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Writers’ Workshop of Asheville
North Carolina writers’ group offers classes and contests
Storymatic
Box of writing prompts doubles as a party game
naked arms
By The Poet Spiel
Blog Test
For testing of pagination on blog
Girl Flying Kite
By Nancy Louise Lewis
Café Crazy
By Francine Witte
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
Karen Harryman and A.T. Hincapie Win the 15th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Winning Writers awarded $4,300 to 15 outstanding poets in our 2017 contest
Karen Harryman and A.T. Hincapie Win the 15th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Karen Harryman of Los Angeles won the Tom Howard Prize of $1,500 for a poem in any style or genre, for “A Word Like Rat”. A.T. Hincapie of Colorado Springs won the Margaret Reid Prize of $1,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style, for “From the…
Queer Indigenous Women Poets at LitHub
Bimonthly feature curated by Natalie Diaz
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics
Writer and critic Bogi Takács highlights lost classics of queer speculative fiction
Brain Pickings
Curated weekly links to articles on literature and culture
Enchanted Lion Books
Brooklyn-based publisher of children’s picture books
Subscriber News: April 2018
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Reedsy on Author Scams and Publishing Companies to Avoid
Online author community Reedsy shares advice for avoiding literary scams
Unruly Bodies
Limited-run online journal about writing and embodiment, curated by Roxane Gay
David Kherdian’s Day Book
Notable Armenian-American author’s reminiscences and new poems
Our Lady of Acid Rain
By Mark D. Hart
Write an Artist Statement People Will Want to Read
Grant application advice from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
The Insurgent
No one saw him climb over the Hesco* barriers, so he just appeared and walked under the lights where no one ever goes. An actor who moves in my sleep, he talked to the air, his hands tucked under his arms. A boy who might have been cold or wired.…
The Following Shadow
The sky like a cake dish curves, has dimension, contains us in an element like water. Everywhere invisible currents cut through and feelings prepare to give way to others. Birds practice ascending declensions of birdsong: Amo; Amas; Amat. Random clouds dream and pass over. They leave following shadows like a…
The Vultures of Mumbai
A dead body must be eaten, the Parsi tribe believes. To burn or bury a body will taint the earth, the Parsi tribe believes. In Mumbai, the Parsi tribe sets their dead atop the Towers of Silence on Malabar Hill for the vultures of Mumbai to eat. In Mumbai, the…
Sonnet for the Driveways of Our Childish Years
All the tennis balls that our Gretzky curves couldn't guide past the taut rubber screen of a shooter-tutor cratered garage doors. Personal moons for the parties we missed, where some young men made the porch-like climb to violence. For instance: I knew a kid who got pushed to bite the…
Estate Sale
It was late November when she died and frost covered the ground. It had taken the undertaker longer to break the earth in order to accommodate her casket. The entire world was frozen solid. The mourners would have brushed against each other to block the cold had there been more…
Aletha
Scythe on shoulder, Time comes to cut the meadow, heavy pipe in mouth, smoking Five Brothers tobacco. Popping daisies, laying clover in swaths, he will not be done until he mows the timothy too. How you stood in yellow dress in the swale of spring beeches, what kind of flower…
Seeing Through Glass
My father wears contact lenses—not the soft kind, but glass. And I have watched him lose one or the other, and find them again, so many times that I completely trust that he could find me, if ever I fell into a shag rug the same color as my skin,…
A Short Bibliography of Secrets
The things no one talks about could fill up libraries. I imagine wooden shelves bowing under the weight of untold secrets. Card catalogues overflowing with tantalizing tales of the unsaid. Archival footage emerging into light like the faded purpled ink of old mimeographed pamphlets. Hidden wives and lovers, secreted passions…
Belonging
When pomegranate seeds spill from your shallow ivory pockets onto the rubber playground where this city expands in your palm; or before the hour when you run through the orange light as it bends like a whale, the wind goes wherever you go, your dress full of dirt, and never…
Celestial Bodies
i When you put Saturn in the bath it floats. It's true. ii A teaspoon full of neutron stars weighs more than all the world's people curled up together. Under the sheets we glow in the dark but the light we emit is 1,000 times dimmer than we can see…
My Brother In Law Leaves the World
He held the lexicon on his lap, and in late afternoon tracked meanings across deserts, mountains, histories of talk that crossed from East to West. He tuned their sound and sense, traced each line back to what he thought were ur-verbs, bend, turn, cut, all life carpentry. We asked, What…
Shorn
The Pentecostal woman next door confides: the Lord forbids a blade touch her hair. It rats and scrapes her knees, unbeautiful, decades old. She weeps in the mornings, rakes and breaks comb teeth through it. Her neck is off. She whispers, “The nice gay man downtown says he will take…
Water
The dead are learning to float. Even the ones who never dared wade ankle-deep. They are surprised at the water's welcome. They are drinking the water, too, for the first time in days. They drink as if they have crossed a desert before thirst invented mirages. Some have forgotten their…
From the Mouth of Kitsee’s Inlet
I. Arrow Point Look: we have buried bodies here. Monuments for relatives and former pets, or soon ourselves. We create evidence of our own making: memorabilia from old tools, language in loose soil. Plants and people wilt in shade, planetary systems tilt in predetermined phases. Diminishing bee collectives scatter claustrophobic…
A Word Like Rat
My Aunt Sandra—a large woman, a holy woman, maybe you can see her— quilted housecoat, just-washed auburn hair past her waist when she tips her head, heavy to the side, and pulls wet strands over one shoulder, both hands working to brush and smooth. Then, collecting the hairs from her…
Kathleen Spivack
Kathleen Spivack is the author of ten books of prose and poetry (Doubleday, Graywolf, Knopf, others). Her most recent are the novel Unspeakable Things (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), and With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others (University of New England Press,…
Jeanne-Marie Osterman
Jeanne-Marie Osterman is from Everett, Washington. After graduating from Gonzaga University, she received a Masters in Linguistics from San Francisco State. She began writing poetry during her 30-year career as an advertising copywriter in New York City. She has studied with the late William Packard at NYU, with Cornelius Eady,…
Curtis LeBlanc
Curtis LeBlanc has been shortlisted for The Walrus Poetry Prize, received the Readers' Choice Award in Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, and was twice shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck Poetry Prize. His first collection, Little Wild, is forthcoming in Spring 2018 (Nightwood Editions). He is Managing Editor of Rahila's…
Teri Foltz
Teri Foltz is both a playwright and poet. Her first book of poetry, which includes “Estate Sale”, is titled Green and Dying and chronicles the human experience from childhood, adolescence, adulthood and the process of aging. She is a retired English and Drama teacher. Her plays have been produced in…
Michelle Tibbetts
Michelle Tibbetts was raised in Lakewood, Ohio, off the coast of Lake Erie. After attending Kent State University, where she was awarded Wick Poetry Scholarship Awards, she moved to Seattle, Washington where she studied and practiced massage therapy. She returned to Ohio nearly two decades ago to be close to…
The Business of Being a Writer
By Jane Friedman
Mary K. O’Melveny
Mary K. O'Melveny lives with her wife, Susan L. Waysdorf, in Washington, DC and Woodstock, New York. She grew up in Seattle, Washington, Washington, DC and Emmitsburg, Maryland and moved to New York City after graduating from college. After retiring from a distinguished career as a labor rights lawyer in…
Atoosa Grey
Atoosa Grey is a poet, songwriter, and teacher. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, where she was an honoree for the Paul Violi Poetry Prize. Her debut chapbook, Black Hollyhock, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in journals including Right Hand…
Rata Gordon
Rata Gordon was born in 1988 in Kaikohe, Aotearoa, New Zealand. She currently lives on Waiheke Island, off the coast of Auckland, with her husband and three chickens. She works in youth mental health using creative practices including creative writing, visual arts, dance and theatre to inspire well-being. She also…
Richard Brook
Richard Brook was born in Brooklyn, New York. After attending Antioch College, Ohio, for a BA, he received a Master's Degree in Philosophy at Columbia University, and a PhD in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He is now Professor Emeritus, Philosophy at Bloomsburg…
Katie Bickham
Katie Bickham's forthcoming book of poems, Mouths Open to Name Her (LSU Press, 2019), was selected by Ava Leavell-Haymon for the Barataria Poetry Series, and her debut book, The Belle Mar (Pleiades, 2015), won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize judged by Alicia Ostriker. Katie's work has won the Missouri Review…
Miller Adams
Miller Adams's publications include a novel, This Weather of Hangmen, a children's book, Dinner at the Dog Pound, and two poetry collections: Sleeping on the Moon, which was runner-up for the Archibald Lampman prize, and the Cranberry Tree Press 1998 winner, Mondrian's Elephant. A book reviewer for several publications, including…
A.T. Hincapie
A.T. Hincapie grew up in Dallas, Texas and earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He completed his MFA at Texas State University in San Marcos, where he taught undergraduate writing and worked as co-editor with Front Porch Journal and Southwestern American Literature. His writing has…
Karen Harryman
Karen Harryman's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Greensboro Review, Dogwood, Raleigh Review, Atticus Review, Forklift, Alaska Quarterly, Verse Daily, North American Review, and The Cortland Review, among others. She is the recipient of the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize sponsored by North American Review. Her first book,…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
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