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The Mermaid
This story is titled “The Mermaid”, but it could also be titled “How to Un-Fishscale Your Hands”. It could even be “Tia Reina Cleans a Fish, and the Predicament that Ensues”. But no matter the title, the story is the same. You are in the presence of your tia, who…
I Am Coming for You
I am coming for you. My mother might have said those words the night she went after him—the bearded man, the one she took to her room all those nights. He would come over after I'd gone to bed. She carried me from her room—the only place I could fall…
Night Vision
The night that I saw the future was on the day that my best friend Pedro told me he was going off to war. And it started innocently enough. That morning, the first day of summer before my senior year, I couldn't sleep in, what with Mason and Anna Marie…
Java Jaya
I live with my husband in Cambridge. I haven't gone back to India since I left five years ago. I came here on a spouse visa, got a degree in information systems, and work in a small firm as an analyst. Last year we bought a house together. My friend…
How They Met
Author's Note: The Battle of Okinawa began April 1st, 1945 and ended June 22nd, 1945. The entire island was devastated. Crumbled and charred black from bombing and shelling. 183,000 U.S. troops invaded the island, wielding tanks, grenades, and guns. 122,000 Okinawans, nearly one third of the population, almost all civilians,…
Circumambulatory Cacozelia
I told you how diner slang worked—how cooks shortchanged words barking orders back and forth in Spanglish, cursing and carrying on all the while. “Cobb—no turk, sub ham, x-egg, scrap mix, spin, toss ranch,” I said by way of example, adding the obligatory no mames to the end. “That's hardly…
Lulu
My twin sister Lulu and I haven't been close since The Thing, a term I use for her sake. I can say it squarely: the tragedy. The accident. The crash, almost twenty years ago. When we were twelve, our parents took us to Playland in Rye, and on the way…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2018
Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
Tanushree Baidya
Born in India, Tanushree has been living and writing in Boston since moving there from Bombay seven years ago. A graduate of the Yale Writer's Workshop, a Vermont Studio Center alum, and a member of the (Grub Street supported) Boston Writers of Color Group, her work has appeared or is…
Joseph Hernandez
Joseph Hernandez lives in California and writes fiction that explores the dynamics of family life and the barriers that separate generations. His short story “The Christening of the Fruit” won The Los Angeles Review's Short Fiction Award in 2016, and several of his stories have appeared in various other places.…
Michael Tuohy
Born in New Jersey in Eisenhower times (1954), Mike moved to Georgia in 1965 and has sopped up Southern culture ever since. A professional geologist working the environmental consulting rackets by day, he chronicles the preposterous through flash fiction, short stories, novellas and a novel by night. His work has…
Hapuya Ononime
Hapuya Ononime's works have appeared in Catapult, Commonwealth Writers, Threepenny Review, and Transition Magazine, and have been shortlisted for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award. When he isn't teaching secondary school students or writing, he's definitely listening to music.
Patrick Boyce
Patrick Boyce was born and raised in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the son and grandson of a farmer. The family farm was located five miles from Mexico. He attended the University of Texas, served for twenty years as a military intelligence professional in the US Army, along…
Adam Karlin
Adam Karlin is a full-time freelance writer. His journalism has been published by outlets like the BBC, NPR, and Christian Science Monitor, and for the past decade he has written guidebooks for Lonely Planet, covering three continents and dozens of locations. Over that time he has dispatched from Mongolia, the…
Kristie Betts Letter
Kristie Betts Letter's short story collection Fire in the Hole comes out from Engine Books in March 2019. Her poetry collection Under-Worldly (Editorial L'Aleph 2017) examines what lies beneath with what Cowboy Jamboree describes as “fantastic images of the subterranean grit”. The Massachusetts Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, Washington Square,…
Tammy Delatorre
Tammy Delatorre is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her essay, “Out of the Swollen Sea”, was selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of the 2015 Payton Prize, and her essay, “Diving Lessons”, was awarded the 2015 Slippery Elm Prose Prize and recognized as a Notable Essay in the…
Julio Cesar Villegas
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, raised in Essex County, New Jersey, Poetry Reader for Muzzle Magazine, and current recipient of the Atlantis Award for Poetry, Julio Cesar Villegas is the writer that your abuelos warned you about. His scriptures can be found or are forthcoming in Rigorous Mag, Subprimal…
Mikaella Clements
Mikaella Clements is an Australian writer currently based in Berlin. Her short fiction has been published in Black Inc.'s Best Summer Stories anthology, Overland Literary Journal, Scum Mag and more, and she was longlisted for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. Her non-fiction has been published widely by…
Ryan Ireland
Ryan Ireland, PhD, is the author of two novels, Beyond the Horizon and Ghosts of the Desert . He has been published in Public Libraries Quarterly, Voices of Youth Advocates, Pallet, and Ripcord. In 2016, Ryan delivered “Your Story Matters” , a TEDx talk about the future of libraries. In…
Charlie Schneider
Charlie Schneider holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Oregon, and he has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Tin House Summer Workshop. He has published work in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and in Joyland Magazine, where he won the 2018 Open Border Fiction…
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Overview of legal issues and recommendation of top sources
Spinning Silver
By Naomi Novik
The Houses Along the Wall: A Pembrokeshire Poetry Cycle
By Karen Hayes
The Launch Pad Feature Competition
The premiere hub for Hollywood discovering new talent
Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature
UK-based magazine publishes English translations of contemporary Arab authors
The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy by Nicole Evelina
Guinevere is remembered for her role as King Arthur’s wife and for her adulterous affair with Lancelot. But there is so much more to her story…
In the Street Without My Glasses
By Harry Bauld
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The debut short story collection from the editor of Winning Writers
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Bloody Mary
By Charlie Bondhus
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Richard Jeffrey Newman
Poet and essayist, trauma activist, and translator of classical Persian literature
Madeleine Jackman Wins the 17th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Madeleine Jackman of Denver, CO won the 17th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers. Her entry, “The Swipe Sonnets” , bested those of 4,748 other poets to receive the $1,000 prize. Second prize of $250 was awarded to Dolorem Ipsom for “Clock Signal: The Medulla of…
Madeleine Jackman Wins the 17th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
The winners of the 17th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers
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Popular song lyrics paraphrased as Shakespearean sonnets
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Free online journal showcases artists and writers with mental illness, chronic illness, and disability
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App featuring serialized fiction by prominent authors
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Links to journals, workshops, and contests for veterans
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