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Wilgefortis Press
LGBTQ-affirming religious books for kids
Awful Library Books
Librarians share the strangest titles they’ve pulled from their shelves
Amends
By Eve Tushnet
The 19th Wife
By David Ebershoff
Calls for Submissions (Poetry, Fiction, Art) Facebook Group
Curated list of opportunities for writers and artists
Conscious Style Guide
Resource site for respectful terminology regarding gender, race, ability, and more
Jude Nutter and Marilyn Taylor Win the 13th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Jude Nutter of St. Paul, Minnesota won the Tom Howard Prize of $1,500 for a poem in any style or genre, for “The Shipping Forecast”. Marilyn L. Taylor of Madison, Wisconsin won the Margaret Reid Prize of $1,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style, for “The…
Jude Nutter and Marilyn Taylor Win the 13th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Winning Writers awarded $4,300 to 15 poets. 2,435 entries were received from around the world.
Winning Writers Named Again to “101 Best Websites for Writers” by Writer’s Digest
Writer’s Digest recognizes Winning Writers as a top resource
Subscriber News: April 2016
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Writing Women Characters as Human Beings
Advice on avoiding stereotypes in fantasy, historical, and contemporary fiction
Jealous
By Laurie Klein
Diversity Style Guide
Evolving web glossary helps writers use culturally accurate terms and avoid slurs
Family Cookout
By James K. Zimmerman
The Valley of Hearts Delight
By Mary Lou Taylor
Loss and Blossom
By Jeanne Julian
Remembrance
By Mark Fleisher
A Homicide in Hooker’s Point by Gloria Taylor Weinberg
Winner of the 2015 North Street Book Prize (Literary Fiction)
Speaking of Marvels
Interviews with authors of poetry chapbooks and literary novellas
Lighter Than Her Lace: A Crown of Borrowed Self-Portraits
1 Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait at the Clavichord, 1561 Her choice: Depict two women's faces, old in shadow, young in light with fingertips arranged expert on keys, as she will hold her brushes in the Spanish court, paint lips and eyes and gowns of Isabella, queen and confidante. The painter-sitter here—…
Thoughts on Structure
Poet Weston Cutter calls for more conscious choice in the structure of free verse
After Wounded Knee
On December 29 of 1990, Oglala Lakota (“Sioux”) riders completed an arduous, three-hundred-mile horseback ride, from the middle of the North Dakota–South Dakota line to the Wounded Knee cemetery on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The ride commemorated the centennial of the Wounded Knee massacre. The ride is…
Speed (Sean)
By Gil Fagiani
Subscriber News: March 2016
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
My Mother, My Father
Read “My Mother, My Father” as a PDF file.
Migration
a buffalo in the desert lost in a stream of the herd we meander dazed always leaving a name behind in the stream of the herd we look for something new always leaving a name behind desperately seeking the American dream we look for something new holding onto hopes desperately…
The Shipping Forecast
Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer— Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finistere. —Carol Ann Duffy There are storms walking the waters of Viking and Utsire, and gale-force winds from FitzRoy to Shannon, and for days, now, a rain so persistent it seems still, like something solid fixed to the garden. But everything…
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
I unequivocally, despise you I can't lie as you do and say You matter to me even when you don't, so Understand This is the point where I walk away You'll never hear me utter the phrase: You're everything I ever desired Honestly, I only craved your sticky-sweet consistency A…
The Seven Very Liberal Arts: A Crown of Sonnets
The classical liberal arts are seven in number and were the basic skills believed necessary for success in philosophical and theological studies. —Herrad of Landsberg (1180 AD). 1. LOGIC A moment's peace from you, old Earth—enough's enough! Your gorgeousness is still in season, still clobbering philosophy and reason in one…
Serial Killer Sonnet
My father held my child face in a bowl of hot Quaker Oats, claimed me a mistake— cross-eyed, dork, zit-faced mocked, bullied in school. I couldn't burn a ball across home plate fierce comet the way his tight stare pleaded. Drunk he lassoed and roped me to a tree— punched…
Letter to Her Father
by a Ming lady Of course, I don't remember being bound. I'm sure I cried, as every infant must, The nurse-girl tightening the first fold of cloth To squeeze and, then, to crush the pliant bone. At that age, a mere swab of flesh-and-blood, One doesn't understand, though one can…
Worm Bin Sestina
Mesmerized, I stand above you, worm, casting a shadow on your work. Or is it your play? Certainly, it's never-ending, the way you root through our garbage, still identifiable, this dark scattering of orange peels, apple cores, celery leaves, crusts of bread. I've got my eye on you, worm, though…
Keepsake
The tilt of the camera caught the groom as he danced with his mother-in-law. It didn't intend to catch the left corner where the young bride sat, face to the wall. It caught me, too—swelling her belly under satin pleats, the result of revenge against an ex-lover, a luckless souvenir.…
Two Women in an Unbalanced Street Scene
First, the painter wanted the church, dome firm like a full breast nursing the clouds— wanted that damp, pink hole in the sky, a hint of the day, 4:20 p.m., being sucked into a blue twilight, early. This center of the canvas diffuses, goes gray— the brush pulls to the…
Night Farming in Bosnia
Drawn by perfumed tomatoes, dry rattling beans, stalks, shoots, leaves, whiffs and gleans, we crawl in the dark over furrows still steaming. Hunger drives even moles from their holes and we are not moles. We were farmers when we planted these fields. Overhead the threshing wings an owl…a mouse…interrupts our…
Hush
for Mike Dockins, after Dario Robleto's conceptual art sculpture “Lunge For Love As If It Were Air” in his 2012 exhibition “The Prelives of the Blues” at the New Orleans Museum of Art—labeled “stretched audiotape of two now-deceased lovers' recordings of each other's heartbeats” They recorded each other's beating hearts—rewind,…
Proper and Enduring
Yes, art cares about the dead and the despairing and the exiled but not too much: like the elephant mother that nuzzles the corpse of her calf then rejoins the herd or the weeds that sprout in radioactive deserts, or the creatures that crawl among the skeletons of the mighty…
Shoshauna Shy
Shoshauna Shy's poetry has recently been published by IthacaLit, Carbon Culture Review, Main Street Rag, Hartskill Review, and Bayou Magazine. Her flash fiction has appeared in A Quiet Courage, Every Writer, Literary Orphans, 100 Word Story, and Prairie Wolf Press Review. Shoshauna works for the Wisconsin Humanities Council which sometimes…
Jim Landwehr
Poet and essayist writes about family and the outdoors
Stuart J. Silverman
Stuart Jay Silverman was born in Brooklyn, NY, 82 years ago. He graduated from Brooklyn College and did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Illinois. Retired from teaching (Auburn University, the University of Illinois, Urbana and Chicago campuses, and the City Colleges of Chicago), he lives in…
Katy McKinney
After growing up in Oregon and Alaska, Katy McKinney has lived for the past 39 years in Trout Lake, Washington, a small rural community at the base of Mt. Adams near the Columbia River gorge. Retired after teaching 5th and 6th grades at the local K-12 school for nearly thirty…
Kathleen McClung
Kathleen McClung is the author of Almost the Rowboat (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and her poems appear in Mezzo Cammin, Unsplendid, Atlanta Review, Ekphrasis, Heron Tree, Poets 11, Zoomorphic, Sin Fronteras, A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the…
Marilyn L. Taylor
Marilyn L. Taylor, former Poet Laureate of the state of Wisconsin (2009 and 2010) and the city of Milwaukee (2004 and 2005), is the author of six poetry collections. Her award-winning poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, The American Scholar, Able Muse, Measure, Aesthetica,…
Allegra Keys
Allegra Keys resides in her hometown of Seattle, WA. She likes to imagine she is somewhere warm and sunny when she writes. Like most aspiring authors she dreams of someday penning the next great American novel. Until that happens, she is content with having minimal success as a poet. Her…
Eileen P. Kennedy
Eileen P. Kennedy has been writing since she was eight years old. Her collection of poems, Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Honorable Mention from the New England Book Festival and the London Book Festival in 2016. Her poem “Letter to My Son” won…
Maribeth Pittman
Maribeth Edwards Elliott Pittman, 65, is from east central Indiana. After raising four sons and retiring from a business career at a Fortune 500 company, she is once again free to enjoy pursuing her two favorite avocations: poetry and Tarot. Once very active in the Indianapolis poetry community, Maribeth has…
Ray Keifetz
Ray Keifetz has published poetry and short fiction in numerous literary journals and anthologies including the Ashland Creek Press, The Bitter Oleander, Kestrel, The Louisville Review, The Briar Cliff Review, and Skidrow Penthouse. His work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Laura M. Kaminski
Laura M. Kaminski (Halima Ayuba) grew up in northern Nigeria, went to school in New Orleans, and currently lives in rural Missouri. She is an Editor at Right Hand Pointing, and also serves as Poetry Editor for Praxis Magazine Online, where she curates the digital chapbook / Around This Fire…
Justin Hunt
A native of rural Kansas, Justin Hunt lives in Charlotte, NC. In 2012, he retired from a long business career to write poetry and memoir. Hunt's work has received several awards and appears in numerous literary journals and contest-based collections, including The Atlanta Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Comstock Review,…
David Hill
I was born in Chicago, then raised down state, where the high school I went to was eventually closed due to lack of interest. However, I have been educated to a certain degree, though by my quitting college several times, it was ten years before I received a Bachelor's degree,…
