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Using Subtext to Add Depth to a Scene
Managing Editor’s blog: What you haven’t written may be as important as what you have
Tamra Badgett
Tamra Badgett, final judge of our Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest , is a writer of prose poetry, nonfiction, and memoir. She holds an MA and MFA from the School of Letters in Sewanee, Tennessee, where her work explored language, memory, and the quiet complexities of Southern…
Circle of Sawdust by Rob Mermin
A Circus Memoir of Mud, Myth, Mirth, Mayhem and Magic - Winner of the 2024 North Street Book Prize for Creative Nonfiction & Memoir
Glossy Planet Magazine: Monsters We Made
Show us what “monsters of our own making” means to you.
How to Order and Organize a Poetry Collection Manuscript
Trio House Press Editor Kris Bigalk suggests strategies for giving your manuscript a compelling arc
Subscriber News: October 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Glossy Planet
Monthly online journal gives prizes for creative writing based on current events
Requiem for a Bubble Tea
Illustration by Connie Chang (no relation to author) 波霸奶茶的安魂曲 Up in a fifteenth-floor condominium in Xindian, my mother is writing instructions for “boiled song-ban 肉” on a Post-it note. The reason: my mother, vaccinated, is leaving Taipei to tend to her garden in California, and she doesn't want me—a woman…
An Ornithology of Grief
1. Cardinal. The males are too ostentatious, trite, and showy. Seven states have the cardinal as their state bird. Not to be cruel, but enough is enough. There are other birds. Except: The females are exquisite: they have an air-brushed quality to them, their only flash of red is on…
Process: An Excerpt
Foros wakes me up at 9:36 a.m. asking about a K2 stick. He wants to know if he finished it last night. “I don't know,” I say, “I don't think so.” I go back to sleep and wake up at 12:16 in the afternoon. I walk to the cell door…
Steven R. Perez
Steven Perez's prison memoirs and personal essays have been published online by American Short Fiction, PEN America, Literature Hub, and The Texas Observer. In print, his work has been featured in the University of Texas at Austin's 2016-17 Pen City Writers Literary Journal. His nonfiction is also spotlighted in the…
Shakespeare
I cannot believe it. I get off my bike in the middle of Cornelia Street and stand, staring at the café. It is the height of summer. I am frozen in place. Crumpled in the doorway, next to the Voilà delivery—croissants, brioches, pains au chocolat —is a sizeable bundle, bigger…
Perfect
“He's perfect,” Joy said, whispering the first words ever spoken about our newborn son. She began passing Cameron to me, but her eyes never left his frowning pink face, and for a moment I wasn't certain she could let him go. When he finally made it into my arms, he…
All Girls, But One
“The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out.” —J.M. Barrie Once upon a time, I knew a girl who was magic. On Friday…
So Have I Been a Good Stepmother?
I will speak for her. She is, after all, my stepmother. Ever After: A Cinderella Story After crossing over the Duwamish Waterway, the number 137 bus climbed up Boeing Hill. The bus moved with agonizing slowness, and I worried it would lose its grip on the road and roll, like…
Architectural Plans
I am a woman who knows how to select wood. I married a carpenter, Mau, and like wives of yesteryear took on his trade, his name, and built a family business. There were other things I could have done with my life, but there aren't many positions posted for philosophy…
When Sister Joan Opens the Door
I am a white male. I am an alcoholic. I am twenty-six years old. I am a long way from home. I am driving toward Las Cruces where the Organ Mountains shoot like granite geysers into the dawn. An odd, fierce wind churns through the slotted crags and hits the…
Grandma’s Way
Grandma is white bones now, but before she died, she insisted I get a dog. “Not a teeny, little one like that hotel heiress sticks in her pocketbook, but a real dog. A German Shepherd, or Pit Bull.” “Why's that, Grandma?” “Crippled up like you are,” she said, “it'd keep…
In Paradise
Gina looks down from the ramparts and wonders if twilight might be the time when the “enchanting” atmosphere everybody talks about will finally show up. Dusky blue over the plain, village lights coming on below, the walls of the fort lit with a glow as of torches, golden. Green parrots…
Dogs Don’t Know About Fallujah
1. My daughter Hazel tells me things, that's how it works. She sits on the couch as though it were a raft that could tip at any moment. She leans against the armrest in her raincoat, pressing her palms and the soles of her feet into the cushions, as her…
Protecting Your Intellectual Property: What You Need to Know About Copyright
Victoria Strauss from Writer Beware explains how to protect your rights and avoid scams
Wild Swan
Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying! —Edna St. Vincent Millay We'd never had such an enormous industrial crane come through Surry Village and when it rolled into town on Saturday morning it was even larger than we'd hoped. We had…
Heart of Flesh Literary Journal
Online journal of Christian creative writing for adults and youth
Going and Going and Going
Illustration by Abi Watson On Halloween, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. It was an unseasonably hot day, even for California, green trees singed with red flames, the sun blazing across a perfectly blue sky. Plump pumpkins lined doorsteps, purple witches held hands around steaming cauldrons of dry ice, and…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
Christy Tending
Christy Tending (she/they) is the author of High Priestess of the Apocalypse . Their work has been published in Longreads, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Birdcoat Quarterly (for which they received the Editors' Prize in the Essay 2024), and Catapult (for which they received a notable mention in Best American Science…
R.L. “Pete” Peterson
Pete Peterson's first national publication was “A Penny for Your Thoughts” in Seventeen Magazine when he was seventeen, and in Marine Corps bootcamp. This earned him thirty-five dollars and one hour of standing in front of his Drill Instructor's Hut, yelling “My name is Private Peterson, not Ernest Hemingway.” This…
Robin Hirsch
Robin Hirsch was born in London during the Blitz, the son of German Jews who had fled Hitler. This complex history informs much of his work both as a writer and as a performer. He is the author of Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski: Creating a Life in the…
Doug Emory
Doug Emory's essays and short fiction have appeared in Alpinist, Rock and Ice, Isele Magazine, Puerto del Sol, The Timberline Review, and Still Point Arts Quarterly, as well as other journals and newspapers. His work has also been published in anthologies including The Love Book by Blue Cedar Press, Nivalis…
Katherine Dykstra
Katherine Dykstra is the author of What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood (W.W. Norton), which was on Best Books of Summer lists in the New York Times Book Review, People magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. She served as senior nonfiction editor…
Martha Grace Duncan
Martha Grace Duncan's memoirs and personal essays have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Five Points, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Notre Dame Magazine, Appalachian Review, and other journals. Her creative nonfiction has also been featured in Home: An Anthology of Minnesota Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry , published by Flexible…
Aria Dominguez
Aria Dominguez (she/they) is a writer whose poetry and creative nonfiction navigate the terrain between beauty and pain. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and she won the 2021 Porch Prize in Creative Nonfiction, a Fall 2021 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, and the…
Lucinda Dhavan
Lucinda Dhavan was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She went to India on a Fulbright grant immediately after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, and fell in love. She worked for several years as a features editor for a local newspaper there before she felt she might have learned enough…
Joan Dempsey
Named by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of “5 more writers over 50” to watch, and winner of the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award, Joan Dempsey is the author of This Is How It Begins , which won the bronze Independent Publisher Book Award for literary fiction and was…
Paul Curley
Paul Curley lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches English as a second language at a public high school. His short fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, December Magazine, The Madison Review, Gravel, Gold Man Review, The Timberline Review, and elsewhere.
Shelby Stewart
By day, Shelby is a product director in mental health tech, and a writer by night. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, and longs to return to her dream of writing full-time. She loves book hoarding, Northern California sports teams, and the Oxford…
Bea Chang
Bea Chang is a writer, feminist, and traveler currently living in Seattle, Washington. Her personal essays have appeared in Arts & Letters, Hobart, The Offing, Redivider, Bodega, Broad Street, Nowhere Magazine, and other publications. Bea's work has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and garnered Notable Mentions in the Best American…
Is Your Memoir Really Just Venting?
Managing Editor’s blog: Therapeutic personal writing versus audience-aware nonfiction
To Go Big or Come Home: On the Writing Life with Major and Indie Publishers
Barrelhouse editor Tom McAllister on the pros and cons of small press publishing
Subscriber News: September 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
The Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence Program
Two glorious, all-expenses-paid weeks at a hotel to do nothing but write in solitude
Turning Off the TV in Your Mind
Speculative fiction author Lincoln Michel on the differences between cinematic and written storytelling
The Public Domain Review
Online journal showcases public-domain literature, artwork, and videos
Abecedarian: Twenty-Four Years Since 9/11
By Cheryl J. Fish
tr. review of translations
Literary journal published by Black Lawrence Press accepts English-language translations of poetry and prose
The 300-Word Gateway: How Going Short Can Fast-Track Your Lit Mag Success
Darien Gee at Lit Mag News on the craft and career benefits of writing micro prose
Jeff Carter Wins the 24th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Winners of our 24th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Jeff Carter Wins the 24th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Jeff Carter of Evere, Belgium, won the 24th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. His entry, “There Was an Old Woman” , bested those of 5,059 other poets to receive the $2,000 prize. The Second Prize of $500 was awarded to Julia…
Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter
