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The Web of Language
Newsworthy articles about developments in language and technology
The Steve Kowit Poetry Prize
Win prizes and publication in the San Diego Poetry Annual
Subscriber News: August 2018
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Blanket Sea
Free online journal showcases artists and writers with mental illness, chronic illness, and disability
Serial Box
App featuring serialized fiction by prominent authors
Writing Resources for Veterans at the Iowa Review
Links to journals, workshops, and contests for veterans
University of Arizona Poetry Center
Contests, basic publishing advice, and articles
Torrey House Press
Pacific Northwest small press with focus on environmental awareness
UnLost: A Journal of Found Poetry
Online journal features poetry made from other texts and collage art
The Sea Letter
Contributors get paid at this journal of poetry, fiction, and art
Dolorem Ipsom
Dolorem Ipsom is an Avid Adventurer and recovering Mushroom Squisher, who takes her inspiration from the Workplace as well as the Wilderness. Current works include a Graphic Science Fiction novel, The Stellar Companion, which she hopes to complete during her 2019 southbound thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. When she isn't…
The Swipe Sonnets
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My 5 Year Old Nephew Pushes My Buttons
CAR RIDES Me: Okay buddy, buckle up. Tom: Why? Me: Because I promised your mum I’d take care of you, lil' fella. Tom: Why? Me: We want to make sure you're safe. Tom: Why? Me: I'm just taking care of you, champ. Tom: Why? Me: Because it is a kind…
The Seagull
Once upon a lighthouse dreary, As I wandered, old and beardy, Round cold corridors and crannies Of that tower's frozen core, I thought I heard a rumble, A storm's deep approaching grumble, 'Fore the rain begins to tumble And the ocean starts to roar. ''Twas my belly: I forgot it,'…
Declaration of Love
By Mary O’Melveny
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter
By Theodora Goss
House of McQueen
By Valerie Wallace
We Have Art, Nietzsche Said, So That We Shall Not Be Destroyed by the Truth
I. the first time frank called me it was to say he wanted to buy my land and began unfurling his plans to start a canine center a dog track and an indoor water park you wouldn't think he said that water parks are a gold mine but waters parks…
The Birthday Party
Siri breaks the bitter news: “You have arrived at your destination.” The Birthday Party Where I only know the host Why did I agree to this? The car door opens and my obstinate, rebellious legs Bring me to the front door Just make an appearance… 30 minutes I knock, Breathe,…
Clock Signal: The Medulla of the Device
I put together a little synopsis of our work so far here on Clock Signal, just so you can get the gist of the Whole Picture. Hope it helps, and sort of Sets the Stage for our Important Work. Feeling Very Humbled and Great-filled to Play a Role in Such…
The 5 Stages of Being on Hold
1. Denial Any second now. Any second now someone will pick up. After all, she said, “Hold on, I'll check,” and it shouldn't take her that long to check something so simple. Besides, the recorded voice that breaks up the Muzak keeps saying that someone will be with me shortly,…
What Only Parents Say
pop off Spider-Man's head and brush your teeth how do you think the faucet broke? don't put chewed food in the take home box I'm not sure how many minutes until the baby comes yes, caperdillars do become bufferflies we only put poop and pee in the potty why would…
Why Be Coy When You Could Be Pregnant?
(after Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”—The Coy Mistress replies.) Since coyness is for you a crime, A long hors d'oeuvre to main course, time, Let me refute your weasel words And point out to you how absurd And typically male they are. Hyperbole and wit are far Removed from…
Shall We Go to the Seaside Dear?
That moment when the wife suggests a day trip to the sea A picnic on the beach she says, the kids and you and me We'll have to take the dog with us, he'll feel left out at home He gives me quite a baleful look while chewing on his…
Former 90s Supermodel Cindy Crawford Says People Shouldn’t Worry About Aging
I have two jobs, two kids. I get five hours of sleep a night. “True beauty is the energy you give out,” Cindy Crawford says, “and that comes through being happy.” She says on the inside, souls don't age and we are all who we were as children. Cindy Crawford…
To the Man Sitting in Front of Me Who Had His Chair Pushed All the Way Back from Before Take Off for the Duration of the 10-Hour Flight
Too good to listen to the flight attendants, are we? A real etiquette revolutionary, hmm? You have made a very powerless enemy with a lot of time to stew in your inconsideration. You are a yellow-toenailed sponge brain, a crumple-testicled beaverbutt. You are a hangover at work, a champagne flute…
Public Education
“Be a teacher!” they said. “It'll be fun!” they said. “It's rewarding!” they said. “June, July and August!” they said. Off to college I went with a revolutionist mindset Stay away from the parties, the drunkies, and flunkies “I'll change the world one child at a time, no child left…
How Thirteen Famous Men Performed Cunnilingus
I. Beethoven Badly. Blame deafness, his inability to hear the gasps of his audience, to glean their favored chord and tempo. But wasn't he always stuck in the sonata of his own mind, his faith in movements so grandiose, no mere man could play them? II. Abraham Lincoln With his…
If I Can Hear You Chew, I Have Fantasized About Your Death
Oh, Facebook, rollercoaster of my anger and self-righteousness, hermetic mental sandbox overstuffed with cat turds, it is a friend, a real life friend, who posts this; and it's in character, and that comes as a surprise because he is my friend, and because when I chew, there are noises. I…
Nina Thilo
Theresa Sowerby
Theresa Sowerby has written plays, poetry, and short stories. She has had poetry and flash fiction published in several UK-based magazines and anthologies, including Orbis and The High Window. Her poem, Migration, won first prize at the 2017 Huddersfield Literature Festival. Her one-act plays and monologues have made the finals…
R.D. Simmons
R.D. Simmons currently lives and works in London, where he is a journalist for a trade magazine. Realising his articles about Serious Business Issues were becoming increasingly flippant and filled with pop culture references, a couple of years ago he made a concerted attempt to write and illustrate his own…
Mick O Seasnain
Mick Ó Seasnáin has continually attempted to farm his quarter acre lot in the small town of Wooster, Ohio while catering to the diverse and often unanticipated needs of his tripod-ish dog and three rowdy children. His wife tolerates his creative habits and occasionally enables his binges of writing and…
Cayla Printz
Cayla Printz is from a suburban town north of Philadelphia. She received her M.B.A. from Florida Institute of Technology and her undergraduate degree in special education from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. This is the first time she has been a finalist for a writing contest and is beyond ecstatic. She…
Michael Meyerhofer
Michael Meyerhofer’s fifth book of poems, Ragged Eden, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press. He's also the author of a fantasy series and serves as the Poetry Editor of Atticus Review. His work has appeared in Rattle, Hayden's Ferry, Ploughshares, DIAGRAM, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and other journals. For more…
Jeanne Lutz
Jeanne Lutz grew up on a small dairy farm in southern Minnesota, attended the University of Ireland in Galway, and spent two years in Japan. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net nominee, and Loft Mentor Series winner for poetry, she is the author of the chapbook Hearts and…
Beatrice Lane-Smailes
Beatrice Lane-Smailes is a 15 year old student in 9th grade studying in Melbourne, Australia. Her poem “My 5 year old nephew pushes my buttons” was inspired by a car trip with her younger brother. This is Beatrice's first published work and she continues to write. Other passions include music,…
Erin Kirsh
Erin Kirsh is a writer, performer, rant maker, and funnyman from Toronto. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing has appeared in The Malahat Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, subTerrain, Cosmonauts Avenue, Geist, EVENT, Pulp Literature, Noble/Gas Quarterly, and more. In 2017, she won the Shadow Award from The Molotov Cocktail. Kirsh…
Lori Jakiela
Lori Jakiela is the author of five books, most recently the memoir Belief is its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (Atticus Books), which received the William Saroyan prize for International Writing from Stanford University, and the essay collection Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker (Bottom Dog Press). She…
Laura Burrow
Laura Burrow was born in Marietta, Georgia but recently moved to Ontario, Canada where it is very, very cold. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Kennesaw State University and is currently transitioning into selling her artwork full time. Earlier this year her poem “Last Words” won second place in a…
Sarah Cannavo
Sarah Cannavo is a writer of prose and poetry living in southern New Jersey, a short trip from the Pine Barrens. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as Where the Mind Dwells, Carrying On, and Untimely Frost, and will be included in the upcoming collection Darkling's Beasts and Brews.…
Madeleine Jackman
Madeleine Jackman is a recent graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.A. in English, where she successfully drank hundreds of late-night coffees while completing her honors thesis: Break It Down With Joy, an original poetry collection. Motivated by the caffeine in her system and a desire to…
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
Congratulations to the winners of our 2018 humor poetry contest!
The 4 C’s Approach of Successful Authors – Craft, Commitment, Community, and Confidence by Joan Gelfand
Writing strategies book filled with authorship and publishing tips
Subscriber News: July 2018
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
Novelist and scholar Katherine Langrish’s blog analyzes fairy tales and classic fantasy literature
The Prince and the Dressmaker
By Jen Wang
Her Body and Other Parties
By Carmen Maria Machado
A Thousand Nights at the War Window
By Judith Cody
It’s In the Knowing
By Carolyn Howard-Johnson
