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De Facto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland by Judy Juanita

From the author of Virgin Soul

Q&A With Amy King from VIDA, Feminist Watchdog

Tracking gender disparities in publishing and reviewing

Penny-Anne Beaudoin Wins the 16th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest

Penny-Anne Beaudoin of Amherstburg, Ontario won the 16th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers. Her entry, “The Magician's Assistant”, bested those of 4,276 other poets to receive the $1,000 prize. Second prize of $250 was awarded to Mary Somerville of Nashville, Tennessee for “A Friend to…

Penny-Anne Beaudoin Wins the 16th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest

The winners of the 16th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers

The Bind

Online journal reviews poetry books by women and nonbinary authors

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Beta reader management platform

V.A.

By Terry Severhill

Lilith Magazine Annual Fiction Contest (no fee)

Seeking stories that are independent, Jewish and frankly feminist

Wayfarers by Winfred Cook

From the author of Uncle Otto, winner of the 2016 North Street Book Prize for literary fiction, comes a story of perilous love during the conflagration of the Civil War

Writing Better Trans Characters

Science fiction critic Cheryl Morgan’s advice on authentic representation

Subscriber News: August 2017

Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers

Rowena Macdonald on Dialogue

British novelist’s tips for natural-sounding dialogue

The Magician’s Assistant

Tonight I'm going to disappear. I disappear every night, I know, but tonight I'm not coming back. He will look for me but never find me, that withered wizard. This sorcerer's apprentice has been watching and learning for years, and now I know all the tricks of his trade, and…

Mind Over Mindfulness

It's 6:55pm and this metal chair is already uncomfortable, but I am determined to be here now. How long could a seventh grade band concert even last? There's no way it could be more than an hour. I will not let my mind wander. I know this moment is fleeting.…

A Friend to All Is a Friend to None

Plato pressed the “like” button under Aristotle's status: Poetry is a more serious business than history, for poetry speaks of universals, history of particulars. Then he wrote on his wall: You posted your status ten minutes ago. Therefore, you must be at home, and probably alone. Would you be so…

The Rejection Survival Guide

Creative resilience for authors

One Man’s Early Thirties: A Brief Lamentation

Though Christmas and New Year's are what you remember, For me, there's a separate event in December, It's not decked in holly, there's no “Auld Lang Syne”, It comes in with a whimper each Twelve Twenty-Nine, It's a day, to the world, that's just like any other, Yet at least…

Jack

Jack climbed up the hill of my breast And my eyes stared back at him, Empty and hollow As the bottom of a tin pail. He is thinking of her. That blonde with two pigtails And pink ribbons. I felt as if she was climbing with him, And this hill…

The Dog Mom Bag

I am handed over the dog mom bag, full of dog weekend sleepover essentials. The bag itself is a smooth slate—not grey, slate. “The azure tint is indeed there,” the dog mom confirms. The bag has eight entirely necessary compartments and a stylish, padded strap for the dog mom on…

Toy Drive Moralist Seeks Mr. Potato Head

The upper shelves belong to Barbie,* mostly arrayed in pink, the lower to Disney princesses in even deeper pinker pinks, all of whom face shelves full of glitter eyelashes, fingernail gloss and bubblegum lipstick. Another section showcases Transformer-Kill-A-Thon black-and-blue weaponry that every boy seems to know judging by the rugrats'…

I Miss You, Chicken in Every Pot

The party theme is idioms so I pocket a toy block. We arrive late and every counter is crowded with coconut bars, pizza, eggs on the half shell that look like eyeballs with green olive pupils, lying on red squiggly pasta brains. Are you Left Holding the Bag? I ask…

Select Me

like me friend me link to me follow me text me your current location find me call and invite me download me drag me to your hidden folder capture me search me unzip and undo me pin me compress me scan me view me synchronous scroll up and down me…

To My Love, the Man on Lincoln Avenue Who Yelled, “Hey Sexy. Nice Ass.”

Grease-stringed hair blew up in the breeze off Lake Michigan, tinged with the first freeze of fall, wafting over a cinder-block hit of Axe and spray-tan aerosol, the first (and only) time I heard your crow-like caw. Your head fell heavy toward my hefty derriere, my middle finger ascending of…

Maybe Blame the Party-Planning Industry

Even the rabbi compared Skywalker to Moses and The Force, therefore, to God. My cousin was a Hollywood lawyer's son. He had a Revenge of the Jedi poster—before they changed it to Return— the inspiration for his two-square-yard Bar Mitzvah cake depicting him as Luke, “The Jewdi,” holding high the…

What Is Love?: As Shown by Immigrant Parents

I. Mama wears blue velour outfits, polka dot sneaker wedges with a side ponytail and pink lipstick while she makes breakfast because you wants Papa to think “dang, she woke up like this” but really, she just wants to pretend like she just worked out because she never does yet…

Wharton Hears a…Who?

“I went to the Wharton School of Finance,” he said multiple times in a July 11 speech in Phoenix, Ariz. “I'm, like, a really smart person.” —The Daily Pennsylvanian On a sweltering day in the city of Philly the doughty old school thought it heard something silly— one of the…

Jane Mitchell

Jane Mitchell writes poetry and songs at sunrise in rural Montpelier, Virginia. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College with honors in philosophy, she has written about arts for magazines, taught alternative school English, and edited Medicaid proposals. She currently edits spiritual books and teaches ESL to refugees. Most evenings she…

Abby McCambridge

My name is Abigail McCambridge, but I go by Abby. I am a poet from Virginia and I enjoy writing fiction- and fantasy-based poetry and prose. I am currently an English major and I enjoy literature and creative writing. I am the oldest of six children and enjoy hanging out…

Tim Eberle

Tim Eberle is a New York City based writer and performer. His writing has been featured in McSweeney's, Vulture, the Indypendent, Splitsider, DNAinfo, Utne Reader, Witness Magazine, The Manifest Station, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Badlands, Heeb Magazine, and Jewish Life Television, among other credits. He was most recently seen…

Taryn Parrish

Taryn Parrish is a writer, director, and producer based in Toronto, Canada. Her work has appeared on HelloGiggles.com and she is the creator of numerous comedy plays, including the award-winning nostalgia hit “Hey '90s Kids, You're Old” which has been staged in Toronto, Winnipeg, Chicago, Edmonton, and New York City.…

Penny-Anne Beaudoin

Penny-Anne Beaudoin earned a Master's Degree in Pastoral Ministry in 1997 and has published articles pertaining to religion and spirituality in several Canadian and American journals. She was nominated for the Canadian Church Press Award in 2000. Her fiction has been published in Lorraine and James, Writers On Line, Ascent…

Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville grew up among the farms of Michigan, the mountains of North Carolina, and the spring-fed rivers of Florida. She teaches composition and literature in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lee Patton

A native of California's Mendocino Coast, Lee Patton has enjoyed life in Colorado since college. His fiction and poetry have been widely published and his plays produced nationwide. Recent poems appear in Good Men Project, On the Veranda, New Verse News, Going Down Grand, Weatherings, and Poetry Quarterly. His third…

Karen Schubert

Karen Schubert has published four poetry chapbooks: Black Sand Beach and Bring Down the Sky (Kattywompus Press), The Geography of Lost Houses (Pudding House) and I Left My Wings on a Chair (Kent State Press), selected by Kathleen Flenniken for a Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Prize. Her poems appear or…

Jennifer Teunon

Jennifer Teunon is the executive director of a family foundation in Seattle. She has spent her career in the nonprofit sector focused on many different issues including the arts, foster care, homelessness, and hunger. She has also been writing for as long as she can remember. When she was little…

Dawn Daniels

Dawn Daniels is a book editor, hiker, avid adventurer, and (hopefully one day) an author. Her short story “On the Fragility of Wood” was the runner-up for the Clyde C. Tull Prose Prize and was published in Open Field magazine; this is her first published poem. She currently lives in…

Daniel Ari

Poet laureate of Richmond, California, Daniel Ari produced the 2017 Richmond Anthology of Poetry, the city's first, representing its diverse voices. His own book One Way to Ask (Norfolk Press, 2016) combines original poems in a new 17-line form called queron with illustrations created and curated in collaboration with 67…

Claudia Matos

Claudia Matos lives in Brooklyn, NYC as a Career Counselor for career transitioning software engineers. She will be pursuing her Masters of Social Work in September in hopes of becoming a therapist after her program. Her passions reside in poetry, destigmatizing mental illness, and yoga. Claudia hosts a poetry event…

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