy is an internationally recognized writer, musician, and performer. Born and raised in small-town southern Virginia, he has presented his poetry and music in art galleries, at literary festivals, in concert venues and universities in 10 countries and on 3 continents and his recorded poetry performances have garnered…
Latorial Faison
Latorial Faison was born and raised in rural Southampton County, VA. A military wife, mother, and educator, Faison attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and completed graduate studies in English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. Over the years, Faison has nurtured her passion for writing by continuing to…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2018
Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Old Graveyard
By Richard Eric Johnson
Tint Journal
Online literary journal for ESL (English as a second language) writers
Emily Bracale Wins the Grand Prize in Our 4th Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its fourth annual North Street Book Prize competition for self-published books
Miller Audio Prize from The Missouri Review
Four categories: audio documentary, poetry, prose, and humor
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Two Sylvias Press Poetry Chapbook Prize
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William Van Dyke Short Story Prize
Sponsored by Ruminate Magazine
Subscriber News: February 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
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Online book club of The American Scholar magazine
The Savvy Self-Publisher
Poets & Writers series of case studies on successful self-published authors
Narrative Magazine’s Directory of Literary Agents
Advice and links to established agents in many genres
Pavarotti and Pancakes
Critique by Jendi Reiter Francesco Granieri's epic memoir Pavarotti and Pancakes chronicles growing up with a mother who slid into psychosis because of sexual abuse in her childhood. Part family saga, part cultural history of Italian-American manhood, “Chichi's” tragicomic coming-of-age narrative is set against a backdrop of the rise and…
Trading Fours
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Trading Fours by Angela Carole Brown was one of my most enjoyable and compelling reads in this year's contest. Brown's novel about Los Angeles musicians whose lives revolve around setting up gigs and making ends meet is a smart commentary about being a talented, struggling artist…
She’s Such a Bright Girl
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Petula Caesar's memoir She's Such a Bright Girl: An American Story, an exploration of the intersections of racism, classism, and sexism with a focus on colorism within the author's nuclear family, urgently needs a wider audience. As one of our screeners noted: “This book is a…
Saving Nary
Critique by Jendi Reiter Saving Nary, Carol DeMent's historical novel about the 1970s Cambodian genocide, is both wrenching and inspirational, with some touches of humorous domestic drama to lighten the fare. The issues raised by this book remain highly relevant in present-day America, as we face another refugee crisis where…
Sarabande
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Sarah Hina's Sarabande is a lyrical romance novel in which two strangers are drawn together by music, archaeology, and coincidence—or perhaps fate. Spoiler alert: the following two paragraphs of this critique reveal some of Sarabande's unusual plot twists. Colin, a young man who works as an…
Prophet and Loss
Critique by Jendi Reiter K. Gordon Neufeld's slim but intense story collection Prophet and Loss: Stories of Extreme Beliefs serves up a montage of characters who are insidiously recruited into various cults. Some fight for their freedom, while others succumb to the expert manipulations that exhaust and isolate them. The…
Home Water
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Juliette Chen's Home Water: Poems, Stories, Prints was my favorite book in this year's contest, the first year that included poetry as a category. I especially loved the artistic creativity of this book; it is a hybrid work that includes poems, lyric prose, and the writer's…
From the Banks of Brook Avenue
Critique by Jendi Reiter W.R. Rodriguez's poetry collection From the Banks of Brook Avenue immersed me in the New York City I remember from my 1970s Lower East Side childhood—the many fertile layers of industrial and immigrant history buried under the grit and hustle of new enterprises. Here, a working-class…
A Friendship Forever
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Jeannine Bernardi's picture book A Friendship Forever, illustrated by Rob Hay, focuses on the joyous friendship between two chimpanzees in their natural rainforest environment. Human interventions are causing sickness and deforestation. Neo goes missing, and Ayo must cope with the loss of his best friend. A…
Our Last Six Months
Critique by Jendi Reiter Emily Bracale's graphic narrative Our Last Six Months is a refreshing variation on the end-of-life caregiver memoir. The grayscale illustrations, in simple pen-and-ink wash, convey both the gentle hush of a soul letting go, and the monotony and depression of a family's world constricting to the…
Once Upon a Parsnip
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Once Upon a Parsnip by Barbara Jean Hicks and Kevin R. Wood, with illustrations by Ben Mann, is a creative retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. It's packed with illustrations and Seuss-like rhymes sure to delight listening children and the adults who read the…
