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Jennie Stevenson

Jennie Stevenson tried a dazzling range of jobs including professional catering, teaching antenatal yoga, and almost becoming a lawyer, before remembering that she always wanted to be a writer when she grew up. She currently works as a freelance content writer. Born and brought up in the north of England,…

Jason Prokowiew

Jason Prokowiew received the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys, his braided memoir about his Russian father's adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. His writing has…

Rebekah McDermott

Rebekah McDermott is a writer and social worker based in London. Her work has been published by Bandit Fiction, Swoop Books, and Bedford Square Anthology, and in 2018 she won the national Children's Society short story competition in partnership with Viking, Penguin Random House UK. Her short stories have recently…

Talya Jankovits

Talya Jankovits' work has been featured in numerous literary magazines. Her fiction and poetry have received Pushcart Prize nominations, Best of the Net nominations, Editor's Choice awards, as well as Honorable Mentions. Her poetry collection, girl woman wife mother, is published by Kelsay Books. She holds her MFA in Creative…

Lanfu Liu

Lanfu Liu is a passionate student writer and researcher with a global perspective, having spent ten years studying abroad in various parts of the world. His love for travel has taken him to over 70 countries, where he has immersed himself in diverse cultures, histories, and landscapes. This extensive travel…

Kathleen McNamara

Kathleen McNamara's short fiction and essays have appeared in the North American Review, Witness, Reed, Nimrod, The Pinch, and other journals. Her fiction is also featured in the anthology This Side of the Divide (Vol. 2): New Lore of the American West from Baobab Press. Her writing has won Columbia…

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2024

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!

The Hunt

There are times in a man's life Where he must sigh With exasperation And simply declare With authority That we are having Thai food for dinner And during the protests From his girlfriend He must remind her That she did not At any point Suggest even a single alternative Additionally…

Funeral, a Musical

Nan was perturbed, her whole schedule disturbed by the reading of her late brother's will. But despite their old rift, Phil had left her a gift, with a promise she had to fulfill. “A clause both conditional and non-traditional, exists that I must enforce.” “Get on with it!” Nan said…

Ode to Better Writers

You write real good sometimes the stuff you write is so good I feel kind of weird when the stuff you write gets stuck in my head and I lose my words like whatever Sometimes I feel like Nicolas Cage in Face/Off about to unleash Hell when my worst enemy…

1976

The one time my mother spanked me, she stopped almost immediately because she'd hurt her hand. Face cast downward, she held her right hand out like an injured jay, cradled in her left. A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the window and fell to the white shag…

This Is Why I Don’t Go to Parties

I'm in a room where laughter dances and balloons cling to the ceiling like limpets. I'm in an ocean of people, and a mighty sailor beckons me to her. She bears puppets as if long-lost treasure. She smiles, opening her mouth to say something. Something ridiculous. Something bonkers. Something that…

I’m Living Laughing and Loving

it's what I say to the chorus of internet moms. We've gathered to share our joy, that Susan found a good deal on felt carrots to place into her repurposed bowl or that Annie finally found the right cardigan to wear to the ice cream social or that Sandy finished…

Sonnet Ending in Response of a Four-Year-Old Told to Stop Banging His Fork on the Table

O, I am a mad deed-doer, I am. I fuss for a drama, foam for a dram. I diss maids, use mud, reaffirm murder, I rudder Mafias, fraud reformers. I'm rum for amour, adore more of me, defer desire for mirrors I see. Am I rid of id, do I…

The Daring Escape (and Return) of the Three Muscatels

Three aunties resided at Leisurely Day, two of them sisters, Lenore and Renee. Althea they met at the Happy Hour mixers indulging in all sorts of boozy elixirs. Speaking of which, the three were inclined to tipple with ripple (that's fortified wine). “The Three Muscatels,” as people would whisper, though…

This Is a Test

As I sit in the soundproof booth I wonder why I am here staring at the oddly situated statue of Minnie Mouse on the ledge in the corner which sparks the question, was Minnie deaf? You'll hear ascending tones the audiologist said handing me the clicker Click when the sound…

So Good

Hard to know what to do on this late summer night with the windows wide open and the neighbors next door making love. Ignore it, I suppose, zip our lips, turn the lock, throw away the key, holding it in like strangers not speaking in a slow elevator in the…

The Ghost Writer

Ghost writing is a thankless job, Your ego kept at bay. The “Author's” name is safely kept, Behind an NDA. My books top the Bestseller List, Each cozy mystery Has all my heart and soul in it, But no one knows it's me. For the right price, my words are…

I’d Like to Donate It to the Library

Please prepare your celebrations because I've come to make a large donation. I know how trying times have been 'cause they've cut the budget yet again though you deserve greater allocation. I'd like to make a gift to you of this folk art made in '72 with arrowheads carefully pasted…

RoboBurger or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tech

Illustration by Annie Mydla using Shutterstock AI Epiphanies—flashes of insight and clarity Accrue their true value because of their rarity (How many times have you seen a bush burning And walked away steeped in Talmudic self-learning? Or discovered your best friend's romantic appeal Through a Mid-Nineties-Style “She's All That” reveal?)…

Gregg’s First Pizza Hut

Illustration by Annie Mydla using Shutterstock AI I want Gregg Wallace to be as impressed with me as he is by a biscuit factory. He's meeting me for dinner at the local Pizza Hut off the A14. It's Valentine's Day and this is the hottest I've ever felt. I've worn…

Torquay, 2 - The Other Team, 2

Illustration by Melody Iza Three hundred or so low guttural individual voices Combine into a cohesive whole, a chorus of Feral anticipation as these custard coloured titans Skip on to the pitch, the first among them kind of Punches limply through a paper hoop Emblazoned with their team sponsor's logo,…

Rain Taxi

Notable print and online quarterly of literary criticism

East Jasmine Review

Online journal aims to promote writing from marginalized groups

Los Angeles Review of Books

Prestigious review of literature, culture, and the arts

Stunning Design Examples to Inspire Your Book Advertising

BookBub showcases 25 effective book ads and why they work

Icebreakers Lit

Online journal of collaborative poetry and short prose

Poets and Patrons

Chicago-based poetry society offers national contests and online workshops

Tyler Vale

Tyler Vale is a writer and editor from Orlando, Florida. His freelance work has been featured in Orlando Weekly, and his now-defunct personal blog once had almost five devoted readers. He has been two months away from completing his debut novel for nearly a decade.

Jennifer Stephenson

Though she enjoyed writing from a young age, Jennifer Stephenson graduated from Auburn University with a degree in psychology. Throughout her administrative and management career, she wrote advertising and marketing materials, press releases and social media, blog and website content for numerous industries. She currently serves as the Community Relations…

Levi Stallings

Levi Stallings is a journalist, drone pilot, and documentary filmmaker based in the Southwest, with content appearing on Al Jazeera, Travel Channel, Voice of America, Salon, and more. His poetry has been published by Rinky Dink Press and read on the Next Door Villain podcast. His 2020 collection, Head Lines,…

Eric Roy

Eric Roy is the author of a chapbook, All Small Planes (Lily Poetry Review Press 2021), which received Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominations for its hybrid writing. His recent work can be found or is forthcoming at Apple Valley Review, Bennington Review, Fence, Harpur Palate, Iowa Review, Ploughshares,…

Connor Paris

Connor Paris is a Manhattan-based communications enthusiast who specializes in capturing the absurd, from the depths of a broken dystopia to the laughs between the lines of humorous prose. He's been published in the Greenwitch Magazine as well as the Greenwich Free Press, and currently works as a communications-focused assistant…

Luisa Muradyan

Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine, and is the author of I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated (Bridwell Press, forthcoming 2025), When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, forthcoming 2027), and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She is the winner of the 2017 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book…

Hailey Leithauser

Hailey Leithauser is the author of Swoop (Graywolf, 2013) which won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature, and Saint Worm (Able Muse Press, 2019). “Sonnet Ending in Response of a Four-Year-Old Told to Stop Banging His Fork on the Table” is from…

A.J. Layague

A.J. Layague is a Filipino American poet, playwright, and composer with degrees in music from Stanford University (BA), CalArts (MFA), and UC San Diego (PhD). She has received awards and grants from The Puffin Foundation, MAP Fund, Synecdoche Works, Sejong Cultural Society, Humanities for the Public Good, Center for Cultural…

Jim Landwehr

Jim Landwehr has four published memoirs, At the Lake, Cretin Boy, Dirty Shirt, and The Portland House. Jim also has six poetry collections, Tea in the Pacific Northwest, Thoughts from a Line at the DMV, Genetically Speaking, Reciting from Memory, Written Life, and On a Road. His nonfiction and poetry…

John Hodgen

John Hodgen is the Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, and Advisory Editor for New Letters at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Hodgen won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). His fifth book, The Lord of Everywhere, is out…

Christy Hartman

Christy Hartman is a Canadian short fiction writer based on stunning Vancouver Island. She is published in Elegant Literature, Bright Flash Literary Review, and Fairfield Scribes, among others. When not writing, Christy can be found floating in the Pacific Ocean or in her kitchen experimenting with creative vegan meals and…

Caitlin C. Baker

Caitlin C. Baker currently resides in Northeast Ohio with her husband and two cats, Purrlock Holmes and Professor Meowriarty. Her work has appeared in The Belmont Story Review, Red Ogre Review, Kaleidoscope Magazine: Exploring the Experience of Disability Through Literature and the Fine Arts, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Funny Times,…

Abbie Loosemore

Abbie Loosemore (she/her) is a queer poet based in Cambridgeshire. Her comedy poetry takes listeners on an absurdist romp through cinema and pop culture which verges on the witty and erotic. Her poetry has been published by Gobjaw Poetry Collective (2023) and Bullshit Lit (2024). She performs her poetry regularly…