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Developmental Editing with Sarah Kornfeld
Refine structure, voice, and flow for fiction, nonfiction, essays, screenplays, and plays
How to Identify GenAI in the Publishing World
CLMP article flags warning signs for publishers reading submissions
Is Your Collection a Book, or Just a Portfolio?
Managing Editor’s blog: Turning a collection of poetry, prose, or artwork into a well-structured book
Subscriber News: August 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Thin Skin
UK-based online journal publishes short fiction by older writers
There Was an Old Woman
Illustration by Marta Zubieta
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles, 1939 (Revised)
Mike Alewitz via Wikimedia Commons Foreword to New Edition Revision of classifications, combining narrow obsolete specialties into UNDEFINED continues to cause turmoil in the labor force, especially among the trades that were emotionally attached to their titles in a less-industrialized era. The DICTIONARY, as a mirror of the workplace, can…
A Man Is Leaving the North
By Yan An, translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen
My Sexy Compression Hose
At the top of my compression hose is a nude-hued lacy stretch band embellished with a flower pattern much like lingerie I used to wear when I was younger. The band wraps around my lower right thigh and is reminiscent of the fancy feminine garters of brides that per some…
The Ballad of Clyde the Dragon
There used to be a dragon, living upon a hill, Breathing smoke and fire out, as dragons often will. The villagers around this hill had named their dragon Clyde, And whenever knights in armor came the beast would duck and hide. Now one fine day a princess fair, out traveling…
The Patty Wagon
It's me again, just my patties, buns, potatoes and I. Open a food truck they said, it'll be fun they said And so I act in a manner befitting the foolishness of youth. I wipe out almost the entirety of my savings I buy a truck, I buy patties, I…
Mx. Potato Head at the Gender Swap Meet
“On February 25, 2021, Hasbro dropped the honorific in the brand name and began marketing the toy simply as 'Potato Head,' while retaining the individual characters of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. However, several media outlets misinterpreted the announcement as stating that all Potato Head products would henceforth be gender…
Ode to the Ichthyosaur Maternity Ward
I've got five hours left of my shift and the Kroger's thinned out, so I'm leaning against the self-check podium and avoiding my manager's eye contact, my head full of ichthyosaurs—giant wet dead mountain lizards, real long–beaked expressionless fucks. I like the way paleo-artists draw them, like they're about to…
Slush Brown
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall I can't see much in you at all When I was young I stood up straight But now I'm over ninety-eight My eyesight's dim, my back is bent From 60 years in banishment To save me from a climbing chore You should be placed upon…
Perpetual Motion
There's some that only seem to think in minutes, life delivered as a stuttered slideshow set to fast ragtime against an unfocused backdrop, like sheep stumbling in confused terror at the same gopher hole that almost broke their leg the hour before. Others usually manage not to starve to death…
The Poet Corrects the Official Documents
I returned to visit the mid-level clerk so many times, that finally, it seems, she Googled me. She said, “I read some of your stuff and you're not big on metaphors, are you?”—she thought there were always supposed to be metaphors— No, I said. “But you could try metaphors,” she…
At the Florist
When asked if he wanted his anthers cut off, he paused for a moment, dissembled a cough, Then mumbled and shrugged “I'm only a layman…” “But surely” she smiled “you know about stamens And all of the grief that's caused by their spread.” He adjusted his glasses, “I'm not so…
David in Cumberland
For Ben Roy I had to take a wicked pee just outside of P-Town, cursed myself for having stopped for that coffee (the culprit) at a subpar Cumby's two towns back. Eastham does a much better Cumberland, a veritable cathedral compared to that dingy franchise. I needed gas besides, so…
Ding
You've heard the 13-year-old's YouTube video play noisily on the L-train. You've watched the 25-year-old on the platform bop his head to his favorite Travis Scott song, one that he's decided to play on repeat via a speaker tucked into his backpack. And I know you've witnessed the 76-year-old grandfather…
Notes App Stand-up Routine, August
It's not that rare anymore but it is still a crazy thing to be a woman who is not having children. Or you know doesn't seem to be having any children as my mother likes to sing. We are the children of all the people who had children: after all.…
The Three Muscatels Go to the Races
Illustration by Annie Mydla using Adobe Firefly (does not infringe rights of original creators) The Birtwhistle sisters, Renee and Lenore, from Leisurely Day, suite sixteen, second floor, and their best friend Althea, her mixed drinks iconic, (think rye and peach schnapps meet Old Tom gin and tonic) were wayfarers, gadabouts,…
Harbor Review
Online journal publishes poetry, art, and reviews; also sponsors chapbook contests
COMP: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Online journal publishes creative writing, reviews, and criticism
Big Score Lit
Biannual journal publishes literary criticism
Eddie Elizabeth
Eddie Elizabeth is an MFA candidate at Georgia College & State University, where they teach Nicolas Cage–themed sections of English Composition. In 2021, they received a BA in English from the University of Wyoming. When not writing, Eddie can be found making funky figurines out of polymer clay. Their work…
Stephen Dotson Dale
Stephen Dale began writing poetry well before high school and has maintained an interest in poetry throughout a long life. A liberal arts graduate of Wayne State University. Stephen Dale subsequently completed law school, and pursued a successful legal career in private practice, but continued to write poems as a…
Carol Whitney Ward
Carol writes both prose and poetry in many genres. Recently, a limerick she wrote was selected for use in advertising flyers for The Life Enrichment Center, a non-profit studio holding classes in drawing, painting, photography, board games, and much more. Carol has published a young adult fiction story in Beyond…
Lynn Tan
Lynn Tan is an aspiring author who has always loved writing for fun, but is now making her first steps into the writing world. Outside of writing, she is a fan of weightlifting, but also has a soft spot for desserts. Stay tuned for more of her budding work!
Mandy Shunnarah
Mandy Shunnarah (they/them) is an Appalachian and Palestinian-American writer in Columbus, Ohio. Their essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and others. They won the Porter House Review 2024 Editor's Prize in Poetry and are supported by the Ohio Arts…
Phil Maund
Phil Maund was born in the north west of England and now lives in Cape Town, South Africa where he writes to amuse and entertain himself and, hopefully, others by writing funny, punny and witty poems. He has written six self-published ebooks. He has been married to Lynne for 17…
Jon D. Lee
Jon D. Lee is the author of four books, including IN/DESIDERATO and An Epidemic of Rumors: How Stories Shape Our Perceptions of Disease . His poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Narrative, Sugar House Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Writer's Chronicle, One, The Laurel Review, and The Inflectionist…
Molly Lanzarotta
Molly Lanzarotta won the London Independent Story Prize for flash fiction in 2024 ( read interview ). She won second prize for The Moth Nature Writing Prize in 2023 and has been a finalist for other awards including the Joy Harjo Prize in Poetry and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry.…
Susan Kinsolving
Susan Kinsolving has published four collections of poetry, including Dailies & Rushes , which was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award. She has received critical acclaim from the New York Times, the New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Publishers Weekly. The Head's…
Kim Keough
Kim Keough (she/her) is a writer, poet, and photographer. Originally from Philadelphia, she studied theatre and dance in New York City, where she made her living as a street performer and traveled throughout Japan and Europe. Her most recent essay, “Bike Path to Damascus”, was selected and performed as part…
Madi Himelfarb
Madi Himelfarb is a writer and creative based in London, where she's currently pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing and Publishing and working on her first novel. After a decade in New York City, pursuing careers in women's wellness and child psychology, she's since pivoted to storytelling. Her work explores…
Sophie Develyn
Sophie Develyn is a writer of short, bold fiction and poetry. Her work is full of humour and tenderness, cross-pollinated by everything she is drawn to—theatre, music, myth, cartoons, and stand-up comedy. Sophie has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, and has had short stories published online…
Julia Lichtblau
Julia Lichtblau's writing has appeared in The American Scholar, The Museum of Americana, American Fiction, Blackbird, Narrative, The Florida Review, and The Common, where she was previously book review editor. After a journalism career in New York and Paris with BusinessWeek and Dow Jones, she earned an MFA in fiction…
Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter is a retired software engineer who has published two short stories and a travel article. He plays guitar, does landscape photography, and reads a lot. Sometimes he writes speculative fiction, poetry, and songs. He lives in Europe.
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2025
Congratulations to the winners of our 2025 humor poetry contest!
Forge Literary Magazine
Attractive online journal for literary fiction and nonfiction
Dog Throat Journal
Online journal of prose poems and flash fiction
Rockvale Writers’ Colony: Retreats
Rockvale Writers’ Colony, a not-for-profit organization, provides affordable retreats
Subscriber News: July 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Do’s and Don’ts of a Winning Book Cover Design
Managing Editor’s blog: Design your cover to express your book’s core ideas
Internet Archive
Online free library of millions of texts, music, and more
Text Power Telling
Online literary journal for sexual trauma survivors
In Substack We Trust: Navigating the Tension Between Powerful Tools and Platform Dependency
Publishing expert Jane Friedman interviews successful Substack newsletter authors about best uses of the platform
After
By Diane Elayne Dees
new words {press}
Poetry publisher for trans* and gender-expansive voices
Mateusz Naporowski
Mateusz Naporowski is a North Street Book Prize assistant judge, book critiquer, and contest administrator, as well as a PhD student in literary studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. He is currently writing his dissertation on the contemporary experimental American novel within the context of the metamodern…
